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Many people think that eating whole, healthy foods is both expensive and incredibly time-consuming. Rich Roll and his wife, Julie Platt, dispute those myths.
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1520ns3b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Rich Roll & Julie Platt
- Book Title The Plantpower Way: Whole Food Plant-Based Recipes and Guidance for The Whole Family
- Guest Website The Plantpower Way
- Guest Twitter Account @richroll and @srimati
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Guest Bio
Julie Platt: Born in Colorado and raised in Alaska, Julie Platt has spent decades traveling many paths and studying many traditions. She is a true renaissance artist who expresses her creative voice as a plant-based chef, singer-songwriter, yogi, sculptor, painter, spiritual guide, and homeschooling parent to four children.
Rich Roll: After finding himself sedentary and overweight in middle age, Rich overhauled his life at age 40, adopted a Plant-powered whole foods diet and reinvented himself as an ultra-distance endurance athlete. He went on to clock top finishes at the Ultraman World Championships and cemented his place in the pantheon of endurance greats when he was the first of two people to complete EPIC5: 5 Ironmans on 5 Hawaiian Islands in under a week. His inspirational memoir FINDING ULTRA: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World’s Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself was an Amazon #1 best-seller and has inspired thousands across the world to embrace a Plantpower diet. Rich is a frequent guest on CNN, was named one of the "25 Fittest Men in the World" by Men's Fitness and is the host of The Rich Roll Podcast topping charts on iTunes. A graduate of Stanford University and Cornell Law School, Rich is an inspiration to people worldwide as a transformative example of healthy living. - Length (mins) 10
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- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
How much do you know about the feminine hygiene products you're using? Are you aware of how many chemicals and toxins they might be harboring?
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1520ns3a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Susie Hewson
- Organization Natracare
- Guest Facebook Account https://www.facebook.com/Natracare
- Guest Twitter Account @natracare
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Guest Bio
Susie Hewson is the founder, owner and developer of the global brand leader of organic and natural feminine hygiene, Natracare. A lifetime environmentalist, Susie changed the feminine hygiene category forever thanks to her impassioned protest against the effects of dioxins in the manufacture of paper pulp products such as tampons and sanitary pads.
The immense environmental task that Susie undertook in the 1980’s, resulted in a full product range including the world’s first certified organic cotton tampons and totally chlorine-free sanitary pads and pantyliners, which are genuinely created from sound environmental principles. In 2008 she received the Women in Ethical Business Award and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) joining a highly respected society whose past and present members include Charles Dickens, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, Karl Marx, William Hogarth, John Diefenbaker and Stephen Hawking.
Susie readily supports many environmental and humanitarian causes including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, The Women’s Environmental Network, Circle of Health International and The Algalita Marine Research Institute. She has given essential support to many humanitarian causes, including Israeli and Palestinian midwives who are working together amidst the violence in the Middle East and Rural Women’s Network in Nepal who are providing emergency relief items for victims of the earthquake, particularly in the poorer villages. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
Gut health is the "new frontier" in the scientific and medical world, with emerging research linking the gut to some of the most common diseases our society faces.
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- Segment Number 5
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1519ns3e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Molly Morgan, RD, CDN, DSSD
- Book Title Drink Your Way to Gut Health: 140 Delicious Probiotic Smoothies & Other Drinks that Cleanse & Heal
- Guest Website Creative Nutrition Solutions
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Guest Bio
Molly Morgan, RD, CDN, DSSD is the author of The Skinny Rules and Skinny Size-It, as well as the founder of Creative Nutrition Solutions. She is a Board Certified Sports Specialist Dietitian as well as the President-Elect of the New York State Dietetic Association (NYSDA). Morgan works with Fortune 500 companies, national brands, and professional sports teams. Molly is also a blogger for MensFitness.com, and has been featured on CNN, ESPN-Women, Fitness, Glamour, Health, Men’s Health, Readers Digest, Self, Shape, and Women’s Health as a nutrition expert. She completed her degree in clinical dietetics and coordinated practice at the State University at Buffalo and is a Board Certified Sports Specialist Dietitian, as well as the President-Elect and media representative for the New York State Dietetic Association (NYSDA), a past president of the Southern Tier Dietetic Association, and a former member of The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Consumer Health Informatics Work Group.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
What you want to do in life might not be your true purpose. It's what you're meant to do.
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- Segment Number 4
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1519ns3d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Cornell Thomas, Author & Motivational Speaker
- Book Title The Power of Me
- Guest Website Power of Positivity
- Guest Twitter Account @cornellthomas
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Guest Bio
Cornell Thomas is a basketball coach, trainer, life coach, motivational speaker, and author. Through his program Crossroads Basketball he has helped hundred of kids in the last nine years reach their goals. For the last four years Cornell has been inspiring and motivating people of all ages through his own motivational quotes and blog site at www.powerofpositivity.net
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RadioMD Presents: Naturally Savvy | Original Air Date: May 6, 2015
Hosts: Andrea Donsky, RHN & Lisa Davis, MPH
Guest: Cornell Thomas
Honest information about living a healthy lifestyle on the RadioMD.com. It's time for a Naturally Savvy with natural visionary Andrea Donsky and health journalist, Lisa Davis.
