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2.17 Goldminds: Mindfulness for Kids with Cynthia Stirling

Cynthia is a meditation enthusiast and an advocate for total mind-body wellness. She is a Certified Mindfulness Meditation Facilitator and a teacher of mindfulness for kids and teens. Goldminds Canada is a mindfulness for kids organization that creates a safe space for kids to talk about their emotions and participate in fun exercises that introduce them to deep breathing, gratitude and self-love. 💕

Cynthia believes in the power of teaching mindfulness to children at a young age to equip them with the tools they need to be resilient, self-regulate, and build self-confidence. Her goal is to support the next generation of leaders who will change the world and to help them recognize the joy that is already waiting inside of them. 💪

We learn all about her journey and how she got into what she is doing today, her experience with teaching kids mindfulness techniques, and a few book reco's for fun! ✨

This work is so incredible and important, especially in the kind of world we live in today. 🌎

Connect with Cynthia:

Golminds Instagram: @goldmindsca

Goldminds website: www.goldmindscanada.ca

Cynthia's Instagram: @cynthiaastirling

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2.16 Building a "Fierce" Business with Monica Gold

Monica Gold is a FIERY, energetic Canadian dancer, choreographer, content creator and the Founder of Find Your Fierce (FYF). FYF is a dance & fitness company known for its empowering dance choreography and signature Cardio Party classes best described as Zumba meets Beyonce on a Triple Shot Espresso. That means RIDICULOUS ENERGY, and a heck of a lot of sweat! The power of social media brought Monica a dedicated following of fans and participants leading Monica to become a major force in the dance world. If you scroll her feed of endless videos you'll get lost in a sea of good vibes and girl power, characteristics which brought on collaborations with record labels Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music Group. Her classes and influence have also led to partnerships with fitness giants Asics, Skechers, Reebok and Canadian retailer Urban Planet. Beyond that she has lent her voice and talents to numerous non-profit female focused groups across the city advocating the mental health benefits associated with dance. She looks forward to continuing to use her content, influence and voice to positively impact all the people, and specifically the women and young girls it reaches.

Connect with Monica:

- Donate to Stella's Place: https://stellasplace.ca/

- Personal Instagram: @monicagold1

- FYF Instagram: @find.your.fierce

- FYFTV: https://findyourfierce.tv/catalog

- Website: https://findyourfierce.ca/

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2.15 Resolve CBD with Co- Founders JP & Mike

Resolve was founded in November 2018, and today offers 10 unique CBD products across 5 product lines with varying applications.

"We believe in creating and offering the highest quality CBD products to provide natural relief and wellness, as well as taking the responsibility to effectively engage our community as a brand to educate and raise awareness around health and wellness topics as well as social issues and causes".

In this episode we chat with JP & Mike about their own backgrounds and what brought them and third founder JT together to create Resolve. They help to define CBD and talk about all the amazing benefits. We also chat about branding and marketing, specifically in the cannabis industry as well as how COVID has impacted the business. Of course we also chat about wellness and appreciating the little wins in every day,

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2.14 Wellness & Accessibility with Saran James-Vaughan

Saran James- Vaughan is a Holistic Nutritionist and Women’s Wellness Coach. She integrates a variety of modalities including Holistic Nutrition, Herbal Medicine and strategies for personal alchemy. Her focus is on helping individuals determine the root cause of their health concerns, whether it is a result of exposure to toxic elements in their physical, mental or emotional environments. She considers herself a facilitator of healing, teaching individuals how to tap into their own innate ability to heal and move through debilitating illness to wellness.

We had an extremely powerful conversation with Saran, starting with her own journey from having nocturnal seizures to discovering nutrition and wellness. We chat about all of her services and experiences, including reproduce health. Additionally, we chat about the need for wellness to become more accessible, and how BIPOC communities have different experiences when it comes to wellness, and specifically birth experiences. You’re going to want to grab your notebook and get ready to learn and absorb all of what this episode has to offer!

Topics Covered:

Nocturnal seizures
Discovering a Naturopathic Dr. and a different approach to health
Saran's experience in the food service industry and it sparking an interest in Nutrition
Saturn returns
Discovering Holistic Nutrition
A passion for Herbal Medicine
Personal Alchemy & Spiritual Transformation
Wellness accessibility
The challenging intersection of wellness and business
Sliding scales and payment plans
Putting yourself first
How stigmas placed on BIPOC effect wellness experience
Black women's differing treatment in birth experiences with a personal example
How doulas can support and advocate for clients

CONNECT WITH SARAN:

https://www.wellnessbysaran.com/

https://www.instagram.com/wellness_by_saran/

Blog Post Referenced:

https://www.wellnessbysaran.com/internalized-racism-its-effects-on-wellness-sexual-reproductive-health/

Wellness Survey:

https://www.wellnessbysaran.com/reproductive-wellness-survey/

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2.13 Healthy is Hot with Chloe Wilde

Chloe emerged in 2013 as the winner of the MUCH VJ Search and has since brought her fresh perspective and outgoing personality to her role as ETALK Reporter. Chloe brings viewers into the heart of events such as TIFF, Toronto Fashion Week, and THE IHEARTRADIO MMVAs. She has also interviewed some of the biggest names in entertainment, including Julianne Moore, Daniel Radcliffe, Robert Downey Jr., Kate Winslet, Meryl Streep, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kings of Leon, Zac Efron, Joan Rivers, David Foster, and Tori Kelly. Following her MUCH VJ Search win, Chloe became the host of E! before arriving at Canada’s #1 Entertainment Show ETALK as a Reporter. 🔥

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On top of all of this, Chloe is such a huge advocate for health and wellness and launched her own online community, @healthyishot in 2018. Healthy Is Hot creates a real, raw and supportive space for open conversations on difficult health-related topics and tips and tricks for living one’s best life. Healthy is hot started as a hashtag, moved onto and continues to be a blog, podcast and now a TV show on Crave! 📺

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In today's episode we talk about:

✅Burnout

✅Gratitude towards her burnout and how the learnings helped shape her life today

✅How a commercial changed her life

✅Facing our fears

✅A day in the life of Chloe

✅Her newest health venture

✅and so much more!

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Her story and lessons as an entrepreneur are so inspiring and we hope you enjoy! ✨

Chloe's Insta: @thechloewilde

Healthy is Hot Insta: @healthyishot

Healthy is Hot website: https://www.healthyishott.com/

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2.12 Co-Host Discussion: Black Lives Matter

In the past few weeks, we have felt more anger, outrage and sadness than perhaps ever before. And that is the problem we want to address today. As two white females, we feel shame and guilt over not leaning into our privilege, and using our voices before. We realized that if we are going to be true allies we need to PUT IN THE WORK ourselves, and speak up using our voice and privilege.

In today's episode we address the actions we have taken so far, and the actions we plan to take as individuals and on this platform, moving forward.

We will also address some learnings around the disparities black communities face when it comes to health.

First, we define and talk through a few definitions that will be the anchor for our conversation. Then, we chat about the connection between racism and health, resources we have discovered lately and our action plan moving forward. Throughout we will discuss our own personal experiences of white privilege, and other thoughts along the way.

To find all of the resources and links we mention in this episode, please check out the description under the podcast episode itself. Link is in our bio as always.

We realize even though we're learning, we are going to make mistakes along the way, and acknowledge and apologize for any mistakes that have been made previously. Please feel free to reach out to us. We want to keep an open dialogue. This fight isn't over until all humans are treated equally. Keep working team. ✊🏾✊🏼✊🏿✊🏽

RESOURCES:

https://blacklivesmatter.com/

http://blackhealthalliance.ca/

Sociology of Racism Paper (Clair, Matthew, and Jeffrey S. Denis. 2015): https://scholar.harvard.edu/matthewclair/publications/sociology-racism

Cineplex movies, free to rent: https://store.cineplex.com/promo/understandingblackstories

What is White Privilege Article: https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/fall-2018/what-is-white-privilege-really

Anti-Black Racism & Mental Health: https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/get-involved/community/toronto-for-all/anti-black-racism-mental-health/

Map of Toronto - Covid cases & Black Communities: https://globalnews.ca/news/7015522/black-neighbourhoods-toronto-coronavirus-racism/

Article on reallocating police funds in Toronto: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/what-defunding-the-police-could-look-like-in-canada-s-largest-city-1.4977969#:~:text=In%20Toronto%2C%20the%20police%20service,city%20that%20were%20previously%20defunded

Toronto Mississauga sociology professor we referenced: Akwasi Owusu-Bempah

1619 Pod: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1619/id1476928106

Code Switch Pod: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch

Brene Brown Pod: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bren%C3%A9-with-ibram-x-kendi-on-how-to-be-an-antiracist/id1494350511?i=1000476611079

2.11 Body Image Chat with Dance and Fitness Professional Marlie Goddard

*Trigger warning* We talk about disordered eating and body image issues in this episode. Please seek professional help if you are struggling with an eating disorder.

In today's episode we sat down with one of our besties, Marlie Goddard!

Marlie is a positive spirit and energizer bunny! She is a professional dancer and fitness instructor from Toronto, with a background in business and marketing.

In this episode she speaks about body image, disordered eating and amenorrhea and how those things have affected Marlie's life. She speaks on how she has persevered and coped with these issues. We hope this episode can help some people out there who may be experiencing this kinds of issues. ♥️

Marlie’s biggest passion is dance and she has been training in many styles (hiphop, jazz, jazz funk, heels, tap, ballet, and more) since age 12, including international training experiences in LA, New York, and Brazil! 💃Some career highlights so far have been dancing for two seasons as a Toronto Argonauts Cheerleader, performing at the Grey Cup, backup dancing for Karl Wolf, and appearing on CBC’s Canada’s A Drag as a backup dancer for Tynomi Banks. Her career is just getting started and she aims to be a backup dancer for major recording artists.👯🎤 Marlie is also hugely passionate about fitness and health, and is a personal trainer and instructor at Fit Factory Fitness (@fitfactoryto) in Toronto. 💪Her fitness philosophy is that you must exercise to FEEL good, not to look a certain way. Only then will it become a lasting part of your lifestyle, thus bringing those mental and physical results we all of course want! ✨

We also touch on:

- Career jump from 9-5 to full time dance and fitness professional

- How her business degree positively affects her dance career

- Calorie counting since the age of 12

- Importance of talking about disordered eating, especially with women

- The importance of learning about nutrition

- Resources and tips from marlie what she used to help her with disordered eating and amenorrhea

- How dance and fitness has had a positive impact on her body image

- Tips for artists during quarantine

- And more!

Connect with Marlie:

Instagram: @marliegoddard

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2.10 Front Line Experience & "Shmoods" with Léa Peterson

We are so excited and grateful to share our conversation with the amazing Léa Peterson.

Léa is a life enthusiast who loves love and is sweat obsessed. She is a registered nurse, Barre Belle Toronto’s Master Trainer and Assistant Manager, and most recently, the founder of Shmood - a wellness movement and creative digital platform dedicated to long lasting health and wellbeing. Exhausted by the notion that health can only be achieved through radical change, Shmood is Léa’s way of sharing good vibes, love, great smelling things (hint hint) and movement for any mood. Through Shmood, Léa will soon be launching her Eléavated line of wellness investments, to help you help yourself. Her goal? She wants you to find your own version of well being, whatever that might look like for you, and eternally bask in glory of it.

In this episode we chat about:

- Léa as a kid - from circus school, to dance & baking dreams

- Moving to Calgary and pursing a nursing degree

- Experiencing burn out after her education, and entering the fitness world

- Moving to Toronto to become the Master Trainer and Assistant Manager at Barre Belle YYZ

- Going back to her nursing career amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

- Her day to day life in her current role

- Tips & Insights for how we can all help and stay educated during the pandemic

- PPE

- Her personal health journey and various moods (aka shmood)

- Finally, the launch of her brand SHMOOD and whats it's all about

Thanks for listening, TEAM!

Connect with Léa:

ELEAVATED: https://www.instagram.com/eleavated/?hl=en

LEA's PERSONAL INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/leapeterson_/?hl=en

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2.9 Mindset - Healing, Mindset and Spirituality with Natalie Kehren

Welcome back! We have an amazing episode for you today! We had to record on Zoom so apologies for the slightly altered audio. We had to do our best during this time of self-isolation.

Natalie Kehren is the founder of Holistic World, co-founder and creator of The Wellness Market, the creator and mentor of the 8-week program Healing to Begin: Breaking Through to Rise, and a leader in the wellness community.

As humans, she believes we have the ability to reach our highest potential possible and from there, honour ourselves by creating a life we truly wish to live. No gimmicks. No illusions. Just living in our authenticity.

With a background in Holistic Health and certification as a C.N.H.P, a Creatrix of Sacred Women’s Circles and as a Spiritual Director, her personal and professional journey led to focus on energetics.

Through this episode we touch on:

Her early psychic beginnings as a kid, being very sensitive to the energies of others
Sensitivity is a strength
How she went from PR and Marketing to Spiritual Entrepreneur
How she helps people step into their own spiritual power
The difficulty of absorbing the energies of those around her/how she learned to create psychic barriers
Creating our own realities
How tapping into spirituality can help us reach our highest potential
Scattered energy
Covid-19 and her mindset surrounding the pandemic while being pregnant/changing her birth plan
The beauty amid chaos
Collective consciousness
Surrendering
Tips on how to stay mentally healthy during this time
Plus much, much more!

Stay safe and healthy everyone! Sending love!

Follow Natalie here: @natalie.kehren

Natalie's Website: http://www.holisticworldhealing.com/

The Wellness Market: @thewellnessmrkt

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2.7 Mindset - Welcome 'Hoame' with Carolyn & Stephanie

It's a new month (which means it's time for a new theme in Season 2) and we are going to be focusing on MINDSET for all of March! What better way to kick us off than with an episode with the Co-founders of Toronto's top meditation studio, Hoame?! They have created the most incredible modern meditation studio here in a city that certainly needs to slow down from time to time.

Hoame Co-Founders, Stephanie and Carolyn, both studied psychology in university and went on to postgraduate training in mental health and addictions (along with multiple other certifications). Carolyn pursued her masters in social work and Stephanie her masters in psychology. Professionally, they both worked clinical roles in a variety of hospital, academic and community settings. They also went on to accept several faculty teaching appointments.

After years of working in clinical settings, they realized that much of what they were seeing in their practice was a direct result of today’s modern stress-filled lifestyle. Their desire to combat this epidemic led them to the study of mindfulness and meditation.

Hoame represents a shift away from the traditional reactionary approaches to health and wellness and a movement towards a modern and preventative approach to wellbeing. With Hoame, Carolyn and Stephanie wish to inspire a lifestyle movement where stress is no longer simply an accepted part of our daily living. A space where taking care of yourself is encouraged and celebrated!

TWTO x Hoame TICKETS: Click here to get tickets for our event at Hoame on March 19th from 8:30-10pm. We can't wait to see you there!

This episode is filled with so much joy and a few topics we uncover include:

- Defining mental health vs. mental illness

- What to expect at Hoame modern meditation studio

- The unique world of an entrepreneur

- Prevention vs. reaction

- Research and evidence-based practices

- The importance of friendship and laughter

- Sneak peak into their next steps as a company (you heard it here first!)

