“Bring back traditional forgotten superfoods into my diet so that we can all live a life that we’re proud of and that we’re inspired by and that we feel capable of doing everything we’ve ever wanted to do.”
Autumn Smith
EFR 386: Reversing Chronic Disease, Reducing Inflammation and Improving Skin Health Through Whole Food Nutrition and Supplementation with Autumn Smith
Join your host Chase Chewning as he interviews Autumn Smith, Co-Founder of Paleovalley and Wild Pastures, wellness enthusiast and mom. Here she will touch on her journey to overcoming acne as well as debilitating digestive and mental health issues with using food as medicine.
In this episode, Chase delves deep into Autumn’s evolving journey. They discuss mind/ body relationships, checking-in on yourself, overcoming obstacles and most importantly, setting and honoring your own boundaries daily. Stay tuned to learn Autumn’s secret to owning your body and how that enables you to own your life. A key system that you and everyone around you can benefit from.
“I learned about kind of finding the root cause and with time, I’m happier than I’ve ever been. That like calm and peaceful girl I remember when I was a really small girl. She came back and so I became like kind of very very passionate about helping people figure out how to not just be fit, but to also be well….‘health is coming back to the self’ and I think in my definition of wellness, that’s essential”
Key timestamps
[0:0 ] Autumn introduction: key talking points for episode
[0:35] Ad. Break- recommended Paleovalley products & savings
[1:25 ] EverForward Radio introduction
[2:00] Intro to topic: audience self-reflection questions: pause & reflect
[3:10] Autumn Smith’s summarized Story by Chase
[4:41] Chase’s Paleovalley daily staples
[6:33] Autumn Interview begins
[7:04] Autumn 2020 adjustments- child schooling
[8:26] Community, tribe shift
[10:48] Time blocking hacks
[12:08] Honoring your personal time
[13:06] Breaking traditional expectations for women
[15:00] Biggest Secret: Sunday Swap
[16:07] Autumn’s wellness model beginning- present
[18:57] Intuition and body connection
[19:33] Finding Identity inside and out
[24:15] How to recognize intuition and act accordingly
[29:16] L-theanine
[30:55] Where Paleovalley came from
[32:37] Red meat affect
[34:44] What makes Paleovalley different?
[36:00] Climate change with foods consumed
[37:45] Paleovalley Immune-health products
[37:47] Apple cider vinegar complex
[41:01] Turmeric
[42:38] Immune C complex
[44:13] Camu camu
[47:50] The organ complex
[51:35] Where you can go to learn more about Autumn Smith and Paleovalley: sister company- Wild Pastures meat delivery service
[52:36] How Autumn Smith lives a life EverForward
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Internal, External Relationships with Autumn Smith
Do you want to feel well inside and out? Are you having a difficult time developing a mind and body relationship but don’t know where you should begin? Finding the balance in life is hard enough as it is due to societal normalities and expectations for varying genders in a busy world. It often leaves us overly stimulated and feeling rundown. When it comes to health and wellness, we owe it to ourselves to honor our needs and establish a lifestyle that supports them.
In this episode, Autumn Smith shares her personal battles and triumphs to finding the balance she implements in her life daily, today. She discusses the importance of foods we consume and how internal health connects our minds and bodies to be able to live our lives to the absolute fullest. Tune into the interview with her on EverForward radio to discover valuable insights about owning your life.
Three Value Bombs: Why You Should Listen to the Full Episode
Autumn gives her secrets on how she time blocks, honors personal time and implements eating more well-rounded foods. She also explains why she does it all.
Paleovalley emphasizes quality over profit and stays true to that. It is in fact everything the name stands for. They also have a sister company, Wild Pastures, a meat delivery service. Key links, websites and discount codes featured throughout the episode.
Explains thoroughly what goes into her products, where she finds them and why they are so pure in form.
Episode resources:
Connect with Autumn on Instagram @autumnfladmosmith & @paleovalley
Connect with Chase on Instagram @chase_chewning & @everforwardradio
Episode Highlights
Autumn’s Routine
Autumn time blocks.
So in the morning she wakes up, it is her and her son Maverick until her husband gets up. They usually have an hour where she’s completely mindful and present with him to do whatever he wants. She just lets him take the lead each day during that time. Makes her feel good as a mom and allows her to transition into her work environment afterwards without any residual personal life worries.
The teacher for Maverick then comes to the house and she had a solid six hours of work time ahead.
When Autumn’s work is done, she goes right back into family mode which is then followed by a little time for herself at the end of the day
Autumn likes to take that end of the day time to simply relax in her sauna she has downstairs in her home
This same day is repeated daily
Overall, Autumn’s time blocking is summed as six hours of professional focus, at least two hours with her son, at least a half an hour with herself and an hour at the end of the day with her husband or whatever friends they might want to bring into the situation that day. She of course ensures she implements some sort of exercise in there as well.
Insights on Life
Time block and honor yourself by sticking to it
Establish an intuition and act accordingly from it
Investing in you, your health and wellness results in an overall internal, external relationship. Not only in how you look and feel but the people surrounding you as well.
Why Autumn Smith Developed Paleovalley
Autumn suffered acute digestive issues since she was young
Years of numerous experts had failed time and time again to identify and resolve the ongoing issue
Autumn’s husband, Chas, did research that resulted in his stumble across the paleo diet
Together, the Smith’s implemented the paleo diet to trial it’s methods and landed on HUGE results. Autumn’s IBS was completely resolved.
This inspired her to quit her job as a personal trainer at the Tracy Anderson Method, and earned her degree in holistic nutrition.
