The Vital Side Podcast

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

Lindsay and Cait speak to Riji Raja, an actor and small business owner who utilized the power of positive thinking to overcome homelessness and adversity when she moved to the United States. In today’s episode, Riji talks to Lindsay and Cait about the power of the heart and mind, small ways to reframe negative thoughts, and shares her story & journey of starting her business, Affirmation Darling.  Riji went from being homeless in LA to creating an empowering woman-owned business, Affirmation Darling. As the founder, she helps advocate for young adults from underserved and disadvantaged communities facing homelessness and mental health issues.  Show Notes: -Riji’s story of surviving homelessness and adversity in America  -First steps you can take to reverse negative thoughts and take action  -Refraining from word choices that reinforce negative thoughts -Riji’s personal story of overcoming adversity & the catalyst for her to start Affirmation Darling  -Reframing your brain for positive thoughts Resources: -Visit Riji’s Website Here -Riji’s Instagram: @affirmationdarling -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

Neurologist, Dr. Philippe Douyon, dives into the complex and sometimes elusive concept of Neuroplasticity. He also goes through his personal journey of healing and exploring the mind-body connection. Through the lens of resiliency, we explore the ways we can use the power of Neuroplasticity to believe and shape our reality, discover how past traumas are affecting our current healing journey, and take on a more proactive mindset to better our health.  Dr. Philippe Douyon, MD is a board-certified Neurologist and has improved people’s health and life by teaching them how to become the leaders their brains need them to be. Through resiliency and tapping into the mind-body connection, Dr. Douyon was able to overcome and heal from kidney failure, COVID, dialysis, and a kidney transplant. He is also the author of “Neuroplasticity: Your Brain’s Superpower” and the creator of the online course, “Take Charge of Your Brain, a Guide to Making a Profound Difference In Your Health and Your Life.”  Show Notes: -Dr. Douyon’s journey of overcoming COVID and kidney failure and what resilience means to him  -Practical tools to further those big picture goals in times of struggle  -What if people had tools at their fingertips to believe in what they’re feeling and to shape their reality?  -Expanding on the science of Western Medicine through Neuroplasticity  -How trauma informs healing through the mind-body connection  -Embodying a proactive mindset and maintaining habits to build resiliency  -The benefits of a supportive community  -How foods can impact our brain, and therefore our ability to heal  Resources: -Dr. Philippe Douyon’s Book -Dr. Philippe Douyon’s Online Course -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, Cait and Lindsay chat with Adriana Bucci to discuss how someone on their healing journey can recognize the signs of narcissist abuse in their lives. In this episode, we learn how to set boundaries with others and live life on our own terms. We also talk about some of the hard truths that happen when someone close to us is a narcissist and how to learn to accept that a narcissist may never do the necessary inner work to change who they are. Adriana is a narcissistic abuse recovery life coach based in Toronto, Canada. She empowers her clients worldwide to heal from narcissistic abuse, set boundaries, and live life on their own terms. After her own 4-year struggle with physical chronic pain, she learned about the mind-body connection and the work of Dr. John Sarno. In a nutshell, chronic pain can be linked to repressed emotions from childhood trauma. After doing the inner work around her childhood and having been raised by a narcissistic mother, her chronic pain went away. Her own journey & experiences inspired her to become a life coach and help others who are facing similar issues.  Show Notes: -How to identify narcissism and narcissistic abuse  -The cycle of narcissistic abuse -How setting boundaries can identify the narcissists in your life   -Exploring the mind-body connection in a relationship with a narcissist -Using Gray-Rocking as a tool deal with a narcissist in your day-to-day life -Can narcissists ever heal or change?  -How can empaths reconcile their love for the narcissistic person in their life? Resources: -Adriana’s Website -Adriana’s Instagram -Free Closure Webinar! -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 sat down with Human Design Specialist, Krystal Woods, to discuss the complex framework of Human Design. We also explore the concept of passive consciousness, how Human Design can help with self-awareness and de-conditioning, and how we can learn to teach ourselves that it’s not about the doing, it’s about the being.   Krystal works with high achievers, thought leaders, and founders of companies to leverage their unique energetic blueprint, and express their deepest passions and purpose. She is also the creator of Embodied By Design Practitioner Certification, where she teaches other coaches and healers how to apply human design to their practice.  Show Notes: -What is Human Design?  -What led Crystal to teach and coach others in Human Design? -The different categories: energy and profile types -Debunking the misconceptions around Human Design -The one easy step you can take to begin integrating Human Design into your life  -The 2027 Shift in Human Design and what we can expect  Resources: -Krystal’s Website -Krystal’s Instagram: @krystalewoods -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 sat down with international laughter coach, Bianca Spears, also known as “that laughter lady”. We discussed the incredible ways laughter and brain retraining work together to lower our body’s stress chemicals and how we can use breathing techniques and positive reinforcement to enjoy the benefits of laughter wellness.  In 2013, Bianca shifted from the corporate world into entrepreneurship and met anxiety, stress, and chronic fatigue along the way. As a result, she incorporated holistic wellness into her work and helped people step up their lives to embrace more ease, fun and flow. Episode Show Notes: -What exactly is laughter wellness? -Why does intentional laughter feel uncomfortable at first and how do we embrace it?  -What we can do to combat the ‘high achiever mentality’ when learning how to embrace laughter as a wellness tool -How does laughter wellness fit into the process of brain training? -The infinite ways laughter can help with healing & support you in reducing stress and avoiding burnout   -Laughter is a natural pain reliever and anesthetic  -Simple exercises to incorporate laughter into your normal routine  Resources: -Bianca’s Website -Bianca’s Instagram: @bianca.spears -Bianca’s Youtube Channel  -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