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Jun 26, 2018

My guest today has such an interesting background. She’s had the pleasure of working with individuals in healthcare over the last 18 years. Seniors in nursing homes, small children — she says she’s had the privilege of being able to witness life from the very beginning to the very end. She believes that when adequate resources are available to all of us the biggest determinant of health becomes our relationship to ourselves.

 

Destiny Spurrell is trained as a naturopathic doctor, she is a mother of three (aka the CEO of family orchestration), and the co-founder of Soul Spark Sisterhood.

 

We had a really interesting conversation today because we explore the connection between purpose and health outcomes, the idea of personal leadership, and what we can do as individuals — to not only optimize our own health — but to contribute to the world in a really big way. We got super practical around how to set boundaries in our lives, the elements that go into the creation of a perfect day, how to balance family and career, and how to connect to ourselves and a strong community of women.

 

Key Takeaways:

[1:33] All about my guest today, Destiny Spurrell.

[3:05] Welcoming Destiny to the podcast!

[3:37] Destiny’s journey that led her to who she is today.

[6:06] How to manage burnout when we just can’t seem to slow down.

[12:09] How do we tap into our energy and get out of our heads?

[16:45] How Destiny navigates the balance between having her children connect with their feelings vs. “shutting off the drama” of their feelings?

[19:57] Destiny’s process of helping someone who finds themselves deeply tired in the daily grind of life and help them to revitalize themselves and truly harness their energy.

[24:52] Destiny’s metrics; what Destiny checks in on to keep herself grounded.

[28:29] The importance of setting boundaries to enable yourself to take care of your metrics.

[35:48] Why the idea of ‘purpose’ is so important to the forward momentum of individuals on a mission.

[39:07] How Destiny balances her purpose.

[40:32] What Destiny would like her legacy to be.

[42:55] Destiny’s key performance indicators!

[49:20] Where to find Destiny online.

 

Mentioned in This Episode:

Soul Spark Sisterhood

The Five Currencies (Alex Charfen)

Fluid Feminine Movement

13:47 (Michelle Sabel “goddess flow”)

The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

Eat Pray Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert

Aspergers in Love, by Maxine Aston

 

More About Destiny Spurrell

Destiny Spurrell is a wife, a mother of three (aka CEO of family orchestration), a naturopathic doctor (inactive), and co-founder of Soul Spark Sisterhood.

She’s had the privilege of working with individuals in a variety of healthcare settings over the past eighteen years. Seniors in the nursing homes, patients in intensive care and emergency departments, and clients of Naturopathic Medicine. She has witnessed the beginning of life and the end of life which has led her to this one realization: When adequate resources are available to us, the biggest determinant of health becomes our relationship to ourselves.


She believes when we courageously step into our value & influence it is then we are empowered to love in and live out our souls burning truth.

 

Each and every individual has a unique blend of experiences, perspectives, and insights that inform and inspire collective consciousness. We all hold immense value and influence.

At Soul Spark Sisterhood they are on a mission to have you dive into life’s beautiful moments and to live out your soul’s purpose without feeling too tired, too distracted, or too busy to be present.

 

Connect with my Guest:

Visit Destiny’s Instagram pages: @DestinySpurrell and @SoulSparkSisterhood.

Visit her Facebook page @SoulSparkSisterhood to receive their top 5 ways to reduce brain fatigue (for free!) and join the community @SoulSparkSisterhood.

 

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BRAIN HEALTH HANDOUT

Grab our simple checklist for balancing your neurotransmitters right here!

Your brain biochemistry can help amplify your mindset or your capacity to be effective — they can help accelerate your mission in the world. If you want to learn more about how you can optimize your brain health for success visit MeghanWalker.com/BrainHealth!

 

CALL TO ACTION

Learning to draw the line and say “enough is enough” in life can be incredibly important to avoid burnout. Take a step towards learning your own capacity and bandwidth by tuning into your heart and recognizing your internal value. So many of us can get caught up in the next best thing to better ourselves when it is truly more important to look inside ourselves and recognize the potential that is already there. Respect and honor this and you will be one step closer to learning draw the line when it is needed — and share your commitment on the Entrepology Podcast Facebook page! Because when you are accountable, you are helpable.

