
Meathead Hippie
Emily Schromm is a trainer, coach, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and entrepreneur. From MTV's Challenge to Women's Health Magazine's Next Fitness Star, Emily has worked in the industry for over 14 years helping people learn about movement, mindset, and the power of nutrition. She now is helping bring awareness to the impacts of industrial farming and how to localize the food supply chain through www.joinpeel.com.
She is the founder of Empirica supplements, the author of the poetry book - The Process, and lover of Mother Earth. Her goal is to continue to inspire listeners to live their BEST, BIGGEST life through education, storytelling, and heart.
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Latest episodes

Jun 27, 2018 • 1h 8min
#60 with Rosa Jad on a Social Media, Millennial, Self-Worth, and Body.
With a lively and upbeat personality, it’s no wonder Rosa Jad’s job title is actually labeled, “Radio Personality.” The way Rosa delivers her messages is real, leaving no room for important thoughts to be filtered or left unsaid. In this episode of Meathead Hippie, Rosa and Em talk about how the most important quality to pertain in a friendship is authenticity, and Rosa exudes exactly that by being authentic in her own skin. In addition, Rosa speaks on her own struggles and day-to-day challenges she faces as a Arabic Muslim living in the States. “Anytime somebody conforms to what society claims as acceptable, you automatically gave up yourself.” Other topics that are discussed in this podcast include: How to balance your personal and professional lives, a body image mindset, instant gratification in today’s world of technology, and dealing with regrets throughout life. Rosa said it perfectly when she stated, “If you are true to yourself, you give off an aura that make all people feel like they can be themselves around you.”
Content Summary:
6:30 Life as a Radio Personality
What exactly is a Radio Personality and how does it work?
9:00 Not Being “On” All the Time
The deeper you get into your career, the more you must be “on” all the time
Biggest dilemma: I refuse to not be who I am
17:00 How Your Phone Can Add Stress
Negative effects of artificial light and how your phone can damage body posture
The rise of the Millennial generation and social media
19:30 Body Image Mindset
“You have to break yourself down to realize that nothing exterior matters.”
How to gain confidence in yourself
23:15 Instant Gratification
Most people find it easier to feel instantly validated
A lesson for Millenials on social media: “Just because you see it, doesn’t mean that’s what you have to do.”
29:00 Finding Your Niche in the Market
“You have to find a niche in the market and a drive that pushes you.”
34:00 Being a Muslim in America
Learning how to detach from work to reflect with God
The surprise element of being Arabic
46:30 Strong Friendships
“You saw me for me, and nothing else mattered.”
Personality types and being who are authentic vs. inauthentic
50:00 Balancing Your Personal And Professional Life
When to know to create because you are in a good place
Happiness comes from the expression of self through using creativity
59:50 Regrets
How to overcome making yourself smaller to make others more comfortable
Battling the boundaries and learning how to speak up
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Jun 20, 2018 • 27min
#59 with Em: Make Magic Every Day.
A monologue on making magic. On empaths in business. On the smallest acts. On feeling SO DAMN MUCH ALL THE TIME. On what is ours to carry and what is not. On worrying about others when we can't quite figure it out ourselves.
On making magic every day.
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xox
Em
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Jun 13, 2018 • 1h 16min
#58 with Melanie Ann Layer on Business Coaching for the Women Who Wants it All
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Jun 6, 2018 • 53min
#57 with Codie Sanchez on Investing, Understanding Money, and Financial Freedom
With an extensive background in investments and finances, Codie Sanchez provides worthwhile tools for people looking to live out the very idea that financial freedom is the foundation of ALL freedom. Codie takes us through her personal journey as a young Latin woman and what it took in order to pave her own way in the business world. She encourages all people to find your “unfair advantage” in the business by knowing a few specific things that make you unique and how to implement them into creating side hustle. In this episode of Meathead Hippie, Codie talks about how crucial it is to understand your own worth in terms of salary, blocks for women in finance, loving the grind and how to start engaging with the big players. “Get a seat at the table instead of a sign outside the building.” Codie Sanchez provides a substantial amount of insight on investmenting, starting up as an entrepreneur and learning how to use creativity as fuel in successful growth and development in the world of business. Codie adds, “It’s really all about leveraging yourself and thinking about whose kingdom you are building.”
