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We are sisters passionate about helping others rise to the next level. We are the co-founders and owners of a natural shift. and we created this podcast with you in mind! Each week we will share simple tips that are easy to implement or an inspiring interview all with the same intention: to raise the collective and help you step into your best life!

180. Helping women get back into balance with Amanda Leigh 11/15/2021

179. Defining your health priorities in this day and time with Eliza Bacot, Nurse Practitioner 11/08/2021

178. How to heal your acne from the inside out with Katie Stewart 11/01/2021

177. Five steps process to help manage emotions when they arise with Jessica Hottle 10/25/2021

176. A practical guide to doing what matters in a 'get things done' world with Michelle and Somer 10/18/2021

175. Top 5 Holistic Breast Health Tips with Dr. Halie Schoff 10/11/2021

175. Top 5 Holistic Breast Health Tips with Dr. Halie Schoff Dr. Halie Schoff is a chiropractor and integrative health practitioner with a passion for helping people understand the root cause for their ailments and using natural means to bring the body back to balance. Dr. Halie has had extensive training on whole food nutrition, hormone balance and gut health. She is outspoken on breaking the stigma that "common does not mean normal", and just because symptoms such as bloating and period pain might be common to many, doesn't mean we have to experience them. She is on a mission to help people reclaim their health and rebalance their body through nutrition and lifestyle. You can connect with her on instagram, @drhalieschoff or tune into her weekly podcast Alpha Health and Wellness Radio where she teaches you how you can be the ALPHA of your health! This episode kicks off with our guest, Dr. Halie Schoff, sharing her personal experience with her mom’s breast cancer journey. Halie shares how much she learned through that process and how it reiterated the importance of focusing on “root cause” medicine. Kari and Halie move into discussion surrounding the importance of metabolic health and the role fasting plays with proper metabolic health. Fasting helps encourage healthy detox and having healthy detox pathways that keep things moving is so important to our health. Staying well hydrated, dry brushing, sweating daily, restorative deep sleep, and using essential oils topically are a few ways you can start today working toward improved detox and lymphatic drainage. Kari and Halie move into discussing the role detoxing our environment plays into the way our body functions and our long term health. We wrap this episode with Kari and Halie discussing the steps you can start taking today to better yourself for today, tomorrow, and the days to come. Connect with Dr. Halie Schoff→👇🏻 Website: Podcast: Instagram: Connect with us→ via social media👇🏻 Facebook: Instagram:: Kari Facebook: Instagram: Website: Julie Facebook: Instagram: Website: Links to listen: 👉🏻itunes: 👉🏻spotify: 👉🏻google play: 👉🏻stitcher: /episode/index/show/anaturalshift/id/20633987

174. Adrenals and Thyroid: Your Internal Swat Team with Jenn Pike 10/04/2021

174. Adrenals and Thyroid: Your Internal Swat Team with Jenn Pike Jenn Pike is a Functional Nutritionist and Medical Exercise Specialist. She specializes in women’s health and hormones and is the Bestselling author of “The Simplicity Project” as well as her two cookbooks The Simplicity Kitchen and The Simplicity Body. She is the founder of the global and revolutionary women’s health programs Then Hormone Project, Synced and her Simplicity Body Movement series. These programs are dedicated to teaching women what they should have known about their bodies all along; the incredible healing abilities, wisdom and power their bodies hold and how to bring them to life. You can catch her weekly tips and tools on her podcast The Simplicity Session and her youtube show Simplicity TV. She sits on the Advisory Board for STRONG Fitness Magazine and contributes to CHCH Morning Live, CTV, Global, CP24 and Breakfast Television. As an inspired Wife and Mom of two, she understands that true well-being is a journey to be enjoyed not a struggle to be forced. She will inspire you to create more Simplicity and Ease in all you do. This episode kicks off with Jenn explaining the purpose of our adrenals and the signs and symptoms one may experience if there is any sort of dysregulation. Almost all areas of our lives can affect the performance of our adrenals…..stress, the exercises we do, and quality of sleep to name just a few. Jenn shares the importance of finding a provider that is truly willing to listen to you and that really cares about your well being. Finding the root causes and issues with adrenals will require looking at how you want to feel and how you are currently feeling. Kari, Julie, and Jenn discuss the most comprehensive testing for adrenals and also for thyroid function. Thyroid issues can be complex to diagnose and even to treat. This just compounds the importance of utilizing the correct diagnostic tools and finding a practitioner that is willing to truly listen to you, dig deep, and try different approaches until you find what works best for your body. This episode wraps with Jen sharing practical ways you can start today to improve the function of your adrenals and thyroid. Connect with Jenn→👇🏻 Instagram: @jennpike Connect with us→ via social media👇🏻 Facebook: Instagram:: Kari Facebook: Instagram: Website: Julie Facebook: Instagram: Website: Links to listen: 👉🏻itunes: 👉🏻spotify: 👉🏻google play: 👉🏻stitcher: /episode/index/show/anaturalshift/id/20560766