- The power of listening

- The physical and mental benefits of mindfulness and meditation

- That there are lot's of mental health supports are out there

..and SO much more

Be sure to try out some classes at Hoame: hoame.ca

Intagram: @myhoame

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2.6 Financial Wellness - Living "Wellthy" With Tara Murphy

Here is our final episode on Financial Wellness. We had the pleasure of sitting down with Tara Murphy. Tara is a Senior Associate Investment Banker at Liberty North Capital; a boutique Bay street Investment Bank. She works directly with the managing partner in all facets; from advisory and analysis to capital raising and structuring of M&A. Tara is a Dealing Representative with the Ontario Securities Commission and has significant transitional experience within North American capital markets.

Outside of corporate finance, Tara is passionate about personal finance and runs “Live Wellthy” workshops, promoting both health and wealth. In these workshops, Tara speaks about saving strategies, setting financial goals, beginning to invest and she continues to empower others to watch their money work for them. From finance to your personal lives, Tara is an advocate for living your happiest, best, and most successful life.

In today's episode we touch on:

Transitioning from her nomadic lifestyle —> full time corporate
How she manages to stay both an avid traveller and keep her corporate finance job
Starting her own financial wellness workshops "Live Wellthy"
Creating a safe space to talk about money
Breaking personal barriers
The importance of starting to invest at a young age
The younger you are, the riskier your investments should be
Building wealth vs “getting rich”
Tips for saving
The importance of language when it comes to money
ETFs
Removing emotion from the equation
Tips on how to save as an entrepreneur vs a salaried employee
Getting real about the money advice that is out there
And so much more!

We hope your enjoy today's episode! Let’s continue the conversation. We’d love to hear your thoughts and takeaways, so tag us in your Instagram stories so we can connect. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend, a don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss a new release.

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Special Guest Episode - Discovering 'Zenboks' with Andre and Melissa

Today we interrupt our regular scheduled programming to bring you a Special Guest Episode! We are thrilled to introduce you to 'Zenboks' https://zenboks.com/- a personal development app that empowers millennials to discover and elevate themselves. We sat down to chat with Founder and CEO Andre, as well as Melissa, Marketing and Businesses Development Lead.

In this episode we chat about:

--> What Zenboks is all about

--> The process of developing an app and forming a strong team

--> Melissa's education and experience helping businesses grow

--> A lesson in "listening to your body"

--> A male perspective on sharing emotions, talking about them, and developing a wellness routine

--> How to create your own lane

--> The evolution of wellness technology

Enjoy!

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2.5 Financial Wellness - The Often Forgotten Pillar of Health with Co-hosts Kyra and Sara

Happy February to our amazing TeamWellnessT.O. Community! For our second theme of Season 2, we are going to be chatting about Financial Wellness.

In todays episode, Kyra and Sara sit down to chat about their own insights on Financial Wellness. They share from personal experience how our financial situation can impact our overall health and happiness.

Topics Include:

How our financial situation is a large part of our overall health
Financial stress and its impacts
Tips on how to budget for your wellness needs or how get creative in this area
The concept of taking a step back, to take a leap forward later
How money relates to our happiness
How to reflect/be in the right mindset when it comes to $ and career

We hope you enjoy this episode! Let’s continue the conversation. We’d love to hear your thoughts and takeaways, so tag us in your Instagram stories so we can connect. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend, a don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss a new release.

Stay tuned for more Financial Wellness episodes this month, as we chat with experts and learn to better ourselves together in this area.

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2.4 New Year, New Inspiration - Go With Your Gut with Laura De Sanctis

Welcome to our last episode for the theme of January: New Year, New Inspiration!

We had the pleasure of sitting down with Laura De Sanctis, Holistic Nutritionist and Wellness Expert. She is also a self love advocate, speaker, health blogger and wellness ambassador. She aims to provide individualized care and assessments to all clients, and bases her treatments around sensible and holistic dietary and lifestyle advice.

She is the Founder of Go With Your Gut, an online nutrition and digestive healing program, Laura specializes in coaching women on digestive wellness, as well as detoxification and weight loss. She has even formulated her own digestive tea, with Lemon Lily Tea called, Go With Your Gut, a Prebiotic Honey Elixir, and her own self love and affirmation cards and wellness journals called Shift Happens.

She also conducts educational and corporate seminars, speaking on topics such as the importance of overall nutrition, gut health and mindful eating.

In this episode we touch on:

✅Stressful work life and how it led her to trying to cheat her health

✅Becoming dependant on laxatives (25 per day!)

✅Her transformation and how she got into nutrition

✅Slowing down

✅Taking her health into her own hands

✅Methods to understand how your body processes food, exercise and your environment

✅Our lack of preventative health teachings in society

✅The importance of putting in the WORK

✅Listening to yourself and what you really want

✅Focus

✅The power of taking the steps to executing your goals

✅Positive affirmations

✅+ much more!

Follow Laura here: @gowithyourgut

Website: http://www.gowithyourgut.org/

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Our mission is to provide guidance to any person wishing to enter the health and wellness industry, while also encouraging listeners to live their healthiest, most fulfilling lives.

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2.3 New Year, New Inspiration - Follow your Heart with Catie Fenn

Welcome Back! For this weeks episode we were joined by the wonderful Catie Fenn.

Catie is a former Bay Street Lawyer turned coach, with a passion for supporting women to rise into the most vibrant, powerful, and authentic versions of themselves. She helps spiritual entrepreneurs align with their souls path by strategically designing impactful and profitable businesses. She leads retreats, online programs and more!

In 2019, Catie led us through a New Year reflection and intention setting practice, that was the perfect way to feel inspired for the year ahead. Therefore, we were SO excited to chat with Catie, and have a conversation that will spark your excitement for 2020.

In this episode we learn about:

✅What Catie was like as a kid, and wanting to/becoming a lawyer

✅Her spiritual journey and deepening into yoga and meditation practices

✅Eventually leaving her law career for entrepreneurship

✅The various programs and services offered by Catie today

✅How to separate your personal life and business

✅How to approach the new year

✅How to find the words that that will guide your year

✅Learning to trust and have patience in life and in business

✅Finding a balance in the Yin and Yang

✅Journalling practices and benefits

Resources Mentioned:

Co working app: https://www.getcroissant.com/
The Surrender Experiment Book: https://untetheredsoul.com/surrender-experiment
MisFit Studio: https://www.misfitstudio.com/
A Course in Miracles: https://acim.org/

Connect with Catie:

Website:http://catiefenn.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catiefenn/?hl=en

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2.2 New Year, New Inspiration - Chats with the Skin Artisan Jennifer Ide

Jennifer is a BIE Practitioner and Holistic Nutritionist. After successfully reversing her own severe eczema symptoms using alternative approaches, Jennifer became dedicated to helping others do the same. She believes in addressing chronic skin issues without the use of harmful drugs, needles or creams. It was her own experience reversing her eczema using alternative medicine that inspired her to create her practice, Holistic Skin Artisan. In her practice, she uses nutrition, coupled with BIE (BioEnergetic Intolerance Elimination) to help her clients heal their skin from the inside out. She primarily works with people who have eczema and hives.

In this episode we touch on:

✅Severe eczema

✅Jennifer's difficult but empowering journey to clear skin

✅The turning point for her to trying alternative approaches

✅Her inspiration to learn about the power of nutrition and how foods are very healing, especially for the skin

✅Dives into what BIE can do for people

✅The power of BIE and how it changed her life

✅Her dedication to helping others with eczema

✅Alternative methods

✅Mental, physical and emotional effects of eczema

✅How she acquires clients

✅The power of education

✅Skin and gut relationship

✅+ much more!

Connect with Jennifer:

Website: www.holisticskinartisan.com

Blog: https://www.holisticskinartisan.com/blog

Email: jennifer@holisticskinartisan.com

Instagram: @jenniferide

Facebook: Jennifer Ide

Thank you to Calii Love for Sponsoring this episode! https://caliilove.com/

About The TeamWellnessTO Podcast (@teamwellnessto):

This podcast is your one stop shop for all information about the entrepreneurs that work to build a healthier Toronto. We are here to form the largest team of healthy, happy, and thriving individuals in Toronto.