Jun 19, 2018

My guest today is Dr. Rishma Walji. Dr. Rishma Walji is a naturopathic doctor that has been studying naturopathic medicine for over 20 years. She also has a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Toronto. Dr. Rishma Walji is incredibly talented with a diverse background; she’s an entrepreneur, she’s an adventurer, she’s a mother — and she has so much to share!

 

One of the most interesting parts of this conversation today — and there were a lot of them — was looking at this notion of boundaries and how they impact us as effective practitioners, consumers of healthcare, entrepreneurs, parents, and as fundamental KPIs of our health.

 

This is a super fascinating interview for anyone who has struggled with boundaries. If you are finding that you are getting frustrated driving down the road or getting angry with the people standing in front of you in line, or your kids are driving you crazy — I can almost guarantee you that your boundaries have melted a long time ago. This episode we’re going to talk about the importance of having them in play, along with some of the other foundational pieces of health that are going to keep you performing at your best!

 

Key Takeaways:

[1:41] About my guest today, Dr. Rishma Walji.

[3:19] Welcoming Dr. Rishma Walji to the podcast!

[3:25] Dr. Walji’s journey that has led her to where she is today.

[7:10] How Dr. Walji’s views changed on naturopathic medicine after earning her Ph.D. Her thoughts on western vs. eastern medicine.

[9:50] The power of changing your diet and the risks of not changing it.

[11:43] As a patient trying to navigate the advice of their family GP and functional medicine practitioner, what should they infuse in their dialogue to ease the risk of tension?

[14:47] Dr. Walji’s approach to practice.

[16:58] Why do we need to drink so much water?

[19:08] What does Dr. Walji sees as the things that people are not doing but could easily adjust.

[21:18] Key performance indicators people should be looking out for in terms of their own health.

[24:15] In looking at the mental states of her patients, does Dr. Walji find that boundaries are a consistent theme that comes up?

[25:21] How Dr. Walji stays compassionate in her establishment of boundaries.

[30:04] About Dr. Walji’s journey as an entrepreneur.

[33:26] Where does Dr. Walji see herself in five years? Where does she see this journey taking her?

[34:45] What does Dr. Walji want her legacy to be?

[35:10] How Dr. Walji defines health.

[36:44] Dr. Rishma Walji’s key-performance indicators!

[40:24] Where to find Dr. Walji online.

 

Mentioned in This Episode:

TEP Episode 2: The Molecule of Motivation with Sachin Patel

Brene Brown on boundaries

The Adversity Advantage: Turning Everyday Struggles into Everyday Greatness,

by Erik Weihenmayer and Paul Stoltz

 

More About Rishma Walji

Dr. Rishma Walji is a licensed and registered Naturopathic Doctor and Acupuncturist for over 15 years. She has her undergraduate degree from McGill University in physiology and a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Toronto. She also completed two postdoctoral fellowships at McMaster University in aging and pediatrics.

 

Connect with my Guest:

Website: RishmaWalji.com

Follow her on social media at Facebook and Instagram @RishmaWalji!

 

If you enjoyed our conversation and would like to hear more:

Please subscribe to The Entrepology Podcast on Stitcher or iTunes.

We would also appreciate a review!

 

Join our badass Women’s Facebook Group, Legacy Performance Labs

If you want to be something amazing, you need to surround yourself with amazing people! The Legacy community is made up of badass women living — not leaving — their legacy every single day. If you are on a mission and get it that your health is the key to your unlimited potential — Join us on Facebook!

 

BRAIN HEALTH HANDOUT

Grab our simple checklist for balancing your neurotransmitters right here!

Your brain biochemistry can help amplify your mindset or your capacity to be effective — they can help accelerate your mission in the world. If you want to learn more about how you can optimize your brain health for success visit MeghanWalker.com/BrainHealth!

 

CALL TO ACTION

I encourage you to check in with your boundaries! If you find that you’re driving down the road and getting angry with everyone or getting frustrated with all the parents pulling into the daycare — now would be a good time to start! Gently push back and create a perimeter for yourself. The world will benefit from your being happy, so share your commitment on the Entrepology Podcast Facebook page. Because when you are accountable, you are helpable.

Jun 12, 2018

Today’s guest is sharing an important story and journey with us. Tabatha Carr is a healer from Oklahoma City and she has a transformational story and is now putting that story and life to work to transform the lives of others. At 16 years of age, she was put on her first blood pressure medication and by 30 she was taking 3 blood pressure medications a day. She had blood sugar dysregulation and weighed almost 300 pounds.