LISA: The other day I got a nice email from a friend just saying, “I remember years ago you were saying you're going to get into radio,” and I was like, ‘Yes, I kind of tough to get in,’ and then you were going to do this to do that and I just I was so doubtful and I'm so proud of you and you discovered what you love to do and you took your purpose and you really ran with that,” and that meant so much to me. It was such a nice acknowledgment. It was just so out of the blue and I was just so touched by that and so I think to really look at yourself, what you love to do ,the type of person you are what suits you and discover your purpose and here to help us expand on this is a fabulous Cornell Thomas.
CORNELL: Hi, guys. How are you?
LISA: We're good. It's great to have you on. So, let's talk a little bit about that. What do you think really helps people get in touch with themselves in the first place so they can discover their purpose?
CORNELL: Well, what I get a lot is, “I don't know what I want to do” and what you want to do might not be your actual purpose in life. Like if you’d have told me that I would be writing books speaking, even six years ago, I would've told you, “Well, that's not something I want to do,” because what we want to do changes so often. I think when it comes the purpose is not what you want to do, it’s what you were meant to do. And for me, I was meant to do what I'm doing right now. Just like you, Lisa, you’re, you know, you guys were meant to do what you're doing right now, but I think that's why purpose is just so powerful because if not, it may not be so you want to do right now or wanted to do in the past or what it’s something you’re meant to do that eventually you’ll end up finding it or it ends up finding you.
ANDREA: I love that you said that. You know and it's so true because even for myself, I mean, I remember years ago, I was petrified to go on T.V. or petrified to even be a guest on a radio show and now it's the thing I love to do most. So, I hear what you're saying and I think that, you know, the universe and our soul and our angels have higher, you know, obviously… Everything is within our highest good and if it's meant to be then we've been chosen as that vehicle to deliver it. So, I love that you felt that it's not necessarily what we want to do but it is something that we're meant to do that it’s going to happen.
CORNELL: For sure. I mean, I was talking the other day and I was telling people. I said, “You know when you have purpose, along with your purpose, when you find out what you're really put on this earth to do, passion just is part of the package. It's like once you find your purpose, your passion comes with it and purpose and passion equals power. So, if you have that purpose and you have that passion, now you have a power that is just limitless and they did a documentary about me about a year and a half ago and I was talking to my mom and I was able to ask her a question. I was like mom, “You know, you raised five kids by yourself and you didn't have a lot of money. How did you do it?” and she said, “My only purpose in life was to make sure that you guys were raised the right way and that you guys were taken care of,” and it was just so powerful for me and it showed me how she was able to get really through those really tough times was because when you have that purpose and you have that passion for it, you have limitless power. Things that you never thought you'd be able to get through, you can get through.
ANDREA: So, who did a documentary on you? Tell us. This is great. I didn’t even know that.
CORNELL: You didn’t know that? Oh.
LISA: Yes, I have seen it. It’s awesome by the way.
ANDREA: No, I didn’t see that! Tell us! Tell us!
LISA: Oh. There is this great group called [inaudible 3:40] and they do all sorts of stuff. It’s a husband and wife team and they’re both artists, so they’re just amazing. They’re doing great things and at the book signing, my first book signing, I ended up linking up with them and they did like about a 15-16 minute documentary on my life and I got a chance to interview my mom and my family was on there.
ANDREA: Wow.
CORNELL: They're actually doing another one which should be out, hopefully, in the next month or so and this is like a short one, this was like a five minute clip and it’s just about me being a motivational speaker and going out trying to touch as many lives as possible so, a social skills for that and my mom is all over that one, too, because you know, she’s the most influential person in my life so, I try to get her on as many things as she’ll allow to be on.
Andrea: Well, I think she should come on our show. What do you think, Lisa?
LISA: Oh, definitely.
CORNELL: You guys would love her. You would love her. She would love you guys. I mean, it would be.
LISA: I love her in the documentary.
CORNELL: Yeah, she’s great.
ANDREA: Well, let's have her. I think that would be amazing. We would love her and you know what? We would love to have her with you on at the same time because I think that's would be really fun to talk to her because she, obviously, and, I mean, I can hear what you said, I mean, she raised, I mean, we don't know your other siblings but we know you and like, I mean, we love you, Cornell, you know that, but I mean, truthfully, if I hear of anything, if I ever think of anything or if I get down on anything, I mean, you're my call. I literally will message you on Facebook and say, “Alright I’m feeling this or help me with this and you really are amazing at what you do,” and I could see that's why. It is why, you know, that’s why it’s meant to do what you're doing. So, keep up the amazing work.
CORNELL: Thank you so much. It's funny some people, they’re like, “Oh. You didn’t have your father growing up,” and I’m like, “Yeah, but I had my mom,” and there's people out there that don't have anybody. They don't have their mom or their dad or, you know, their grandparents raising them or influencing them and as long as you that one person in your corner, especially when you're younger, man, you can get through a lot of stuff. I never knew our situation because my mom's purpose in life will you know make sure that we were okay so I never thought we were in dire straits, you know, until I got a little older. It was like, “Oh, we don't have this and kind of don’t have this, but, you know, everything seems to be working seamlessly,” so my mom is amazing human being and that’s I thought when you get your lights turned out and you use candles, I thought it was fine. Like, “Okay. Just put candles on. It’s no big deal. This happens all over the place.” Then, I was like, “Uh, everybody else has the lights on in the neighborhood.” It wasn’t a power outage. But, yes, I really do believe when I go and speak, I always…When I was in England a couple weeks ago and I talk to these kids about purpose and why you're here and legacy and you know, the dash. Not when you’re born and when you die, but what you do in between. And, they all tie in and it’s just a really powerful thing.
