

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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Jun 28, 2022 • 1h 23min
487. Redefine Success & Reshape Your Life with Jenna Kutcher
Tired of hustle-culture and not sure what you really want in life? This is the episode for you! Entrepreneur, digital marketing expert, host of one of the top-rated Podcasts “Goal Digger” and Maria’s dear friend Jenna Kutcher joins us to talk how to choose a path on your own terms and fully live your truth. We discuss a lot, so get your notepads ready! We chat:
Boundaries and how to set them (Jenna even gives us a script we can use!)
Redefining success on your own terms
How to avoid burnout
How our feelings are our greatest navigation tools
The idea of identity foreclosure and the first steps we can take to truly discovering ourselves
We hope you enjoy!RESOURCES: Website: jennakutcher.comHer book: HOW ARE YOU, REALLY?! Living Your Truth One Answer at a Time https://www.amazon.com/How-Are-You-Really-Living/dp/0063221942Podcast: Goal Digger PodcastMaria is continually updating this page to find the best of the best so you don’t have to do the work! And as a reminder, even if you don't see something you like here but having something in mind you do want to buy at Macy's, please support us and use the link. Every purchase through this link helps us keep the show going :)Maria's personally curated Macy's page: www.macys.com/bettertogetherCheck out www.mariamenounos.com for the “cliff notes” of all our episodes where we compile the life-changing lessons into one blog called "life-hacks." Plus, we share Maria's favorite new products & her must-haves!

Jun 27, 2022 • 1h 2min
Ask the Manager Ep. 9: The Best & Worst Career Advice
Happy Ask the Manager Monday. You asked. Keven and Kelsey answered. The best places to visit in LA along with the best and worst career advice ever received. The one single change that led to success. The second change that led to even more success. Underwriting your dream. Working for free vs. paying to work. The effects of clutter. How to prevent burn out. Monday IS the new Wednesday!

Jun 24, 2022 • 1h 11min
Regular Guy Friday Ep. 72: The Importance of Finding Magic
Why finding magic is key. Why playing small is exhausting. Why does the claymation special 'Santa Claus is Comin to Town' have all the life lessons you'll ever need? What is friendship dating and what are friendship allergies? The surprising place(s) to find new friends and friend levels. @thekelseymeyer has a friendship date while @poojanayyarr stays loyal to her clique along with the mantra that will change your life. You win. You're right. Can I go now? Before you do...RGF bonus: @undergaro volunteers to be cat-fished.

Jun 23, 2022 • 53min
486. Heal PTSD & Trauma using this Psychotherapy Technique with EMDR Therapist Tammy Valicenti
Originally Aired: Dec 16, 2019June is PTSD awareness month, so we are rerunning our interview with psychotherapist Tammy Valicenti. How have we gone this long without hearing about EMDR-Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing? The team feels indebted to Tammy Valicenti, a practicing psychotherapist and trauma recovery specialist with expertise in trauma and addiction recovery, for teaching us about this therapy that is helping heal people with incredible success rates. EMDR helps the patient process and resolve stored memories using an eight-phase approach. Practitioners initially used it to treat people with traumatic memories, but they now use it to treat a variety of disorders, including: phobias, PTSD, anxiety, chronic pain and depression. EMDR addresses the past experience of trauma, the present triggers for dysfunctional emotions and beliefs, and the positive experience needed to improve future mental and emotional functioning.About Tammy: Tammy Valicenti, LICSW is the founder of The Transformation Center located in the Berkshire hills of Massachusetts. She is a practicing psychotherapist with expertise in trauma and addiction recovery. Tammy works with clients nationally and internationally and has renowned success utilizing EMDR to treat trauma, anxiety and panic as well as to enhance performance for actors and entrepreneurs. Tammy has over twenty years of experience treating various forms of trauma and addiction, and has helped foster life-changing results for survivors of rape and sexual assault. As a result of her success, Tammy has been called on by leading addiction treatment centers in the U.S. to perform EMDR therapy for their inpatient clients.

Jun 22, 2022 • 1h 20min
485. The Key to Overcoming Your Greatest Fears & Never Being Held Back By Fear Again w/ Monica Berg
Fear the unknown? Don’t we all. Luckily, international speaker and author of “Fear is Not an Option” and “Rethink Love” Monica Berg joins us on Better Together and shares how to overcome our fears so that we can step into our full power. In this episode, she teaches us how to get comfortable with change, shares tools to release your fears, and shows us how to adopt a growth mindset. We are all going to face hurdles in our lives, but Monica’s interview will help us be a little more prepared when they present themselves next time. Tune in!MONICA’S RESOURCES:BOOKS: “Fear is Not an Option”: https://www.amazon.com/Fear-Not-Option-Monica-Berg/dp/1571899642 “Rethink Love”: https://www.amazon.com/Rethink-Love-Steps-Attracting-Becoming/dp/1571899987 PODCAST: Spiritually Hungry With Michael & Monica BergWEBSITE: www.rethinklife.today BETTER TOGETHER’S RESOURCES:Maria is continually updating this page to find the best of the best so you don’t have to do the work! And as a reminder, even if you don't see something you like here but having something in mind you do want to buy at Macy's, please support us and use the link. Every purchase through this link helps us keep the show going :)Maria's personally curated Macy's page: www.macys.com/bettertogetherCheck out www.mariamenounos.com for the “cliff notes” of all our episodes where we compile the life-changing lessons into one blog called "life-hacks." Plus, we share Maria's favorite new products & her must-haves!