173. We deserve better: A healthcare system that actually promotes health with Clara Norfleet, RD 09/27/2021

173. We deserve better: A healthcare system that actually promotes health with Clara Norfleet, RD Clara is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Certified Personal Trainer and self-proclaimed wellness enthusiast on a mission to equip, empower and encourage women to build a healthy relationship with food and exercise, steward their body well, and achieve their optimal version of health in a way that is practical, sustainable and enjoyable, and all without restriction, obsession or overwhelm. She takes a refreshing, joy-filled and realistic approach to health that is a much needed breath of fresh air in the midst of all the nutrition noise and dogmatic diets. She also works as a clinical dietitian where she provides support and education to patients suffering from a wide range of debilitating, chronic conditions, so she sees firsthand the powerful effects that our daily food and lifestyle choices can have on our overall health. This episode opens up with Kari and Clara discussing how Clara’s journey with nutrition began in high school and continued into college, where she discovered that she could make a career out of her interest in nutrition and earned a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist degree. Clara began working in the hospital setting and saw how truly important our dietary choices are and just how little some people know about how to make the best choices with nutrition. Clara and Kari discuss some of the limitations that Clara has to work against in the hospital setting. Clara and Kari discuss the importance of taking ownership of our health and how it is the place we need to start in order to see change. This can look like changing our diet, being our own advocate in the healthcare setting, etc. This episode wraps with Clara and Kari debunking the myth of work-out more and eat whatever you want (junk food). Clara shares how important the nutrition we fuel our bodies with is so important and that exercise shouldn’t be a punishment for what we ate. Connect with Clara→ 👇🏻 Instagram: @foodfitnessandfaith Website: Connect with us→ via social media👇🏻 Facebook: Instagram:: Kari Facebook: Instagram: Website: Julie Facebook: Instagram: Website: Links to listen: 👉🏻itunes: 👉🏻spotify: 👉🏻google play: 👉🏻stitcher: /episode/index/show/anaturalshift/id/20566268

172. The Power of Natural Immunity with Julie Davey, NP 09/20/2021

171. The healing power of light with Meredith Oke 09/13/2021

171. The healing power of light with Meredith Oke Meredith is the co-founder of QuantumHealth.TV, the world's first video streaming channel focused on decentralizing health education, where medical experts break down the emerging science of circadian health and quantum biology. As an ICF- accredited Executive Coach, Meredith has lived and worked on 3 continents helping clients from all over the world to improve their lives by changing their beliefs and habits. She began her career working in media, covering entertainment and interviewing movie stars before she shifted into communications and coaching. Now, through Quantum Health TV, she is helping people suffering from chronic illness by providing accessible information that is years ahead of what most doctors and naturopaths are currently practicing. Meredith is married with 3 children and she is a proud global nomad. This week’s episode kicks off with Meredith and Kari discussing the differences between “normal” fatigue and the unfortunate experience of chronic fatigue. Meredith explains how she would do things we know to do to replenish our energy but she just always felt like her battery was depleted and could not be recharged. After a trip to the doctor revealed normal lab levels, Meredith enlisted the help of several different professionals (acupuncturist, naturopath, and dietician) to tackle her issue of chronic fatigue. She found little relief from her symptoms but soon plateaued and things went stale. Luckily, Meredith had watched a video in the past, from what she labeled at the time as a “crazy doctor”, that talked about the importance of light and our light environment. She decided to watch the video again and this time the information took on a whole new meaning to her. This led Meredith on a journey of learning all about circadian biology and the effect natural light has on our body, mind, and soul. The episode wraps with Meredith explaining the basics of circadian biology in an easy to understand way. She leaves listeners with feasible ways to start taking the upgrade today in this area of health. Connect with Meredith→👇🏻 Website: Instagram: @circadian.lifestyle Connect with us→ via social media👇🏻 Facebook: Instagram:: Kari Facebook: Instagram: Website: Julie Facebook: Instagram: Website: Links to listen: 👉🏻itunes: 👉🏻spotify: 👉🏻google play: 👉🏻stitcher: /episode/index/show/anaturalshift/id/20197622

