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Today the Be A Smart Woman podcast welcomes a very special guest in part 2 of our series on fermented foods. Her name is Meg Chamberlain and she is the founder of Fermenti Foods. We will be talking in more detail about how fermented foods can help you. The many gifts that consuming this wonderful food group can bring into your life.

This episode will be packed full of great information so you might want to get a pen and paper for this one. Highlighting and discussing all the in's and our's of fermented foods. Why you should consider including such a dynamic health food into your daily diet, how to do this in a balanced way. Especially if you are a new-be at this.

We will talk about lots of recipe ideas and share some great tips on how to get your young children excited about eating these wonderful foods.

We will be answering questions on this today in away you may have never heard it explained before. By the time we finish our 2 part series you are going to be looking at these little powerhouses of foods in a totally different light.

We also discuss in more detail how eating fermented foods and fasting intermittently supported Meg in loosing over 200 pounds,

Please keep in mind that we are sharing personal stories, we are not doctors nor do we play one here on the internet so make sure you check with your doctor for any health concerns you might have and weather using fermented foods would be beneficial for your health and well-being

After the show we would love to invite you to join us with Meg in our Private online forum for further conversations around these podcasts.

To learn more about Meg and her wonderful company Fermenti foods you can visit her web sit at

www.fermenti.biz and

www.wncfermentingfestival.com

Facebook, instagram, twitter @ fermentifoods

and on their free YouTube Channel Fermenti Mountain

Quotes:

There are four things that you really want to have, you want to touch on in regards to fermented food and consumption. The first one is when you go to incorporate these realistically into your everyday diet, again, diversity is key. Obviously picking a ferment that you are going to want to consume is very important. I know a lot of people will buy something because it's good for them, but then they don't eat it and that's not good for them...(04:10 to 04:50)

You can even use the brine from ferments as like a salad dressing. So then that's another application is probiotic rich salad dressings. You just replace the vinegar with the brine. That's probiotic rich. (09:44 to 09:56)

One of the things that I find so fascinating specifically at markets at my booth is kids will come up and they will want to try something. And more often than not, a parent will come up and be like, "Oh, you don't like that. You don't want that." (25:22 to 25:41)

Yeah. It's like even animals, like dogs will come to my booth and I always have a little dog dish where I put some sauerkraut. (26:46 to 26:52)
 

Links mentioned in todays show:

www.fermenti.biz

uncfermentingfestival.com

www.beasmartwoman.com

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To learn more about Claire Faithful and the Be a Smart Woman movement visit us at: http://www.beasmartwoman.com

Or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter

Also listen to this podcast on: iTunes, Spotify. Utube and at BeASmartWoman.com

FULL TRANSCRIPT:

Claire F.: (00:00) Welcome to the Be A Smart Woman podcast. Everyone has their own story to tell and you never know what impact your story might have on someone else's life. This is the foundation of the Be A Smart Woman movement. Our movement seeks to empower women through the sharing of their journeys with other women. Sometimes we don't even realize the lessons that our stories hold until we share them with others. I am Claire Faithfull, founder of Be A Smart Woman, and it is my hope and dream that this podcast will illuminate personal lessons for you the way listening to other women's stories has inspired me for years. We are so glad you are here. Let's enjoy this journey together.

Claire F.: (00:52) We are here today for round two of our fermented foods discussion with Meg Chamberlain, owner of Fermented Foods. You'll definitely want to grab pen and paper for this one as it's packed full of information. We'll be discussing the best ways to add these fabulous foods into your diet. A little hint, it is different than you might expect. Listen in. First we talk recipe ideas and share some great tips for getting even your pickiest eaters to love them. Meg talks about her personal journey of losing nearly 200 pounds by healing her gut with ferments and intermittent fasting. Please keep in mind that we are sharing personal stories. We are not doctors nor do we play one here on the internet, so make sure you check with your doctor for any health concerns you might have. After the show, we'd love to invite you to join us with Meg in our private online forum for further conversations around this podcast. You can find the link of our website or simply do a Facebook search for Be A Smart Woman online community.

