Jillian Kenney has taken on a number of roles: a Division I cross country runner, an Ocean Rescue lifeguard, a firefighter paramedic for a decade, a national champion rower, a fitness instructor, mother and wife. Underneath every one of those roles is lies a dedication to show up fully.

In this episode, Jillian and I get into what it actually means to teach and not perform, why she can't stand instructors who film themselves mid-class, and what it took to build a life where ambition and family both get to matter. Jillian shares the fear she's faced head-on, from flipping a boat in eight-foot surf before a national championship to stepping into a role that stretched her far past her comfort zone, and why she believes most of the fear we carry is really just ego in disguise.

We also talk about the real difference between working out and training, why yoga isn't a lesser practice just because it isn't about pushing the hardest or fastest, and why the deposits you make into your body today are the ones you'll be withdrawing from decades from now.

This episode is about strength in every sense of the word and the quiet, stubborn resilience that comes from knowing exactly who you're doing it all for.

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Michelle Galoob is an intuitive guide, but she didn’t come to that title easily. For most of her life, she thought her intuitive gifts were simply her very own thoughts. It took a rock bottom moment, a string of synchronicities and a brave leap to make her realize she was meant to fully step into her role as an intuitive guide.

In this episode, Michelle and I talk about what intuition actually is: not a mystical gift reserved for a chosen few but a language everyone already speaks. We get into how she finally learned to trust the downloads she was receiving instead of second-guessing them into silence, why surrender isn’t the same as giving up, and why so many of us stay stuck at the train station waiting for the “right” train instead of just getting on one. Michelle shares what it means to write a personal mission statement instead of chasing a personal brand, how she’s teaching her own kids to trust their inner voices before looking outward, and why every hard, disorienting season of her life turned out to be preparation instead of punishment.

This conversation is not about predicting the future. It’s about learning to hear what you already know, and having the courage to move on those knowings imperfectly and often before you feel ready.

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At any given time, our bodies and our gut instincts are communicating to us through sensations and subtle signals. Most of us, however, have never been taught how to listen. This episode is about what it takes to learn that skill, to get quiet enough with ourselves to willingly participate in that self-conversation. Acupuncture is a modality that reinforces the quiet stillness and that skill-building.

Nicole Lotterman is an acupuncture physician and Chinese medicine practitioner. She is also MY acupuncturist. Her path started with years of being dismissed by Western medicine, being offered suppression instead of understanding, until something in her insisted there was another way. What she found wasn’t just a new treatment. It was an entirely different relationship with her own body, one built on paying attention instead of waiting for a crisis to force the issue.

In this episode, we get into what acupuncture and Chinese medicine actually offer women beyond pain relief: a framework for reading the body’s patterns before they become emergencies, a practice that forces you to sit still enough to hear what you’ve been avoiding, and a philosophy built on getting the basics right first. Nicole talks about why she believes proactive care and noticing what your body is telling you before it’s screaming are some of the most powerful things a woman can do for her own health.

This episode isn’t only about acupuncture. It’s about trust, the kind you build with yourself, one quiet moment at a time, until you finally know how to hear what has been resonating within all along.

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Dr. Leah Roberts is a reproductive endocrinologist and the medical director at Boca Fertility. She has also lived within the exact uncertainty she helps women walk through in her role as a fertility doctor: a difficult pregnancy with her son, a diagnosis that made carrying again unsafe and navigation of the path through IVF to have her daughter.

In this episode, we get into what facing fertility challenges really means, why your tracking menstrual cycle is a vital sign most of us were never taught to take note of, and why AMH (the number everyone's chasing) is more nuanced than the internet makes it seem. Dr. Roberts breaks down the difference between IUI and IVF, why egg and sperm freezing timelines matter more than people realize, and why waiting for a fertility appointment to feel "necessary enough" often costs people time they didn't need to lose.

We also talk about what it's like to sit on both sides of the exam table: the loss of control she felt as a patient and why she believes the answer for women is to advocate for themselves.