170. PCOS with Zermina Akbary, RN 09/06/2021

170. PCOS with Zermina Akbary, RN Zermina is a Registered Nurse, holistic health, and functional nutritionist specializing in women's health. Her journey to becoming a Functional Medicine Practitioner was rooted in her own health challenges. Her love of science and belief in food as medicine inspired her to enroll in a graduate program for nutrition science and advanced studies at the Institute of Functional Medicine to better understand how to approach chronic illnesses more holistically. After 11 years in clinical practice and working as an RN, Zermina founded Living Wholelistic, her independent consulting practice where she leverages her expertise in functional medicine and integrative nutrition to help women balance their hormones, heal their gut, and optimize their chances for conception. Through comprehensive lab testing, she identifies the underlying imbalances and helps patients thrive through personalized nutrition plans, lifestyle, and supplement protocols. Her passion lies in empowering and educating women on taking control of their health and fertility. This episode opens up with Zermina sharing her journey as a young girl with PCOS and how her experiences spurred her passion to pursue healing in a more natural way and led her to a career in functional medicine. Zermina and Julie discuss the criteria evaluated to diagnose PCOS. Zermina and Julie discuss the importance of doing your research, asking the right questions, and the importance of finding a provider who is truly going to listen to you and your symptoms in order to run the proper tests, and not simply approach your diagnosis of PCOS as an “umbrella term”. Zermina and Julie discuss the different lifestyle changes that can be incorporated to assist in healing the body from PCOS. Zermina stresses the importance of having a personalized treatment plan and how different the journey looks for each woman. Connect with Zermina→👇🏻 Instagram: @living_wholelistic Website: www.livingwholelistic.com Connect with us→ via social media👇🏻 Facebook: Instagram:: Kari Facebook: Instagram: Website: Julie Facebook: Instagram: Website: Links to listen: 👉🏻itunes: 👉🏻spotify: 👉🏻google play: 👉🏻stitcher: /episode/index/show/anaturalshift/id/20132678

169. Are you willing to go slow, or is it easier to quit? 08/30/2021

168. Changing your mindset from skinny to healthy with Chloe Mullis 08/23/2021

167. Overcoming a Cancer Diagnosis with Erica Matthews 08/16/2021

167. Overcoming a Cancer Diagnosis with Erica Matthews Erica Matthews is a daughter of the King, wife, and Momma to her 3 year old little girl, Londyn. A little over a year ago, she was diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer. Through holistic cancer treatment, she has learned about how powerful our immune systems are. This led her to partner with the immune system company. She is an entrepreneur at heart and through her cancer diagnosis, her spiritual alignment coaching business was born. Through her Spirit led coaching, she teaches women to surrender to who God has called them to be through step by step methods. Her passion is watching the transformation unfold in these women. Erica gets to help women step into alignment to their highest self, teach them how to take back their power, and find their voice. When she’s not working, she loves to be adventurous with her daughter and hubby, anything with friends, hiking and biking, and loves to travel with her hubby. This episode kicks off with Erica sharing her journey to receiving the life altering, seemingly hopeless cancer diagnosis. Erica admits that for the first few months post diagnosis, she leaned into the “human” response of fear, anxiety, and overwhelm. But God……… Erica shares that her relationship with Jesus was transformed through her battle with cancer. She began to hear from God and trust in his sovereignty. Erica credits her faith for guiding her treatment path and for providing her the courage to pursue more holistic treatments and trust that God would provide the healing and knowledge. We wrap up this episode with Erica and Julie discussing the importance of immune health and how we can best support our bodies. Connect with Erica→👇🏻 Website: Instagram: @ericamatthews2002 Connect with us→ via social media👇🏻 Facebook: Instagram:: Kari Facebook: Instagram: Website: Julie Facebook: Instagram: Website: Links to listen: 👉🏻itunes: 👉🏻spotify: 👉🏻google play: 👉🏻stitcher: /episode/index/show/anaturalshift/id/20061350

