Ep 21: Linda Bolton on Sowing the Seeds of Change
03/25/21 • 43 min
Today’s guest believes that a longer, happier, healthier life starts with eating nutritious food, and her organization, Thrive for Good, empowers people with the training and simple tools they need to grow an abundance of healthy, organic, disease-fighting foods for life. Linda Bolton is the Co-owner and CEO of Natural Calm Canada and one of the Top 100 Canadian Health Influencers and Female Entrepreneurs. Tuning in, you’ll hear from Linda as she shares the unusual story of how she became an entrepreneur and how her passion actually lies across the ocean in Africa, where Thrive for Good is sowing the seeds of change. Learn why she believes everyone should spend time in a developing country and how her one month seminars educate communities about organic agriculture and natural medicine, and Linda also shares her advice for other female entrepreneurs and highlights the amazing benefits of magnesium, which she calls the spark of life. Tune in today to find out more!
Key Points From This Episode:
- Linda reflects on being a top 100 health influencer and her passion for helping people.
- Learn about Thrive for Good and how Linda discovered the amazing powers of magnesium.
- Transforming communities by teaching sustainable, natural, and organic agriculture.
- Why Linda believes that everyone should have to spend some time in a developing country.
- Hear more about Thrive for Good’s one month seminar and hands on training programs.
- Educating communities about natural medicine using indigenous plants like moringa.
- How Thrive for Good works to improve the livelihoods of orphans and mothers.
- Linda’s advice for female entrepreneurs who may be experiencing doubt: when following your dream, you have to jump in with both feet!
- Why she wouldn’t change a thing if she had to start over again; you learn by trial and error.
- Time for the lighting round; discover things like Linda’s healthy morning habits, her guilty pleasures, and her favourite superfoods.
- Linda also shares her renewed love for painting and some of the creations she is making.
- Linda compares magnesium citrate and its benefits to other magnesium compounds.
- Why she calls magnesium the “spark of life” and how you can get enough of it through food.
- How magnesium combats stress and anxiety and why it is essential for your health.
- Learn about Natural Calm’s Calm Sleep product and the function of melatonin.
- Find out how you can make a difference; become a monthly donor for Thrive for Good.
- Linda talks about Joyce, a Thrive for Good trainer that inspires her every day.
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Today’s guest believes that a longer, happier, healthier life starts with eating nutritious food, and her organization, Thrive for Good, empowers people with the training and simple tools they need to grow an abundance of healthy, organic, disease-fighting foods for life. Linda Bolton is the Co-owner and CEO of Natural Calm Canada and one of the Top 100 Canadian Health Influencers and Female Entrepreneurs. Tuning in, you’ll hear from Linda as she shares the unusual story of how she became an entrepreneur and how her passion actually lies across the ocean in Africa, where Thrive for Good is sowing the seeds of change. Learn why she believes everyone should spend time in a developing country and how her one month seminars educate communities about organic agriculture and natural medicine, and Linda also shares her advice for other female entrepreneurs and highlights the amazing benefits of magnesium, which she calls the spark of life. Tune in today to find out more!
Key Points From This Episode:
- Linda reflects on being a top 100 health influencer and her passion for helping people.
- Learn about Thrive for Good and how Linda discovered the amazing powers of magnesium.
- Transforming communities by teaching sustainable, natural, and organic agriculture.
- Why Linda believes that everyone should have to spend some time in a developing country.
- Hear more about Thrive for Good’s one month seminar and hands on training programs.
- Educating communities about natural medicine using indigenous plants like moringa.
- How Thrive for Good works to improve the livelihoods of orphans and mothers.
- Linda’s advice for female entrepreneurs who may be experiencing doubt: when following your dream, you have to jump in with both feet!
- Why she wouldn’t change a thing if she had to start over again; you learn by trial and error.
- Time for the lighting round; discover things like Linda’s healthy morning habits, her guilty pleasures, and her favourite superfoods.
- Linda also shares her renewed love for painting and some of the creations she is making.
- Linda compares magnesium citrate and its benefits to other magnesium compounds.
- Why she calls magnesium the “spark of life” and how you can get enough of it through food.
- How magnesium combats stress and anxiety and why it is essential for your health.
- Learn about Natural Calm’s Calm Sleep product and the function of melatonin.
- Find out how you can make a difference; become a monthly donor for Thrive for Good.
- Linda talks about Joyce, a Thrive for Good trainer that inspires her every day.