Claire F.: (02:28) Wow, everyone. Welcome back to our fabulous show. I am so excited that we are going to be doing a part two with the wonderful Meg Chamberlain because I feel like we just touched the surface, and I was so excited about our first podcast. I felt like I just had to pull her right back in. And let's get some more questions answered, and let's understand on a deeper level because I got such amazing response from you guys and you all were asking about more and understanding more. So here we are. We have the wonderful Meg Chamberlain.

Claire F.: (03:06) Hey Meg. Welcome to our show again. I am super excited that you're here because after our first podcast together, I just felt that there were... I felt like we just touched the surface and there were so many questions that I had and I feel like even this one is just going to be a bit more of that because there's so much I'm realizing to gut health and to our general wellbeing and where fermented food plays a role in that. So I guess my question to you would be on another level or a slightly deeper level, what is it that we need to know about fermented foods? How can we add this into our diet? Are there simple techniques we can add fermented foods into our diet? Now in the last podcast we talked about where we could buy different fermented foods and the types, but I just wondered if you could talk a little bit more about that.

Meg Chamberlain: (04:09) Yes, actually there's, and thank you for having me. It's a pleasure. There are four things that you really want to have, you want to touch on in regards to fermented food and consumption. The first one is when you go to incorporate these realistically into your everyday diet, again, diversity is key. Obviously picking a ferment that you are going to want to consume is very important. I know a lot of people will buy something because it's good for them, but then they don't eat it and that's not good for them because they're...

Claire F.: (04:51) Yeah, that's me. I go, oh, I'm going to try that. And then I taste one little one at home and I go, yeah, no. And then I don't do it.

Meg Chamberlain: (04:57) And you're in very good company. There's lots of us that do that, myself included sometimes. So the first of the four things that I recommend when you are looking at adapting your diet with fermented foods is you want to double your servings of fermented foods to start. So in the first podcast we talked about the initial four to six weeks and how as when you start to consume them regularly, the soluble fiber takes the lactic bacteria down into your large and small intestines, and they will attach themselves to the impactions. Like if you have leaky gut or ulcerative colitis or Crohn's, it will attach to the impactions. And layer by layer, the soluble fiber is really the vehicle that helps remove those impactions from you

Today the Be A Smart Woman podcast welcomes a very special guest her name is Meg Chamberlain and she is the founder of Fermenti Foods.We will be highlighting and discussing all the in's and our's of fermented foods. Why you should consider including such a dynamic health food into your daily diet, how to do this in a balanced way. Especially if you are a new-be at this.

We will be answering questions on this today in away you may have never heard it explained before. By the time we finish our 2 part series you are going to be looking at these little powerhouses of foods in a totally different light.

 

we are going to learn wow to use these foods to clean up our gut, We will be sharing a beginners guide on baby stepping your way into fermented foods and what to expect when you do. I thin you will be surprised.

We will also discuss how Meg went from 345 pounds to the svelt woman we see in front of us today.

To learn more about Meg and her wonderful company Fermenti foods you can visit her web sit at

www.fermenti.biz and

www.wncfermentingfestival.com

Facebook, instagram, twitter @ fermentifoods

and on their free YouTube Channel Fermenti Mountain

Quotes:

I've also found that the microbiome within our gut is highly effected by lots of things throughout our lives. Like even the way we were born, whether through cesarean or the birth canal (20:25 to

Well, and then on top of that, with every 16 ounces of living probiotic, there's a recent study that was done, probiotic rich fermented food, you are getting more lactic acid bacteria and variety than if you were to consume nine bottles of store-bought probiotics. (27:36 to 28:00)

Well, we're finding out new data every day about the particulars of exactly what's happening, but basically what's happening is the soluble fiber is coming in and lactic bacteria needs the soluble fiber. Like as Americans in particular, we don't have a lot of dietary fiber in our daily intake and this is causing our overall microbiome to get less and less and less diverse. (10:19 to 10:49)


 

Links mentioned in todays show

www.fermenti.biz

uncfermentingfestival.com

www.beasmartwoman.com

 

 

Connect with Us

To learn more about Claire Faithful and the Be a Smart Woman movement visit us at: http://www.beasmartwoman.com

Or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter

Also listen to this podcast on: iTunes, Spotify. Utube and at BeASmartWoman.com

 

SHOW TRANSCRIPT:

Claire F: (00:00)
Welcome to the Be A Smart Woman podcast. Everyone has their own story to tell and you never know what impact your story might have on someone else's life. This is the foundation of the Be A Smart Woman movement. Our movement seeks to empower women through the sharing of their journeys with other women. Sometimes we don't even realize the lessons that our stories hold until we share them with others. I am Claire faithful, founder of Be A Smart Woman and it is my hope and dream that this podcast will illuminate personal lessons for you the way listening to other women's stories has inspired me to give. We are so glad you are here. Let's enjoy this journey together.

