Add Heart Podcast

Guest: Ken Honda With the cost of everyday living stretching budgets, it’s understandable how money stress and worry can be hard to escape. While we may not be able to control our financial situation, we can change the way we relate to the stress surrounding money and improve our financial health. In this episode of the Add Heart Podcast, host Dr. Deborah Rozman talks with bestselling author and “Happy Money” expert Ken Honda about the emotions, beliefs, and early experiences that quietly shape our money mindset — and what we can do to transform our financial well-being, especially when worry takes over. Ken explains how the “money blueprint” we begin developing in childhood can influence how we earn, spend, save, and think about what’s financially possible. He also shares why financial well-being involves more than money IQ. It takes money EQ — understanding the emotions and patterns we carry around money. