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Health coach turned podcaster, Chase interviews industry leaders in fitness nutrition and mindset. Messages to help you live a life EVER FORWARD.
Chase Chewning, MS, ACE CHC
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Relationships isn’t normally the first word that pops to mind when we talk about food. Today’s guest illustrates what it truly means to embody our relationship with food and defines “healthy eating” in terms that go way beyond calories, macros, and choosing so-called “good” foods.
When we’re in tune with what we’re eating, food allows us to connect to ourselves, to other people, and to the world on a visceral and emotional level.
Listen in as Kara Campbell shares how she came to embrace the connective power of food at an early age, just from sitting around the table with her family at dinner time every night. She explains how this evolved into the idea that dining with others and asking intentional questions leads to friends and strangers alike mirroring pieces of themselves back to one another through conversation.
She then unpacks the topic of intuitive eating and why most people fail to reconnect to their bodies and simply trust that they know what they need.
Kara then talks about how her upbringing within purity culture had a profoundly negative impact on her relationship with food and why women growing up in such an environment almost always have body image issues and destructive eating habits.
Finally, Kara touches on why our body is our wisest teacher and the surprising benefits beyond the physical that one experiences once they are able to repair their relationship with food.
Kara Elise Campbell is an embodiment coach who teaches women how to connect with their bodies and come back home to themselves.
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Key Highlights
Kara shares how, as far back as she can remember, she intuitively knew that food is connective, even as she personally struggled with her relationship with food for many years.
Do certain foods stimulate certain conversations? What is Kara’s approach to choosing foods for the dinner parties she hosts?
As the saying goes, “The body keeps the score.” Find out what it takes to be able to intuitively eat and choose foods not with your mind but with your own body by listening to the signals unique to you.
Having grown up in hardcore purity culture, Kara was taught that “the body is bad and sinful”. She explains how her unique upbringing impacted how she viewed food and chose what to eat.
Our body is our wisest teacher and if we feed it well, trusting that it knows what it needs, our life transforms in every possible way. Kara describes some of these benefits, including a few surprising ones.
Powerful Quotes by Kara Campbell
I love having good food; but, really, it’s about this idea of having people around the table or a cheese board or whatever it might be. What happens when we do that is we create the space for actual connection. We create the space to have the hard conversations and the good conversations—any conversation.
Food is our number one vehicle to connect to ourselves. How we eat is everything. How we eat and nourish our body speaks volumes about how we see ourselves and how we see the world.
Thanks to modern diet culture, we are told all day, every day that somebody else knows our body better than us. The truth is, no one can know your body better than you. No one can know what you need except for you. But we’re not taught that.
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What makes a good coach?
How do you know how to pick the right one? What if you view success differently when it comes to your personal health and fitness? Coaches Alyssa and Christy are both very good at what they do and how they help their clients reach their goals but how they go about doing so is drastically different. Does that make one right and one wrong?
In this episode, Chase mediates between the two online coaches using input from real, live human beings that are interested in coaching (some for a repeat experience) but have reservations about what will be expected of them, what the work will look like, and what goals are realistic based on their individual needs and unique backgrounds and lifestyles.
If you have ever wondered how to go about picking the right coach for your wellness goals then tune in and take notes!
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May 20, 2021
EFR 478: From Fitness Stage to Center Stage and How Mindset Can Both Help and Hinder You with Savannah Lynx
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Savannah Lynx reflects on how singing and performance had always been her calling. She hearkens back to her college days at Fordham, remembering that “without music as the centerpoint of my life, I really lost it. I wasn’t engaged in class. I wasn’t excited. I wasn’t working out. It was the keystone that put my life together and made me realize who I was and who I wanted to be.”
At the age of 21, she was inspired—to her parents’ disappointment—to put her college education on hold, fly from New York to L.A., and pursue her music career seriously. Along the way, her ever-present passion for fitness helped her win the coveted titles of Miss Las Vegas International Model Search and Miss Swimsuit USA International.
Listen in as Savannah dives deep into her mindset toward success in both her career and life as a whole. Aside from sharing what she loves about both listening to and making music, she also talks health, nutrition, and setting fitness goals not just for the sake of aesthetics, but for energy and longevity.
Savannah is a singer/songwriter and fitness model. In this conversation, she discusses how she successfully made the leap from the world of pageantry into music and entertainment.