Our mission is to provide guidance to any person wishing to enter the health and wellness industry, while also encouraging listeners to live their healthiest, most fulfilling lives.

Follow us here: @teamwellnessto

DISCOUNT CODE FOR TEAMWELLNESST.O. LISTENERS:

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2.1 New Year, New Inspiration - Diving Right in with Alexandra Philps

Happy New Year Everyone! We hope you are ready for a kick ass 2020. With the new year, we bring you a new season of the TeamWellnessT.O. Podcast.

For Season Two, we’ll be honing in on specific topics each month. For January our theme is simple: New year, New inspiration. We want to get you motivated and inspired to reveal the best version of yourself this year, whether that be the healthiest, happiest or most at peace.

To do this, we’ve gathered 4 inspiring guests to chat with this month! Today, for our very first episode of 2020 we have a very special guest, Alexandra Philps, co-owner of BarreBelle YYZ.

In this episode we chat about:

Alex as a kid - from dance to fitness and everything in between!
Discovering fitness & Barrebelle (a female owned Barre Fitness company, founded in Calgary)
Being a fitness instructor
What barre fitness is and it’s many benefits
“Diving Right in” and making the move from Calgary to Toronto to open two Barrebelle studios in Toronto
The process of opening a studio
The best and hardest parts of being your own boss
Why entrepreneurship is WORTH IT
Advice to fitness instructors and entrepreneurs to make the most of 2020
The idea that education is power & how to trust your gut.

Connect with Alex here:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexandraphilps/

Learn more about BarreBelle YYZ here:

https://www.instagram.com/barrebelleyyz/

https://www.barrebelle.ca/

*DM us on Instagram @teamwellnessto to receive a free first class at BarreBelle!

Thanks for listening!

Don't forget to tag us with what you thought, share with a friend, and subscribe.

New episodes every Wednesday!

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#19 - Wrapped Up in a Bow with Sara and Kyra

In today's short and sweet episode, your co-hosts, Sara and Kyra, sat down to review 2019 and all of the amazing things the TWTO Podcast has brought our way! 🌿🎙️If you have a project you've always wanted to start, we say DO IT! This podcast has been a huge part of our 2019 and we are so incredibly happy we took the plunge to get it started. You never know what will happen until you take that first step, and just DECIDE to get it going. We love the community this podcast has created already. This was and still is our #1 goal of the podcast. Create a community of healthy, happy, and thriving individuals who help to motivate one another to conquer their dreams! Sure, we focus on wellness entrepreneurs, but these tips that our guests give can work in any situation that you may be in. 😀

In this episode you will hear:

✅Fun banter and giggles

✅Reflections of 2019

✅Plans for the podcast in 2020

✅Taking a minute to reflect on how much you can do in 1 year

✅Making commitments

✅Making lifestyle changes

✅Our favourite parts of 2019

✅Not waiting for the new year to make changes

✅Pushing yourself out of your comfort zone

✅Pursuing dreams

+ much more!!

Thank you for listening and have an amazing rest of the holiday season! ❄️We will see you in 2020! 😍

Thank you to Calii Love for Sponsoring this episode! https://caliilove.com/

About The TeamWellnessTO Podcast (@teamwellnessto):

This podcast is your one stop shop for all information about the entrepreneurs that work to build a healthier Toronto. We are here to form the largest team of healthy, happy, and thriving individuals in Toronto.

Our mission is to provide guidance to any person wishing to enter the health and wellness industry, while also encouraging listeners to live their healthiest, most fulfilling lives.

Follow us here: @teamwellnessto

DISCOUNT CODE FOR TEAMWELLNESST.O. LISTENERS:

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#18 - Building a Practice and a Business with Dr. Shreya Batra

Our FINAL GUEST for 2019 is Dr. Shreya Batra (@drshreyabatra)! 🌿She is a Naturopathic Doctor and has recently become co-clinic owner of Darou Wellness (@darouwellness). 👩‍💼

She is now building her practice as an ND and managing a beautiful integrative health clinic with 10 other practitioners. Shreya’s personal ND practice focuses on women's health, fertility, PCOS, cardiovascular disease and diabetes/insulin resistance. 👭

In today's episode we chat with Shreya about:

✅Making the shift from traditional medical school to naturopathic schooling

✅About finding her passion in life

✅Helping people prevent illness/disease

✅Individualized treatment plans

✅How to balance business and patients

✅How social aspects are a large part of wellbeing

✅Mindset change from school to work

✅Advice her dad gave her that has followed her through her life

✅The gut and mind connection

✅Plus more!

Follow Shreya here: https://www.instagram.com/drshreyabatra/

Darou Wellness Clinic website: https://darouwellness.com/ or their instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darouwellness/

Thank you to Calii Love for Sponsoring this episode! https://caliilove.com/

About The TeamWellnessTO Podcast (@teamwellnessto):

This podcast is your one stop shop for all information about the entrepreneurs that work to build a healthier Toronto. We are here to form the largest team of healthy, happy, and thriving individuals in Toronto.

Our mission is to provide guidance to any person wishing to enter the health and wellness industry, while also encouraging listeners to live their healthiest, most fulfilling lives.

Follow us here: @teamwellnessto

DISCOUNT CODE FOR TEAMWELLNESST.O. LISTENERS:

RxFit Code: Enter TEAMWELLNESS at https://go.myrxfit.com/rxfit-1 to get a 14 day free trial and 15% off of the lifetime of your subscription, whether you decide to sign up as a monthly member or subscribe for a year! RxFit has a goal of optimizing your health and wellness by making it simpler to understand, and putting it within your grasp. In the end, their goal is to increase your years by improving the quality of those years. Try it out for free today with code TEAMWELLNESS!

#17 - A Scientific and Simple Approach with Jermel Pierre

This week we chatted with Jermel Pierre (@jermelp), BSc, MSc. 💪 Jermel is fascinated with why we as humans do the things we do, both from a cognitive and behavioural standpoint. 📚

Jermel studied kinesiology for his undergraduate degree, and followed this up by completing a double masters degree in Cognitive Psychology and Muscle Physiology. Following school, he followed my curiosity for both the body and mind by becoming a Cardiac & Psychiatric Researcher at Toronto General Hospital, investigating quality of life in patients who had undergone aortic valve replacement.

His love for the human body extends into fitness, having certifications as a CPTN-CPT. This along with his educational background has helped him to understand the human body from the micro level. Understanding the needs of the body through what we put into it and what we expend out. Or simply put “Energy In, Energy Out”. Jermel is also the Co-Creator of RX Fit, an online platform that calculates individual energy needs and expenditure based on metabolic function and exercise activity. RX Fit will be making its debut in the new year!

We cannot wait for you to listen to this weeks episode. 🎙 He provides so much knowledge and takes a very logical approach to wellness. 👌

In this episode we chat about:
- Jermel's simple and scientific approach to exercise
- The CBD Industry
- The effects of music on cognition
- A lesson on “taxes and gravity”
- Trends: Intermittent fasting, celery juice etc.
- How to stay motivated in the gym
- Fundamental movements to start with
- What Jermel eats in a day
- Approaching life to not look back with regrets
- Why grinding is not the goal
- Setting up your business and the importance of seeking help/building a team

Join the RX Fit Waiting List for Jan 2020: https://go.myrxfit.com/waiting-list-1

Follow Jermel Here: https://www.instagram.com/jermelp/

Thank you to Calii Love for Sponsoring this episode! https://caliilove.com/

About The TeamWellnessTO Podcast (@teamwellnessto):

This podcast is your one stop shop for all information about the entrepreneurs that work to build a healthier Toronto. We are here to form the largest team of healthy, happy, and thriving individuals in Toronto.

