EMBody Radio

On today's episode of EMBody Radio, I had the pleasure of sitting down with my good friend Nick Komodina. In a world full of people who aren't who they portray themselves to be online, Nick is the absolute opposite of that. I'll allow Nick to introduce himself, but if there's anything I can say about him, it's that he's not only who he portrays himself to be online, he's a lot more than that as well. We get into a lot of deep shit on this episode, and I really feel like you're going to walk away from today's show feeling inspired, more aware of yourself and the boxes you place yourself in, and overall more equipped to live unabashedly as YOU, and nobody else. What you'll hear today: -Growing up with his mom in a trailer park -How nothing is certain -Getting screwed in his first business endeavor and starting over from scratch opening his own gym, NK Fitness -How he hurt his own business by developing a "God complex" -Trying and failing over and over and over again to succeed -Opporutnity and what to do with it -What it truly means to give your best -Lessons in humility -Being OPEN and un-caging yourself because of fear -Learning how to "be a man" and what that means to him -The misconceptions surrounding the idea of the "alpha male" -Self care from the male perspective -The danger of not prioritizing love in your life -Being proud of your accomplishments -Getting one percent better every day -So many more wisdom nuggets! ------------ WHERE TO FIND NICK Instagram Shop Impakt (and use code EMDUNC for a lil discount) YouTube ------------ WHERE TO FIND ME Instagram YouTube Website

After a lonnnnng time away, EMBody Radio is back. And I'd go so far as to say that it is back with a big bang. Today on the show, Joseph Sheehey returns for his second podcast on EMBody Radio. Joe is a human on a journey - a journey that has led him to some very dark places, and now on a journey to truly experience the fullness of life, elevating himself and those around him, and working on creating products that truly help others live well. Joe is one of the founders of Cured Nutrition, one of the original leaders in the CBD industry and the CBD company I've aligned myself with over the last 2-ish years. Joe truly has an amazing story and this show re-ignited my fire behing why I love podcasting in the first place. This conversation left me feeling deeply, inspired, and with a newfound appreciate for my friend and for one of the men behind a company that I fully love and believe in. **TRIGGER WARNING** We do discuss mental illness/depression/suicide in this episode. Today we talk about: -What being a leader TRULY means, -The title of "the boss," -Leaving aerospace engineering with nothing more than a jar of spices and an idea to create a CBD company, -Losing yourself, feeling stuck, and dealing with depression and suicidal thoughts, -Losing $30,000 of working capital within the first few months of business, -Going into business with no idea what you're doing and figuring it out along the way, -What entrepreneurship REALLY looks like, -The importance of mentors, -Using vulnerability and openness, -The future of Cured, -Answering your questions on some big CBD basics (check out the Cured Collective podcast for more informative episodes on CBD, dosage, uses, etc), -Breaking the stigmas around cannabis SHOP CURED (You can support me directly by using this link, and you can save some money off your order by using the code EMILY at checkout!) THE CURED COLLECTIVE PODCAST JOE'S INSTAGRAM CURED'S INSTAGRAM MY INSTAGRAM MY WEBSITE

It's that time of year... aka the New Year. Aka the time of year when the already rampant bad health/fitness nutrition advice is even MORE prevalent. In today's episode, I take some of the worst pieces of fitness "advice," diet programs, and general fallacies that YOU guys left on my Instagram and got into some of why those protocols/recommendations aren't going to necessarily get you where you want to be. If you're ready to hear some bad fitness advice debunked, you'll love today's episode! -------------------------- Find me here: Instagram Twitter YouTube My Website

Everyone talks about "metabolism." Slow metabolisms, fast metabolisms, metabolic adaptation, stubborn metabolisms, all that. But... what actually is "your metabolism?" Can you point to it? Today's episode was inspired by a follower question essentially asking me to help her better understand what "metabolism" actually means. So lets talk allllll about -what "metabolism" actually is from a physical perspective (definition time) -what metabolism practically means -the different components of your metabolism -how those components change/adapt in various scenarios -what having a "slow" or "fast" metabolism actually means -a couple examples of why and how metabolisms adapt to periods of low energy -how metabolic rate is tested -lots more! ----------------- Today's episode of EMBody Radio is brought to you by Four Sigmatic. Four Sigmatic provides the best in adaptogenic/therapeutic mushroom products. You've seen me post about this stuff on Instagram and IG stories all the time, and I wanted to take a sec to tell you a little more about them today. I started using them because I love adaptogens, and many of their mushroom products are just that – adaptogens. Adaptogens basically help you respond better to physical and emotional stress. I run a business, run multiple social media platforms that tie into my business, I'm a student, and I have a life outside of all that that I'm trying to live, so stress management is key. Mushrooms can also be used to help everything from your gut health to your skin. My favorites are the Lion's Mane Mushroom Elixir and the Mushroom Hot Cacao with Reishi... Be sure to listen to the whole episode to learn why ;). If you want to try Four Sigmatic products, use the code "EMDUNC" to get 15% off your order at foursigmatic.com/emdunc. -------------------------- Find me here: Instagram Twitter YouTube My Website