Claire F: (01:02)
Today we have a special guest on our show and we are highlighting fermented foods. I know, trust me, if you're anything like me or rather how I was before learning this amazing information that we share with you here today, just the sound of that might make you feel a little hesitant. I mean after all, we are basically consciously controlling rot. So why is this considered such a dynamic health food? Why should we be eating it as part of our daily diets? And most importantly, how can we learn to love it? We're going to answer those questions here for you today in a way you may have never heard it explained before. I know, I was shocked, but it makes so much sense and I promise you, you are going to look at these little powerhouses of foods in a totally different light when we are done.

Claire F: (02:05)
In fact, the information shared here today was flowing so incredibly that we divided this up into a two part series. Today, in part one, you're going to learn how to use them to clean up your gut. We're sharing a beginner's guide on baby stepping your way into fermented foods and what to expect when you do. I think you'll be surprised. Our guest today, Meg Chamberlain, co owner of Fermenti Foods. She runs this family business with her husband. Their story of how they came to love fermented foods is hilarious. She actually thought he was going to poison himself, but instead the health and their entire lives were changed for the better. Meg went from 345 pounds to this incredibly healthy woman we see here today. And she is here to help change the way the world see this incredible tool in taking back your health as well. Without further ado, I'd love to introduce you to Meg Chamberlain.

Claire F: (03:31)
Meg, it's so great to have you on our show today. How are you?

Meg Chamberlain: (03:36)
Thank you for having me. It's an honor. I'm very excited to be here and to share my love of fermentation with you and your audience.

Claire F: (03:43)
Yeah, and I'm wondering, you know, if you could share with with our audience today about like what led you into getting involved with fermented foods and creating your company called Fermenti. I mean it's sounds like a very interesting story.

Meg Chamberlain: (03:59)
Well, the story goes back to 2008 2009 my husband and I were professionals in Washington DC and we ended up just quitting our jobs and coming here to the mountains of North Carolina and we discovered a love of homesteading. Somehow we made it out to Bolivar, Missouri and we ended up investing in 20 acres that was completely off the grid. We grew 70% of our own food.

Claire F: (04:34)
Wow.

Meg Chamberlain: (04:35)
And we traded and bartered for the rest with the local Amish community. And about a year into it, my friend Amos helped my husband get introduced. And so one day I was in the kitchen and it was just a 24 foot cabin that my husband had built with hand tools. And I was in the kitchen on the camp stove canning. And I had done like maybe 34 quarts of tomatoes and basil that year or that day. And I'm hot and I'm sweaty and I'm overwhelmed. And he comes in with a couple of cabbages and a bag and an old hand shredder. And he had the biggest grin on his face. And he was like, "Well, Oh I, you know Amos just showed me .. I'm going to make sauerkraut." And I'm like, "You're going to get out of my kitchen because I'm hot and I'm done." Like I'm not doing any more projects today.

Claire F: (05:32)
And I'm not making sauerkraut.

Meg Chamberlain: (05:33)
No, that was not going to happen. So I ended up finishing what I was doing and he took over and I went up to the loft to like cool down and rest for the evening. And for a couple hours I heard him

Today, the Be A Smart Woman podcast welcomes back Belinda Jane Robinson for the second part of a two-part interview. Today, Belinda talks more in more depth about each jewel featured in her book The Seven Jewels of Life: what they represent in our life, from the color, country, food, emotions, and how practically these jewels will take you on a journey of self-discovery towards inner confidence and empowerment, in order to reach your unique destiny.

Belinda discusses the seven steps of understanding behind the Seven Jewels of Life. She walks you through each jewel and shows how they work and how they can be used in your life.