LISA: Cornell, how do you work with kids because I know you do a lot of work with kids as well. What do you like…When they say to you…When they say something like, “I don't know what my purpose is,” or I don't know. “What makes me better than the next person?” What kind of advice or exercises do you do with them to help them discover what that…You know, what that purpose is, I guess, for now or why they are so important and why what they’re are doing makes such a difference to the world.
CORNELL: Well, I'm very honest with them and I tell them that it’s okay to not know what you're meant to do because, honestly, up until five years ago I had no idea, really. Like, you know, I was coaching basketball and I was helping people but I had no idea that it was going to turn this. So, it’s okay not to have direction, especially when you're younger. I mean try different things. See what’s out there. See what you like. But I tell them, as you start to get older and start to like things, then write down what you'd like. Write down what you might be into and then try as many things as possible. You know, in high school you kind of have these standardized tests and you're kind of locked into different things but when it's college, you can take elective you want to take. If you want to take Indian culture then take Indian culture. If you want to take, you know, basket weaving, then take basket…I don't know. Pick something but, you know, try to figure it out and try to find out what you want to be but it's okay not to have direction. There are people walking around that are 50, 55, 60 years old that have no direction, so it's okay for this 12-14 year old not to know what they want to be.
LISA: And it’s never too late to get direction, right? I mean, that's the nice thing. I took Buddhism in college. I remember my parents were so excited. My mother's favorite thing to say was “Expand your horizons. It's so important to expand your horizons,” and you would have thought I told them I was taking business. The typical. But, they just loved the idea of just learning to learn and grow your mind and just having new experiences, which is so important.
ANDREA: I love that.
LISA: It’s so important.
CORNELL: I love that. I really love that. And kudos to your mom for just being so open minded and just saying, “Okay. You know, go for it.” You know?
LISA: Exactly.
CORNELL: That's what’s so great about it. She’ backed it. That’s awesome.
LISA: Yes, it is.
ANDREA: And it's great when you’re young, too, because you have…You can really dabble and you can experience and you can bring all of the different things in. So, I think that's amazing. Well, Cornell, we have about thirty seconds left, so what I would like to hear from you is… I know it goes by so fast. Could you leave our listeners with some type of positive message that you think that would help them get through their day today?
CORNELL: Okay. My positive message for today is don't let doubt stop your do. It’s okay to doubt if your dreams are really big, you're going to have some doubt but never stop your actions towards them.
ANDREA: Don't let doubt stop you do. I love that.
LISA: Me, too.
ANDREA: That's awesome, Cornell.
CORNELL: Thank you.
ANDREA: Well, thank you so much for being on the show today and you can learn more about Cornell on his blog PowerofPositivity.net. Are you still writing once a week?
CORNELL: I'm still writing a couple times a week. Sometimes, it’s two times a week. Sometimes, it’s once every two weeks. It’s sporadic, but it’s there.
ANDREA: Alight. Well, check him out. PowerofPositivity.net and you can follow him on Twitter @CornellThomas. I’m Andrea Donsky along with my beautiful co-host. See, that was very positive, Lisa Davis.
This is Naturally Savvy Radio on RadioMD. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @yourradiomd and @naturallysavvy.
Have a very positive day.
Thanks for listening and stay will. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
How many non-stick pans do you have in your kitchen? According to Certified Green Building Professional, Lisa Beres, you should try to get that number to a big fat zero.
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1519ns3c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Lisa & Ron Beres, Certified Green Building Professionals
- Book Title Just GREEN It! Simple Swaps to Save the Planet + Your Health
- Guest Website Ron and Lisa: The Healthy Home Dream Team
- Guest Facebook Account https://www.facebook.com/RonandLisaTheHealthyHomeDreamTeam
- Guest Twitter Account @RonandLisa
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Guest Bio
Lisa and Ron Beres are Certified Green Building Professionals, Building Biologists and published authors of several books including Just GREEN It! and the children's book, My Body My House. In addition to testing the health of homes, their consulting business includes celebrities and Fortune 500's. They are award winning television media experts and have appeared on The Rachael Ray Show, The Suzanne Show, The Doctors, Fox & Friends, The Today Show with Matt Lauer, NBC’s Nightly News with Brian Williams, Discovery’s Greenovate and Chelsea Lately on E!
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Internal Notes repeat guest
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
Hearing the words “you have cancer” no longer has to mean an end to your life. Instead, it can mark the start of a new beginning.
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1519ns3b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Bill Aron, Photographer
- Book Title New Beginnings: The Triumphs of 120 Cancer Survivors
- Guest Website Bill Aron
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Guest Bio
Bill Aron, himself a 20-year cancer survivor, is an internationally renowned photographer. Long known as an environmental portrait photographer and a chronicler of Jewish communities throughout the world, Aron’s photographs have been exhibited in major museums and galleries throughout the United States and Israel, including the Museum of Modern Art, the International Center for Photography, the Jewish Museum, the Chicago Art Institute, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Museum of the Diaspora in Tel-Aviv. His previous books include From the Corners of the Earth and Shalom Y’all: Images of Jewish Life in the American South. Aron lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two sons, where he is quite possibly the only photographer with a PhD in sociology (from the University of Chicago).
Most importantly, Aron knows cancer firsthand and truly understands what the 120 survivors he has profiled have in common. His powerful book documents the triumphs of inspiring people in ways that offer cancer patients the hope for new beginnings. -
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RadioMD Presents: Naturally Savvy | Original Air Date: May 6, 2015
Hosts: Andrea Donsky, RHN & Lisa Davis, MPH
Guest: Bill Aron
Your organic search is over. Here Naturally Savvy, with health expert Andrea Donsky and Lisa Davis.
LISA: I love books that have photographs and stories that are moving and life changing, and a wonderful book is New Beginnings: Triumphs of One Hundred Twenty Cancer Survivors. It is by Bill Aron who joins us now.
Hi, Bill!
BILL: Hi, Andrea. How are you?
LISA: Oh, this is Lisa but Andrea is here as well.
BILL: Oh. Hi, Lisa.
LISA: I am so glad…You know, I was lucky to talk to Bill a few weeks ago and we had such a wonderful conversation. And, you know, Bill, I'd love to start with your own experience being a cancer survivor and what you found after you survived. You're like, "Okay. Now what?" because life has really changed hasn’t it and it's so important to shed a light on this for folks.
BILL: It is. When I was diagnosed with cancer, I was devastated. My first reaction was, of course, terror and fear and there was nothing positive out there. And later, as I became accustomed to living with the idea with the presence of cancer, the idea for this book began to formulate itself. I went to a support group and at the support group someone said, “Cancer is the best thing that ever happened to me.” I said, “No way. This is a terrible thing,” and as I talked to that person and as I talked to more people, I began to see that cancer was even stronger than a wakeup call. It became a turning point in people's lives in which they used their own resources to look inward. Some people needed help with that, and that was the origin of the book. And the book became not a book about cancer, not about diseases that we call cancer, but a book about the individuals who go through this experience and what it's like for them.
LISA: So, Bill what were some lessons that you learned along the way that when you were photographing these survivors?
BILL: Well, the survivors, they really became my teachers, because as I began the project both in experimenting and figuring out what kind of structure to give the book. And then, later on I began to see how some people took the lessons of living the best life that they could live and applying it to their lives. Some needed help, some need a therapist, some support groups, and sometimes there were just sensitive physicians that helped. But some people changed careers. Many of the people want to give back to the cancer community and they started websites; they started organizations, and some people even felt that they were living for the people they had known, who had died during their experience.
LISA: So Bill, was there a certain age... I’m sorry. I have the book in front of me and for those of you, obviously, listening, I definitely recommend purchasing it, New Beginnings: the Triumph of One Hundred Twenty Cancer Survivors by Bill Aaron. And what I noticed, first of all, is that it spans many different age groups, but also the pictures themselves are quite fantastic. In every one of the photos people, have the most beautiful big smiles. They're not just turning their lips upwards, they are smiling! They are laughing! And that I find that pretty spectacular. I mean, as a photographer, I mean, you must be fantastic at what you do.
BILL: Thank you. Thank you, Lisa. What I did was interview the people, usually for about two hours, and then at the end of the interview we figured out what kind of photograph to take that would best describe, best show how they were feeling about the experience they went through. I think the important thing to point out here is that cancer makes us realize that each day is meant to be appreciated. There was a wonderful little girl who was diagnosed at age fifteen with a cancer that usually is fatal and she was like a month away from the point of no return. And her mother told me that she discovered that life is about moments. I'll just read a tiny excerpt, "We have started to live day by day, hour by hour, and sometimes second by second. And when you sit there with those seconds seemingly so long, you realize how many of them you have." And then she went on to describe how her biggest gift in life was the smell of her daughter's hair in the morning, and her daily gift with getting to snuggle with her daughter every day.
ANDREA: That is so sweet.
BILL: People took in, and assimilated, this experience in many ways. Some people were able to sum it up, I think there is Ed Finestein is a rabbi in Los Angeles, who summed it up, I think, beautifully. He said, “The way of healing is to balance the loss, and fear, and rage, with a sense of gratitude. When they balance, we are whole whether or not we are cured,” and I think those two poles: the rage, and the fear, and the anger balanced with a sense of gratitude that we're still alive; that we can lead a life well-lived. A very close friend of mine, when we were talking one day, said "You know, I don't want to have cancer, but I wish I had that kind of survival experience that you had, so that I could really examine my life and make changes in the things that I'm not happy with." And I think cancer survivors in that sense can show us the way to a better life, a life well-lived, as they say.
LISA: Yes. That makes so much sense. Well, it sounds like it’s really done that for you, and the people in the book. One of the people in the book was a girl who got diagnosed at fifteen months old, and I know you thought her recently.
BILL: Yes, I held--in my backyard, I held sort of a book party, for as many people as could come who participated in the book. And her mom brought her and I…she’s just adorable. I couldn’t stop hugging her.
ANDREA: Aw.
LISA: She is eleven now. Correct?
BILL: Nine. Nine, I believe
LISA: Nine.
ANDREA: It’s amazing. You know, Bill, we have about two minutes left. This is Andrea. Is there anything that you…You know, obviously, you know, I asked you about the lessons that you learned but did you see some type of synergy from all the people that you interviewed? Was there something to a testament to their strength that stood out that nine out of ten people had? Or something that was very much the same for most people across the board?