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Key Highlights
Savannah shares how she made the transition from the fitness industry to the entertainment world.
Even as we recover from a global pandemic early on in 2021, new, collective fears have held people around the world hostage. Savannah gives her thoughts on this emerging culture of fear.
Can you be your biggest raving fan and your harshest critic at the same time?
Powerful Quotes by Savannah Lynx
With 30 days and a formula—it’s math—you can’t fail.
The first step that you take to get into the gym is harder than when you’re seeing a little bit of progress and you’re feeling like, “Wow, I can do this!” The first step just seems monumental.
I would rather be down at the bottom than be lukewarm.
Having intense notions that are competing with each other [in your head] balances you out, and I think you reach a better, more elevated spot.
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Welcome to your monthly relationship health episode with Chase and his wife, May! In this conversation, Chase and May open up about how they found ways to connect with people after moving to a new city, the difference between finding someone to pass the present time with versus your best friend for life (not that they both aren't beneficial to your life!), and how to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and remove your ego from the very start of any new relationship.
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The reason is that we are committed to making the highest quality, clean products that are free from problematic ingredients.
Our beef comes from 100% grass fed cows raised entirely on natural grass pastures by family farmers right here in the USA. As a result they are healthy and happy.
Dr. John Jaquish, PhD is the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book Weight Lifting Is A Waste Of Time, So Is Cardio, And There’s A Better Way To Have The Body You Want.
He is the inventor of X3, the most effective bone density-building medical technology, proven to develop muscle much faster than conventional weight lifting (claiming up to triple the gains you would see from working out at a traditional gym), all with the lowest risk of joint injury.
In addition to partnering with Tony Robbins and OsteoStrong, Dr. Jaquish has used his methods to train the world’s most elite athletes and associations such as the entire Miami Heat organization, various NFL and NBA players, as well as Olympians.
Listen in as Dr. Jaquish explains the advantages of applying variable resistance to “fatigue every range of motion, separately, in one set while maintaining limited blood flow” and how the X3 Bar lets you do just that for a fraction of the time you would spend in a gym. He also busts a number of fitness myths that would challenge the thinking of even the most seasoned athlete or gym-goer.
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Key Highlights
When did Dr. Jaquish realize that weight lifting is a waste of time?
Dr. Jaquish gives us a primer on the X3 Bar and how it can triple your gains.
At 44 years old, what are Dr. Jaquish’s plans for the training world in the future?
Powerful Quotes by Dr. John Jaquish
The two biggest challenges for keeping a human healthy and alive is 1) radiation poison and 2) bone density. [...] When you lose bone density, you really lose the ability to safely move.
High levels of strength and low levels of body fat are the two greatest drivers of long life, and that is uncontested.
There’s very little risk when you use the [X3 Bar] properly. It delivers incredible forces. It lets you go to a level of fatigue you can never, ever achieve with weights. That’s why the growth response is so powerful.
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May 13, 2021
EFR 475: Take Control of Your Breath, Take Control of Your Life with Niraj Naik
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Niraj Naik is a certified pharmacist turned holistic health and breathwork expert, professional musician, serial entrepreneur, and one of the world’s most sought-after spiritual ceremony facilitators.
He is the CEO of SOMA Breath, which offers a series of workshops featuring a complete holistic system of Pranayama Breathing techniques with training centers in Europe, the USA, and Asia.
Known as “The Renegade Pharmacist”, Niraj educates people about the alternatives to pharmaceutical drugs that are available like breathwork, brainwave entrainment, Ayurveda, and natural supplements and medicines.
Niraj shares how he got into breathwork “by accident” after being diagnosed with a chronic illness in 2010 called ulcerative colitis that left him unable to leave his own home for almost a year. Determined to heal, he discovered Pranayama (breath) and the simple, basic breathing techniques that led to instant physiological changes in his own body.
Listen in as Niraj explains how breathwork can “repattern the consciousness of the cells in your body” to distinguish stress and create a “thrive environment” within, bringing that reptilian part of your brain under your control.
Key Highlights
Breathwork is much more than meets the eye. Niraj explains why he has dedicated his life to it and the power that breathwork holds for all of us.
What exactly is going on when we shift from unconscious to conscious inhalation and exhalation? Niraj shows us the seemingly impossible by increasing his heart rate using breathwork alone.