1. Step one is determining what the seven jewels represent for you. Each of the seven jewels represents seven primary areas of our life. The idea behind the Seven Jewels of Life is that we should polish each of these seven jewels in order to light up our diamond within. Additionally, for every jewel, there's a day of the week, a color, and a continent celebrated (2:38).
2. Step two is all about letting the jewels help you get clarity and direction in your life (4:33). To help bring clarity and direction, Belinda talks how making dream sheets for each jewel helped her get visual clarity for each jewel.
3. Step three is to become aware of your thinking and recognizing your thoughts are like magnets. What you're thinking and fearing, you'll tend to bring in more in of that they of stuff. To overcome this, one must understand that you not what is in your thoughts, and start to generate thoughts about what you do want to think about (14:15).
4. Step four is about understanding the gap between what you want and your lived experience. Here is where you examine what is happing when your thoughts don't match your dream (21:23).
5. Step five is what to do when negative thoughts stop your thoughts from matching your dream. The answer is to write. Belinda created a formula for this step called SBS, which stands for stop the thoughts, breathe to claim yourself and step into your own diamond field. (23:48)
6. Step six is all about choice. This step is where everyone can decide for themselves whether to stay out in the storm a bit longer or go inside to your diamond field. Step six is knowing we all have the ability to change perspective. (31:50)
7. Step seven is where Belinda created Diamond Day. (37:26) The Diamond Day puts all aspects of the Seven Jewels of Life together is a time table that makes it all accessible at a glance.

To Learn more about Belinda and her book The Seven Jewels of Life, visit her website at http://www.sevenjewelsoflife.com

**Quotes: **

Belinda on how our repeated thoughts become beliefs and can block us from achieving our dreams:

"So we all come into this world with a beautiful little diamond shining, and innocent and full of joy, but along the way life happens, we have good and bad experiences, and they become beliefs. We collect beliefs that get stored in our subconscious mind, and these beliefs can get stuck… and they become the lenses through which we see out in our world.” (12:70)

Belinda on how making dream sheets for each jewel made the ideas more visual and spurred inspired action:

“What you're doing every day by thinking of the jewels, you're thinking of, how they make me feel, you're continually thinking, you want to feel good, because you know it's the feeling good that will fuel your inspired actions. (38:36)

Links Mentioned in Todays Show:

The Seven Jewels of Life by Belinda Jane Robinson

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To learn more about Claire Faithful and the Be a Smart Woman movement visit us at: http://www.beasmartwoman.com

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Also listen to this podcast on: iTunes, Spotify, and at BeASmartWoman.com

Do you have a Millennial in your life that you'd love to better understand? Whether it is a personal acquaintance, a coworker, your company's employees or maybe even your own child, this podcast sheds light on bridging such gaps. Alison Sher, author of The Millennial's Guide to Changing the World, is an expert on the subject of millennials and the challenges they face. Today, in the second part of our two-part series, Alison shares the in depth research and life experiences that led her to write her fantastic book. She describes what it is like to be a millennial in the world where older generations think they are floundering and only living up to a small fraction of their full potential.

Today on the show, we have a message of passion and commitment. We'll be talking about following your dreams and the importance of never giving up on them. I'd like to welcome Brittanny Craig who is, indeed, a very smart woman. She is a powerhouse of a woman and has some very valuable wisdom to share with us. She is an Aveda Color Pure Professional hair designer. We are going to be discussing the evolution of her career, how she got started and where she is today.

Hey Brittanny, welcome to the show today.

Thank you.

I'm really, really excited to have Brittanny on the show because Brittanny is my hairdresser, and she is the best hairdresser absolutely ever. But Brittanny's going to be talking to us today about her journey from where she started out after she finished school and going into her career and having children and then into this fabulous career as an Aveda Color Pure professional. So, Brittanny, just ... Can you give us a little insight into, basically, how did you even become a hairdresser? Where did that ... How did that happen for you?

Well, actually, my mother was a hairstylist for 35 years. And my childhood toys were mannequin heads and perm rods and cones and brushes and all that good stuff. And I piddled around with it all through high school, and it never crossed my mind that I would become a hairstylist. It just was something that was in our house and we did. I actually was going to go to school to become an interpreter for the deaf and-

Oh, wow.

Yeah. Yeah. I did sign language all through high school and actually interpreted it for a girl my senior year in high school and was going to go to school and then I had to drop out of college because my mom was having some health issues. And I put that to the side., then an opportunity came up for me to go to cosmetology school, and I said, "Well, I know it, so why not?" and that's where it started.