BILL: Yes. That’s a tough question, a good one but a tough one. My overall sense is that these hundred and twenty people--I mean it's not just a couple. We can't deny that that they're a fluke. But, these hundred twenty people have inner strength that I really quite admired and tried to live up to in my own life. They were able to, and it wasn't just something like "I'm not going to let this disease get me down." It was much more of "I want to make the most of whatever time I have left. If I'm going to die next month, so be it. Or next year, so be it. But I want, from now till then, to count.”
ANDREA: Interesting.
BILL: One person talked about angels.
ANDREA: We have about 30 seconds.
BILL: Pardon?
ANDREA: We have about 30 seconds.
BILL: Oh. Okay. One person talked about angels and ordinary people who do just these extraordinary acts of kindness, and they never ask anything in return and he said what cancer has taught him is that the goal of life is to become someone’s angel.
ANDREA: Well, we are big huge believers in angels in the universe here. So…Well, thank you, for being on our show, Bill. You can learn more about Bill at BillAron.com. You can also pick up a copy of his book, and, also, it makes for a great gift for somebody you know that has survived cancer. I am Andrea Donsky along with Lisa Davis.
This is Naturally Savvy radio on RadioMD. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @YouRadioMD.
Stay Well. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
When your body is unbalanced, it can result in various forms of disease. Reiki can be used to heal the body: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 1
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1519ns3a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Scott Yaphe
- Guest Website Scott Yaphe
- Guest Twitter Account @timeforspirit
- Guest Bio Born and raised in Montreal and now living in Toronto, Scott Yaphe may be best known for his work as an actor. Having filmed and recorded alongside talents like Jennifer love Hewitt, Will Arnett, Liam Neeson, Maya Rudolph, Howie Mandel, Bob Balaban and many others, Scott actually enjoyed a successful 'working' career as an actor and voice over artist. But when he was introduced to the world of energy healing and metaphysics back in 2003 it changed his life forever. His introduction and following experiences with Usui Ryoho Reiki and most recently with Angelic Reiki have not only changed the way Scott saw the world but the direction in which he chose to live his life and serve. Now with his own practice, Scott shares his healing abilities with clients across North America. He also offers spiritual guidance for people who are seeking meaning, clarity and purpose in their lives and for those who wish to go deeper to explore the very essence of who they are. Scott can be found at timeforspirit.com.
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RadioMD Presents: Naturally Savvy | Original Air Date: May 6, 2015
Hosts: Andrea Donsky, RHN & Lisa Davis, MPH
Guest: Scott Yaphe
Your organic search is over. Here’s Naturally Savvy with health expert Andrea Donsky and Lisa Davis.
ANDREA: I've known today's guest since I was eleven years old. Yes, grade five. How crazy is that? And he's best known for his work as an actor and voiceover artist. But when he was introduced to the world of energy healing, specifically, Reiki back in 2003, it forever changed his world and today we're going to talk to Scott Yaphe. I am so happy to have you on the show today, Scott.
SCOTT: So happy to be here and nice to meet you as well, Lisa for the first time. So, thanks for having me on.
LISA: Yes! You, too, Scott. This is exciting. I can’t believe you’ve been friends for so long.
SCOTT: I know. It's crazy. Crazy. So, I mean, we went to the same elementary school and, yes. We’ve been best…I mean, not best friends. Of course, we been friends ever since we were you know eleven years old and we've followed each other, at least we’ve been following each other's past, keeping in touch with Facebook and, lo and behold, you know, we're finding ourselves in the same world of health and energy and, you know, all of the good stuff that, hopefully, people who are getting a little more enlightened into the world are coming to as well but we find ourselves in that spot again, so it's great.
ANDREA: Exactly. Well said, Scott. Tell us a little bit about your passion. Tell us a little bit. I mean I'm very familiar with Reiki and energy healing and I actually had a session from you a couple weeks ago.
SCOTT: Yes.
ANDREA: And, it was awesome. So, just tell everybody a little bit about what it means, what it is and how it can benefit them.
SCOTT: Okay. Absolutely. Now, I'm going to assume, just for the sake of assuming, that some people have heard of it but most people haven't, so Reiki is a form of energy healing and what is energy healing? Well, Reiki is a Japanese technique. The actual word “Reiki” for stress reduction and relaxation and to promote healing. Now, it's administered by laying on of the hands. Other, you’ve heard, possibly of therapeutic touch or other healing modalities on the planet that use energy to bring the body into balance and Reiki was brought into the world in 1800, at least from Mikao Usui and Reiki, “Rei” stands for higher intelligence and “ki” stands for universal life force energy and I'm sure that one sort of tai chi?
ANDREA: Right.
