

Heal Squad x Maria Menounos
Heal Squad
Your go-to, daily podcast for taking control of your health. Hosted by Maria Menounos, 2x New York Times bestselling author, Emmy Award-winning journalist, and global leader in health. After surviving a brain tumor, pancreatic cancer, developing diabetes, battling infertility, and caregiving for her mother during her own fight with a brain tumor, Maria turned her personal health journey into the fuel that is changing how the world approaches health for the better. She brings together the top experts, thought leaders and inspiring healing stories to create a space for health exploration. Whatever health journey you’re on, we’re here to guide you with the knowledge you need to make informed decisions and take a proactive role in your physical, emotional, and spiritual health—because healing is possible and it happens here.Connect with Heal Squadhttps://www.patreon.com/HealSquadhttps://www.instagram.com/healsquad/https://www.tiktok.com/@healsquadxmariahttps://www.youtube.com/@mariamenounos
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Apr 8, 2021 • 1h 23min
246. Self Worth and How To Boost It with Rosie Acosta
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Yf1ZeGkOvZM
Yoga, meditation, wellness influencer and Heal Squad member, Rosie Acosta, joined Better Together for a rich two parter on how to manifest your best life from the worst circumstance. Rosie describes her journey from living as an East Los Angeles first generation American, weighing 200 pounds, having trouble with the law (she was arrested for stealing a police car), dating abusive partners, being suicidal and feeling horrible about herself and future to a life rich with love, health and success. Rosie’s path to recovery began with a bus trip to hear a Yoga instructor speech then running a local road race. Rosie shares all her hacks to getting out of her toxic rut (and yours) and how she remains out. If you feel your life and situation is hopeless or even lacking fulfillment, this is a must view episode. Enjoy, part 2 :)
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Apr 7, 2021 • 1h 9min
245. How Break TOXIC Cycles with Rosie Acosta
Youtube: https://youtu.be/xzAjV1712CU
Yoga, meditation, wellness influencer and Heal Squad member, Rosie Acosta, joined Better Together for a rich two parter on how to manifest your best life from the worst circumstance. Rosie describes her journey from living as an East Los Angeles first generation American, weighing 200 pounds, having trouble with the law (she was arrested for stealing a police car), dating abusive partners, being suicidal and feeling horrible about herself and future to a life rich with love, health and success. Rosie’s path to recovery began with a bus trip to hear a Yoga instructor speech then running a local road race. Rosie shares all her hacks to getting out of her toxic rut (and yours) and how she remains out. If you feel your life and situation is hopeless or even lacking fulfillment, this is a must view episode. Enjoy, part 1 of 2 :)
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Apr 6, 2021 • 54min
244. How to Use Your Mind to Remedy all Illnesses with Nicole Sachs
Youtube: https://youtu.be/4IYWGsGljDc
Speaker, author and psychotherapist Nicole Sachs sat in with the Heal Squad to discuss her journey through extreme chronic pain - and a condition doctor’s said was hopeless. Nicole shares how it led to the revelation that her emotional pain and deep seeded personal issues were the roots of the problem. She reveals her near miraculous healing process free of medication or even surgery along with how many of our ailments and afflictions have roots in our emotions (anger, guilt, shame from past events) and how you too can heal them! For anyone dealing with rashes, pains, lack of energy, thyroid, cancers or any number of aches and ailments, this is a valuable two part episode. This is part two!! Enjoy.
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Apr 5, 2021 • 1h 3min
243. The Role Emotions Play in Disease, Illness and Pain w/ Nicole Sachs
YouTube: https://youtu.be/1DbMrfJ_s-M
Speaker, author and psychotherapist Nicole Sachs sat in with the Heal Squad to discuss her journey through extreme chronic pain - and a condition doctor’s said was hopeless. Nicole shares how it led to the revelation that her emotional pain and deep seeded personal issues were the roots of the problem. She reveals her near miraculous healing process free of medication or even surgery along with how many of our ailments and afflictions have roots in our emotions (anger, guilt, shame from past events) and how you too can heal them! For anyone dealing with rashes, pains, lack of energy, thyroid, cancers or any number of aches and ailments, this is a valuable two part episode. This is part one!! Enjoy.
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Apr 2, 2021 • 1h 47min
Regular Guy Friday Ep. 8: How to Feed Your Shadow Self?
Hey Kweenz, we fooled 'em again and made it through another week. Yes, it's Friday.... YOUR day and THE day for us Regular Guys and Gals, living in this irregular world, to come together. This week we ask what's your 'Life One Liner.' We also ask what's your 'Shadow Word' and what feeds your shadow self? We discuss how to feed the shadow self in a means to help not hurt with Kev and Kels citing their own life examples. We define what 'charges' are and how they vastly affect our reactions. We discuss how even though we acquire enough coping tools on Better Together to have a hardware store of self help equipment, we still need still time to use and apply them! We discussed AGAIN how civilians only learn from lessons they pay for and how samurai accept all the FREE lessons they can. We offer a couple of RGF tips and.... Winnie peed on our on studio table , mid show, no joking. However, we played through sporting our new RGF hoodies aka our 'fake merch' never for once forgetting that we are all Kweenz.