How does alternating your breathing through each nostril create harmony in your nervous system?
Powerful Quotes by Niraj Naik
Something like an autoimmune condition is the result of your own immune cells attacking your healthy cells. You have to rewire your own innate intelligence. You have to reprogram the operating system of the unconscious mind, which deals with the immune system. There are different ways of doing that—through meditation and through breathing techniques to get into altered states. With breath itself, you can switch off the underlying fear response.
When you get back into balance and you change your mindset, you actually promote the growth of good bacteria and that improves your immune system and everything else.
Life is like a competition between two parts of the brain: the reptilian side and the conscious side.
If you don’t take conscious control over your breath, the reptilian wins and you’re going to breathe in a more stressed-out way or a more erratic way depending on your level of stress. Unless we find a way to consciously control that, you’re always going to be subjected to overbreathing, hyperventilation, and erratic breathing.
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May 12, 2021
EFR 474: Why Algae is the Perfect Food That Can Boost Your Energy, Immunity and Vitality with Catharine Arnston
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Listen in as Catharine Arnston gives a primer on algae as well as the difference between chlorella and spirulina and the massive health benefits of each. Catharine is the founder and CEO of ENERGYbits, an algae-based nutrition snack company catering to both athletes and everyday health-conscious individuals who are looking for plant-based whole foods to fuel their brain and body with maximum nutrition, minimal processing, and zero sugar.
She was driven to start the company after her sister was diagnosed with breast cancer and advised by her oncologist that an alkaline diet would help her heal. Catharine soon discovered the benefits of algae and, as it turns out, algae was the most alkaline, plant-based, nutrient-dense food in the world. (Her sister is also now cancer-free!)
Prior to founding ENERGYbits in 2009 (which initially spun out of her health coaching company, Bits of Health), Catharine was the founder and CEO of Hoteluxury Inc., an ecommerce solution for luxury hotels, and its sister company Hoteluxury Media.
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Key Highlights
Catharine goes in-depth into why algae is the most underappreciated superfood in the West.
Why is spirulina good for someone who is looking to improve their physical performance.
How does chlorella improve immune system health?
Catharine defines toxins, how they are produced, how they affect the body, and how to flush them out.
Catharine explains the benefits of chlorophyll and why she recommends blending it with red light therapy.
Powerful Quotes by Catharine Arnston
If anybody knows anything about algae, they think of it as pond scum or messing up your beach days, or cluttering up your swimming pool or aquarium. But I’m here to tell you that it’s the most super-powerful superfood in the universe. You just have to be sure that you’re consuming it from an agricultural source.
[Spirulina and chlorella] work together beautifully—spirulina giving you the energy throughout the day for your sport; chlorella pulling out toxins, building your wellness, helping with your detox and repair.
Because [both spirulina and chlorella] have such high chlorophyll, chlorophyll blended with red light therapy generates ATP at the mitochondrial level, which is stunning. Red light therapy is finally getting recognized not only for its ability to remove inflammation and improve muscular repair and recovery and skin repair, but also for the ATP boost you get when you blend it with algae.
The nutrients of spirulina and chlorella are virtually the same as mother’s breast milk which we know to be the perfect food. Because algae was given to us by Mother Nature and it was the first life on Earth, I consider it Earth’s breast milk.
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The quality of our interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships highly depends on knowing our true selves. Coming to terms with your real self is the first and the main prerequisite to improve the quality of your interaction in human society.
In this episode, Adrian Ellison guides us on a healing process journey through captivating our experiences, beliefs, concepts, ideologies, and philosophies. It is through deep self-study and research that we can shed off our past that no longer resonates with our desired future.
Adrian is a Self Healing and Relationships coach whose passion and purpose is to help people heal from the past and optimize their potential to help others achieve a new paradise. Carefully and eloquently, Adrian narrates her real-life experiences, such as dysfunctional love relationships, bullying, lying, death of her father, financial constraints and punishments, and how she overcame them all, entering a new chapter, loving herself, and seeing the positivity of every day in life.
Adrian will help you heal your past and come to the truth with your life--who you really are.
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Key Highlights
Adrian explains about the healing process_Shedding all things from the past and society nurture that you do not currently resonate with.
She puts emphasis on why knowing the truth about yourself is the key to improving and nurturing your personal relationship with others.
