The Wellness Wallop Podcast

Welcome back Wellness Wallop team! It’s episode 2, season 3 and today's special guest is the beautiful Daniela Garcia aka The Joy Alchemist

She is a fellow Seven Body Basics Action Coach, so we have had the absolute blessing to connect with her through our mutual mentor and friend Ximy Gonazales. 

Dani is a life coach and wellness curator, and as her business name would suggest, she is here to help men and women transform their lives through the process of alchemy, accessing the ability to create joy within and all around themselves. 

We got into a phenomenal chat today with Dani all about women and their sexuality, and as Nikki would call it "talking about all the 'pink bits'", and how that really shapes a woman’s experience of whole health regarding the relationship she has to her own body.

We spoke about the use of yoni wands, the magic of self pleasure and how women AND men can utilise these tools to connect back to the wonders of their own bodies and become empowered in their own sexual energies.

This one is juicy AF.

Enjoy the chat humans.

You can find Daniela on Instagram @thejoyalchemist and on Facebook (The Joy Alchmist).

This is Part 2 of a ripper interview with Brendon Foley from Mov3d. Brendon has over 20 years experience and is a holistic health coach and movement expert. 

His experience includes rehab, and Strength and Conditioning Specialist for Professional Rugby Team Auckland Blues and Individual All Blacks, Corrective Exercise Specialist (pre and post exercise programming for lumbar spine surgeries) and was a Personal Trainer at Melbourne's Premium Fitness Club Training World Class Personal Trainers for 11 years. 

We hear about Brendon's own journey, and get into some deep and mind blowing stuff around holistic health. It was so good we couldn't stop, so we had to break it down into 2 parts. 

If the state of the world has got you into a bit of a fear state right now, then you need to listen to this! 

Additional resources:
Framingham Heart Study
Meta-analysis showing potential link between daylight savings and heart attacks
Wim Hoff breathing

Iceberg PDF

In this episode we chat with women's health expert, Holly Sinclair from the The Women's Series. 

We covered a LOT of cool stuff: 

• Mental health 
• How your microbiome influences your health, mental health, immune system and mood. 
• Lots of chat around how the gut relates to the brain, and vice versa. 
• How to stay sane and healthy during COVID. 
• And some sciency stuff to prove we weren't just making shit up. 

This poddy is a GREAT one, and we were so lucky to have Holly share her [always honest] wisdom!

Holly is always up to date with the latest research on health and nutrition, and you can find her on Instagram @thewomenseries, via her website The Women Series or on Facebook @thewomenseries.

Resources
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Connection Based Living

In this episode, we talk about how to get the body you want through minimal effective dosing and recovery.

Whether training to failure is the best way to train.
Volume for the big lifts.
Low road approaches like under eating, cutting calories, laxatives, fat burners and over training.

Best NZ ads for shits and giggles:

Ghost Chips
Blazing

Extra Resources:

‘Is Resistance Training to Muscular Failure Necessary?’
Sanmy R. Nóbrega and Cleiton A. Libardi*

‘Concurrent Endurance and Strength Training Not to Failure Optimizes Performance Gains.’
IZQUIERDO-GABARREN, MIKEL; GONZÁLEZ DE TXABARRI EXPÓSITO, RAFAEL; GARCÍA-PALLARÉS, JESÚS; SÁNCHEZ-MEDINA, LUIS; DE VILLARREAL, Eduardo SÁEZ SÁEZ; IZQUIERDO, MIKEL

‘Short-term Recovery Following Resistance Exercise Leading or not to Failure
How does manipulating the 'level of effort' impact post-exercise recovery? What are potential implications for optimizing athletic performance?’
J. J. González-Badillo, D. Rodríguez-Rosell, L. Sánchez-Medina, J. Ribas, C. López-López, R. Mora-Custodio, J. M. Yañez-García, F. Pareja-Blanco

Hey legends! We are back for Episode 3 of Season 3 of the Wellness Wallop podcast, and today's guest is our gorgeous friend and fellow FMA alumni Gemma Henly of 'Elevate with Gem'.

We brought Gem on today to have a really candid chat with us about her experience of dealing with and overcoming an eating disorder.

Painful relationships with food is probably one of the most common issues we see as coaches and it’s a topic of conversation that comes up for almost everybody we each see individually in our respective practices & businesses. 

Gemma is also an amazing coach, so we really wanted to share with you her personal perspective of dealing with an eating disorder, but also for her to be able to share her wisdom from what she has learnt from her coaching journey and how she’s been able to use those tools to continue to help her heal from her past relationships with food.

Now it’s probably important to note here that none of us are psychologists so we don’t professionally work in the realm of eating disorders, so please, if you listen to this podcast and it resonates with you, or perhaps concerns you with respect to someone you love, make sure you reach out and get the appropriate help.

Where to find Gemma:

Instagram: @elevatewithgem 
Facebook: