EP 50: Two GYNs, Real Chat (Part 1) with Dr. Erin Keyser

I’m joined by my fellow Board-Certified OBGYN and the director of the Brooke Army Medical Center OBGYN Residency program, Dr. Erin Keyser. I’m lucky enough to have collaborated with Dr. Erin Keyser in her residency program, and we are two GYNs sitting down for some real chat about our work.

EP 49: Purpose Driven Community Drives Purpose Driven Fitness with Michelle and Malcolm Cook

I’m joined by Michelle and Malcolm Cook, the owners of Livingstone Athletics, a gym here in San Antonio, Texas. They’re an adorable married couple, and they’re here to dive deeper into the idea of purpose driven training and the power of purpose driven fitness in community.

EP 48: The Transformative Power of Adversity with Paige Bowman

Paige is a coach who helps her clients with weight loss and emotional eating, but I brought her here today for a different reason. I met Paige when I was going through a hard time in my life, and the coaching work we did together helped me profoundly, so today, I’m sharing her magic with all of you.

EP 47: Learning to Love the Color Orange with Paige Bowman

Paige is a coach who helps her clients with weight loss and emotional eating, but I brought her here today for a different reason. I met Paige when I was going through a hard time in my life, and the coaching work we did together helped me profoundly, so today, I’m sharing her magic with all of you.

EP 46: Dating Over 50 with Anthony Terry

Giving us the male perspective on dating over the age of 50 is the wonderful Anthony Terry. Anthony is my other First Surgical Assist, and is usually running around after me behind the scenes. But today, he’s giving me an insight into a side of the dating story that most of us would never be able to comprehend, until now.

EP 45: Growing Through Grit with Lacey Aguero

I’m welcoming back badass military veteran and my First Surgical Assist. As we discussed a few weeks ago, Lacey knows a thing or two about grit. So, this week we’re taking things a level deeper, discussing how to use your challenges in a more productive way and start growing through the grit.

EP 44: Things Aren't Always What They Seem with Kristine Olsta

I’m joined once again by the sister who has the goods on me, Kristine Olsta, this time to discuss why things aren’t always as they seem. Whether it’s only seeing the happy moments on curated social media feeds, or asking someone how they are and they just reply with, “Fine…” we’re discussing the key to authenticity without the ugly.

EP 43: Conviction, Confusion, and Connection with Kristine Olsta

Today, I’m joined by mission-critical IT expert, business consultant, and the COO of Virtuosa Vitamins, Kristine Olsta. I’ve known Kristine my whole life because she’s my sister, but we’ve also been involved with some business ventures together. She has some skill sets I deeply admire, and she’s here to share her wisdom with everyone listening.

EP 41: Whole Person Integrative Eating with Deborah Kesten

Deborah Kesten is a nutrition researcher and award-winning author who specializes in preventing and reversing heart disease and obesity through food. Her new book Whole Person Integrative Eating puts the spotlight on ancient wisdom when it comes to leading a healthier lifestyle and provides a holistic, science-backed program for building a healthier relationship with food.

EP 40: Whole Person Integrative Eating: 4 Person Interview Around the Table with Deborah, Larry, and Reed

Deborah Kesten is an international nutrition researcher and award-winning author. Dr. Larry Scherwitz is a behavioral scientist specializing in research on mind-body medicine and how lifestyle influences overall health. Dr. Reed Miloy is a doctor of internal medicine as well as a life and wellness coach - my life and wellness coach to be precise!

EP 39: The Emotions of Money with Hugh Hale

Hugh Hale is the President and CEO of Financial Architects and the Managing Director for oXYGgen Financial. I used think about money in terms of having enough, but not wanting to have to look at it or deal with it, but what Hugh has taught me about money has changed my perspective entirely.

EP 38: Weight Loss and Wellness with Dr. Reed Miloy (Part 2)

Dr. Reed Miloy is a doctor of internal medicine and a life and wellness coach. Reed has an amazing illustrative tool he uses called the Table of Health, working on the body as well as the mind, bringing weight loss and wellness together in a fascinating and effective way.

EP 37: Weight Loss and Wellness with Dr. Reed Miloy (Part 1)

Dr. Reed Miloy is a doctor of internal medicine and a life and wellness coach. Reed has an amazing illustrative tool he uses called the Table of Health, working on the body as well as the mind, bringing weight loss and wellness together in a fascinating and effective way.