 

She hit a wall and realized enough was enough. She made the change to not only transform her own life — but then take the things she learned to transform others’ as well. Her story truly became the impetus for her purpose.

 

This episode, we have a fascinating conversation that covers such important topics. Tabatha pulls in tons of amazing entrepreneurial nuggets — including sharing with us the next phase of her entrepreneurial journey and her new amazing, tasty initiative she has on the way.

 

Key Takeaways:

[1:37] About our guest today, Dr. Tabatha Carr.

[3:06] Welcoming Tabatha Carr to the podcast!

[3:35] Tabatha’s personal journey and how she got to this point in her career.

[6:57] How as a 16-year-old did Tabatha learn about health?

[9:15] What triggered Tabatha’s transformation and the subsequent actions she took to change her health?

[12:36] The tools and tactics Tabatha brought into play during her weight loss journey.

[16:06] The most important place to start when looking at someone from a hormonal perspective.

[17:05] What kinds of things people should be looking for with supporting the liver.

[18:57] Fundamentals we should have in play for supporting optimal bowel function.

[20:02] Tabatha’s go-to fiber recommendations.

[21:21] Soluble vs. insoluble fiber.

[23:37] Tabatha’s formula for good health.

[26:04] What sort of elements Tabatha thinks we need to have in place as a society to assist in curtailing the obesity epidemic.

[29:40] About Tabatha’s most recent initiative: Good Girl Chocolate.

[31:45] Behind the creation of Good Girl Chocolate as a product.

[33:30] Where to find and buy Good Girl Chocolate.

[34:11] What would Tabatha like her legacy to be?

[34:54] How Tabatha defines health.

[36:24] Dr. Carr’s KPIs!

[40:01] Where to find Dr. Tabatha Carr online.

 

More About Tabatha Carr

Dr. Tabatha Carr is a leading authority in the field of women’s health and wellness, focusing on the extremely powerful and effective tools of natural medicine. She is a leading advocate for women using the power of their mind, body, and spirit to bring positive changes to their lives.

Dr. Carr recognizes that women today face many personal challenges which can keep them from living a full life, including issues around weight management, hormonal imbalances, blood sugar imbalances, adrenal fatigue, and more. Dr. Carr specializes in identifying the root causes of a woman’s symptoms and partners with her to address these issues, leading to a life of energy, good health, and balance.

When she is not working, Dr. Carr focuses on bringing positive energy to her community. She can be found playing the piano for her church, volunteering at local charities, or doing public speaking.

 

Connect with my Guest:

Websites: LivingandLovingLife.org and GoodGirlChocolate.com

Join Dr. Carr on Facebook at Naturopathic Wellness
Follow Dr. Carr on Instagram at Good Girl Chocolate

 

If you enjoyed our conversation and would like to hear more:

Please subscribe to The Entrepology Podcast on Stitcher or iTunes.

We would also appreciate a review!

 

Join our badass Women’s Facebook Group, Legacy Performance Labs

If you want to be something amazing, you need to surround yourself with amazing people! The Legacy community is made up of badass women living — not leaving — their legacy every single day. If you are on a mission and get it that your health is the key to your unlimited potential — Join us on Facebook!

 

BRAIN HEALTH HANDOUT

Grab our simple checklist for balancing your neurotransmitters right here!

Your brain biochemistry can help amplify your mindset or your capacity to be effective — they can help accelerate your mission in the world. If you want to learn more about how you can optimize your brain health for success visit MeghanWalker.com/BrainHealth!

 

 

CALL TO ACTION

Your health is so important — body, mind, and spirit. This week’s call to action is to focus on your health through simple lifestyle changes rather than focusing on the numbers on the scale. Taking the right natural supplements for you, eating the right foods for your diet, and focusing on your emotional state is incredibly important. Do all this and results will follow! Share your commitment on the Entrepology Podcast Facebook page. Because when you are accountable, you are helpable.

Jun 5, 2018

Today’s guest is a badass for sure — she opens up the interview with, “Listen, I started out wanting to change the world,” when I asked her what her vision for her life was. These are the kind of women I resonate with very quickly!