Adrian puts it clearly that the internal change of ideologies, beliefs, and concepts is the root that affects your external change.
Adrian narrates how she overcame grief and pain of her father’s death.
Powerful Quotes by Adrian Ellison
To get better with others, you need to first fix yourself
You better know who you are, and that is the difference between faith and belief.
The concept of right and wrong depends on your belief and integrity. Someone's right, maybe your wrong
Curiosity is the only way to get out of the shadows of your life.
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May 6, 2021
EFR 472: Repairing Food Relationships and Eating Disorder Recovery with Phoebe Davis
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Like most former overweight kids, Phoebe Davis was initially motivated to lose weight for the sake of looking better; but along the way in her fitness journey, Phoebe discovered her calling to combine her passion for health and wellness with her growing career as a social media marketer.
Her journey didn’t end after she successfully lost all that excess weight. Phoebe remembers how she became terrified of gaining back the fat that she had worked so hard to burn off. For some time, she suffered through self-imposed extreme diet restrictions that inevitably led to binging episodes.
She explains how she was able to change her unhealthy relationship with food, to stop obsessing over macros, and to embrace moderation and a lifestyle where she could allow herself to indulge in her favorite foods while maintaining her health and fitness.
Phoebe is a fitness influencer, the CMO at Ideal Physiques LLC, and the owner of Flexing Phoebs Marketing LLC.
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Key Highlights
Phoebe explains how she was able to change her unhealthy relationship with food after becoming terrified of regaining all the weight she had worked so hard to burn off.
How can you stay healthy and maintain your fitness while “enjoying life” with friends and family?
Phoebe shares how she learned to be more resilient as a model.
Phoebe talks about her role models and how she has applied their example to her own life.
Powerful Quotes by Phoebe Davis
The best part about this season of life is that it’s just a season. It’s not forever. I’m choosing to put myself through this because I have long-term goals. Remember your why. Stay close to that, and you’ll never have that scarcity mindset of, “I’ll never get to drink again. I’ll never get to have fun.”
For me, [fitness] is a form of worship because of how terrible my relationship with my body was when I was overweight. I’m so proud of the person I’ve become. I wouldn’t be here without having God as my rock. I get to feel sexy and feel beautiful and work with other people in this industry and get to creatively express myself—and I get to use my body for that? Thank you, God. That’s amazing!
I feel like I’ve always had a calling to serve other people, and the best way I know how is through storytelling.
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Barton Scott is a chemical engineer and nutritionist. In 2025, he founded Upgraded Formulas, a company offering a line of supplements “that are 100% bioavailable and are absorbed better by the body than any other brand on the market today.”
Our bodies, Barton claims, only “absorb about 25% or less” of most supplements on the market. This fact, he says, is less telling of what is and isn’t in most of today’s supplements and more of a reflection of how inefficient our bodies are at absorbing the nutrients in them.
In fact, this inefficiency is only going to get worse for many as certain trends of modern living continue to wreak havoc on their gut health. From bad diets to excess drinking to living stressful lives, a variety of factors that too many people today are familiar with contribute to gut dysfunction.
“Because of that,” continues Barton, “I knew that trying to heal the gut was not going to be enough.”
Listen in as Barton reflects on the personal experiences which would lead to the founding of Upgraded Formulas. He also shares some hard-to-swallow pills regarding mineral deficiency and what we all need to focus on to fill common nutrient gaps.
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Key Highlights
Barton shares why he used to feel that he was nutritionally lacking in spite of him living what he considered at the time to be a healthy and active lifestyle.
Which popular supplements are totally unnecessary to take?
Which nutrients should we be most focused on getting enough of, and in what quantities?
Powerful Quotes by Barton Scott
When you take a normal supplement, you absorb about 25% or less of that supplement and that’s because our bodies are not perfectly efficient and they’re not going to be. In fact, with the world as polluted as it is, [our bodies’ ability to absorb nutrients is] probably going to get worse and worse.
The world right now is a thousand times more toxic than at any other time in recorded history.
If a woman who is iodine deficient gives birth to a child, that child will have, on average, an IQ that is 20 points lower than their mother’s.
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Samantha Wallace is a health and fitness coach who first broke into the industry as a competitor in the NPC bikini division at the age of 19. For a few years following her first show, she had a successful amateur career that saw her winning two overall titles in the bikini division with six first place finishes.