Codie can be found at https://www.codiesanchez.com/ and on instagram at instagram.com/codiesanchez
4:30 Initial Start in Angel Investing
7:30 From Journalism to Finance
11:00 The Scarcity Mentality and Making a Career Change
Finding your “unfair advantage” by the things that make you unique
16:00 Knowing Your $$ Worth, Then Negotiating It
23:00 Starting Your Side Hustle
27:00 Blocks For Women in Finance
32:00 Gender Pay and Leveraging Yourself
“Leverage yourself and think about whose kingdom you are building.”
35:00 Survival Mode and Creativity
Loving the grind - “Complacency is the number killer of hustle.”
39:00 Engaging With the Big Players
43:00 Steps in Starting to Invest
45:45 Knowing What to Avoid
48:30 Spirit Animal
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Jun 1, 2018 • 1h 4min
#56 with Irene Fehr: On Sex, Intimacy, and the Necessity of Pleasure
6:30 The Start of Irene’s Life’s Work
11:00 A Cultural Problem in Stigmas
“Most people have sex with internal walls around them.”
14:30 Checking In with Your Mindset
16:00 How to Approach Shame
21:30 The Root Chakra and Sex Connection
Acknowledging that sex is a necessity to life and creation
“Sex is fundamental to who we are and our need to be rooted.”
27:30 Communication Barriers and Building Trust
34:00 When Things Shift in Your Sex Life
37:30 Monogamous Vs. Polyamorous
41:30 Boudoir
43:30 How to Improve Your Sex Life
47:15 Sex Drive After Kids
52:30 Regaining Your Sexy Mojo
56:30 Irene’s “Sex For Your Pleasure” Course
61:00 Spirit Animal
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May 30, 2018 • 29min
#55 (Updated) DOUBLE EPISODE WEEK... Q&A with Em!
2:40 Is There a Good Alternative to Pork?
A good source: Butcher Box
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Important to know where your meat comes from
4:20 Benefits of Collagen
Retains skin moisture and helps with anti-aging
Supplementing collagen into your diet
6:20 What is Cortisol Dysfunction?
Cortisol levels are either too little or too high
Tips on how to regulate cortisol
10:20 Digestion Issues
How digestion works in the body
Finding the connection between brain and stomach
16:40 Back Pain and Looking at Your Diet
Gallbladder support and its connection to upper back pain
Checking your diet to be sure you are getting enough healthy fats
20:20 Tasting Vs. Smelling Something
Listening to what your body is needing by tongue taste
Checking your heart rate in response to what you are eating
25:20 Mosquito Bites... Why!
Taking a good vitamin-B complex to shoo off the mosquitoes
Specific vitamin supplements and recommendations
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May 24, 2018 • 1h 20min
#54 with V, The Paleo Boss Lady on Healing MS and CBD myths
“If it is self-love motivated, you will heal.”
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2:40 Diagnosed With Multiple Sclerosis
At age 23, Diane’s life shifted when she was diagnosed with MS
How pregnancy brought her total remission
7:55 Movement, Self-Love & The Paleo Diet
“Movement sustained me for many years.”
How the paleo diet helped Diane move her body independently for the first time in years
14:20 The BAM Van and Her Mission
How selling all of her possessions and working for free led Diane to joy
“Any stranger that needed help, I would help them.”
18:20 Boss Lady
Going from a miserable multimillionaire to a joyful minimalist
V shares her journey as a successful business woman and how she has been led to help educate others and travel
20:20 The Values of CBD Oil
Addressing the confusions and stigmas behind CBD oil and cannabis, and how they have proven to be beneficial in healing
30:20 Finding Clean Sources
Knowing how to find organic and clean products
Acknowledging that, “things that come from the earth heal us.”
36:20 Advice To Anyone Struggling & Spirit Animal
“If it is self-love motivated, you will heal.”
Believing in yourself as well as your community
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May 16, 2018 • 1h 20min
#53 with Dr Mike T Nelson: Metabolic Flexibility, Better Movement, and Fascia
Mike T Nelson, CSCS, MSME, PhD is a metabolism and fitness expert specializing in improving body composition and performance in athletes of all types. He is a University instructor and owner of Extreme Human Performance, LLC.
Mike T. Nelson has studied the functions of the human body for a multitude of years and became specifically interested in how to properly condition it to burn fat, become stronger, more flexible, and healthier. In this episode of Meathead Hippie, Mike T. Nelson talks about how was initially intrigued in the human body when he learned the ins and outs of fascia by studying cadavers! From there, Mike speaks on how the body is capable of more than we can imagine. Metabolic flexibility is where Mike T. Nelson specializes and says that, “Metabolic flexibility is a spectrum that evaluates how well the body can use carbs and fat for energy, if needed.” Mike provides excellent examples of how to use the concepts of metabolic flexibility by fat burning and intermittent fasting to help decrease insulin levels, which in turn changes body composition!
