The Vital Side Podcast

Are you feeling uninspired in your routines? Do you have trouble striking that balance between a consistent routine and introducing new, exciting adventures? This week, we are discussing how you can implement healthy and balanced routines in your everyday life. By delving into the neuroscience of what happens in our brains when we adopt routines, we talk about the benefits of finding the balance of stability and spontaneity, how we can find anchors in our daily routines, and building those routines from our core values.  
Show Notes: -Establishing anchors in your routines  -Crafting and maintaining balanced routines to avoid burnout  -How “checking out” can be a coping mechanism  -Structuring our routines from our core values  -A quick exercise to use to craft a new routine Resources: -Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco -Cait’s Website -Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside -The Vital-Side Membership Join our community: bit.ly/rewirethepodcast Podcast disclaimer can be found by visiting: bit.ly/rewiredisclaimer

Have you ever felt held back by burnout or experienced symptoms of burnout and didn’t know how to move forward? We’re speaking with burnout expert & past corporate HR leader, Allessadria Polizzi, to discuss how burnout can affect your everyday life and how it can manifest in the workplace. Al also shares insights on how you can break old habits that fuel burnout, common causes of burnout, and ways you can create resilience in your own life.  Al has 20 years of experience leading teams across multiple industries and has been named a top 100 HR professional of 2020. Following her own recovery from burnout in 2021, she left her Head of People position to start her own corporate training & coaching business. In her work, Al implements the latest resiliency, burnout prevention, and psychological safety research and teaches practical simple skills to help teams in the workplace flourish. Al is also the co-founder of the Kite HR wellbeing app designed for HR teams, and she shares the latest discoveries on these topics on the Be Verdant Podcast.  
Show Notes: -The pivotal moment that brought Al to where she is today  -How burnout is affecting the workplace & employee dynamics -The main causes of burnout  -The biggest barriers companies face to address burnout  -Simple tools to increase your emotional intelligence and agility  -Finding realistic ways to be present through mindfulness  Resources: -Al’s Website  -Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco -Cait’s Website -Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside -The Vital-Side Membership Join our community: bit.ly/rewirethepodcast Podcast disclaimer can be found by visiting: bit.ly/rewiredisclaimer

What do you do when things don’t go according to plan? Today we're discussing what to do when your expectations aren’t met and how you can rewire your brain to see every experience, good or bad, as a hidden opportunity. There is a lot of pressure to do more & work towards your purpose at the beginning of the year. But what happens when we can’t do that? Through the lens of Cait’s recovery from lasting symptoms of COVID-19, we take a look at how you can take those intuitive actions steps to get the support you need, how vulnerability plays a part in building your resilience, and how you can collect evidence every day that your body is working for you. 
Show Notes: -Cait’s ongoing healing journey with lasting symptoms of COVID-19  -Taking action and problem solving when things go wrong  -Connecting to your purpose during tough times -Why limitations can elicit heightened emotional reactions  -The cycles of the human experience  Resources: -Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco -Cait’s Website -Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside -The Vital-Side Membership Join our community: bit.ly/rewirethepodcast Podcast disclaimer can be found by visiting: bit.ly/rewiredisclaimer

How can you connect with the divine feminine within you? What is the divine feminine anyway? And how can it help you in living a more authentic, connected & expanded life? This week, we are talking with Bethany Bubenzer to discuss how to prioritize space and time for yourself. Bethany explains how being attuned to your unique frequency requires establishing fundamental self-connection practices, as well as setting work and life boundaries. Bethany is a Business & Spiritual Mentor for visionary women on a mission to positively impact the world. Her mission in life is to help intuitive women elevate their success without losing their magic. She does this through human design, intuitive and intelligent business coaching, and (soon) sacred breathwork. 
Show Notes: -Bethany’s personal story & journey of grief -What is channeling and the veil? -Balancing soul and strategy  -Embodying your authentic self and becoming the person you want to be  -Connecting with your intuitive energy  Resources: -Visit Bethany’s Website and attend her MasterClass  -Bethany’s Instagram: @bethanybubenzer -Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco -Cait’s Website -Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside -The Vital-Side Membership Join our community: bit.ly/rewirethepodcast Podcast disclaimer can be found by visiting: bit.ly/rewiredisclaimer