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Ep 20: Dr. Cory Holly on Rethinking The Process of Aging
Today’s guest is going to inspire you to rethink the process of ageing, as he explains why movement may be the elixir for a long life and which fuel you should be filling your proverbial tank with. Dr. Cory Holly has been an inspiration to those wanting to live healthy for decades. His school, the Cory Holly Institute, focuses on holistic health and sports exercise, but what is most fun about this celebrity guest is his habit of doing the total opposite of what is conventional! He has been an influencer in the natural health industry for many years and, in this episode, he encourages you to think a little differently about how you use your body, so that it can be the best is can be. Tuning in, you’ll learn about the athletic sport of hammer throw, the Cory Holly Classic, and why Dr. Holly believes that life is a sport and we are all athletes. He also shares his advice for finding joy in an athletic pursuit and then doing it consistently, eating anti-aging superfoods like papaya, and why you should eat an anti-inflammatory diet, as well as staying active and observing discipline when you have unlimited access to the wrong kinds of food. Tune in today!
Key Points From This Episode:
- Learn what the men’s hammer throw is in athletics, a sport Dr. Holly has competed in.
- What he means by the “brains, brawn, and beauty” of hammer throwing.
- The importance of finding joy in an athletic pursuit and then doing it consistently.
- Hear about the Cory Holly Classic, an event that attracts amateur athletes to Vernon, BC.
- Dr. Holly explains why he believes that life is a sport and we are all athletes; we are designed by nature for movement!
- The Lightning Round: from his healthy morning habits to his favourite colour and superfoods.
- Why papaya is one of his favourite anti-aging superfoods, inspired by his time in Hawaii.
- Why you should be including omega 3 fatty acids in your anti-inflammatory diet.
- One of the most effective methods for fighting inflammation and promoting longevity: Dr. Holly talks about the Blue Zone diet.
- Dr. Holly’s tips for being more active starts with coming to terms with what and where you are.
- Doing the work to get the desired results; believing that being healthy and well is possible.
- Hear about Dr. Holly’s Costanza Principle: doing the opposite of what you would normally do.
- Finding simple ways to start moving more, like dancing or walking rather than driving
- Why Dr. Holly believes it’s not about having enough time to exercise, but lack of desire.
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Ep 22: Ted Snider on Covid-19
You will probably agree that the immune system is pretty impressive but, for millions, it isn’t winning the battle against COVID-19. Are there natural medicines that are effective in the fight against this virus? Or is this yet another story where the claims outweigh the evidence? Well, this episode takes a closer look at what research studies have found when it comes to COVID and natural medicine. Listen in as Ted Snider of The Natural Path Newsletter shares some of the wealth of research available on natural health, despite popular perceptions to the contrary. He highlights the benefits of supplementing with vitamin D, getting enough fibre, and eating an organic, plant-based diet, particularly when it comes to the outcome of a COVID infection. He also shares some insight into the benefits of herbs like black seed, elderberry, and Andrographis. Ted and his wife, Linda Woolven, have been writing and producing The Natural Path newsletter for 23 years and their natural health column has appeared in major Ontario newspapers, including The Toronto Star. Tune in today!
Key Points From This Episode:
- Where you can read the books, newsletter, and research that Ted and his wife write.
- The wealth of research available on natural health, despite the impressions many may have.
- Hear more about the benefits of vitamin D, including its applications for COVID-19.
- Vitamin D’s powerful effect on nearly every known ailment, from depression to heart disease.
- How much vitamin D you need to supplement with, even when you get a lot of sunshine.
- What impact diet has on the outcome of a COVID infection; the benefits of getting enough flavonoids and fibre, for example.
- The gut and COVID and the connection between probiotics and your immune system.
- Hear more about Pure-lé Natural’s Organic Vitamin D3 + K2 Drops from Joel Thuna.
- Find out how a simple herb like black seed (known by its scientific name, Nigella sativa) can block the COVID virus from entering cells.
- Ted cites a study conducted with black seed and COVID patients that proved it helped patients recover in half the time of the placebo.
- Some of the other proven benefits of black seed’s active ingredient, thymoquinone.
- Elderberry against viral infections and its exciting potential in the fight against COVID.
- Learn more about quercetin and why Ted has been taking it himself during the pandemic.
- Why you should pay attention to Indian echinacea or Andrographis, one of the most effective herbs for fighting respiratory infections.
- Questions from the hot seat: from why Ted hates coffee to what superpower he would want.
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