Lear more about Mike by checking out his website:
www.miketnelson.com
Content Summary
8:40 Mike’s Personal Background
Had heart failure at the age of four years old and received open-heart surgery
Interested in anatomy and worked on cadavers as an undergrad student
14:30 What Exactly Is Fascia?
Bands or sheets of connective tissue in the body
“Fascia goes everywhere in the body and helps reinforce a lot of the other structures.”
23:00 Breathing Mechanics of the Body
A scale for your brain to utilize: “How long can we go without something?”
Breathing interventions could make breathing more efficient
31:20 Why Better Posture Doesn’t Stick
“You have to change the base of which the systems operate.”
Unconscious vs. conscious decisions and visceral mobility
42:00 Heart Rate Variability
Measuring heart rate and heart rate variability
A parasympathetic vs. sympathetic scale that helps track stress
50:00 Metabolic Flexibility
A test to see how well the body can use fat or carbs as energy when needed
“High levels of insulin in a healthy person will push them to use more carbohydrates.”
58:00 A Cyclical Ketogenic Diet
The body is not able to adapt to carbs as well because it is attuned to using mostly fat as fuel
“They had down regulated some of that metabolic machinery in order to be able to fully use it to its fullest potential.”
63:00 Intermittent Fasting for Low Insulin
“Muscle glycogen is really only depleted by muscular work.”
Pushing insulin as low as it possibly can go to help use more fat as fuel
69:00 Regulating Carbohydrates
Examining sleeping habits, stress and exercise while regulating carbs
Tips on how to better utilize fat as fuel
76:15 Spirit Animal
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May 9, 2018 • 58min
#52 with Adam Bornstein: On Extremities, The 90%, and The Pursuit of Better
“The more we focus on the people whose lives we change, rather than ourselves, the more we win.”
Adam Bornstein is a New York Times bestselling author and the founder of Pen Name Consulting, a growth agency that offers content creation, marketing, and strategy that helps businesses scale. Clients include businesses such as Microsoft, Equinox, Dollar Shave Club, Beachbody, and individuals such as LeBron James, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Tim Ferriss.
He is also the founder of Born Fitness, a digital platform that provides clarity in the world of health, and offers personalized online fitness and diet coaching. Bornstein is an award-winning fitness and nutrition writer and editor, and has been named "one of the most influential people in health." He is the author of 7 books (including 3 fitness best sellers) and was a columnist for Muscle & Fitness, Men’s Fitness, SHAPE, and Greatist. His work has been featured everywhere from The New York Times and Fast Company, to ESPN the Magazine and GQ. Previously, Bornstein was fitness editor of Men’s Health magazine, and the editorial director of LIVESTRONG.COM
Follow Adam on Instagram: @bornfitness
Content Summary:
12:10 Loving What You Do
Finding what charges your energy and inspires you to create
Proud of your finished product - Ask yourself: “Would I buy it?”
15:25 Adam’s Journey Into the Fitness Industry
Becoming resilient is a learned behavior
“I put myself in uncomfortable positions on purpose so that when unexpected things come up, I don’t freak out. There are so few things in life that you can control.”
19:25 Extremities Don’t Last… What’s Your 90%?
The domino approach: Small changes create big results
Delayed gratification requires patience and trust in the work you put in
24:00 An Unexplained Autoimmune Condition
Dealing with a cancer misdiagnosis and overcoming it’s challenges
34:25 Finally Giving Sleep Some R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
The number one thing that people should prioritize: Sleep!
Lack of sleep and its effects on the body
41:45 Overtraining is Overstated
Overdoing workouts, undereating and counting calories like a mad man (or woman)
“If you think that a reflection in the mirror will make you happier, you are severely misguided.”
49:25 Room for Self-Improvement
“We can be proud of who we are, and still desire to do better.”
It’s all about loving who you are at this very moment, while holding yourself to high standards
53:25 Engaging With Your Community
“The more we focus on the people whose lives we change, rather than ourselves, the more we win.”
56:15 Willpower & Self-Discipline
“I write 1,000 words before I allow myself to drink my coffee.”
Decision fatigue
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Apr 11, 2018 • 58min
#51 with Ethan Godwin: Overcoming Self-Doubt, Becoming GUILT FREE, and Cultivating a New Identity
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