Are you wondering how you can reframe your perspective around food? We’re talking with Lahana Vigliano, founder and CEO of Nuvitru Wellness. We are discussing the ways that food and eating habits can impact our health and well-being, as well as how to rewire our taste buds, unpacking what we define as “healthy” and reframing what healthy looks like based on our individual needs. Lahana Vigliano is the CEO of Nuvitru Wellness and a board-certified clinical nutritionist. She is passionate about women's health, specifically gut health + hormones! She is obsessed with natural remedies, research, reading, weight lifting, and cooking. Outside of work, she is a mother of two and a wife. Her family is the inspiration behind Nuvitru and continues to encourage her through everything. 
Show Notes: -Lahana’s journey that sparked a curiosity about foods  -Lahana’s advice to parents wanting to start a business -What does being healthy even mean?  -Conditioning our own brains to get rid of rigidity with strict diets -How can you get your family involved in changing food habits?  -Mindset shifts you can incorporate as you rewire your taste buds  -How to shape new eating habits with a chronic illness  Resources: -Follow Lahana on Instagram and Facebook -Visit Lahana’s Website to learn more -Freebie link to a Guide to Hormone Balance -Listen to her podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify -Cait’s instagram: @caitrossco -Cait’s Website -Lindsay’s instagram: @myvitalside -The Vital-Side Membership Join our community: bit.ly/rewirethepodcast Podcast disclaimer can be found by visiting: bit.ly/rewiredisclaimer

Have you experienced chronic symptoms like brain fog, fatigue, or increased anxiety? We’re talking with bio-hacking expert, Faith Ashenden to dive deeper into the mind-body connection, the role our beliefs play in our wellness journeys, and how to find the right practitioner to support you. Throughout her healing journey, Faith has helped people with chronic illnesses optimize their time and be proactive about their health. She explains how to develop healthy belief systems that can reshape your reality and why quantum leaps are just baby steps in disguise.  Faith is a global empowerment coach and the Founder and CEO of That Healing Feeling. Her goal is to help women get their health back, empower them to ask the right questions, bust through limiting beliefs, detox their environments and bodies, and start using food as medicine.  Episode Show Notes: -Faith’s experience with chronic illness and the traditional healthcare system -How to find the right health practitioner for you  -Your belief system creates your reality  -How to invest in your healing journey daily -Finding a team of people that empower you -Adopting the “healing is not linear” mindset  Resources: -Visit Faith’s Website -Follow Faith on Instagram -Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco -Cait’s Website -Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside -The Vital-Side Membership Join our community: bit.ly/rewirethepodcast Podcast disclaimer can be found by visiting: bit.ly/rewiredisclaimer

How can you rewire your brain for health, happiness, success, and purpose? In this week’s episode, we deep dive into how to navigate healing and grieving while navigating workplace culture and responsibilities. We spoke with Mindy Corporon, co-founder of Workplace Healing, LLC and founder of Faith Always Wins Foundation to discuss how grief manifests & expresses itself in the workplace and what organizations can do to prioritize their employee’s well-being and mental health.  Mindy’s life purpose changed from guiding people financially as the CEO of a successful wealth management firm to making it her mission to gather people to shine a light on peace. In this episode, Mindy discusses ways to address challenging emotions, such as grief that you or a coworker may experience and how to turn that pain into safety and purpose. We also discuss some examples of how corporate & workplace cultures are becoming more attuned with the needs employees have related to their wellbeing & personal development, plus how companies are taking action to support their people in deeper and more meaningful ways. Episode Show Notes: -Mindy’s personal story of loss and grief  -Tips on what to say and what not to say when someone is grieving  -Balancing the head and the heart in the workplace or corporate environments -How to manage your expectations when grieving  -Shifts and evolutions that organizations are making in employee well-being and growth -How to connect with safety and purpose Resources: -Visit Mindy’s Website -Purchase her book: Healing A Shattered Soul -Follow Mindy on Facebook and Instagram -Listen to Mindy’s Podcast: Real Grief - Real Healing -Cait’s instagram: @caitrossco -Cait’s Website -Lindsay’s instagram: @myvitalside -The Vital-Side Membership Join our community: bit.ly/rewirethepodcast Podcast disclaimer can be found by visiting: bit.ly/rewiredisclaimer