166. Tracking for Success with Julie Davey, NP 08/09/2021

165. How to optimize your period with Heather McConochie 08/02/2021

164. Choosing the right supplements for your body with Julie Davey, NP 07/26/2021

163. Health x Income with Kari Coody, Pharm D. 07/19/2021

162. Thermography: a holistic preventative approach to breast health with Taylor Pardue 07/12/2021

161. When you are concentrating on all the right things but not seeing improvement with Kari Coody, Pharm D. 07/05/2021

160. The Power of our thoughts with Nicole Sachs 06/28/2021

160. The Power of our thoughts with Nicole Sachs Nicole Sachs, LCSW is a speaker, writer, podcaster and psychotherapist who has dedicated her work and her practice to the treatment of emotional and physical chronic pain, symptoms, syndromes, and conditions. She is the author of the book The Meaning of Truth, and the online courses FREEDOM FROM CHRONIC PAIN and FREEDOM FROM AN ANXIOUS LIFE. Her brand, The Cure for Chronic Pain, includes a Website, Podcast and YouTube Channel. She holds faculty positions at The Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, 1440 Multiversity, and The Center for Living Retreat Center. Nicole's personal experience with Dr. John Sarno as well as work with thousands of people around the world have shaped and evolved her theories, which serve to teach those suffering how to heal themselves completely with no medication or surgery. We start off this episode with Nicole sharing her story of a life altering diagnosis she received at age 19. Her doctors shattered her hopes and dreams for the future when they told her how her life would need to look in order for her to be “safe”. Nicole accepted this diagnosis for a while but began to have thoughts that maybe she could find a way to have a different life than the one she was currently living. She ran across the work of Dr. Sarno which inspired her journey to learn more about mind body medicine and essentially changed the trajectory of her life. Nicole and Kari move into the discussion of repressing our emotions-why we do it and how to begin the process of fighting against the repression. Nicole shares that we do not choose to repress our emotions…..our brain and our nervous system choose for us. The big idea of mind body medicine is if we repress our emotions, those feelings will manifest themselves physically. Nicole shares that in order to begin the process of not repressing emotion you have to have awareness and you have to know that help is available to you. We wrap this episode with Nicole sharing about resources available to help you through the journey of mind body medicine. Connect with Nicole👇🏻 Connect with us→ via social media👇🏻 Facebook: Instagram:: Kari Facebook: Instagram: Website: Julie Facebook: Instagram: Website: Links to listen: 👉🏻itunes: 👉🏻spotify: 👉🏻google play: 👉🏻stitcher: /episode/index/show/anaturalshift/id/18538817

159. The Low Down on Perimenopause with Dr. Kristin Oja 06/21/2021

159. The Low Down on Perimenopause with Dr. Kristin Oja Kristin obtained her Doctor of Nursing Practice, Masters of Science in Nursing with a Family Nurse Practitioner focus, and is a Registered Nurse. She is also an entrepreneur, functional and lifestyle medicine guru, personal trainer, group fitness instructor, and lover of everything health and wellness! Passionate about taking a Personalized Medicine approach, Kristin focuses on uncovering the root cause of chronic illness and disease. Taking into account her patients lifestyle, diet, genetics, environment, and stress, each treatment plan is unique and individualized. Kristin has been serving and caring for patients for over 10 years. She strives every day to provide high quality care by doing everything with compassion, integrity, and above all a serving heart. Kristin founded STAT Wellness, which stands for Strength To Achieve Total Wellness, to help transform medicine. Statistically, as a society, we are getting sicker and sicker. At STAT Wellness, we want to partner with you to help you not only look your best but to feel your best by combining the best practices of medicine + movement. This episode kicks off with Kristin giving us the definition of perimenopause and the average age (though it varies widely) when women can begin to experience the symptoms of perimenopause. When you begin to experience the negative side effects of perimenopause, Julie and Kristin discuss the natural things you can do to support your body through the process. Lifestyle modifications are key in supporting your body through perimenopause and Kristin breaks down the key things you can do to impact the effects of perimenopause. Kristin and Julie talk about the impact of blood sugar on perimenopause and how important it is to have adequate blood sugar control. Kristin shares that sleep is the one of, if not the most important piece of the puzzle with blood sugar control in relation to hot flashes experienced during the night. We wrap this episode with Kristin educating us on supplements that help women through perimenopause Connect with Kristin 👇🏻 Instagram: @statwellness @drkristinoja Connect with us→ via social media👇🏻 Facebook: Instagram:: Kari Facebook: Instagram: Website: Julie Facebook: Instagram: Website: Links to listen: 👉🏻itunes: 👉🏻spotify: 👉🏻google play: 👉🏻stitcher: /episode/index/show/anaturalshift/id/19416995

