The Balanced Babes Podcast

We are recapping and wrapping up season 1 of the Balanced Babes Podcast and sharing what you can expect for future seasons!

Alina Brown is the CEO of WellnessCon, an annual outdoor wellness conference dedicated to promoting diversity in the wellness space while fostering community for wellness lovers, wellness influencers, and conscious companies. She is also a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner who spends most of her days creating video content for her Wellness YouTube channel called 'Alina Alive,' where she helps her 21,000+ subscribers take practical steps to deepen their wellness journeys. Alina truly believes that just as nature works synergistically to foster diverse rainforests and deep sea life, we as humans can best thrive and achieve optimal health synergistically through working together.

What We Cover:

• Alina's background and how she got into making YouTube videos
• What WellnessCon is how it came about
• Why community is so important when it comes to health & wellness
• How to create community
• Diversity in the health & wellness space

Show Notes:

In this episode, we break down the 4 phases of the cycle and give 3 tips for nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle for each phase. Cycle syncing is the practice of “syncing” your life with the phases of your menstrual cycle. Your hormones fluctuate according to a predictable pattern throughout your cycle, affecting so much-- nutrient needs, hunger, energy, strength, recovery, mood, creativity, and more. Learning about these different phases of your cycle and how to optimize your hormone health can completely transform your life. 

What We Cover:

• What cycle syncing is 
• Why cycle syncing is beneficial 
• Menstrual phase what's happening & tips
• Follicular phase what's happening & tips
• Ovulatory phase what's happening & tips
• Luteal phase what's happening & tips
• How to implement cycle syncing

Show Notes:

Kristin's path to nutrition education, fitness and food blogging started back in 2009, when she started CrossFit. Soon after, she learned about Paleo and eventually took the steps to becoming a Certified Nutritional therapy Practitioner, CrossFit Level 2 Coach, BirthFIT Coach, and Check Holistic Lifestyle Coach. Kristin's focus was first and foremost, nutrition, primarily in the Paleo approach. Most of her coaching was done online, with distance clients or small groups, and almost exclusively with women who felt like they had tried everything but still weren't feeling the way they wanted to. It's evolved since then. At the end of the day, here is what Kristin believes: Health is not a struggle. Your body is not the enemy. Living a life that prioritizes health, is not mutually exclusive with living one that you enjoy. Most importantly - dogma - of any kind, is the killer of a 'balanced' life.

What We Cover:

• The issue with dogma around diets & health
• How to ditch dogma
• Just because it works for someone, doesn't mean it's right for you
• What it means to "live in the gray"
• What a balanced life really looks like
• How to live a life that prioritizes health AND brings you joy
• Why your body is not the enemy

Show Notes:

In this episode, we discuss Kim's postpartum journey along with the importance of the 4th trimester. We believe the 4th trimester is such a sacred and important time and hope that sharing Kim's experience along with some things that can help will support those going through it in the future. 

We hope you enjoy!

What We Cover:

• Why the 4th trimester is so important 
• Kim's postpartum journey
• What to expect when you get home from the hospital 
• Physical changes postpartum
• Mental changes postpartum
• Breastfeeding tips and struggles
• Friends, family, relationship changes 
• Tips for preparing your mind and body for the postpartum journey

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