So, you just ... It was just kind of like ... So, in other words, life led you, and through circumstance, to start?

Right, right. Yeah. It just happened, and it was something that I knew that I felt comfortable with and I said, "Okay. I can probably do really well at this," and it wasn't an overreaching, overstretching, overstressed situation that I was already kind of in, so it was a way for me to engage myself, better myself in a way that was more feasible than going away to a four-year college because my mom, at the time, needed me to be there [crosstalk 00:04:04]-

So, you had to make some clear decisions at a very young age about what was going to be best for you and your family?

Yes.

That's awesome. So, once you went into ... So, you went to school and you became a hairdresser and now, I know you have four beautiful children, so can you explain a little bit to us, like did you work when your children were young? How long did you work for? Can you explain a little bit of that to us?

So, I started when ... Actually, I had my oldest child the year I graduated from cosmetology. So, I started-

Oh, my God.

Right? So, I graduated from cosmetology school, I was super, super blessed to have my mom be in the same city that I was in, and she was so gracious to help me with watching Madison, and then as more children came along, she was able to help me. So, by the time I had my third child, she was getting ready to move, and I was still doing hair part-time, but the childcare issues come about. Then when I got pregnant with my fourth child, I decided to take time off and stayed home for five years with all the kids until everybody started back into school.

I want us to be clear. So, you basically went to cosmetology school, had a few children-

Just a few.

And while you had the few children, you worked, you worked part-time, so you-

I worked full-time.

Oh, you worked full-time-

I worked full-time-

And your mom took care of the kids?

And my mom helped take care of the kids. So, I worked full-time for five years and then worked part-time for about a year and a half, two years, and then decided to stay home, but if any other hairstylist would be listening to this, they know that you can never get rid of all of your clients if you stay home. They say, "I will come to your kitchen and you can cut my hair," and I did do a little bit of that while I was saying at home, and it was great. It helped to have a little bit of money on the side and everything. But it was important for me to stay home. I had four children from the age of five to newborn and so it was just important for me to be able to stay home. And my mom not being available to watch to watch the kids for me and if anyone knows how much childcare costs, it was unrealistic for me to work and have childcare for three children that were still at home and my oldest being in kindergarten.

Wow, that's amazing. Did you enjoy that time that you had with your kids when you were a stay at home mom?

Oh, absolutely. I loved it. Loved every minute of it. It's kind of a genetic disposition for our family to be creative. That's just where things that are, my husband's very creative. The kids were very creative, you know, growing up, I let them do basically everything with me from cooking to cleaning. We were together all the time, you know, and it was really good for them. They knew how to express themselves, but yet, you know, going and doing and being out in. I never stopped doing any in particular thing because they were with me, you know, we would go to church on a regular basis all the time.

Or if I had shopping to do, or if we had an outing to go to or people just knew that if you got me, you got four kids too.

Oh, I love that.

So, it was so great to be able to stay home with them and to be able to, I don't want to say educate them, but it was educating them because it was always such a surprise to me when my kids started school. I remember my oldest child's kindergarten teacher and she always commented about how, you know, oh she already knows her abcs or she knows the colors or she knows this or that or the other. I think, you know, any parent, you try to set your child up for success. But it was just interaction, you know, that we were constantly interacting with me or with, you know ... My kids love to cook.

That's one thing that that I think is that they see as special, you know, from the time that they were really, really tiny. You know, I actually made them their own little oven mitts and they had oven mitts that went up to their elbows and little aprons and they would be in the kitchen with me and they love to bake. My son until he was about 10 or 11 years old would still, if I took cookies out of the oven and he didn't have the opportunity to do it, he would be mad at me. Like mom, What are you doing? That's my job kind of thing. Yeah.

That's adorable.

So it's just really fine to have the time with them and then them seeing how life worked, you know?

And the reason, I guess I'm asking you this, because I think a lot of women struggle with this in the modern world, especially career women that then want to have families. And you hear all this controversy of how women should have children and then stay at home and be dedicated parents until they've left home, you know, like at 18 or whatever. And then there's all the bits in between. Then there's the women that have children and they work all the time. And I like the way it seems that you've done it. It's like you were there for your kids when they were little, but then once they all went to school, then you went back into your career, which is another piece of the conversation that we're having, but I just wanted to see what your perspective was for that with women, where there's that guilt feeling that we have when we're mothers and then we go back to work. You have any sort of like wisdom to share with us about that?