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Apr 1, 2021 • 1h 41min
242. Breaking Narcissism, Codependence, Forgiveness and Bad Habits w/ Xavier Dagba
YouTube: https://youtu.be/R7a6PKbnrM4
Healer, wellness and life coach Xavier Dagba sat in with the Heal Squad and shared so many amazing tools, tips and takeaways that we had to split the episode into two parts! Xavier discusses his journey from Africa to Canada and being outcast from his entire family over his life choices. Xavier opens up on how much the experience enlightened him to heal and to help heal others. Xavier covers the widest array of topics such as shame being the ultimate divider, victim mindsets, trauma informed perspectives, the healing power of radical honesty and taking responsibility, the real reason people abuse drugs, how no emotion is negative, how to heal your inner victim, how suppressed emotions control us, how curiosity dismantles judgement, labels defining us and how to spot and cope with a narcissist. Yes, Xavier literally shared all that and more. This is your chance to get on the ground level to follow a great 21st century healer early in his career! Enjoy part 2 of 2! And share with someone who you think could benefit from listening x
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Mar 31, 2021 • 1h 18min
241. How Childhood Traumas Rule Our Actions Today w/ Xavier Dagba
YouTube: https://youtu.be/74GcYGsDNvY
Healer, wellness and life coach Xavier Dagba sat in with the Heal Squad and shared so many amazing tools, tips and takeaways that we had to split the episode into two parts! Xavier discusses his journey from Africa to Canada and being outcast from his entire family over his life choices. Xavier opens up on how much the experience enlightened him to heal and to help heal others. Xavier covers the widest array of topics such as shame being the ultimate divider, victim mindsets, trauma informed perspectives, the healing power of radical honesty and taking responsibility, the real reason people abuse drugs, how no emotion is negative, how to heal your inner victim, how suppressed emotions control us, how curiosity dismantles judgement, labels defining us and how to spot and cope with a narcissist. Yes, Xavier literally shared all that and more. This is your chance to get on the ground level to follow a great 21st century healer early in his career! Enjoy part 1!! And share with someone who you think could benefit from listening x
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Mar 30, 2021 • 1h 5min
240. The Female Entrepreneurs' Guide to Parenting and Marriage w/ Nicole Walters
YouTube: https://youtu.be/etXsaRwV8r4
Entrepreneur turned reality star, Nicole Walters, sits in with the Heal Squad for Part Two of her interview. In Part 1, Nicole gave us the blueprint to being an entrepreneur, discovering your why and starting your own business. In Part 2, Nicole opens up about her seeing three children panhandling on the street and her successful journey to adopt them. Nicole shares intricate, out of the box parenting tips to raising children while still succeeding at business. Nicole talks about her parenting practices of 'one on ones' and 'same floor evenings' as well as how bad times are merely parts of our story but do not define us. Nicole talks about marriages needing to grow side by side and not in a V, not falling in love with the fantasy and how one party is the gas and one is the brakes. She also shares her quarterly self help sabbaticals and why they are keys to her health and success. Whether you're a working woman or man whose a parent or even an at home parent or newlywed, this is an episode with incredible takeaway. This is part 2 of the two part show :) we hope you enjoyed!
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Mar 29, 2021 • 52min
239. The Female Entrepreneurs' Guide w/ Nicole Walters
Youtube: https://youtu.be/PMv1gi4RNPs
Entrepreneur turned reality star, Nicole Walters, sits in with the Heal Squad to discuss what it takes to succeed when starting your own business. Nicole opens up on life as a first gen American and woman of color and how she quit her corporate job live on periscope. She shares how to discover your WHY and how crucial knowing your WHY is, exit strategies from current jobs that aren't fulfilling and how crippling fear is to success. She relays how money is a tool, what vanity metrics are, the impact of negative beliefs and how no thoughts are original. For the aspiring entrepreneur, who believes they lack resources, this is a must watch episode. This is part 1 of the two part show :)
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Mar 26, 2021 • 1h 21min
Regular Guy Friday Ep. 7: You're Not the Role You Play
Hay Kweenz (Regular Guys and Gals), another week is gone and we fooled 'em again! It's Friday aka YOUR day and Kels and Kev are back with another episode of Regular Guy Friday. The duo discuss attorney Brittany K. Barnett's philosophy of having your joy meet a need to have your best career. They also break down the amazing work tips offered by Barstool CEO Erika Nardini. In addition, Deepak Chopra reminded us that we play many roles in life and that we are not the roles we play while Qulit App Founder Ashley Sumner told us that we should not allow others to define who we are. Kels and Kev weigh in on those sentiments and how vastly they affect us.
What is your life 'one liner'? You'll find out what that means and how It could guide you in all your career and life decisions. Lastly, we are left with the hope for mass vaccinations and for 'Tour of 1000 Kweenz' to happen!
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