 

Annette Dubreuil was my guest today and what we really dived deep into is this concept called ‘focusing.’ Focusing is a tool to enable us to understand and interpret the feelings we have in our body as they relate to our current mindset or psychology. Focusing is an incredibly interesting and useful tool that can enable all of us to gather more information to make decisions with respect to our lives. It is the perfect complement for an entrepreneur when they’re looking for insight into the types of decisions that they need to make in their lives.

 

This is what started her career as an environmentalist and she very quickly learned that it wasn’t necessarily the ideas but the systems, the businesses, the organizations, the stakeholders, and the environmental movement that required a new framework in order to be effective in a rapidly changing world. These pressures and understandings caused her to change her career and that is how she discovered ‘focusing.’

 

Annette is a consummate professional and was an absolutely fascinating guest to have on today’s podcast.

 

Key Takeaways:

[1:27] All about this week’s badass guest, Annette Dubreuil.

[3:03] Welcoming Annette Dubreuil to the podcast!

[3:23] Annette’s journey that got her to where she is today, her original motivation to become an environmentalist, and how she got introduced to focusing.

[4:38] What is exactly is ‘focusing?’

[6:00] The six steps to focusing.

[8:16] How long do these steps take?

[8:49] What does the ‘unpack’ stage mean in the context of focusing?

[10:55] How do we get into our body, opposed to our head? As a focusing newbie, how long does it take?

[13:04] What are the common ways our body speaks to us that we’ve been blocking off or ignoring?

[15:18] How do focusing and other naturopathic remedies (such as food, medicine, or strategic movement) work together?

[17:38] What does it actually mean to be in your body instead of your head? And how to get ready to focus.

[19:25] Is the concept of connect to the work and ideas of ___ and ___? 

[21:45] Do things happen in the body, in turn creating a result or do things happen in our awareness then travel to the body? Or can it be both?

[25:35] What type of people do really well with focusing?

[27:00] Is focusing a tool about resolving physical issues or is it a tool that enables physical issues to draw your attention to a mindset or psychology?

[27:43] Annette’s commentary on how men and women experience focusing differently.

[32:27] How is focusing going to leverage Annette’s original mission of ‘changing the world?’

[35:53] What Annette would like her legacy to be.

[36:28] Annette’s key performance indicators!

[38:42] Where to find Annette and her work online.

 

Mentioned in This Episode:

Eugene Gendlin

Love Warrior: A Memoir, by Glennon Doyle

Amy Edmondson on Psychology Safety

Focusing Conference

MIT’s Theory U

A Process Model, by Eugene Gendlin

Focusing Retreat in Niagara Falls

 

More About Annette Dubreuil

Annette is passionate about sustainability and has been since she was little and growing up on the northeast shores of Lake Superior, in Wawa, Ontario. She began her education in environmental science, wanting to better understand the planet in order to help “save it.” She quickly learned that we knew quite a bit about the planet already and that it was our organizations that needed to change. After completing an MBA in sustainability and strategy, it became apparent that for organizations to change people need to change first. The use of focusing as a catalyst for personal and professional growth is Annette’s current area of interest.

 

Annette’s professional career has been focused on advancing and disseminating cutting-edge sustainability research and practice. Currently, Annette is the Communications Director at Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission. She is also a marketing and development consultant with Learning for a Sustainable Future, an organization focused on integrating sustainability concepts into the education system. (Focusingonborden.com/annette)

 

Connect with my Guest:

Website: Focusing on Borden

Focusing Retreat in Niagara Falls

 

If you enjoyed our conversation and would like to hear more:

Please subscribe to The Entrepology Podcast on Stitcher or iTunes.

We would also appreciate a review!

 

Join our badass Women’s Facebook Group, Legacy Performance Labs

If you want to be something amazing, you need to surround yourself with amazing people! The Legacy community is made up of badass women living — not leaving — their legacy every single day. If you are on a mission and get it that your health is the key to your unlimited potential — Join us on Facebook!

 

BRAIN HEALTH HANDOUT

Grab our simple checklist for balancing your neurotransmitters right here!

 

CALL TO ACTION

This week’s call to action is to check in with yourself using focusing! Focusing is a great tool to in facilitating a new standard of alignment for yourself. It’s an amazing, quick way to understanding systemically whether or not your actions are really aligned with who you are and what your values are. Share your commitment on the Entrepology Podcast Facebook page. Because when you are accountable, you are helpable.

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