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Dailywalk Podcasts
Welcome! Each episode of Wellness While Walking addresses the real health concerns you're facing: • metabolism shifts and blood sugar spikes/weight gain • establishing sustainable habits despite crazy-busy schedules • adapting movement regimens (featuring walking!*) to work for you… in a fun way! • implementing doable nutrition approaches that work with your midlife body and life Hi, I'm Carolyn, a Certified Functional Medicine Health Coach of almost 20 years. I was a health-rejectionist! I ...
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311. W.E.L.L.N.E.S.S. Framework, Pt 2: Nourishment, Energy, Fueling or Fasting Before Movement + More!
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Join our healthy friendship circle and transform chaotic mornings with one powerful permission slip! You'll also discover the carb timing shift that eliminated all-day hunger and brain fog, a breathing technique that taps directly into your parasympathetic nervous system in minutes, and the power of a single breath! Laura, Alyce and I dish about al…
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310. Real and Imperfect Habits + Routines: How 3 Women Stay Healthy After 50 (W.E.L.L.N.E.S.S. Framework Pt.1)
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What do health-minded women actually do to stay healthy? (Spoiler: quick, simple and messy habits lie ahead!) Three friends who prioritize wellness spill the truth about their movement routines, strength training, and connection practices: why one runs while 2 walk, how they build real strength in short sessions, the $2 purchase that improved sleep…
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309. Don't Start Another Year in a Health Hole: Managing Your Health During the Holidays + Other Busy Times
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Learn how to thrive during the busiest season of the year with simple 5-10 minute wins that actually work! This episode offers a complete game plan, including stress-reduction techniques, boundary scripts, mindset shifts, and daily strategies that keep your health on track through December and beyond— so you can end the year feeling energized, prou…
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308. Your CBTi Sleep Guide: Unlock Weight Loss, Better Mood + Restful Nights with Kelly Reznikoff (Pt 2)
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My client couldn't lose weight despite doing everything right—until she fixed her sleep. In this episode, Kelly Reznikoff walks you through exactly how to implement CBT-i, from your first sleep assessment to the game-changing techniques that help people say "I have my life back." You'll learn the practical steps to break free from insomnia, includi…
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307. Stop Tossing + Turning: Reclaim Your Sleep and Your Health with Kelly Reznikoff, CBTi Expert
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This research-backed approach to improving sleep is just what you need to regain your energy to thrive. Kick insomnia to the curb and up-level every aspect of your life, all in a few weeks! LET'S TALK THE WALK! Join here for support, motivation and fun! Wellness While Walking Facebook page Walking to Wellness Together Facebook GROUP Wellness While …
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306. Finally Feel In Control: How Walking Improves Emotion Regulation for Healthier Habits
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Your brain is doing something extraordinary every time you walk—something that makes navigating midlife challenges exponentially easier. This little-known neurological process explains why walking feels like it does more than just physical exercise. The connection to your biggest daily struggles is impossible to ignore. LET'S TALK THE WALK! Join he…
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305. Meal Planning Without Recipes: Create Your Cooking Standard Operating Procedures with Amanda Clark
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Stop blaming yourself for lacking willpower when it comes to healthy eating—the real issue is missing support systems. Health coach Amanda Clark shares her practical approach to food prep that doesn't require matching containers or three-hour Sunday sessions. Learn how tiny systems like washing grapes immediately or having a designated salad bowl c…
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304. Feel Better Today, Thrive Tomorrow: Building Your Personalized Longevity Plan (Centenarian Decathlon Edition)
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"At age 75, we fall off a cliff," Dr. Peter Attia warned on 60 Minutes last week—and his solution is training like a professional athlete for your "Centenarian Decathlon," the 10 things you want to do at age 100. But his approach calls for full-body MRIs, experimental drugs, and hours of daily training that most midlife women juggling full lives of…
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303. Dancing with Parkinson's: How Movement + Community Slow a Progressive Disease, with Kathleen Featherston + Ashlee Grieb
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Movement is medicine for all of us, but its power is crystalized by its impact on the progression of the neurodegenerative Parkinson's Disease. In this conversation, fitness instructor Ashlee Grieb and Kathleen Featherston—who lives with Parkinson's—reveal how consistent group exercise doesn't just build physical strength, it actively slows disease…
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12% of Americans now report zero close friends, and that number is on the rise. An 85-year Harvard study on human happiness reveals something shocking about what actually predicts our health and longevity, and in 2023, the Surgeon General took the unprecedented step of declaring one aspect of modern life as deadly as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. An…
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301. How Bad Food Steals Our Ability to Choose Good Food
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Blood sugar chaos, relentless cravings, and afternoon crashes—what if it's not your willpower, but your biology? In this episode, we explore how blood sugar dysregulation and gut dysbiosis create a vicious cycle that literally steals our ability to choose nourishing foods, and why this has become a metabolic crisis since 2020. Learn four simple, sc…
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300. Stop Walking More—Start Walking Smarter: Adding a Missing Ingredient for Longevity
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Celebrating 300 episodes with a game-changing update! If you've been chasing 10,000 steps or wondering why your walking routine isn't delivering the results you hoped for, this episode will change everything. What you'll discover: Why 7,000 steps might be your new sweet spot (and the research that proves it) The 15-minute walking tweak that reduces…
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How I Didn't Take My Own Advice (and Now I'm Paying the Price!)