Our mission is to provide guidance to any person wishing to enter the health and wellness industry, while also encouraging listeners to live their healthiest, most fulfilling lives.

Follow us here: @teamwellnessto

DISCOUNT CODE FOR TEAMWELLNESST.O. LISTENERS:

RxFit Code: Enter TEAMWELLNESS at https://go.myrxfit.com/rxfit-1 to get a 14 day free trial and 15% off of the lifetime of your subscription, whether you decide to sign up as a monthly member or subscribe for a year! RxFit has a goal of optimizing your health and wellness by making it simpler to understand, and putting it within your grasp. In the end, their goal is to increase your years by improving the quality of those years. Try it out for free today with code TEAMWELLNESS!

#16 - Finance to Fitness with Alessia Scauzillo

Alessia (@alessiasculpt) is an established finance professional who has made a pivotal shift in her life to become an inspiring group fitness trainer, on-top of her demanding full-time job. 💪👩‍💼

We touch on topics like:

✅Going from no exercise at all to becoming a fitness instructor

✅Her unpopular opinion about meal prep

✅Buying your time back

✅Social wellness style

✅Is it really all or nothing for people in the wellness space?

✅Selectivity is key

✅Launch fast, and adjust.

✅Taking calculated risks

...and so much more!

Over the past 7 years, Alessia has pursued a career in finance, achieving her CPA, CA designation and ultimately working in banking at RBC. Currently, she is an Associate Director in RBC’s Real Estate group, providing construction financing to the GTA’s top developers.📈

At the same time, she balances her finance career with her passion for fitness, and teaches group fitness classes on nights and weekends. Alessia calls this her #financetofitness life.💲➡️💪

She understand’s first-hand what it’s like to work a corporate job with long-days, urgent deadlines, and constant stress. As a result, she believes in making working out fun, uplifting, and energizing, so you actually *WANT* to prioritize it in your busy day.

Along with teaching classes, she regularly shares quick and efficient work out series on her social media, that you can do from home, the office, or anywhere on the go, to show how easy it is to incorporate movement into your everyday life.😎

She is also a big believer in choosing your future instead of settling for the status quo, whether that’s pursing your passion or moving to a different job, company, or industry, even if that means shifting away from a promising career trajectory and a life you previously envisioned for yourself.✨

Listen today, we guarantee this episode will make you smile. 🤗

Follow and keep up with Alessia here: @alessiasculpt

Thank you to Calii Love for Sponsoring this episode! https://caliilove.com/

About The TeamWellnessTO Podcast (@teamwellnessto):

This podcast is your one stop shop for all information about the entrepreneurs that work to build a healthier Toronto. We are here to form the largest team of healthy, happy, and thriving individuals in Toronto.

Our mission is to provide guidance to any person wishing to enter the health and wellness industry, while also encouraging listeners to live their healthiest, most fulfilling lives.

Follow us here: @teamwellnessto

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RxFit Code: Enter TEAMWELLNESS at https://go.myrxfit.com/rxfit-1 to get a 14 day free trial and 15% off of the lifetime of your subscription, whether you decide to sign up as a monthly member or subscribe for a year! RxFit has a goal of optimizing your health and wellness by making it simpler to understand, and putting it within your grasp. In the end, their goal is to increase your years by improving the quality of those years. Try it out for free today with code TEAMWELLNESS!

#15 - Energy, Breath and Mental Health with Brandon Wong

On today's episode we have the incredible Brandon Wong (@thewongbrandon): Breathwork Facilitator & Meditation Instructor. 💨🧘‍♂️

Brandon has been meditating ever since he was a kid. He discovered he was a deeply intuitive and energetically sensitive child, so his parents introduced him to many mindfulness and Buddhist practices. It is not everyday that we hear of someone meditating at such a young age. Brandon has an amazing and unique story to share. 🌿

Since then, Brandon has become a Sacred Breathwork Facilitator, a Reiki Level 2 practitioner, has spent time in India and Thailand participating in many 10-Day silent meditation retreats, and has studied Shamanic healing modalities somewhere deep in the forest. 💪🍃📚

We talk about so many things like:

✅Alternative schooling

✅Mental health

✅His time at CAMH

✅Personal growth

✅Determination

✅Acceptance

✅Daily practices

and SO much more

This is a conversation that will inspire you to take care of yourself. Brandon has been through so much and we hope it lights a spark in someone out there listening. Thank you Brandon for welcoming us into your space. Your energy is so beautiful! ✨

Follow and keep up with Brandon here: @thewongbrandon

Thank you to Calii Love for Sponsoring this episode! https://caliilove.com/

About The TeamWellnessTO Podcast (@teamwellnessto):

This podcast is your one stop shop for all information about the entrepreneurs that work to build a healthier Toronto. We are here to form the largest team of healthy, happy, and thriving individuals in Toronto.

Our mission is to provide guidance to any person wishing to enter the health and wellness industry, while also encouraging listeners to live their healthiest, most fulfilling lives.

Follow us here: https://www.instagram.com/teamwellnessto/

DISCOUNT CODE FOR TEAMWELLNESST.O. LISTENERS:

RxFit Code: Enter TEAMWELLNESS at https://go.myrxfit.com/rxfit-1 to get a 14 day free trial and 15% off of the lifetime of your subscription, whether you decide to sign up as a monthly member or subscribe for a year! RxFit has a goal of optimizing your health and wellness by making it simpler to understand, and putting it within your grasp. In the end, their goal is to increase your years by improving the quality of those years. Try it out for free today with code TEAMWELLNESS!

#14 - Recharge Your Life and Business with Dr. Jonas Eyford

Today we interview Dr. Jonas Eyford. Jonas is a chiropractor who built his own company; Recharge Wellness, which operates 37 sites around Canada.🔥Recharge Wellness aims to meaningfully elevate the well-being of everyone they can reach by bridging the gap between compassionate healthcare service and hard-working Canadians.✨

Take your notepads out, this is a great one!📓

We chat with Jonas about:

✅How to stay his most focused

✅Recharge Wellness Stations

✅What motivated him to get into corporate wellness

✅Helping companies support their employees wellbeing

✅Principles behind not using traditional marketing

✅Importance of building healthy and happy relationships

✅Pros and Cons of entrepreneurship

✅You're the only one who can hold yourself back

✅Being bold

✅Design thinking

✅Treat your passion like a business

✅Wellness routines

✅The scarcity of balance and moderation

✅An unexpected turn of events at the end!

✅And MUCH more!

Stay Connected:

Follow Jonas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonaseyford/?originalSubdomain=ca

Check out his business, Recharge Wellness: http://rechargeme.ca/

Thank you to Calii Love for Sponsoring this episode! https://caliilove.com/

About The TeamWellnessTO Podcast (@teamwellnessto):

This podcast is your one stop shop for all information about the entrepreneurs that work to build a healthier Toronto. We are here to form the largest team of healthy, happy, and thriving individuals in Toronto.

Our mission is to provide guidance to any person wishing to enter the health and wellness industry, while also encouraging listeners to live their healthiest, most fulfilling lives.

Follow us here: https://www.instagram.com/teamwellnessto/

DISCOUNT CODE FOR TEAMWELLNESST.O. LISTENERS:

RxFit Code: Enter TEAMWELLNESS at https://go.myrxfit.com/rxfit-1 to get a 14 day free trial and 15% off of the lifetime of your subscription, whether you decide to sign up as a monthly member or subscribe for a year! RxFit has a goal of optimizing your health and wellness by making it simpler to understand, and putting it within your grasp. In the end, their goal is to increase your years by improving the quality of those years. Try it out for free today with code TEAMWELLNESS!

