We weren't planning to rebrand.

That is, until Chandler received an unexpected email during a recent family vacation. But what started as an inconvenient problem turned into something she couldn't ignore, and ultimately, a profound realization over breakfast in her kitchen that brought her to tears in the best possible way.

What if the disruption you didn’t ask for is actually pointing you in the right direction?

Introducing The Healing Heroines Podcast—a place to discover what your own heroine story might look like. You’ll still hear the true stories of women who have moved through life-changing experiences and the trusted guides who’ve helped shape those journeys. But the Healing Heroines is becoming something more: a place for women who’ve built lives they’re grateful for, and still feel the pull toward something more.

Listen to this solo episode for the full story behind the rebrand—and what’s ahead in this next chapter.

What You Will Learn

• [00:09:30] Chandler's trademark challenge and what it really forced her to see
• [00:12:00] Why Healing Heroines wasn't plan B but the real name all along
• [00:13:30] The heroines were always the center, not a subset
• [00:15:30] Why Chandler's heart wasn't fully in the membership relaunch
• [00:16:00] The hero's journey and where the guides really fit
• [00:19:00] Creating spaces where women can write and share their own story
• [00:22:30] The reel that stopped Chandler cold and the deep remembering it unlocked
• [00:26:30] How Homecoming was born and what it's meant to give women

Resources Mentioned

• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

Let’s Connect!

Chandler Stroud

Website | LinkedIn | Instagram

Feel like life might be inviting you into something more? Take the free quiz to discover where your call may be showing up.

Not sure what to do with what you’re feeling? Book a free call with Chandler to talk through what’s coming up—and what your next step might be.

Ready to answer the call? Healing Heroines is an intimate sisterhood for women ready to actively create more meaningful lives—together.

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What if the way we think about our weight started long before we ever chose to think about it at all?

And what if we're having the wrong types of conversations about GLP-1s?

Ashley Koff is a registered dietitian, weight health expert, and founder of the Better Nutrition Program. Her understanding of weight is deeply personal, too—and she's spent her career building the framework she wishes had existed for her.

In this conversation, Ashley unpacks the critical difference between weight loss and weight health, what GLP-1 and GIP hormones actually do in the body, and why optimizing your hormones matters whether or not you ever touch the medication.

But before any of that, she shares a story she kept to herself for decades—one that will resonate with anyone who has ever felt like their body was a problem that needed a solution.

What You Will Learn

• [00:10:00] Ashley's bully moment at age eight — and 40 years of carrying it
• [00:15:00] How disempowerment leads to risky behaviors — the research behind it
• [00:20:00] When Ashley's body started feeling like it was working against her
• [00:30:30] The bar, the stranger, and Ashley's life-changing rock bottom
• [00:36:30] What introduced her to GLP-1 hormones in 2004
• [00:49:30] What GLP-1 and GIP actually do — beyond blood sugar
• [00:53:30] Right order matters — digestion, hydration, and movement first
• [01:08:30] What "your best shot" actually means beyond the medication

Resources Mentioned

• Your Best Shot by Ashley Koff, RD
• Better Nutrition Program

Let’s Connect!

Ashley Koff

Instagram | LinkedIn

Chandler Stroud

Website | LinkedIn | Instagram

Happiness Academy is now Healing Heroines, a signature space for women who are ready to feel more grounded, more peaceful, and more aligned — inside and out.

Download a complimentary Healing Roadmap to discover our Past, Present, and Possible framework.

Want personalized guidance for your healing journey? Book a call with Chandler!

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Alayna Bellquist was bitten by a tick on a trail ride in San Diego. The ER doctor gave her two pills and sent her home.

What followed wasn't just a year in bed. It was a time when Alayna's life was abruptly halted, forcing her to reckon with everything that had come before it.

Alayna is a marine scientist, author, and speaker who spent two decades studying how ecosystems collapse and how they bounce back. Then her own body became the ecosystem in crisis. A chronic Lyme diagnosis forced her to stop racing, stop achieving, and start looking backward at a childhood that had quietly shaped her into someone who never asked for help and never took days off.

What she found on the other side wasn't just recovery. It was a completely different way of understanding what healing actually requires and how the words we use to describe our healing journey carry the most weight of all.

What You Will Learn

• [00:14:30] Alayna's life scheduled to the minute, always racing
• [00:18:00] What parentification explained about her patterns
• [00:28:00] Three years of symptoms she called "stress"
• [00:34:00] Hiding Lyme disease from her family for months
• [00:37:30] Calling on a psychic out of pure desperation
• [00:45:30] Addressing Alayna's true vulnerabilities, not the tick
• [00:56:00] Why Alayna says "cured," not "in remission" when mentioning her experience with Lyme disease
• [00:59:00] A simple perspective on what healing can actually look like

Resources Mentioned

• Resilient by Nature: A Memoir of Curing Chronic Lyme Disease by Alayna Bellquist
• Mia Magik - Alayna's Intuitive Advisor

Let’s Connect!

Alayna Bellquist

Website | Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook | YouTube

Chandler Stroud

Website | LinkedIn | Instagram

Happiness Academy is now Healing Heroines, a signature space for women who are ready to feel more grounded, more peaceful, and more aligned — inside and out.

Download a complimentary Healing Roadmap to discover our Past, Present, and Possible framework.

Want personalized guidance for your healing journey? Book a call with Chandler!

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Text message us questions, requests, or comments!