EP 36: Sharing Your Heart with Starley Murray

Starley is a national television producer and lifestyle entrepreneur, and she is also my media coach! She joins me to share her expert insights into how we can start sharing our hearts and sharing the love in a range of areas in our lives.

EP 35: Soul Healing Sundays: Priorities and Intentional Living: Increasing Capacity with Ceri Payne

Ceri Payne is a Mom of three teenage girls, special education teacher and advocate, and certified Life Coach. She works with women to help them intentionally grow their capacities, and balance the demands of life and motherhood while working or creating a business. She’s here today to tell us how we can all live more intentionally and exceed in all areas of our lives.

EP 34: Soul Healing Sundays: Owning Your Emotions to Love Your Partner More with Emily Stickler

Tune in this week for a fascinating discussion about how owning our own emotions can help improve the relationships in our lives. We’ll share an exercise you can do to work with the stories you're telling yourself and discover how we can stop causing our own pain once and for all. This episode is a fantastic chance to learn a skill that expands your capacity to love!

EP 33: Soul Healing Sundays: Sufficiency MindsetSoul Healing Sundays: Sufficiency Mindset

I’ll be sharing five main areas we feel a lack in our lives and explain why we feel that way. I’ll show you why scarcity is a myth and why there is so much abundance in the universe, but we have to be open to receiving it. It’s time to learn to let go of the lack mindset! Remember, you have enough and you are enough.

EP 32: Five Steps to Stop Binging with Lisa BeckerSoul Healing Sundays: Sufficiency Mindset

Lisa Becker is a Certified Eating Disorder and Recovery Coach and Life Coach and has a passion for helping people heal their destructive relationship with food. She works with those who are diagnosed with an eating disorder or whose thoughts and behaviors about eating are taking over their life. She joins us today to share some tools and strategies to regain control and enjoy life again.

EP 31: How to Believe New Things with Janet Cagleul Healing Sundays: Sufficiency Mindset

Founder of The 10-Minute Mind Shift Podcast, Janet Cagle is one of the most positive and uplifting people I know. After going through several transformational experiences in her life, she took the leap into life coaching and now helps others up-level their lives and become their virtuosa selves. She joins us today to tell us how to change our beliefs and use new ones to move forward in our lives.

EP 30: Emotional, Mental and Physical Fitness in Motherhood with Ludmila Woodrufful Healing Sundays: Sufficiency Mindset

Ludmila Woodruff is a certified Life Coach who specializes in helping women who experience identity changes in motherhood. After finding herself unprepared for parenting, she became lost, frustrated, and unable to cope with the strains of becoming a mother. With help from her own Mom, she made the necessary changes in her life to pick herself up, pay more attention to her physical and emotional habits, and start taking better care of herself. She now helps other women to do the same in their own lives.

EP 29: How to Allow Urges with Penny Gambill

Penny Gambill is a Stop Over-Drinking coach who became a life coach following her own experiences with over-drinking. After she found herself drinking way too much, she ended up in rehab and knew that she needed to curb the over-drinking once and for all. She now teaches other women to do the same and joins me to explain why managing our urges can help us live a more content life. 

EP 28: Rebuilding Your Life from Love after the Divorce with Jennifer Bogard

Jennifer Bogard is a certified life coach who specializes in divorce coaching. Her mission is to help women heal their hearts so that they can do what they’re meant to do in life, and live contently whilst learning to love themselves. Jennifer joins me this week to share guidance and wisdom taken from her 3-month coaching program and show us how to deal with the various types of loss and separation we may face in our lives. 

EP 27: Healing all the ‘isms’

I’m so excited to share this week’s lesson with you and discuss a hugely important theme. I’ll be talking about the ‘isms’ that so many of us face in today’s world. Racism, sexism, ageism, nationalism – the list is endless! There are so many ‘isms’ to contend with, and like so many others, I have been subjected to many of these throughout my life. But what type of behaviors constitute an ‘ism’, and how should we deal with them?

EP 26: How to Feel Better with Donna Oborne 

After her children grew up, certified Life and Weight Loss Coach Donna Oborne found herself lacking purpose. She entered the coaching industry because she wanted to learn how to feel better and have purpose in her work. She now helps other people live happier lives, and she’s here today to share some effective tips to help you feel better too!

EP 25: Connection with Stephanie Forck

Certified Life Coach Stephanie Forck helps women overcome stress, burnout and overwhelm, and provides them with the tools and strategies they need to flourish in their lives. She joins us on the show this week to discuss why we are all worthy and lovable, and why being kinder to ourselves will enable us to have more unconditional love for others.