How can you find your inner authentic voice? We’re talking to Nathaniel Solace to discuss the power of choice, achieving self-mastery, and how you can utilize your subconscious to your own advantage. Nathaniel explains his process on how he helps his clients achieve their personal goals & accomplishments and his experience with lucid dreaming and developing unique leadership strategies. He also dives deep into his story of being adopted and how he utilized the tools he teaches today to address his traumatic experiences.  Nathaniel serves as a strategic and therapeutic wizard for leaders all over the world. For the last ten years, he has worked as a coach, advisor, and transformational facilitator. Nathaniel has been helping entrepreneurs and executives break through to new levels of achievement and fulfillment through custom mind body training, internal programming protocols and lucid leadership strategies. Show Notes: -How Nathaniel got started in the self-mastery world  -The subconscious and the different layers of lucid dreaming  -How you can find your inner authentic voice  -What it means to have the power to choose -Maintaining a balance of personal choice and being united within a community  Resources: -Visit Nathaniel’s Website -Nathaniel’s Instagram: @nathaniel_solace -Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco -Cait’s Website -Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside -The Vital-Side Membership Join our community: bit.ly/rewirethepodcast Podcast disclaimer can be found by visiting: bit.ly/rewiredisclaimer

How do you find the answers within yourself to heal & evolve? We spoke with life and leadership coach, Elizabeth Perry, about how you can adopt a “healing is a lifestyle” mindset. Elizabeth shares the ways that you can curb limiting beliefs by cultivating curiosity, setting effective intentions, and savoring moments of personal growth (even the “small” ones). Elizabeth is a trans-personal life and leadership coach whose mission is to empower people to transcend limiting beliefs by uncovering within themselves the capabilities needed to rise above. Over the last 5 years, Elizabeth has also helped mission-driven companies to build and expand a sustainable revenue pipeline through marketing and sales strategy.  She is the host of the podcast Elevate Potential where she is creating a community of people who are working to escape patterns, embrace passion, and elevate their potential. Show Notes: - Elizabeth’s story about overcoming and elevating through trauma  - Incorporating and adopting a “healing is a lifestyle” mindset  - Savoring moments of growth and cultivating curiosity  - How to identify limiting beliefs   - Learn how setting intentions can help you heal and grow Resources: -Visit Elizabeth’s Website -Listen and Subscribe to Elizabeth’s Podcast Elevate Potential -Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco -Cait’s Website -Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside -The Vital-Side Membership   Join our community: bit.ly/rewirethepodcast Podcast disclaimer can be found by visiting: bit.ly/rewiredisclaimer

This week, we speak to Meghan Read, a certified Reiki Healer, and Practitioner, to discuss the power of manifestation and energy work., Meghan explains how the Chakra System relates to manifesting and energy work, how to manifest our desires without getting caught up in the process, and the role our brains play in all of this! Meghan has been a certified coach and holistic healer for over a decade and has been passionate about coaching and alternative healing since she was a young child. She has dedicated her entire life to living with purpose, authenticity, and joy with the intention of living life to the fullest and sharing what she has discovered along the way.   Meghan’s corporate background spans across human development, brain development, peak performance, sales, positive psychology, and employee wellbeing. Meghan is a certified Reiki Master, crystal healer, sound healer, meditation & mindfulness facilitator, and transformative life coach. She couples her corporate experience with her expertise in Complementary & Alternative Healing to empower people and organizations to achieve their full potential and thrive in every capacity. Show Notes: -What is the Chakra System and why is it such an important tool in healing? -Breaking down how the liberating and manifesting channels work in harmony -Easy, accessible ways to balance your own chakras  -How to avoid getting caught up in results and learning to let go  -The correlation between our brain’s concept of memory and manifestation -How we can use the connection between the left and right brain to alleviate chronic symptoms   Resources: -Learn more about Meghan and her work here  -Meghan’s LinkedIn -Earn 15% off your first purchase from Meghan’s website by using Code REWIRE21 when booking. Valid through 12/31/21. -Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco -Cait’s Website -Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside -The Vital-Side Membership Join our community: bit.ly/rewirethepodcast Podcast disclaimer can be found by visiting: bit.ly/rewiredisclaimer