Well, I think it's very different for every single person and and I want to preface this with that I don't think anyone should feel judged about what your choice is and what choices you make. For me, it was very easy for me to work when my kids were very little, especially with my first three because my mom was there and I have the best mom in the world. She's amazing and she was so gracious to help me with that and for me to be able to still have my career and be a mom and at the same time. But then it became ... She wasn't there anymore and I needed to have some sort of support and you know, I feel like that women need to not feel like you have to do it all on your own. You don't have to be the supermom.

Yeah, right. I know because there's this fine line, you see women like pulling their hair out and they have kids and their careers and then you know, like the fried women.

They're fried and they feel like the supermom is their kid is dressed to the nines everywhere they go. They never have a spot of dirt on them. Their hair is always nice. If it's a girl, she's got a nice big pink bow in her hair and you know, they're just super well behaved and that's just not the case. You know, kids are going to be kids. That's what they do. You know, they don't know how to interact sometimes in a situation and they don't know that they shouldn't say something when you know you're in public.

I mean, my kids were the kids that, and I have three girls and one boy, and they were the rough and tough Tom boys. You know, when they were little, they were all the ones that wanted to go out in the yard and roll in mud. My third daughter would do anything in a dress. She wanted to have a dress on the entire time. It didn't matter what time of year it was. It didn't matter what she was doing. She'd go play in a mud puddle and she was going to do it in a dress.

I love that.

Today, the Be A Smart Woman podcast welcomes Victoria Johnson. Victoria is a former special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Assistant United States Attorney who completely changed her career path and is now a shaman, teacher, writer, and oriental medicine practitioner. Victoria will share what led her to choose a completely different career path and discuss why it's so important for us women to follow our dreams and how the divine feminine in each of us, can help lead the way back to life.

Besides her fantastic work as a shaman and oriental medicine practitioner, Victoria leads workshops and groups to support you in healing your heart and following your true soul path in life.

Victoria shares that her work in the predominantly masculine world of law and law enforcement lead her to become unbalanced and seek another path. (4:19) She also shares how this path of self-discovery led her to rediscover the divine feminine in herself. (06:26)

Victoria discusses the need for women to unplug and take time for themselves to just be. (8:31) It is in that time where one can begin to balance the masculine and feminine parts of themselves. (15:54). Victoria also talks about why it’s so important to honor the mother earth and be the best steward of the planet and not just see it as a commodity. (18:28). Finally, Victoria shares one piece of advice she wants all women to hear. (31:02)

To Learn more about Victoria or schedule an appointment with her, visit her website at https://condorjourney.com

**Quotes: **

Victoria speaks about the divine feminine

“I realized this divine feminine is an aspect that we all have. A lot of times we subjugate her. Men have this. Women have this. And we put her away because of the pace of our lives, because of our work, because of our family duties. And when she comes out, she comes from such place of her own individual heart. A person's own individual heart. But also the world heart.” (06:24)

Victoria on how important taking time

“When we are in that place of relaxing into the feminine, when we can do that, we create peace inside of ourselves. And that peace can flow from us out into the world. (16:27)

Victoria on why women supporting other women is so important:

“…for one woman to acknowledge another woman's beauty, and power, and gift in the world is tremendously healing for everyone in that interaction.” (23:38)

Victoria on one piece of advice for women:

“Really believe in yourself. Take time to nurture yourself and to nurture your dreams while you're nurturing everyone else.” (31:02)

Links Mentioned in Todays Show:

Women Who Run With the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés (02:51)

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To learn more about Claire Faithful and the Be a Smart Woman movement visit us at: http://www.beasmartwoman.com

Or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter

Also listen to this podcast on: iTunes, Spotify, and at BeASmartWoman.com

Today, the Be A Smart Woman podcast welcomes Adora Winquist. Adora’s work
focuses around the divine feminine, and being able to support a woman's transformational process, and ultimately elevation and excavation into her highest potential. Today, she will discuss alchemy, and your soul work is your sole work.