SCOTT: “Chi” is the same sort of thing as “ki” and in India, “soprana”. There are many different words for the same universal life force energy. So, what happens is, when we do a treatment with energy healing, I love the analogy that I am just the vessel. I'm not doing the work. It's really coming from this higher intelligent life force energy that's coming through me and giving you what you need for your highest good to your physical, mental, emotional or spiritual body. We actually have four different bodies, mostly are aware of just the physical but there are different layers of bodies that you can go into it and before we actually get sick sometimes, sometimes you get these psychics where you’ll just see in your aura, in your field, before it even comes in to your physical body that, “Oh, I see a potential for you getting sick.” Well, they're reading it in the emotional body and into different bodies so this healing system goes in and starts to bring into balance the imbalances that we create as humans every single day. We get stressed at work or your child pushes your buttons, like we all know kids can do, and we block our own flow of chi or ki when we withhold certain things in our body. What things get angry or fearful of certain things and you block the flow of chi. If you block the flow of chi or ki, as in Reiki, if you block it long enough, it will start to create major imbalances in your body and that's when it starts to come into disease or as we like to call it in the industry, dis ease. And so then, Reiki goes in and starts to unblock these blockages and gets you into balance again. Now, ideally we’d love to be doing Reiki and I try to do it on myself every day. But, of course, everyone unless they're attuned to Reiki themselves to go home because you can do it on yourself you can do tai chi and different forms of energy healing for yourself to do these unblocking methods to keep yourself as much in balance as possible and, basically, live a happy, joyful and peaceful life.
LISA: You know my husband's been doing tai chi for several months now and he absolutely loves it and I really want to take it.
SCOTT: That’s wonderful.
LISA: I didn't realize that that was sort of like doing Reiki on yourself. That's fascinating.
SCOTT: It is. It really is and, in fact, when I see clients who come to me and I do it by a distance as well because time and space only exist on the on the third dimensional plane that we live in.
ANDREA: Called Earth.
SCOTT: And when…Called Earth? Exactly. When we talk about prayer, well, prayer has no bounds. Prayer can reach anyone and so can the intentions behind Reiki and when I practice it, so when I've been talking to my clients about this and they say, “Oh, you do Reiki on yourself?” They seem surprised that you could actually do it for yourself but truly I'm just the glass holding the water and the water does the hydration, not the glass so the Reiki is doing the balancing. Not me I'm strictly the vessel but it comes through because it is a higher intelligent life force energy. It knows where to go and what to do.
LISA: Can you describe what it's like? I mean, I've seen somebody on a table and people--the Reiki practitioner has their hands sort of above them and there's no touching and it's sort of shifting around is that…Am I picturing that correctly?
SCOTT: You are, actually, and the benefits of Reiki, whether you're long distance or actually on a table are the same but the energy circuit is slightly different. So, if you're on the table, if you aura or your energetic field, it extends beyond just the body by about six to eight feet or eight to ten feet. I don’t know the exact number but it's quite large but it’s enough where if your hands are in that field, you're getting that energy circuit of being present with that healer. So, you can have the laying of the hands on the body; you can have it just above the body because, of course, me being a male and me having a female on a table, if you have certain…If I’m tuning…if I'm working on the heart chakra, for example, my hands may not be on the person's heart because it's too close to their breast area, so you go above or if you're in a root chakra, you'd be above their genital area, not on them, of course, and there are also other people who are sensitive to their necks. Their neck chakra for communication issues. So, I've had a client before where my hands were on their neck and they felt really chokey and stifled, even if I'm just laying it gently on the neck, so there, of course, you can raise your hands and go above that that area.
So, what is it like feeling it on the table? Everybody, it's different because Reiki gives you, specifically, what you need for your highest good because you've come down here with your own soul path and your own contracts, it's going to go in and give you what you need, so you may have a release of some kind on the table that makes you cry or that makes you giggle like crazy or makes you totally fall asleep or as you may feel tingling in the shoulder that was hurting you and then it goes down the right side and, literally, all I have is my hands on you and it's flowing through me into you.
ANDREA: Scott, so, do you feel it? So, I had, Lisa, as I mentioned in the intro, I had a session from Scott and for me, the minute I walked in I felt very relaxed and I am very receptive to energy healing. I quite love it. My body loves it. And I felt very relaxed, very calm. Do you sometimes feel things, being that vessel, do you feel things when someone’s had a release or someone's kind of, I guess, had something shifted. Is that something that a practitioner would feel themselves or that something more the person lying on the table or someone that, you know, you're working with, you know, not necessarily in front of.
SCOTT: Of course and that's a great question because we, as energy healers, as the delivery method of energy healing to somebody. We also have our life path. I've heard of healers who, they take on the energy of their clients and they don't know how to block it properly and so one of them who’s had cancer on their table and they're trying to heal, at least certain aspects of, the pain they're going through or they start feeling the pain in their body as healers. They have to experience that as healers to deal with their own issues on their life. Me, personally as a healer, I've experienced the same thing for the most part with every client and that's the residual, blissful feeling of the energy coming through me and going to the client. So, again, and if the water is going into the glass, I’ll have the droplets and a little bit of the wetness on me from the water but the water really has left the glass and gone to heal the client but I get it was residual sensation of it. Sometimes on the client, my hands on certain parts of their body will get very, very hot and that indicates to me that there's a little bit of attention needed in that area, a little bit extra healing and sometimes if they go very cold, there's like a full on block in that area. So, I know to either stay there or move on from that point.
ANDREA: Scott, I going to have to cut you off, unfortunately. We’re out of time. Oh, my gosh. Well, learn more about Scott at TimeforSpirit.com. He is an awesome healer. I'm Andrea along with Lisa. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook and Naturally Savvy and at RadioMD.
Stay Well. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
You hear people talk about how you should listen to your gut, but what exactly does it mean to get "in touch" with your intuition?