Jun 21, 2022 • 1h 6min
484. Free Yourself from Generational Patterns with Family Patterns Expert Judy Wilkins-Smith
Today’s episode will help free you of multigenerational patterns - so be sure to stay tuned. Author of Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint Judy Wilkins-Smith helps people detangle the limiting familial systems that no longer serve them on the daily and today, she shares the secrets on how we can do it too. These blueprints can be changed and guess what, it’s really not as hard as we think! Judy also talks about how to stop making yourself smaller for others and what it actually means to surrender to the universe. Maria and the team were so moved by this episode and we know you will be too. If this resonates with you at all, please share with a friend. JUDY’S RESOURCES:BOOK: ‘Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint: A Powerful Guide to Transformation through Disentangling Multigenerational Patterns’ OUT NOW!IG: @judywilkinssmithBETTER TOGETHER’S RESOURCES:Maria is continually updating this page to find the best of the best so you don’t have to do the work! And as a reminder, even if you don't see something you like here but having something in mind you do want to buy at Macy's, please support us and use the link. Every purchase through this link helps us keep the show going :)Maria's personally curated Macy's page: www.macys.com/bettertogetherCheck out www.mariamenounos.com for the “cliff notes” of all our episodes where we compile the life-changing lessons into one blog called "life-hacks." Plus, we share Maria's favorite new products & her must-haves!

Jun 20, 2022 • 55min
483. Why You Should Incorporate Naturopathy Into Your Life
Britney Spears’s wedding, naturopathy, boundaries, oh my! We cover an array of topics on today’s episode, Heal Squad. Maria talks about Britney’s wedding and her birthday + the new important lesson in boundaries that she began implementing. And then Maria answers YOUR questions: What is the best way to eliminate toxicity out of your life? Any advice for staying calm when triggered? How do we quiet our inner critic that always seems to be popping up?What is the hardest life lesson that you’ve learned, but also has changed you or the better? RESOURCES:Maria is continually updating this page to find the best of the best so you don’t have to do the work! And as a reminder, even if you don't see something you like here but having something in mind you do want to buy at Macy's, please support us and use the link. Every purchase through this link helps us keep the show going :)Maria's personally curated Macy's page: www.macys.com/bettertogetherCheck out www.mariamenounos.com for the “cliff notes” of all our episodes where we compile the life-changing lessons into one blog called "life-hacks." Plus, we share Maria's favorite new products & her must-haves!

Jun 17, 2022 • 1h 17min
Regular Guy Friday Ep. 71: The Power of Anticipation and How it Can be Yours
Leaders anticipate, losers react and how worse case scenarios and awareness factor in. The business of life and being your own CEO. Why throwing money at issues is usually not the answer. When anger is just the emotion you need. How we are forever hoeing our social gardens and how the golden rule trumps the platinum rule. The sexy brats we know, another @poojanayyar wedding, an @thekelseymeyer first date and no @undergaro RGF Bonus. Bye Betches.

Jun 16, 2022 • 1h 33min
482. This is The Secret to Healing Your Mind & Creating New Behaviors w/ Dr Joe Dispenza
Today is the day - Dr Joe Dispenza is in the studio with Maria and the Better Together team and we cannot be more excited to share this episode with you all! If you’ve been following along to the show for the past 6 months you know that Maria has been transforming through Dr Joe’s work, practicing his meditations daily and incorporating his lessons into her day-to-day. Plus, she had a life-changing week at his meditation retreat. In part 2 of our interview with Dr Joe, we learn”
How to manifest the life we want
The science behind emotions/ thought & the influence of those reactions on the body
Where to begin for those who don’t even meditate
The difference between coherent heart and brain, and how to achieve both
How to reprogram fight or flight
The key to creating new behavioral patterns
What we love about this episode is that he explains the actual science behind his teachings - and as we know, the science doesn’t lie! We hope you enjoy and if this episode resonated with you, please share with a friend. DR JOE’S RESOURCES:Website: drjoedispenza.comxIG: @drjoedispenzaBETTER TOGETHER’S RESOURCES:Maria is continually updating this page to find the best of the best so you don’t have to do the work! And as a reminder, even if you don't see something you like here but having something in mind you do want to buy at Macy's, please support us and use the link. Every purchase through this link helps us keep the show going :)Maria's personally curated Macy's page: www.macys.com/bettertogetherCheck out www.mariamenounos.com for the “cliff notes” of all our episodes where we compile the life-changing lessons into one blog called "life-hacks." Plus, we share Maria's favorite new products & her must-haves!

Jun 15, 2022 • 56min
481. Create Your New Reality Through Meditation & Thought w/ Dr Joe Dispenza
Today is the day - Dr Joe Dispenza is in the studio with Maria and the Better Together team and we cannot be more excited to share this episode with you all! If you’ve been following along to the show for the past 6 months you know that Maria has been transforming through Dr Joe’s work, practicing his meditations daily and incorporating his lessons into her day-to-day. Plus, she had a life-changing week at his meditation retreat. In part 1 of our interview with Dr Joe, we learn how:
Your personality creates your reality
To shape your personality
To condition the body into the future
To regain control over our thoughts
What we love about this episode is that he explains the actual science behind his teachings - and as we know, the science doesn’t lie! We hope you enjoy and if this episode resonated with you, please share with a friend. Plus, Maria shares her experience and progress - and how she has been able to move past her fears and reprogram herself from falling into old, destructive patterns.DR JOE’S RESOURCES:Website: drjoedispenza.comIG: @drjoedispenzaBETTER TOGETHER’S RESOURCES:Maria is continually updating this page to find the best of the best so you don’t have to do the work! And as a reminder, even if you don't see something you like here but having something in mind you do want to buy at Macy's, please support us and use the link. Every purchase through this link helps us keep the show going :)Maria's personally curated Macy's page: www.macys.com/bettertogetherCheck out www.mariamenounos.com for the “cliff notes” of all our episodes where we compile the life-changing lessons into one blog called "life-hacks." Plus, we share Maria's favorite new products & her must-haves!