EP 24: Why You Need a Life Coach to Lose Weight with Wendy Crabbe

Today’s guest, certified Life and Weight Loss Coach Wendy Crabbe, joins me to talk about why despite food being such a prominent part of our lives, weight loss is only 20% about the food and 80% about our thoughts and feelings towards it. Interesting, right? Wendy explains how she created a plan to lose weight that fit around her lifestyle and lost 55lb in just one year. She’s here to show you how you can do it too!

EP 23: Coaching Women Over 50: What it’s Really Like During and After a Coaching Session with Sally Hanson

Sally is a certified Trainer and Life Coach who supports women over the age of 50 to find their purpose in life. After turning 50, Sally went through some drastic life changes and found herself at rock bottom, getting into a lot of bad habits and with nowhere to turn for guidance. She hired a coach and by doing so, she picked herself up and created a new, successful life for herself. She uses her experiences to empower other women to develop themselves and create a life they love.

EP 22: Stop Stress Snacking with Robin Ola

Certified Personal Trainer, Weight Loss and Life Coach, Robin Ola, joins us this week to explain the reasons so many of us overeat.  She talks about how she uses her professional history of helping people manage their health to assist women in addressing the anxiety and worries which cause them to overeat, and how to stop doing it, once and for all!

EP 21: Detoxing from Overwhelm with Neill Williams 

Neill Williams is a Master Life Coach and productivity expert. She teaches people how to create and maintain a successful lifestyle and get rid of overwhelm once for all! Neill joins us this week to talk about what overwhelm is, and how we can all manage it to create a happier, more balanced life.

EP 20: Living with Complexity with Margot Hanley 

I have a super interesting guest joining me this week! This week we’ll be talking about learning to live and be comfortable with complexity in our lives, and what better educator than Margot Hanley. Following a career as a respiratory therapist, Margot used her experience of working with families in crisis to pivot her career and become a certified Life Coach. She now supports family members of people who change their sexual and gender identities to integrate change into their lives.

EP 19: Life after Hard Choices with Amanda Kingsley 

What an important discussion I have for you today! I'm joined by fellow certified life coach and post-abortive counselor Amanda Kingsley. After making the difficult decision to undergo an abortion, Amanda was left feeling alone, ashamed, and unsupported in her grief. She now uses her experience to coach and support other women who have also made this difficult choice.

EP 18: Create a Life Better than the Buzz with Jennifer Cruikshank  

This week’s guest - fellow certified life coach, Jennifer Cruikshank - specializes in helping women change their drinking patterns and become more resilient in their lives. Combining her life coach experience with her Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology, she helps her clients manage their relationships with alcohol by learning to understand their habits and figuring out why they might be drinking more than they’d like to be. 

Soul Healing Sundays EP #1: Post-traumatic Growth with Krista St-Germain   

Krista is a fellow certified life coach, who, following the tragic death of her husband, was left questioning her purpose in life. She now helps others deal with life’s stressful trials and tribulations by teaching them how to feel empowered and respond to trauma as victors rather than victims.

EP 17: Learning to Love Plants with Karen Kjaeruff  

Today’s guest is fellow certified life coach, registered dietician, and wellness expert Karen Kjaeruff. Karen combines her scientific background and knowledge of plant predominant nutrition with her skills acquired from becoming certified as a life coach to help her clients achieve lasting weight loss and optimal mental health.

EP 16: Brain-Powered Weight Loss with Jenifer Hillman Paredes 

Jenifer supports a new way of approaching weight loss, which focuses on brainpower instead of willpower. Her aim as a coach is to help people change their thinking in order to achieve long-lasting results, and she joins us today to share valuable tips and advice on how to engage our brainpower and stop overeating, once and for all. 

EP 15: Doctors and Life Coaches... WTF?! With Dr. Noelle Nelson 

Noelle is a board-certified internal medicine internist who joins us today to talk about why she decided to also become a life coach.
Following a series of devastating occurrences, Noelle struggled to cope with day-to-day life and began looking for ways to feel happier and more positive. This chain of events was the catalyst for her taking the plunge into helping others through life coaching. In this episode, we discuss how life coaches help clients to understand their thought patterns and live their lives on purpose.

EP 14: Sustainability Bonus Episode Two: Determined Fierceness

When a butterfly emerges from its cocoon, it is regal and purposed, and has the capability to flap its wings and create a hurricane on the other side of the world. Emerging from our own cocoon, we are the butterfly and it’s our time to step up! We all have choices on how we want to emerge, and personally, I want to move forward and take the next step in becoming my virtuosa self. How do you want to emerge?