158. Lift to Get Lean with Kylie Larson 06/14/2021

158. Lift to Get Lean with Kylie Larson Kylie Larson is a mom, wife, entrepreneur and coach. In a former life she was in corporate America, unsure of herself and lost, looking for something more. In 2008 she completed her first yoga teacher certification and that was the catalyst to change her life's path. Since that time she has immersed herself into fitness, nutrition and personal development coaching and developed her signature program Lift to Get Lean which focuses on strength training, macronutrient tracking and mindset. After learning a lot of lessons the hard way, over-training, under-eating and not seeing results, she has found a sustainable method of reaching goals that works. And it's not just about what you eat and how you train, it's about your daily habits and the words you say to yourself. This is the most important piece of the puzzle. Her undergraduate degree in marketing is from Texas Christian University and she is certified through Precision Nutrition, both Level 1 and Level 2 courses. She has been working with clients on nutrition since 2015 and changed hundreds of lives helping women become more confident in their bodies and free around food. This episode kicks off with Kylie sharing her journey up to this point with fitness, nutrition, and weight lifting. Kylie shares with Julie how she achieved a balance with fitness and nutrition and that is what she loves to share with her audience. Kylie and Julie discuss the magic of strength training. Strength training is what allows you to shape and sculpt your body to look how you want. Kylie debunks the myth of metabolism and age being related. Kylie and Julie discuss the importance of fueling your body properly and how low calorie diets are not the answer! Kylie breaks down the basics of macronutrients and how it is a different mentality toward nutrition (a healthier mindset regarding food). Julie and Kylie wrap up this episode by discussing the importance of your mindset and breaking the stigma around food and how you can truly eat and enjoy food while still achieving fitness goals. Kylie shares the importance of rest days and how your body will tell you how many days you need to rest. Connect with Kylie 👇🏻 www.lifttogetleanwithkylie.com Instagram: @kyliefityoga Connect with us→ via social media👇🏻 Facebook: Instagram:: Kari Facebook: Instagram: Website: Julie Facebook: Instagram: Website: Links to listen: 👉🏻itunes: 👉🏻spotify: 👉🏻google play: 👉🏻stitcher: /episode/index/show/anaturalshift/id/19401488

157. Finding the right medical professional to partner with Julie Davey, NP 06/07/2021

156. When exercise becomes a stress on your body with Kate Murphy 05/31/2021

155. Stress and the Female Body with Kari Coody, Pharm D, IHP2 05/24/2021

154. Heal Your Oral Microbiome with Cass Nelson-Dooley 05/17/2021

154. Heal Your Oral Microbiome with Cass Nelson-Dooley Cass Nelson-Dooley, MS, studied medicinal plants in the rain forests of Panama, in 2003 as a Fulbright Scholar, and then launched a career in science and natural medicine. She researched the pharmacology of medicinal plants at the University of Georgia and AptoTec, Inc, and then joined the innovators at Metametrix Clinical Laboratory and Genova Diagnostics. She enjoys teaching, presenting, writing, and researching how to address the underlying causes of disease, not just the symptoms. She has over a decade of experience teaching doctors about integrative and functional laboratory results. In 2013, she started Health First Consulting, LLC, a medical communications company with the mission to improve human health using the written word. She created innovative videos and patient education handouts to improve practice efficiency and motivate patients. Ms. Nelson-Dooley is the author of Heal Your Oral Microbiome and has published case studies, book chapters, and journal articles about natural medicine, nutrition, and laboratory testing. Learn more at . Julie and Cass kick off this episode by defining what an oral microbiome is and discuss some of the negative health conditions that can arise from an unhealthy oral microbiome. They discuss things to look for that will help you evaluate the health of your oral microbiome. To wrap up the episode, Cass shares some things to start doing today to help support a health oral microbiome: Diet and Nutrition Whole food based diet Ditch the sugar Eat the rainbow Get your vitamins and minerals Focus on your Breathing If you breathe through your mouth, you may be harming your microbiome Work on breathing through your nose, especially at night. Dental Hygiene Brushing Flossing Tongue scraping Focus on balancing the microbiome if you are experiencing dysbiosis ( you would do these things under the care of professional) Antimicrobial herbs Probiotics (oral chewable) and prebiotics Connect with us→ via social media👇🏻 Facebook: Instagram:: Kari Facebook: Instagram: Website: Julie Facebook: Instagram: Website: Links to listen: 👉🏻itunes: 👉🏻spotify: 👉🏻google play: 👉🏻stitcher: /episode/index/show/anaturalshift/id/18653855

153. How to Avoid a Chaotic Summer 05/10/2021

152. Fit for His Glory with Caroline Foster 05/03/2021

151. Could it be your Thyroid? with Lacey Dunn 04/26/2021

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