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Have you ever swept a health concern under the rug? Well, this health coach (aka, human) did! I'm changing my ways – see how in this more personal episode! LET'S TALK THE WALK! Join here for support, motivation and fun! Wellness While Walking Facebook page Walking to Wellness Together Facebook GROUP Wellness While Walking on Instagram Wellness Whil…
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299. Food: Fun or Fuel? Exploring Why We Eat Beyond Hunger + What To Do About It
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Hunger, cravings, emotional eating —discover how to distinguish between physical hunger and the urge to eat for comfort or pleasure. In this episode, we unravel the signals your body can send if we're paying attention, and we'll explore practical strategies for responding to them. Tune in to reclaim control and find balance in your relationship wit…
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298. Counteracting Limiting Beliefs, Ageism + Anxiety with Walker/Podcaster/Ageism Fighter Ande Lyons at Age 69
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Walking transformed anxiety into vitality for 69-year-old entrepreneur Ande Lyons, who discovered from a book-on-cassette that 35 minutes daily helped manage her symptoms and eventually led to her current six-mile routine despite facing osteoporosis. Ande argues that movement is a privilege rather than a chore, and that community connections matter…
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297. Fresh-Start Fall: Walking Against Traffic to Build Lasting Health
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Transform your health this fall! Feeling that September urge to get your life together? That energy is real, but so are the convenience culture, workplace demands, and distractions working against your wellness goals. Today we're turning that autumn reset feeling into your game plan for "walking against traffic" toward lasting health! LET'S TALK TH…
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296. GUIDED Interval Walking Training #2: How to Supercharge Japanese IWT to Benefit Your Brain As Well As Your Body!
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IWT or Interval Walking Training (or Japanese 3x3 walking) is something that's taking the fitness world by storm, and with good reason! It provides a framework for getting the most out of interval training while walking, one of our most essential, enjoyable and beneficial modes of movement. Many have praised it for its heart health benefits, for we…
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295. Variety is the Spice of Walking, Health + Life! Plus Mindful Walking and Gratitude (Re-Release)
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Hunter-gatherers ate dozens of different plants each day! How can we use variety to maximize our health in the modern day, even while the American Heart Association asks us to limit the variety of what we eat?!? Also, how do you react when you take health-affirming steps? Do you diminish their power or do you celebrate and elevate them? Regardless,…
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294. My Trial + Error Health Journey: Years of Wrong Turns Before Finding Relief
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When I consulted the wrong practitioner, it resulted in years of an overwhelming search for solutions and a multi-thousand dollar bill. I'm taking you along on my journey so you can avoid a similar one! We'll also talk about why chewing is so important to our cognitive health, and how we can keep our indoor air clean and why we should care to! LET'…
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293. Can You Lose Weight and Still Be Happy? Ditch Depressing Diets + Do This Instead
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Alarmist headlines claim dieting leads to depression—should you let that stop your changing up your eating pattern to achieve your health goals? In this episode, we'll examine those "sad diets," and you'll discover actionable, mindset-based strategies to make real, lasting changes to what you eat—without the pitfalls or misery. Ready to turn dietar…
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292. Just One Can a Day Can Be a Problem: The Surprising Effects of Diet Soda + How to Quit or Cut Back (on Anything)
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Think your daily diet soda is keeping you trim and healthy? A shocking new study reveals that just one can increases diabetes risk by 38%, while artificial sweeteners disrupt gut health, trigger belly fat storage, and hijack brain chemistry – all for zero calories! Today, we expose diet soda myths and share proven strategies to break sweetened beve…
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291. Your Health Non-Negotiables: Getting Past Mindset Hurdles with Grace + A Daily/Weekly/Monthly Guide to a Healthier Life
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Mental roadblocks can sabotage our health goals. The key to success is identifying them, and replacing them with clear, empowering strategies. We'll also introduce a powerful framework to help you stay consistent with what you'll do daily, weekly, monthly—and what you'll never do again. We're moving forward on our health journeys in a big way today…
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290. Avoiding the Wake-Up Call: Abigail's Health Crisis + the Small Preventive Steps We Can Take Today
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Don't wait for a health crisis or an unfortunate diagnosis. Let's take steps now to get on the path to health. It's not about perfection, but it's also about not waiting until we have more time or anything else. Something is always better than nothing, and extra stars for doing that something today! LET'S TALK THE WALK! Wellness While Walking on In…
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289. Add This to Your Walk for Better Brain Function + Judy Benjamin's Walking Tips (From Her Walk Across the US!)
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Recent research found a way to enhance movement that allowed study participants to reduce their levels of cognitive decline, and we talk about how we can incorporate that add-on activity to our own walks or other movement activities we do! And we're back with Judy Benjamin, the 81-year-old walking across America to highlight how we can affect the i…
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288. Lifestyle Medicine Success Story: The Steps Judy Benjamin Took to Reverse Cognitive Decline (and to Power Her Cross-America Walk)
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Want to know the lifestyle protocol that reversed Judy Benjamin's Alzheimer's diagnosis and transformed her from a sleep-deprived, mold-exposed humanitarian worker into an 81-year-old powerhouse walking across America? In this revelatory episode, we dive deep into her comprehensive transformation strategy—from optimizing sleep habits and eliminatin…
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