Additional Info
- Segment Number 5
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1518ns3e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Shaman Isabella Stoloff
- Guest Website Orange County Healing Center
- Guest Twitter Account @isabellastoloff
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Guest Bio
Shaman Isabella Stoloff is a dynamic leader. She founded the Orange County Healing Center in 2009 and since that time has committed herself to leaving the world a better place. Isabella has been called the Golden Condor and World Ambassador. She has traveled to connect people to their inner wisdom and provide ceremonies for the land. She has a full time practice, writes articles, a YouTube channel, and does guest spots to carry the message of enlightenment. Isabella is a mother and grandmother and understands what is needed today to raise a conscious family. Shaman Isabella feels honored to be on the planet during this time of great awakening. She feels once you empower yourself through positive thought and action you will feel connected and centered. Isabella’s message is to awaken to the light that you are, so you can become the Shaman in your own life.
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Transcription
RadioMD Presents: Naturally Savvy | Original Air Date: April 29, 2015
Hosts: Andrea Donsky, RHN & Lisa Davis
Guest: Shaman Isabella Stoloff
She’s not here to judge. She’s here to report the honest news on healthy living. She’s Andrea Donsky, along with Lisa Davis. It’s time for Naturally Savvy.
ANDREA: What does it mean to get in touch with our intuition? You know that inner voice that talks to us and sometimes we listen, sometimes we don't. Joining us today is Shaman Isabella Stollof, a dynamic leader and founder of the Orange County Healing Center. Welcome back to the show, Isabella.
ISABELLA: Thanks so much for having me back, Lisa. I'm sorry. Andrea. (Laughing)
ANDREA: Oh, don't worry. You know what? It's all good. Lisa's off today but it's all good.
ISABELLA: Well, I know Lisa's not here today, right? So, I think I just welcomed her in spirit. (Laughing)
ANDREA: There you go. Exactly. She will be very happy to hear that. (Laughing) That's awesome. So, Isabella, let's jump right in. Let's talk about what it means to get in touch with our intuition because I think for some of us we know. We hear a lot about talking about our gut…talking about listening to ourselves, but what does it really mean and how do we do it?
ISABELLA: Isn't that an interesting thing? I have been working at it and working at it and working at it myself, so all I have is my own take on it--what I have done for myself. And first, what I would like to jump in and talk about is what blocks us because there are so many blocks to our intuition and those blocks are, I think, what keeps us from even thinking about it too much or thinking it's an important tool for our life. And first and foremost, it's a very important tool for our life to live an intuitive life; to live a mythic life; to think outside the box and shake our world up a bit. It's very important for us, but what blocks us from our intuition? And I love the woman that was on before you. I always love that I get to hear that, you know, person right before you.
ANDREA: Marcie is amazing.
ISABELLA: She's fantastic so I'm glad that you're going to have her back. It begins from childhood. Our mothers, really, we kind of talk about our mothers more than the fathers because they are around more. They were around more when we were kids and were they trusting their intuition? Were they saying things like “thank you” when somebody said “You're beautiful”? Or “I love myself” when they looked in the mirror? Or, were they blocking themselves. They would be blocking their intuition by saying “No, no, no. Don't compliment me,” or “God, I look awful today” or picking, picking, picking, picking, picking ourselves apart so that is the first block. I think it's exactly what your prior guest talked about from childhood watching our parents not trust their intuition and block themselves. Block themselves. And then, here we are. We're growing up and we're told when we're intuitive, right? We are naturally intuitive you, guys. When we're born, we're naturally intuitive. We, you know, sure Mom tells us not to run into the street, for Dad says, “Don't stick your finger in the electric socket.” Sure but we pretty inherently know to walk barefoot which. That was last month's show. Walking barefoot in the grass.
ANDREA: Yep. Exactly.
ISABELLA: We intuitively know to stare up at the stars and make a wish. We intuitively know to look at the clouds and make animals out of the clouds or the trees and invent stories. We are naturally intuitive, so we begin to block ourselves or we get blocked by our parents saying, you know, whatever it is. “Oh, that was stupid.” “Don't do that.” “That was a stupid thing,” or you know, “What is that drawing?” “What is that supposed to be?” rather than going into the drawing with the kid and, you know, letting the kid intuitively tell us. I have a great one. When my daughter used to read…Well, I used to read to my daughter every night and she would want to count everything on the page. And I was younger and it would drive me crazy because I was trying to get the story done and get the story read and get her to bed and I had dishes to do and, you know, we've got our life, so don't beat yourselves up, guys. That's another way of blocking intuition. Don't beat yourself up. And so, I learned to let her intuitively count because she was intuitively counting to learn math. So, watching where we are blocked. Food. Food is a huge block. Flouride. Flouride is a huge block. So eating, you know, poor eating which you teach a lot of, so I don't even have to go into, but these block our intuitive receptors. We have these intuitive receptors. We have our fight or flight. You guys know fight or flight. That's your intuition. You know you can sense danger. But you can practice becoming even more intuitive by trusting yourself more. Now, how do you trust yourself more?
ANDREA: You know.
ISABELLA: Andrea, how do you trust yourself more?