This episode is about fertility and proactivity, why facing the hard questions early is so much easier than facing them in crisis and why learning to understand your own body is vital to a women's health.

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Holly Bertone spent 13 years as chief of staff for FBI counterintelligence until this work began to affect her health profoundly. In the years that followed, she realized that the exact skills she'd used to track patterns and spot threats in her role at the FBI were the missing piece to gain an understanding of something much more personal: her own relationship with food.

In this episode, we get into what emotional eating actually is, why it's not a willpower or calorie problem but a nervous system one, and why trying to fix a fast, automatic, emotional response with logic and meal plans rarely works. Holly breaks down her framework for spotting the patterns, interrupting them, and eventually shifting them into an identity where the healthy choice stops requiring a fight at all.

We talk about the shame that keeps this struggle hidden, why naming a pattern is the first real act of power over it, and the mantra that's carried Holly through putting herself out there publicly: every insult is a confession, and it says more about the person saying it than it does about you.

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Sara Starkoff Green is the wellness consultant at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health at FAU College of Medicine; the founder of Greenhouse Wellness; and the host of her own podcast, The Menopause Playbook. Her professional path traces back to one visceral moment: the birth of her second daughter, when she realized her mind and body could work in genuine partnership if she gave them the tools to do so.

In this episode, Sara and I get into what it actually means to build a mind-body connection, why she believes discernment is a skill that has to be practiced, not just possessed, and why the real answer to elevated cortisol usually is not a supplement. I’s learning to regulate your nervous system.

We also talk about grace. About unlearning the belief that busyness is a badge of honor. About what it means to stop performing your life for whoever’s watching and start listening to your body’s whispers before they become something louder. Sarah’s approach to wellness is about simply building the internal tools to know what’s actually true for you, season by season.

This conversation is a masterclass in nervous system regulation, neuroplasticity, and why consistency compounds quietly.

Find Sarah: Instagram @greenhousewellnessco · Podcast: The Menopause Playbook · Website: Greenhouse Wellness Consulting

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Dr. Sophie Lanter is a doctor of nurse practitioner, the founder of Soluna Aesthetics, and someone who built a practice around a belief most people never say out loud: that how you look and how you feel are not separate conversations. They’re the same one.

In this episode, Sophie and I get into what actually happens to the face as we age and why she believes real results come from understanding that process, not chasing whatever’s trending on Instagram. We talk about her own evolving relationship with her appearance, from a muscular teenage athlete who felt “bulky” next to her peers to a practitioner who’s tried nearly every treatment in her own chair and still leads with intuition over noise. She’s candid about the burnout that came from years of two-a-day workouts and three hours of sleep, and what it actually took to learn that grace and consistency aren’t opposites.

We also talk about what separates a good provider from a transactional one, why referring out is a sign of strength, not weakness, and why she believes finding the right person for anything starts with learning to trust your own gut.

This one is about aesthetics, yes. But underneath it, it’s about permission: to care how you look without apology, and to build a life and a practice with the same patience you’d give any other form of growth.

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Ed Williams has been a strength and nutrition coach for 24 years and he started his own strength training journey, fittingly, in the middle of his own collapse. In high school, he blew out his knee, which ended his athletic recruiting dreams and sent him into a depression that only strength training could pull him out of. That's the thread running through everything he does now: strength being one of the most powerful tools we have for showing people what they're actually capable of, especially women.

In this episode, Ed Williams and I get into the real difference between working out and training, why most people stop 8-10 reps short of true failure without realizing it, and why body composition (not just weight loss) is the goal that actually changes how your body looks and feels. We talk candidly about the fear so many women carry around getting “bulky,” why the scale lies more than photos do, the uncomfortable-but-necessary conversations coaches have to have (yes, including bowel movements), and where peptides genuinely fit in (and where people misuse them as a shortcut instead of an add-on to the fundamentals).
But underneath all of it is Ed’s real thesis: transformation isn’t about the after photo. It’s about who you become in the process: someone who no longer sees herself as fragile, because she’s proven to herself what her own body and mind can do.

As Ed puts it: GET STRONG. Everything else follows from there.

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