Adora is a transformative healer, and inspired teacher, and expert Aromatherapist. Her up and coming book will focus on healing the whole body one system at a time. She is the founder of Adoratherapy, an all organic vegan fragrance company, Mood Boost, a line of expertly blended essential oils formulated to transform your mood in the moment by setting your intention through breath and the powerful connection scent creates with your limbic system and is the co-founder of Zenergy Medicinals.

Traditionally, alchemy means the transmutation of metals, turning base metal into gold. However, true alchemy is actually the journey of the spiritual seeker. It's about us being able to take the opportunity to be still, to truly know thyself. (03:46) Adora discusses childhood mapping and the ability to use it determine patterns that have roots in our childhood that affect our relationships and overall happiness today. (8:43)

Adora also talks about through personal process work, we all can get to a tipping point where we're able to not only recognize or life purpose but actualize it, to be able to ground it and create life, bring life to it. (20:46) Finally, Adora discusses how belief systems that are passed down through generations can imprint and then become part of our day-to-day living. (25:39)

To Learn more about Adora and her work visit her website at https://adorawinquist.com.

**Quotes: **

Adora on what it takes to actually become the alchemy:

…”Being able to look at the places of our physical health, our emotional health, and psychic health. To be able to see, where do I need to apply the practices or tools or hacks if you will, of self love and transformation..” (04:40)

Adora talks about what life’s journey means to her:

“I really believe that this life offers a journey until our very last breaths. And that journey is one of awakening and continuing to elevate ourselves.” (15:39)

Adora talks about following your sole purpose and life goals:

“When we are truly following our sole purpose, we move into a place of ease, grace, of effortless flow.” (21:42)

Links Mentioned in Todays Show:

• Adoratherapy
• Mood Boost

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Today, the Be A Smart Woman podcast welcomes Belinda Jane Robinson for the first part of a two-part interview where she shares her journey around the world that led her to inspire, empower and reignite the true brilliance of so many souls using the tools and gifts she shares in her book, The Seven Jewels of Life.

Besides her amazing book, Belinda is a former registered nurse and entrepreneur in the UK. She now has an international podcast recorded at the Shed Studio in the Cotswolds area of the United Kingdom.

Belinda discusses how receiving a little wooden treasure box containing seven glass jewels as a gift from her mother when she was sent to England for boarding school changed her life (06:15). Belinda then tells us how, in one of the darkest moments of her life, nearly 30 years later that little wooden treasure box containing seven glass jewels became the inspiration to reignite herself and inspire her book. (08:58) She then explains how the act of polishing the seven glass jewels represents looking at the areas in your life that are important to you, and by paying attention to those areas of your life, you're polishing your own diamond within yourself. (22:40)

To Learn more about Belinda, visit her website at http://www.sevenjewelsoflife.com

**Quotes: **

A favorite quote of Belinda Jane Robinson said by Hafiz of Shiraz

"I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being." (02:27)

Belinda on how she began to use her jewels to reignite her life:

“The jewels came to represent areas of my life that I felt at that time I needed to get into balance (14:38)

Belinda on how listening is key:

“…to light your diamond up, you have to listen. And we've all got completely different messages from all of it, because we're all unique.” (25:55)

Links Mentioned in Todays Show:

The Seven Jewels of Life by Belinda Jane Robinson

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Today, the “Be A Smart Woman” podcast welcomes Lynne Buchanan. Lynne is a nationally recognized environmentalist and fine arts photographer. Lynne shares with us what led her to follow her heart and go from stay-at-home mom of three to a photographer of water issues in the United States and around the world. Lynne is excited to share where this journey has led her today. Lynne is also an artist, writer, and educator and has a beautiful book that has just been released called: Florida's Changing Waters: A Pristine World in Peril. Her book, a collection of photographs and essays, showcase the beauty, diversity, and complexity of Florida’s waters, while also documenting the negative effects of pollution, population growth, development, and climate change on Florida’s inland and coastal waters and springs.