#13 - Grow a Mo to Save a Bro with Samuel Wilson

Here is a special edition episode for the month of November aka Movember!

We're just over a week into the charity's biggest month of fundraising, and we wanted to make sure you knew all about the ways you can contribute, and get involved.

So, we asked Sam Wilson friend and Movember employee, to join us on the show and teach us all we need to know. In addition to being a community development coordinator at Movember, Sam has a very personal connection to the causes under the Movember umbrella. Sam is a passionate, strong, brave and humorous individual. You don't want to miss this one!

Shoutout to special guest and friend Paige Fillier, also featured as a co-host this episode.

In this episode we talk about:

- Movember

- How we can get involved this month and beyond

- Sam's story of loss

- Men's Cancer and the importance of regular check ups

- Men's Mental Health

- Finding a support system

- Work Life Balance

- Developing Self Awareness & Boundaries

Stay Connected:

About Movember: https://ca.movember.com/

Events: https://ca.movember.com/events

Where to Donate: https://ca.movember.com/donate

Sam on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sambodythatyouusedtoknow/

Thank you to Calii Love for Sponsoring this episode! https://caliilove.com/

DISCOUNT CODE FOR TEAMWELLNESST.O. LISTENERS:

RxFit Code: Enter TEAMWELLNESS at https://go.myrxfit.com/rxfit-1 to get a 14 day free trial and 15% off of the lifetime of your subscription, whether you decide to sign up as a monthly member or subscribe for a year! RxFit has a goal of optimizing your health and wellness by making it simpler to understand, and putting it within your grasp. In the end, their goal is to increase your years by improving the quality of those years. Try it out for free today with code TEAMWELLNESS!

#12 - On The Go With Jojo

Today's guest is Joanna Eisen (a.k.a. Jojo). Joanna (@itsjojomaisie) is an inspiring fitness coach and entrepreneur. She is also a pilates instructor, barre master trainer, personal trainer, pre & post natal specialist and a part of the Puma ambassador program, Team Faster.

She is always on-the-go and a big believer that you can build the body you love and respect while you are busy AF. Her on the go with Jojo 1-1 coaching programs offers meal plans and online workouts allowing an efficient and effective way to make fitness a part of your lifestyle.

Today we talk about:

- Motivation vs. Discipline

- Dental hygiene??? Listen to see how this fits into this conversation

- Working on your lifestyle and habits, not a "diet"

- Less is often more

- Training smart

- Healthy eating and mindset

- You are in control

- Exclusive details about her next venture - you heard it here first!

Follow Jojo here: @itsjojomaisie

Her website: https://www.itsjojomaisie.com/

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About The TeamWellnessTO Podcast (@teamwellnessto):

This podcast is your one stop shop for all information about the entrepreneurs that work to build a healthier Toronto. We are here to form the largest team of healthy, happy, and thriving individuals in Toronto.

Our mission is to provide guidance to any person wishing to enter the health and wellness industry, while also encouraging listeners to live their healthiest, most fulfilling lives.

Follow us here: https://www.instagram.com/teamwellnessto/

DISCOUNT CODE FOR TEAMWELLNESST.O. LISTENERS:

RxFit Code: Enter TEAMWELLNESS at https://go.myrxfit.com/rxfit-1 to get a 14 day free trial and 15% off of the lifetime of your subscription, whether you decide to sign up as a monthly member or subscribe for a year! RxFit has a goal of optimizing your health and wellness by making it simpler to understand, and putting it within your grasp. In the end, their goal is to increase your years by improving the quality of those years. Try it out for free today with code TEAMWELLNESS!

#11 - Co-Host Chats with Kyra and Sara

Today's episode is with US - your co-hosts Kyra and Sara! We wanted to have a quick chat about what we've learned so far since starting the TeamWellnessT.O. Podcast, as well as reflect on our takeaways from previous guests! In this episode we touch on: Updates on our personal wellness practices Personal training Mental health and psychotherapy Reflecting on conversations with past guests How to submit to be a guest on the show Our personal favourite podcasts/books right now Our first community event - The Art of: Doing What you Love What we have learned so far about recording/starting a podcast How to be okay with being new at something Event Link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-art-of-doing-what-you-love-tickets-74855882961 When & Where: Oct 27th, 2-4pm at WellBYND During this event, Yoga & Meditation instructor Aliana Comeau sits down with 3 very different individuals who all have one thing in common: they're doing what they love. We will explore a variety of topics from inspiration and personal journeys to hardships and mental health.

Connect with us:

1) Instagram: @teamwellnessto

2) Website: www.teamwellnessto.com

3) Email: teamwellnessto@gmail.com

Take a screenshot of the episode and tag us on instagram to let us know what you think :)

DISCOUNT CODE FOR TEAMWELLNESST.O. LISTENERS:

RxFit Code: Enter TEAMWELLNESS at https://go.myrxfit.com/rxfit-1 to get a 14 day free trial and 15% off of the lifetime of your subscription, whether you decide to sign up as a monthly member or subscribe for a year! RxFit has a goal of optimizing your health and wellness by making it simpler to understand, and putting it within your grasp. In the end, their goal is to increase your years by improving the quality of those years. Try it out for free today with code TEAMWELLNESS!

#10 - Holistic Nutrition with Maya Eid

Maya Eid (@maya_nutrition) is a Clinical and Holistic Nutritionist (CNP) and health supportive chef. After overcoming her own health challenges like constant fatigue, hormonal imbalance and digestive issues, Maya was propelled to share her knowledge to help her clients go from feeling subpar to raising the bar on their health and fitness goals. Using a practical and sustainable approach to wellness, Maya has led hundreds of clients to achieve optimal health inside out. She teaches others how to cut through the nutrition myths, trends and fad diets and apply functional and holistic healthcare solutions that work for their body's unique chemistry.

We talk about:

✅Getting started with your own business

✅The power of healthy eating

✅Imposter syndrome

✅Switching her career from graphic design to becoming a holistic nutritionist

✅Answered your audience questions!

✅Being your best self in order to help other

✅What a holistic nutritionist does

✅How important it is to nurture the relationships that you have with everyone you meet

✅What it takes to sell/promote your own business

✅Being okay with being a people person

Follow Maya on Instagram: @maya_nutrition

October 19th: Stoke The Fire Event by Camp Fuel: https://www.facebook.com/events/978065485861708/

October 27th: The Art Of: Doing What You Love by TeamWellnessT.O.: https://www.facebook.com/events/545254579577540/

About The TeamWellnessTO Podcast (@teamwellnessto):

This podcast is your one stop shop for all information about the entrepreneurs that work to build a healthier Toronto. We are here to form the largest team of healthy, happy, and thriving individuals in Toronto.

Our mission is to provide guidance to any person wishing to enter the health and wellness industry, while also encouraging listeners to live their healthiest, most fulfilling lives.

Follow us on Instagram here: @teamwellnessto

Website: teamwellnessto.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/teamwellnessto/

DISCOUNT CODE FOR TEAMWELLNESST.O. LISTENERS:

RxFit Code: Enter TEAMWELLNESS at https://go.myrxfit.com/rxfit-1 to get a 14 day free trial and 15% off of the lifetime of your subscription, whether you decide to sign up as a monthly member or subscribe for a year! RxFit has a goal of optimizing your health and wellness by making it simpler to understand, and putting it within your grasp. In the end, their goal is to increase your years by improving the quality of those years. Try it out for free today with code TEAMWELLNESS!

#9 - A Conversation Well BYND with Dr. Erica Arcuri

Dr. Erica Arcuri (@dr.ericaarcuri.nd) is a Naturopathic Doctor passionate about all things hormones, skin & gut health. She recently opened her very own clinic - @wellbynd. She is also the co-founder of @thewellnessmrkt; an event that brings together a variety of vendors, workout classes, meditations and other wellness experiences.