EP 13: Sustainability Bonus Episode One: Gratitude

This time at home has left me thinking a lot about the effects of quarantine and what it means in terms of gratitude. Having time to reflect has given me a much richer appreciation of what’s important in life, that I’m not sure I’d have had if it weren’t for these times of quarantine. But it’s also made me contemplate whether we can really have gratitude without having gone through suffering first?

EP 12: Sustainability Part Four: Legacy 

For episode four of our Sustainability series, we’re discussing legacy. Legacy is often known as something you might bequest in a will, such as property. But in general, it is something handed down from your ancestors and something that you will pass down to your predecessors. If we consider the concept of us all being interconnected - that all human beings are one, we can appreciate that everything we do or don’t do is our legacy.

EP 11: Sustainability Part Three: Diligence 

We’re back this week with the Sustainability series and we’re focusing on diligence. Diligence isn’t flashy or glamorous, it is about consistently showing up and taking action to create results. It is closely related to resilience and tenacity as it involves persevering even when quitting seems more appealing.

EP 10: Sustainability Part Two: Tenacity

People with tenacity choose to stick with the problem instead of folding or giving up. They see the value of holding on and can manage their mindset well. So this week, I want to talk about the ways you can build your tenacity, mentally and physically, because many of you have probably shown tenacity but aren’t even aware of it!

EP 9: Sustainability Part one: Resilience

The first part of this series will focus on resilience: the capacity to recover quickly from difficult experiences – something we need as a society at the moment. I want to talk about how we can manage our minds in a way that allows us to be as helpful as possible to the rest of humanity right now, and I’m also sharing how I’ve used thought work to get me through some of the tough times in my life.

EP 8: Write Your Story

As I go through the final step in the transformation tool, I want you to draw a picture of what you imagine you’ll look like in five years, or a visualization of your new state of being. Being able to maintain a certain level of transformation over time is challenging for anybody, so I’m offering three tools that you can use in this process, to ensure your success. 

EP 7: Wear Your Crown

As I practice putting on the “crown” of being a podcaster and stepping into this arena, I’ve been confronted with negative thoughts and emotions, fearing the public feedback and not wanting to feel rejected. As you think about your own goals and where you want to be as your virtuosa self, it’s important to understand why putting on your crown, even though it’s scary, is important not only to yourself, but to everyone else too. 

EP 6: Ladders and Bridges

Today we're talking all about ladder and bridging thoughts, and there is a slight but important difference between them. Ladder thoughts are sequential and build on top of each other. We can use these to move step by small step toward our goal. Bridging thoughts are active thoughts, usually using words ending in "-ing", that remind us that we are progressing steadily toward our goal. 

EP 5: “I Am” Thoughts

We often tell ourselves things like "I am stressed" or "I am overwhelmed" or "I am not good enough" without catching ourselves in the act. Whatever words follow "I am" is what we become. That means that if we constantly think about how we are not what we want to be, it will be hard to get there. But on the flip side, we can harness the power of these thoughts and start to envision ourselves becoming the virtuosa we're meant to be.

EP 4: Sorting It Out – Thoughts vs. Circumstances

When you get upset about something in your day-to-day life, do you stop to consider what exactly is making you upset?
I’ll give you an example. If you’re driving to work and someone cuts you off in traffic, it might make you incredibly angry. In this situation, what’s making you angry? The other driver? Or your thoughts about the other driver? That distinction is what I want to dig into today.

EP 3: Other Awareness 

In this episode we’re talking all about other awareness and how to expand your idea of what’s possible in your life. I want you to stop waiting for permission, or for other people to change, before you wholeheartedly pursue your life. I’ll share another exercise with you today and some great questions to ask yourself about what you would create if you were functioning at your highest level. 

EP 2: A Frog in Boiling Water – Becoming Aware of Your Circumstances

Have you ever heard the fable about the frog in boiling water? It’s the old story that claims if you put a frog in a pot of boiling water, it would jump out immediately. But if you put the frog in normal water and slowly raise it to a boil, the frog wouldn’t notice and would get cooked. It’s not the nicest story, but it does illustrate the important concept I want to talk to you about today: awareness. 

EP 1: Let the Becoming Begin

I’m so excited to be creating this podcast for you. It’s been in my heart and mind for a long time, and I’m finally stepping into the arena and sharing more of myself with the world. Becoming a Virtuosa is a lifelong journey, and a great one – so I’m overjoyed that you’re here.