I'm done with my undergrad, have a huge weight lifted off my shoulders, and am readaaaaayyyy to talk to you guys today about training and training intensity. In today's show, we talk about: -How muscle actually develops, -What "adaptation" truly means, -Maintaining, progressing, and regressing adaptations, -Newbie gains, -Where your starting point should be if you feel like you've plateaud in training, -The concept of progressive overload and why most people aren't achieving it, -Training intensity techniques for intermediate/advanced lifters to keep progress moving along, -Why it's not "10% training and 90% diet," -So much more! -------------------------- Find me here: Instagram Twitter YouTube My Website

Sleep - it's something that we all love, but that most of us proooobably aren't getting enough of. And that's a HUGE detriment not just to our overall health, but to our performance and body composition. In today's show, we're talking sleep. More specifically, we're talking: -How poor sleep may negatively impact fat loss, -How poor sleep may potentially be catabolic (muscle-wasting), -How poor sleep may promote body fat gain, -Sleep hygiene, -Creating a nighttime routine that works for you and WHY you should have one, -Supplements that help with sleep quality/falling asleep, -The best environment for sleep, -Lots more! -------------------- Study referenced: Nedeltcheva, A. V., Kilkus, J. M., Imperial, J., Schoeller, D. A., & Penev, P. D. (2010, October 05). Insufficient sleep undermines dietary efforts to reduce adiposity. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20921542 ----------------- Today's episode of EMBody Radio is brought to you by Four Sigmatic. Four Sigmatic provides the best in adaptogenic/therapeutic mushroom products. You've seen me post about this stuff on Instagram and IG stories all the time, and I wanted to take a sec to tell you a little more about them today. I started using them because I love adaptogens, and many of their mushroom products are just that – adaptogens. Adaptogens basically help you respond better to physical and emotional stress. I run a business, run multiple social media platforms that tie into my business, I'm a student, and I have a life outside of all that that I'm trying to live, so stress management is key. Mushrooms can also be used to help everything from your gut health to your skin. My favorites are the Lion's Mane Mushroom Elixir and the Mushroom Hot Cacao with Reishi... Be sure to listen to the whole episode to learn why ;). If you want to try Four Sigmatic products, use the code "EMDUNC" to get 15% off your order at foursigmatic.com/emdunc. -------------------------- Find me here: Instagram Twitter YouTube My Website

This episode serves as a capstone of sorts for the resources I've created surrounding breast implant associated health problems, more commonly known as "Breast Implant Illness." Today I had the pleasure of talking with board certified plastic surgeon and MY personal explant surgeon, Dr. Brian Lee, on all things breast implant issues. We talk about: -His journey into the profession, and how his own struggle with psoriatic arthritis led him down a path that blended his knowledge as a surgeon with more holistic/full-systems healing -How he got involved with the Breast Implant Illness community -What Breast Implant Illness is -Some potential causes of/triggers for health complications from breast implants -How he learned about BII in his own patients -The hot topic question of, "Will it happen to everyone with implants?" -Whether or not he feared the success of his practice if he began explanting women and acknowledging BII -Where the medical/surgical community and medical device community could use improvements for patient health as it relates to breast implants in the future -So much more! This conversation was truly a great one as Dr. Lee remains open minded and non-dogmatic around an issue that tends to polarize many. Find Dr. Lee here: Website Instagram Facebook ------------------ Find me here: Instagram Twitter YouTube My Website