Realizing that many foods currently on the market were not truly as healthy as they claim to be, they and Chas’ brother, Matthew, launched Paleovalley.
“Everything you eat and every added ingredient is an opportunity to either detract from your health or improve it.” Autumn chose to improve it within herself and is now determined to encourage and help others to do it too.
Being The Brand, Staying True To It And Why It Matters
Autumn was a traveling health and fitness entrepreneur and is currently a wellness enthusiast, a super mom and Co Founder of Paleovalley and wild pastures; a company that emphasizes “eating well and living vibrantly with nutrient-rich, organic Superfoods and dense paleo products.”
Her mission is to “create products that live up to her own strict standards and always prioritize health over profit. Paleovalley creates products with integrity that are free from problematic ingredients and teeming with ingredients that promote vibrant health.”
Autumn strives to inspire people to “view every dietary choice for what it really is: a profound opportunity to love and care for oneself.”
“Paleovalley products are a labor of love, and her only hope is that she help your family feel as vibrant as hers.”
What inspired this? Autumn suffered acute digestive issues since she was young. Numerous experts failed time and time again and it took Autumn’s husband, Chas’, research to finally stumble across the paleo diet. They then, together, implemented the paleo diet to trial it’s methods and landed on HUGE results. Autumn’s IBS was completely resolved. This inspired her so much that she quit her job as a personal trainer at the Tracy Anderson Method, and earned her degree in holistic nutrition. Realizing that many foods currently on the market were not truly as healthy as they claim to be, they and Chas’ brother Matthew launched Paleovalley.
“Everything you eat and every added ingredient is an opportunity to either detract from your health or improve it.” Prior to this acknowledgement, Autumn has to trial and error varying lifestyles. But with this discovery Autumn was able to finally choose to improve it externally and within herself. Now that very journey and impact is the driving fuel that keeps her determined to encourage and help others to do it too.
The Problem with Today’s Dynamic
Societal expectations and normalities implement a heavy standard that conflicts with our ability to establish a sense of identity. Identity is the very source of being able to have an intuition that we can, individually, can trust enough to act accordingly.
Mass production food companies press quantity over quality and prioritize profit over the well-being of the people consuming their products.
Traditional gender roles, if not redefined early on or actively demonstrated for the youth, places a false sense of what “should be”. Ultimately robbing women or men from the potential to honor themselves with time that’s necessary for their health, wellness, grounding, regrouping, decompressing, etc.
Advice for Listeners
Exercise is the gateway for developing the urge to learn more about yourself. It propels you into the next phase of wellness, diet. Diet then opens the door to mindset: how to change, control and exercise it. Try challenging yourself to trying a new, structured approach to life, the odds are, you’ll come across positive outcomes in more ways than one
Do your research, learn yourself and your body's needs. Actively get tests done to know what exactly you need nutritionally. Supplements, vitamins will vary depending on deficiencies and non-deficiencies. Under consumption is equally harmful as overconsumption
Budget out your time to achieve overall wellness and balance in each day
Autumn's Vision for the food industry
Mission is to help people reclaim vibrant health by providing products that “prioritize nutrient density in an industry that prioritizes everything else.” Paleovalley’s belief is “that every dietary choice and every added ingredient is a powerful opportunity to love and care for oneself.”
Paleovalley aims to set a tone that leaves all hands involved feeling morally at peace by creating products that live up to their own strict standards. Ultimately setting them apart in the food production market for they prioritize health over profit. Their products are made with “integrity that are free from problematic ingredients and teeming with ingredients that promote vibrant health.”
Overall, all hands involved in Paleovalley genuinely strive to develop a platform where products provided to consumers are a result of a labor of care and more than anything, love. Thus pushing the notion to “help other families feel as vibrant as theirs.”
How Autumn Lives Ever Forward
Autumn used to be someone trying to perfect and be something someone else wanted her to be. No she lives a life EverForward by focusing inward. Strictly comparing herself to who she was the day before and actively revising her actions for the days to come. She exercises the art of shielding from distraction to live a life that provides internal and external value.
5 Powerful Quotes from This Episode
“Bring back traditional forgotten superfoods into my diet so that we can all live a life that we’re proud of and that we’re inspired by and that we feel capable of doing everything we’ve ever wanted to do.”
“I learned about kind of finding the root cause and with time, I’m happier than I’ve ever been. That like calm and peaceful girl I remember when I was a really small girl. She came back and so I became like kind of very very passionate about helping people figure out how to not just be fit, but to also be well….‘health is coming back to the self’ and I think in my definition of wellness, that’s essential”
“Women feel selfish for taking care of themselves but they have to. We have to, I’m such a better, calmer, more peaceful and mindful mom when I’m actually just like taking care of myself too AND we want, we want to raise our children to believe that that’s okay and that that’s actually essential for us too…”
“Food is medicine. I just don’t think that we can replicate food and the benefits… nature provided us these foods that are really nutrient dense, like organ meats, they’re actually the most nutrient dense foods in the world, gram for gram, highest natural source of vitamin B12 and vitamin A and just the full range of B vitamins. And so I had to get them into my diet.”
“My product was that, I can't stomach organs and so we put them into capsules so everyone can have all of these forgotten superfoods in a way that like- fit in with the pallet of, you know, Americans today.”
More About the Guest:
Autumn is a former travel health and fitness entrepreneur and currently a wellness enthusiast, mom and Co Founder of Paleovalley and wild pastures. Paleovalley emphasizes “eating well and living vibrantly with nutrient-rich, organic Superfoods and dense paleo products,” inspired by her own digestive struggles.
To see more of her content and products, visit Paleovalley Website .
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