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Her belief is that people need to feel empowered in order to take ownership of their own self-care, healthy habits and health outcomes. She works with the “80/20s” of the wellness world – the ones who understand the importance of incorporating daily health practices, but don’t want to live their lives on a “cleanse”.

She works with her patients, wherever that is at that moment, to create a wellness plan authentic to their needs, and to provide them with the tools and knowledge necessary to heal.

Her goal is to go BYND the basic elements of nutrition and exercise. She wants to introduce new ways of healing that your body hasn’t experienced before, to find the ultimate state of balance.

During this episode we talk about:

✅Erica's journey about becoming an ND, and opening her own clinic

✅Taking on other business endeavours such as events

✅Stress and burnout

✅ Choosing your health non-negotiables

✅Female hormones throughout their cycle

✅Healthy eating for skin

✅Gut health: An at home test to see if you are producing enough stomach acid

✅Being an 80/20 person

✅Having a supportive “team” around you

✅Holding onto trauma emotionally

✅How to build your clientele and get started

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✨BONUS FOR OUR LISTENERS✨: Well BYND now has a Skin Clinic where they will be offering clean, medical-grade facials and skin treatments! Erica is generously offering 20% off ALL treatments for the month of October for any listeners - just DM her on instagram (@dr.ericaarcuri.nd) to claim!

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Follow Erica on Instagram Here: https://www.instagram.com/dr.ericaarcuri.nd/

WellBYND:https://www.instagram.com/wellbynd/

The Wellness Market: https://www.instagram.com/thewellnessmrkt/

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About The TeamWellnessTO Podcast (@teamwellnessto):

This podcast is your one stop shop for all information about the entrepreneurs that work to build a healthier Toronto. We are here to form the largest team of healthy, happy, and thriving individuals in Toronto.

Our mission is to provide guidance to any person wishing to enter the health and wellness industry, while also encouraging listeners to live their healthiest, most fulfilling lives.

Follow us here: https://www.instagram.com/teamwellnessto/

DISCOUNT CODE FOR TEAMWELLNESST.O. LISTENERS:

RxFit Code: Enter TEAMWELLNESS at https://go.myrxfit.com/rxfit-1 to get a 14 day free trial and 15% off of the lifetime of your subscription, whether you decide to sign up as a monthly member or subscribe for a year! RxFit has a goal of optimizing your health and wellness by making it simpler to understand, and putting it within your grasp. In the end, their goal is to increase your years by improving the quality of those years. Try it out for free today with code TEAMWELLNESS!

#8 - Road to CEO with Caleigh Rykiss

Today's guest is @caleighfit! Caleigh is the Founder and CEO of the incredible hybrid fitness studio, BOLO (BodyLove). ✨.

Caleigh is a true inspiration who saw something missing in her life, and rose to the occasion to create it herself.

@boloinc is not only a fitness studio, but also a cafe, salon, and workspace. 💪

We sat down with Caleigh to discuss everything from her career change in TV to fitness, her boxing career, the mistakes made and lessons learned from starting your own business, and of course how to love ourselves and our bodies.

Caleigh is kind, authentic and one of the most hard-working and genuine people we have had the privilege of meeting. We can’t wait to hear what you will take from this conversation! 🔥

Book a class at her studio: https://www.bodyloveinc.com/

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About The TeamWellnessTO Podcast (@teamwellnessto):

This podcast is your one stop shop for all information about the entrepreneurs that work to build a healthier Toronto. We are here to form the largest team of healthy, happy, and thriving individuals in Toronto.

Our mission is to provide guidance to any person wishing to enter the health and wellness industry, while also encouraging listeners to live their healthiest, most fulfilling lives.

Follow us here: https://www.instagram.com/teamwellnessto/

DISCOUNT CODE FOR TEAMWELLNESST.O. LISTENERS:

RxFit Code: Enter TEAMWELLNESS at https://go.myrxfit.com/rxfit-1 to get a 14 day free trial and 15% off of the lifetime of your subscription, whether you decide to sign up as a monthly member or subscribe for a year! RxFit has a goal of optimizing your health and wellness by making it simpler to understand, and putting it within your grasp. In the end, their goal is to increase your years by improving the quality of those years. Try it out for free today with code TEAMWELLNESS!

#7 - Influencer Real Talks with Beverley Cheng

Today’s special guest is Beverley Cheng (@beverleycheng). Beverley is the fitness blogger and creator behind, "Born to Sweat", which on top of the blog, offers online fitness programming, retreats, and much more.

Beverley is also an extremely popular instagram influencer, a group fitness instructor, a model and more. We are grateful to have had the opportunity to chat with her so openly about her successes and experiences. We so appreciated her realness and humour throughout the interview, and we know you are going to love it!

Topics we touch on include:

Starting a blog as a side hustle
How competitive rugby shaped her into the person she is today
Building out a fitness program on a budget
What it's REALLY like to be an influencer
Advice on starting your own business
How to embrace imperfections and build confidence
How to stay motivated and create boundaries
How having fun and enjoying yourself is a huge part of overall wellbeing

Check out Beverley at: https://borntosweat.co/

Follow her on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/beverleycheng/

See you next week! Don't forget to subscribe and share with a friend and follow us on instagram @teamwellnessto

DISCOUNT CODE FOR TEAMWELLNESST.O. LISTENERS:

RxFit Code: Enter TEAMWELLNESS at https://go.myrxfit.com/rxfit-1 to get a 14 day free trial and 15% off of the lifetime of your subscription, whether you decide to sign up as a monthly member or subscribe for a year! RxFit has a goal of optimizing your health and wellness by making it simpler to understand, and putting it within your grasp. In the end, their goal is to increase your years by improving the quality of those years. Try it out for free today with code TEAMWELLNESS!

#6 - A Sustainable Approach with Aliana Comeau

Meet Aliana Comeau (@yoginialiana) Aliana is a Toronto-based yoga & meditation instructor, sustainable consultant and mindful programming developer. Her passion lies in helping everyday people find their way to a happier, healthier more conscious and connected lifestyle using movement, meditation and self-discovery practices. With the intent to create innovative and unique experiences for her clients and students, Aliana is consistently immersing herself in knowledge. Progressing her love for Mindfulness at the University of Toronto, she studies new and ancient practices, philosophies and theories while weaving these teachings into her offerings and the lives of the people she works with. Strongly rooted in sustainability, Aliana has and continues to develop programs, classes and meditations to suit a variety of experience levels, needs, interests and financial accessibility. In this episode we chat about, building a business and side hustling, teaching and taking group classes, scheduling 'me time', the impact of social media as you grow your business, building a supportive community, staying motivated and inspired as an entrepreneur, and finally, we learn what it’s REALLY like to be in the world of mindfulness and meditation. We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did! Follow Aliana Here: @yoginialiana

Check out her website: https://www.yoginialiana.com/

Take her classes here: https://hoame.ca/?gclid=CjwKCAjwnrjrBRAMEiwAXsCc471WuvKHlKV_0C2SuiSBHNtPSt7cxQgb-vyZAbgUNSbSBKsvtMYg8RoCIrUQAvD_BwE

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About The TeamWellnessTO Podcast (@teamwellnessto):

This podcast is your one stop shop for all information about the entrepreneurs that work to build a healthier Toronto. We are here to form the largest team of healthy, happy, and thriving individuals in Toronto.

Our mission is to provide guidance to any person wishing to enter the health and wellness industry, while also encouraging listeners to live their healthiest, most fulfilling lives.