Her literal life-altering turning point came in the middle of her bodybuilding career when she was hospitalized and underwent an emergency appendectomy, uterine bowl separation, and removal of endometrial tissue with a diagnosis of endometriosis. She survived by a miracle, and was inspired to serve as a guide to others who, just like herself, lived with chronic health issues.
After her harrowing experience, Sam became a certified personal trainer, corrective rehabilitation specialist, and nutrition certified with ISSA and is currently expanding her certifications and knowledge with NASM and Precision Nutrition Level 1.
Today, Sam specializes in helping men and women transform their lifestyles through the Sam Wallace Fit Method, a hybrid training model that focuses on meeting you where you are at right now, allowing you to seamlessly integrate fitness into your life and honor yourself daily through movement and mindfulness.
Listen in as Samantha shares how she has been able to develop a health and fitness brand based on authenticity, explaining how the power of organic marketing allows coaches to attract clients without having to “sell” them on their services.
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Key Highlights
Sam talks about her past struggles with “toxic positivity”.
How do you find people (clients and team members) that you love to work with through organic marketing?
The best coaches strive to build an authentic relationship with their clients without falling into the trap of becoming a friend-for-hire. Sam shares the keys to becoming a better coach today.
Sam reflects on how a brush with death led her to dedicate her life to health and fitness.
Powerful Quotes by Samantha Wallace
When you run your own business, it’s very easy to get thrown into work, work, work and you don’t really stop to smell the roses and really take in what’s happening.
A lot of people cling onto motivation as their driving factor. Motivation is never linear with our goals; it’s an emotional response to the things that we want and need to do.
When you stop searching for those ideas of what you think your friendships or relationships are supposed to be like, the best ones fall into your lap because you’re authentically attracting the people that you’re meant to be around. You’re a product of your environment. If you’re putting off toxic energy, you’re going to attract toxic people.
The best way to help your clientele grow is by challenging them to think and challenging yourself to think.
People don’t care about workout videos. People don’t care about nutrition tips. The person who wants to work with you doesn’t engage with your posts. They don’t comment on your stuff. They’re hidden and watching in the back.
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Apr 29, 2021
EFR 469: Biohack Your Brain: How to Boost Cognitive Health, Performance & Power with Dr. Kristen Willeumier, PhD
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Dr. Kristen Willeumier is a neuroscientist with research expertise in neurobiology and neuroimaging. As an independent researcher, she is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Tate Technology, LLC, a Los Angeles-based sports safety and technology licensing company, and serves as a Scientific Advisor to the Addiction Medicine Institute in Newport Beach, CA, and the Bangkok Dusit Medical Services Wellness Clinic Center for Neuroscience in Bangkok, Thailand.
Dr. Willeumier is a leading advocate for brain health and wellness and has been featured on top media outlets across the U.S., from shows such as Good Morning America and Coast-to-Coast radio, to magazines like PopSugar and Psychology Today.
Her research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals including The Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, Translational Psychiatry, The Journal of Neuroscience, and The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. She is the author of the new book Biohack Your Brain: How to Boost Cognitive Health, Performance & Power.
Listen in as Dr. Willeumier shares tangible things that we can do every day to take care of our brain health as well as common signs and symptoms of brain-related issues.
She also explains how adhering to the Mediterranean or DASH diet not only helps people lose weight, but can reverse brain age by four-and-a-half years.
Finally, she talks about what everybody can do today to strengthen the three biggest pillars of brain health: exercise, hydration, and sleep quality.
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Key Highlights
Dr. Willeumier shares how a study on what happens to the brain of a professional football player on the field led to her writing Biohack Your Brain.
What are some signs and symptoms of a brain that isn’t functioning as well as it should be?
How big a part does nutrition play in brain health?
Why is sleep so important for our brain health?
What are the best supplements and other factors to consider for improved brain health?
Powerful Quotes by Dr. Kristen Willeumier
The three biggest ways that we can modulate our brain health is through exercise, the foods that we eat, and hydration.
If you did nothing but just work out every day, you’re already helping to support your long-term brain health because you’re supporting your vasculature. By supporting your vasculature, you’re bringing oxygen and nutrients to the brain, clearing waste from the brain, and growing brain volume.
What I’ve learned in the clinical setting is that good choices, practiced daily, can reap extraordinary rewards.
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