Lynne shares how an interest in yoga led her to become interested in water. She then describes how she rediscovered herself by traveling across the country photographing water issues after going through a divorce and the last of her children leaving for college. (4:28) Lynne also explains why water became such an interest for her and how she has discovered a mission to protect water sources. (5:45)

Lynne discusses her thoughts on how women have a unique perspective on the world’s problems and what unique qualities they often bring to the table. (10:04) Lynne then shares what led her to create her new book. (13:10) Lynne also talks about waterkeepers and why they are so important to keeping our water clean. (14:10)

Lynne then moves on to talk about her trip to Antarctica and why she went there. (16:16) Lynne also gives women tips on how they can make small changes to their daily life to help the climate and specifically our planet’s water. (20:52)

Finally, Lynne shares how her children think about her new mission and thoughts on what we can do to help the planet keep clean water. (25:12)

To Learn more about Lynne visit her website at www.lynnebuchanan.com, follow Lynne on Instagram @lynnebuchananphotography

**Quotes: **

Lynne on how she believes being a mother shaped her views on the world

> “As a mother with children, you have several children if you have more than one and they have all these different wants and needs and desires. They're going to come in conflict and you love them all. You're trying to figure out, how can I help make peace here? You can take that same thing out into the world.” (12:15)

Lynne on a message given to her by Betty Osceola of the Panther Clan of the Miccosukee that still gives her chills

"When one person cares, there is hope." (26:38)

Links Mentioned in Todays Show:

• Florida's Changing Waters: A Pristine World in Peril
• Clearwater on the Hudson River (14:19)
• Waterkeeper Alliance (14:37)

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Today, the Be A Smart Woman podcast welcomes renowned author Alison Sher. Alison is an expert on the subject of millennials and the challenges they face. This is the subject of her fantastic book: Millennial's Guide to Changing the World. Today, in the first part of a two-part series, Alison shares what led her to write this book, what it is like to be a millennial in the world where older generations think they are floundering and only living up to a small fraction of their full potential.

In addition to her amazing book, Alison runs Millennials Incorporated. Millennials Incorporated does cross generational reconciliation work inside of organizations helping bridge the generational gap that leads to millennials turnover and helps organizations transform corporate culture. Alison offers cost sensitive, custom tailored organizational strategies to transform company cultures in a way that is proven to help increase retaining millennial employees.

Alison shares her thoughts on the millennial generation from her study of numerous perspectives within the generation uncovered by the interviews she conducted as a foundation for her book (2:45). Alison also discusses the impact of coming of age within the great recession, climate change, and income polarity has shaped the values of the millennial generation. (6:47)

Alison discusses how she believes we can break away from the victim mindset that is so prevalent in society, especially in the millennial generation (13:42). Alison then talks about the challenges of misinformation and biases that todays digital world faces and how millennials deal with these and other systemic issues in their emerging adulthood. (16:48)

Alison spends the remained of her time discussing the issues that is caused by the generational gap inside businesses and how the millennial generation is changing how businesses get done. (22:18)

To Learn more about Alison and her work visit her website at http://www.millennials-incorporated.com.

Quotes:

Alison on what the millennial generation really wants:

“What I know about this generation is where we want to go is we want to change the world because we're inheriting a lot of global crises and our systems need urgent changing in order for us to mitigate [their] impact…” (04:46)

Alison on frustrations other generations often see with millennials:

“My experience with working with baby boomers and working with people who do care about the future of this earth and do feel some kind of responsibility for the legacy they're leaving the coming generations is we're like, "I want to empower millennials with the resources that I have, but I can't even get them to pick up the damn phone and give me a call back.” (08:23)

Alison on why she included so many perspectives in her research for the book:

“[The] reason why I made sure to include all these different perspectives inside of the book [is] because empathy, I believe is how we start to come together and really understanding other people's perspectives and stop turning them into the enemy or the other.” (13:43)

Alison on why the millennial generation is changing so many businesses and causing so many businesses to go bankrupt:

“They are not places where we want to work, so what we're finding is that this evolution of business has to happen for these companies to stay alive because millennials are not, we're not drinking the Kool-aid.” (23:01)

Alison on emotions and the millennial generation come together:

“Millennials just aren't able to compartmentalize their emotions the way other gene ... We come with them. You're going to have to acknowledge that aspect of our psyche if you want to earn our loyalty." (26:52)

Links Mentioned in Todays Show:

The Millennial's Guide to Changing the World: A New Generation's Handbook to Being Yourself and Living with Purpose by Alison Lea Sher

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