Follow us here: https://www.instagram.com/teamwellnessto/

DISCOUNT CODE FOR TEAMWELLNESST.O. LISTENERS:

RxFit Code: Enter TEAMWELLNESS at https://go.myrxfit.com/rxfit-1 to get a 14 day free trial and 15% off of the lifetime of your subscription, whether you decide to sign up as a monthly member or subscribe for a year! RxFit has a goal of optimizing your health and wellness by making it simpler to understand, and putting it within your grasp. In the end, their goal is to increase your years by improving the quality of those years. Try it out for free today with code TEAMWELLNESS!

#5 - Journey To Camp Fuel: Alicia Wood

In this episode we get to know Alicia’s story. She started out having little interest in fitness and then ended up falling in love with it and becoming a personal trainer and group fitness instructor!

Today Alicia is the founder of an adult fitness camp; CAMP FUEL. Alicia loves being outdoors, swears by group fitness training and struggles with making friends in the city. She wanted to create an inclusive and fun weekend that married all three of those things together, which is how Camp Fuel came to be.

We talk about her career change from TV to fitness full time, the struggles and success, and the adventure that is building and growing Camp Fuel each year.

Follow Alicia Here: @alicia.rose.wood

Follow Camp Fuel: @camp.fuel

Take her classes at Elle Fitness and Social or Studio Lagree!

Let us know what you think by leaving a comment or review. Be sure to subscribe as well as share with a friend! Find us on Instagram and Facebook @teamwellnessto. Also at teamwellnessto.com.

DISCOUNT CODE FOR TEAMWELLNESST.O. LISTENERS:

RxFit Code: Enter TEAMWELLNESS at https://go.myrxfit.com/rxfit-1 to get a 14 day free trial and 15% off of the lifetime of your subscription, whether you decide to sign up as a monthly member or subscribe for a year! RxFit has a goal of optimizing your health and wellness by making it simpler to understand, and putting it within your grasp. In the end, their goal is to increase your years by improving the quality of those years. Try it out for free today with code TEAMWELLNESS!

#4 - The Life of a Fitness Entrepreneur: Allan Wu

In this Episode, we chat with Allan Wu (@allanwutang), a fitness trainer and entrepreneur. Allan is originally from Vancouver, but moved to Toronto a few years ago to pursue fitness. Today, he teaches at Equinox Bay and Yorkville, along with myodetoxperformance. He also started his own company Kinathletics while in university and we were IMPRESSED by his entrepreneurial spirit! This episode will take you through Allan’s entrepreneurial journey in the fitness world, as well as provide some valuable advice to get you movin'.

Topics we chat about:

- Getting into group fitness and personal training

- Getting your certification

- Stepping outside of your comfort zone

- Making time to relax and have fun

- The importance of stretching for posture and mobility

- Personal branding and finding your training style

- How to stay motivated/motivate others as a trainer

- 3 different goals clients can have

- Gratitude

- Being a life-long learner
- Being the best version of yourself

Follow Allan on Instagram at @allanwutang.

DISCOUNT CODE FOR TEAMWELLNESST.O. LISTENERS:

RxFit Code: Enter TEAMWELLNESS at https://go.myrxfit.com/rxfit-1 to get a 14 day free trial and 15% off of the lifetime of your subscription, whether you decide to sign up as a monthly member or subscribe for a year! RxFit has a goal of optimizing your health and wellness by making it simpler to understand, and putting it within your grasp. In the end, their goal is to increase your years by improving the quality of those years. Try it out for free today with code TEAMWELLNESS!

Tag Allan, and @teamwellnessto to let us know what you thought about the episode!

#3 - The Force Behind Wall Street Fitness: Jay Agustin

Somehow this episode got put into "draft" mode and it was taken off our podcast listens list! 😲So, if this is downloading to your podcast library today - just know this is Episode 3 from Season 1! It's an incredibly inspiring episode, so if you haven't heard it yet or already have, we recommend you give it a listen. 😊

Episode 3 is with the one and only Jay Agustin; founder of Wall Street Fitness!

Wall Street Fitness is a service that highlights and addresses the lack of mobility in corporate workspaces. With the aid of some of the most sought out practitioners, Jay aims to disrupt the wellness industry with a refreshing perspective to moving more efficiently and providing easy to digest content for everyone around the world.

We chat about Jay’s personal journey into fitness, his love for animal flow and boxing, as well as his success of building his very own company. Jay is a true friend, and amazing supporter, and we are continually inspired by him. We are lucky to have gotten to know him, and we hope you take in every piece of valuable advice he has to offer!

Check him out teaching classes at BOLO or book a personal training sessions with him through his website: https://wallstfitness.com/

His social: @wallstfitness

Let us know what you think by leaving a comment or review. Be sure to subscribe as well as share with a friend!

Find us on Instagram and Facebook @teamwellnessto. Also at teamwellnessto.com.

DISCOUNT CODE FOR TEAMWELLNESST.O. LISTENERS:

RxFit Code: Enter TEAMWELLNESS at https://go.myrxfit.com/rxfit-1 to get a 14 day free trial and 15% off of the lifetime of your subscription, whether you decide to sign up as a monthly member or subscribe for a year! RxFit has a goal of optimizing your health and wellness by making it simpler to understand, and putting it within your grasp. In the end, their goal is to increase your years by improving the quality of those years. Try it out for free today with code TEAMWELLNESS!

#2 - Getting Mindful With Michelle Pound

In today's episode, we chat with Michelle Pound (@michellepound).

Michelle is an award-winning instructor, key-note speaker and mindfulness coach, based in Toronto. Since 2013, she has been helping people connect to their mind, body, and breath in a warm and witty way. She loves teaching her students the power of the present moment and how to connect to both the head and the heart. Her passion lives in creating human connectedness through mindfulness, meditation and movement. She teaches workshops and speaks internationally on this topic.

Throughout our conversation you will get to know Michelle’s journey - both the struggles and successes, what is next for her, as well as a special meditation for us to enjoy together!

Check her out here: https://www.michellepound.com/

Let us know what you think by leaving a comment or review. Be sure to subscribe as well as share with a friend!

Find us on Instagram and Facebook @teamwellnessto. Also at teamwellnessto.com.

DISCOUNT CODE FOR TEAMWELLNESST.O. LISTENERS:

RxFit Code: Enter TEAMWELLNESS at https://go.myrxfit.com/rxfit-1 to get a 14 day free trial and 15% off of the lifetime of your subscription, whether you decide to sign up as a monthly member or subscribe for a year! RxFit has a goal of optimizing your health and wellness by making it simpler to understand, and putting it within your grasp. In the end, their goal is to increase your years by improving the quality of those years. Try it out for free today with code TEAMWELLNESS!

#1 - Welcome to TWTO: Meet The Hosts!

Welcome to the TeamWellnessT.O. Podcast! Our aim is to build the largest team of happy, healthy and thriving individuals in Toronto - join us!

In our premiere episode, we wanted to give you a chance to get to know us - Sara and Kyra, your hosts!

We’ve been friends for over two decades and have experienced so much together from our childhood dance studio, to being university roomies. For our newest adventure, we are striving to create a community with others who share the same passion as us; wellness.

In this episode we talk about everything from how we met, to what we’re up to today. We also ask each other some surprise questions, and discuss what wellness means to us. You’ll also learn about what to expect in the coming episodes, as we start to bring our exciting guests to the show! We hope you enjoy our conversation.

Stay tuned for more every Monday morning!

Find us on Instagram and Facebook @teamwellnessto. Also at teamwellnessto.com.

DISCOUNT CODE FOR TEAMWELLNESST.O. LISTENERS:

RxFit Code: Enter TEAMWELLNESS at https://go.myrxfit.com/rxfit-1 to get a 14 day free trial and 15% off of the lifetime of your subscription, whether you decide to sign up as a monthly member or subscribe for a year! RxFit has a goal of optimizing your health and wellness by making it simpler to understand, and putting it within your grasp. In the end, their goal is to increase your years by improving the quality of those years. Try it out for free today with code TEAMWELLNESS!

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