Steroids, particularly anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS), are very popular in all sports, but particularly strength and physique sports (bodybuilding, Weightlifting, powerlifting, and Crossfit). There's a huge taboo around AAS, but an even bigger taboo surrounding women and androgen use. I'm so excited to bring you part 2 with Victoria Felkar, a researcher whose research is quite literally titled, "Women and Steroids." We're diving into that exact topic in this episode. Today we talk about: -Side effects of high levels of androgens in women (whether they have endogenous hyper-androgenism or they're supplementing with androgens) -Are the side effects of high androgens permanent? -Managing female anabolic androgenic steroid use -Coming off of AAS -Hormonal and systemic changes when you take androgens/systems effected when you're on androgens -Things you need to do to regain normal health/function after using AAS -How long does it take to regain normal health after drug use -Is there an intelligent/"healthy" way that women can use anabolics -Being a conscious consumer of your own health -The ignorance surrounding women and AAS -The anabolic:androgenic ratio and what it means -Are your symptoms from AAS or are they something else? -Polypharmacy in steroid use -The purity of non-pharmaceutical AAS -So much more! ---------------- Find Victoria here: Instagram Website Period Tracker ----------------- Today's episode of EMBody Radio is brought to you by Four Sigmatic. Four Sigmatic provides the best in adaptogenic/therapeutic mushroom products. You've seen me post about this stuff on Instagram and IG stories all the time, and I wanted to take a sec to tell you a little more about them today. I started using them because I love adaptogens, and many of their mushroom products are just that – adaptogens. Adaptogens basically help you respond better to physical and emotional stress. I run a business, run multiple social media platforms that tie into my business, I'm a student, and I have a life outside of all that that I'm trying to live, so stress management is key. Mushrooms can also be used to help everything from your gut health to your skin. My favorites are the Lion's Mane Mushroom Elixir and the Mushroom Hot Cacao with Reishi... Be sure to listen to the whole episode to learn why ;). If you want to try Four Sigmatic products, use the code "EMDUNC" to get 15% off your order at foursigmatic.com/emdunc. -------------------------- Find me here: Instagram Twitter YouTube My Website

Do you take or have you taken hormonal birth control? Do you understand your own menstrual cycle? Have you ever tried to go off birth control and had an awful time trying to regain your natural cycle? Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Victoria Felkar once again. She was in some of the first episodes of EMBody Radio (episodes 5 & 6 to be exact), and she is a wealth of knowledge. Victoria is a researcher and she studies the things that other people don't seem to want to touch - women and hormones, particularly exogenous ones like birth control and anabolic androgenic steroids. As usual, we talked on and on, so this is part 1 of 2 episodes. In today's show, we talk about: -hormone history and where the gendering of hormones began ("male" hormones vs "female" hormones) -the back story of hormones -the back story of sports medicine/hormone manipulation -the development of synthetic hormones (estrogen, testosterone, progesterone) -how hormonal birth control pills and anabolic androgenic steroids are both "enhancement drugs" from a performance perspective/when used for sport -hormonal birth control pills, why it's prescribed, drug effects, different kinds of synthetic BC pills -getting to know your cycle and how to track it (get your free cycle tracking download here) -why we need to stop demonizing estrogen -castrating the HPO axis (hypothalamus-pituitary-ovarian axis) via synthetic estrogens, i.e. birth control -the importance of ovulation -does birth control make fat loss harder and why -SO MUCH MORE! ---------------- Find Victoria here: Instagram Website ----------------- Today's episode of EMBody Radio is brought to you by Four Sigmatic. Four Sigmatic provides the best in adaptogenic/therapeutic mushroom products. You've seen me post about this stuff on Instagram and IG stories all the time, and I wanted to take a sec to tell you a little more about them today. I started using them because I love adaptogens, and many of their mushroom products are just that – adaptogens. Adaptogens basically help you respond better to physical and emotional stress. I run a business, run multiple social media platforms that tie into my business, I'm a student, and I have a life outside of all that that I'm trying to live, so stress management is key. Mushrooms can also be used to help everything from your gut health to your skin. My favorites are the Lion's Mane Mushroom Elixir and the Mushroom Hot Cacao with Reishi... Be sure to listen to the whole episode to learn why ;). If you want to try Four Sigmatic products, use the code "EMDUNC" to get 15% off your order at foursigmatic.com/emdunc. -------------------------- Find me here: Instagram Twitter YouTube My Website

What's up guys! Today we're back for a solo episode and we're digging a little deeper into fat loss... and more importantly, when it's NOT a good time to try and lose body fat and/or why your fat loss phase isn't going the way you'd like it to. Here's the link the the research review on metabolic adaptations I referenced in this show: https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1550-2783-11-7 Today we talk about: -what needs to be in place before you start a cut -why previous dieting attempts could be thwarting your current one -why coming out of your diet poorly can set you up for future failures/struggles (including excess bodyfat gain) -taking the TIME out of a fat loss phase to get your metabolism and hormones back to normal levels -how long you need to spend out of a diet before starting another one -why consistency matters and the negative impacts of yo-yo dieting -what to look out for during your fat loss phase -changes to hunger hormones when you diet -potential reasons why your fat loss phase isn't going well -learning to work with your body instead of trying to drop kick it into submission -... so much more! -------------------------- Find me here: Instagram Twitter YouTube My Website