ANDREA: Ah, now I'm being put on... (laughing) I was actually going to... I love that. I was actually going to tell you a quick story and as you're saying it and how we block ourselves is, I was at New York last week at a media summit and someone had come over to me and he was talking about he's a healer and he had said to me “Oh, you know, whatever it was we were talking about,” and he was saying “Oh, you are a healer, too” and I was like “Oh, no, no, no, I'm not a healer.” And he was like “No, you are.” and I was like “No, no, no, I'm not” and I am thinking, “Wow, why did...” and as you were speaking I was like, “Why did I automatically say I wasn't? Why was I blocking that? Right? And as I'm listening to you talk because I guess when I first heard it, I was like “No, no, no, I'm not.” You know, I don't do Reiki. I am not a shaman. I kind of automatically put it into a different category but I guess there's different levels of it, right? And we all heal in different ways?
ISABELLA: Exactly. You are a food healer, honey. You heal people with your food. People are cook healers. They love to cook to nourish their family with food. You know, there are all types. There are builder healers. They like to build beautiful things for us. We are all...I always go back to we are all shaman of one kind or another. So, how is we trust ourselves and I don't want to put you on the spot but we can talk about that. How is it that I trust myself? This is how I trust myself because I, too, was always telling people when they told me how beautiful I was, “No, no, no”. Always. I always did it. Or they wanted to give me something. “Oh, no, no, no”, but giving was my favorite thing to do and I realized eventually that I was blocking people from doing. Now, you givers out there, you are going to hear me. When you're giving and giving and giving and telling other people they can't give to you, you are blocking them from doing what you love to do the most.
ANDREA: Uh huh.
ISABELLA: Now take that and chew on it for a while. You are blocking people...
ANDREA: How about that.
ISABELLA: ...when you are not open to receive, so that's the first thing I learned and how to open myself up to receive and realize I was still giving. Listen to how I trick myself into doing things. I was still giving the gift of giving because (laughing)...I was still giving because I was giving that person the gift of giving to me. (Laughing) So I created this infinity sign of I am open to receive and I'm still giving and now we're in the flow of reciprocity. So, now I trust myself more because I am open to those compliments. I'm open to receive. Okay, so now what else is there? I am open to taking my life to a mythic level and my teacher is Alberto Realdo if you ever want to look up Alberto Realdo, you know, just Google that. He has all kinds of things on taking things to the mythic and trusting your intuition. In that way, trusting the trees, the trees have spirits. They are alive. Trusting our earth. She's alive so going back to the earth thing. Going back to tree hugging. Call me a tree hugging, hippie shaman all you want. I was on a radio show recently, she said “You're going to take the ‘woo’ out of woo-woo.” (Laughing) That's my mission. I'm going to take the woo out of woo-woo because we've got to in order to survive on this planet. Now if you are looking at Chile, Chile is having all these volcanoes. Nepal is having earthquakes [inaudible 8.30.9] not going into the pain body with that but going into the prayers to the Earth to heal for her to show us how to trust our intuition more. Meditation is a great way but, really, the tangible way is just by saying “I am an intuitive being and I trust my divine guidance and the god of my own understanding because we all have a different god.” And for me it's the creator, the energy, the universal wisdom and knowledge and tap into that, you guys, and get an energy clearing. Eat healthy foods. Trust yourself more than anyone. Trust yourself more than anyone and your intuition will develop.
ANDREA: I love that. Isabella, we are out of time but really quickly, in like five seconds can you tell us what you have going on?
ISABELLA: Oh, my gosh, I'm on my way to London and Ibiza for a spiritual trip. I will be doing workshops if anyone is in the UK in the London area. Please look me up. I will be doing ceremonies in London. www.ochealingcenter.com.
ANDREA: Perfect. Thank you.
ISABELLA: Thank you so much, Lisa. Oh, next week will be a week early again.
ANDREA: Bye, Isabella, thank you. Stay well, everybody.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
Our society is constantly judging people on appearance. But, what happens when it starts to infiltrate your kids' lives, even as young as the fourth grade?
Additional Info
- Segment Number 4
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1518ns3d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Marci Warhaft Nadler
- Guest Website Fit vs. Fiction
- Guest Twitter Account @fit_vs_fiction
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Guest Bio
Marci Warhaft Nadler is a published author, founder of the "Fit vs. Fiction" workshops and a writer for the Huffington Post. Like too many young women these days, Marci struggled with body image issues for most of her life. Feeling like she could never live up to the unrealistic standards she had set for herself, she often resorted to unhealthy diet and exercise techniques that resulted in emotional and physical problems that she struggled with for years.
Her amazing recovery and ability to turn trauma into triumph has been her catalyst for reaching out to other young men and women who are facing the same obstacles. Fit vs. Fiction allows Marci to tell her story in an engaging and meaningful way. Her in-depth group seminars and one-on-one counselling allow her to connect with her audience by focusing on real-life examples, and dissecting them to reveal the ugly truth behind the pretty pictures. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
Is a weekend "detox" enough to keep you healthy? The short answer is NO.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 3
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1518ns3c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Stewart Lonky, MD
- Book Title Invisible Killers: The Truth About Environmental Genocide
- Guest Twitter Account @LonkyMD
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Guest Bio
Dr. Stewart Lonky is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary and critical care medicine. As a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow and as a full-time faculty member at the University of California, San Diego he spearheaded a research team studying the cellular and biochemical mechanisms of lung injury. His practice involves the evaluation and treatment of patients with toxic exposures as well as patients with lung disease. In addition, he has served as the Chief Medical Officer for a diagnostic device company that developed technologies for the early diagnosis of certain epithelial cancers. His practice is located in Los Angeles, California.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
