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A Healthy Way to Blend Families with Maria Natapov

Release Date: 02/20/2023

The Benefits of Yoga to Prevent Chronic Disease with Ivory Howard

Green Living with Tee

This week Tee is delighted to welcome Ivory Howard to the show to discuss the many benefits of Yoga. Regular yoga practice can reduce levels of stress and body-wide inflammation, contributing to healthier hearts. Several of the factors contributing to heart disease, including high blood pressure and excess weight, can also be addressed through yoga. When practiced regularly it makes the body more durable and less susceptible to illnesses. Ivory understands that everyone’s relationship with health and wellness is different, and she seeks to honor that with her work. Ivory provides her clients...

Cleaning Up Cereal & Big Business with Parker Brook

Green Living with Tee

Did you know that 67% of the average child's diet is junk food and 1 in 2 children have a chronic health condition? This week Tee welcomes Parker Brook, a former “Big Food” executive who is on a mission to change these stats. After developing an autoimmune condition and then welcoming the birth of his daughter, Parker was inspired to leave his job and start Lovebird, a gut health-boosting organic, grain-free, and no-refined sugar cereal. The birth of his daughter was such a powerful experience that Parker felt the responsibility to rise above his autoimmune disease to provide love...

How to Make Your Bedroom Healthy with Heidi Kuimjian

Green Living with Tee

This week Tee welcomes Heidi Kuimjian for an informative and practical conversation about how you can transform your bedroom into a low-tox, chemical-free oasis. Heidi is a content marketer with a passion for non-toxic living. As a brand strategist for Better-For-You Brands, she is helping to increase sales and awareness among low and non-toxic products aiming to reduce harmful chemical output in our world. Heidi entered this line of work after healing herself from a complex environmental toxic illness she struggled with throughout her adolescence and college years. After graduating...

What Makes a Home Healthy? Featuring Marla Esser Cloos

Green Living with Tee

This week Tee was delighted to welcome Marla Esser Cloos to the podcast for a wonderful conversation about what we should be considering when trying to improve the health conditions in our home. Marla is the principal of Green Home Coach and brings over fifteen years of experience working with green-certified homes and projects and applying the knowledge gained through her accreditations, including a Wellness Within Your Walls Certified Professional, NAR Green, and National Green Building Standard Verifier. Through programs and partnerships, Marla helps businesses and people discover and...

How to Read a Food Label with Tasha Rosales

Green Living with Tee

This week Tee welcomes Tasha Rosales to the podcast for a conversation that is tailor-made for Green Living with Tee! Tasha is the owner of Wellness Homemade and is a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner and Nutrition Counselor who created the program, Informed Eating Academy. Her aim is to assist people in becoming informed eaters by teaching them how to read food labels, which helps them find their balance, gain energy, and take back control of their lives through straightforward nutritional changes, mindset, and accountability. Her programs and workshops focus on making healthy...

Toxin-Free Talk with Nontoxic Mama Bear Jenna Johnson

Green Living with Tee

This week on Green Living with Tee, Tee welcomes Jenna Johnson for an informative conversation about how parents and individuals can begin to detoxify their everyday lives and take small steps towards a toxin-free lifestyle. Jenna and Tee discuss some of the practical first steps that any parent can take to protect their children from the overwhelming amount of toxic chemicals in our everyday products. Jenna brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this talk to help anyone overwhelmed by questions about harmful chemicals and toxins to begin taking the critical first steps toward a...

How To Avoid Harmful Ingredients In Your Personal Care Products with Low-Tox Pharmacist Amy Enos

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This week Tee welcomes Amy Enos for a great conversation about lowering your toxic load by becoming more diligent about the personal care and household products that you buy for yourself and your family. Amy is the perfect guide to help introduce many of these concepts to listeners as her background as a pharmacist paired with her personal life experiences has taught her so much about the dangers of chemicals and toxins in our everyday products and how to avoid them. Amy has been a pharmacist for over fifteen years and has a Doctor of Pharmacy degree with board certification in...

Enjoy the Foods you Love Without Eating Out of Control with Lety Algeri

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Tee welcomes Lety Algeri for a conversation about taking control of your eating habits and learning to love yourself without overeating or emotional eating. Lety is a Holistic Health Coach and the founder of The Craving Crusher Method. She helps women break free from Emotional Eating and empowers them to create healthy relationships with food so they can feel amazing in their bodies and mind. Lety’s holistic approach focuses on how the highs and lows of life affect our eating habits and overall health. Using her unique Food Therapy Techniques, Lety teaches simple actionable steps to...

How to Heal Your Gut with Morgan Lewis

Green Living with Tee

Gut health is a frequent topic on the show and Morgan Lewis is here to explain why. Morgan is a Certified Holistic Nutrition Consultant (HNC) and Restorative Wellness Solutions Practitioner with over three years of experience. She works to identify barriers and address the root causes of digestive issues, gut dysfunction, chronic stress, weight management, nutrition, and lifestyle changes. Morgan’s health journey inspired her to seek a more profound knowledge of holistic health, and she is committed to helping empower clients to discover their best selves and live optimally. She believes in...

How to Go Toxic Free With Environmental Journalist Anna Turns

Green Living with Tee

This week Tee was thrilled to welcome Anna Turns to the podcast to discuss a favorite topic of the show, environmental toxins. Anna is a freelance environmental journalist based in the UK. Since studying biology at university, she has worked in the media for more than 20 years. First TV, then magazine journalism. Anna has freelanced for more than a decade and writes regularly for the Guardian, BBC, and many other national publications. She has taught journalism undergraduates at Plymouth Marjon University and enjoys presenting episodes of Costing the Earth for BBC Radio 4. Her work focuses on...

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Stepparenting can be a rewarding and life-giving experience for men and women at all stages of life. However, anyone who has experienced the process of step-parenting and living in a blended family knows that it comes with profound challenges. Our guest today is helping stepparents transform from family chaos into meaningful and harmonious co-parenting by applying both her life experience and extensive training into coaching and therapeutic techniques that are helping to heal wounds and form lasting bonds.

Maria Natapov is a Step Parenting Expert and Trusted Advisor to Divorce Professionals, Financial Advisors, and Parenting Coaches. Maria offers a caring and playful coaching approach where clients feel energetically held and empowered to joyfully and confidently blend their families.

Maria knows from experience that stepparenting isn’t something you pick up from scrolling the internet or crowdsourcing your friends. She believes that forging a relationship with your stepchild means learning to find your voice and hearing theirs.

As the daughter of divorced immigrant parents and a stepparent herself, Maria understands blended families' communication and connection challenges and the vital importance of healing pain and preventing further harm by establishing innovative parenting support systems.

Through her signature 4-step energy-focused process combined with Rapid Resolution modality, Maria helps families transition from chaos to harmony. She enables stepparents to strengthen their values, foster partner alignment, create trust with stepchildren, and enhance the community with birth families by building on their existing skills, experiences, and strengths.

Maria has helped numerous blended families foster more harmonious family dynamics through her VIP Stepparenting Breakthrough support model and her podcast, Synergistic Stepparenting. To learn more about how to work with Maria, visit her website at SynergisticStepparenting.com.

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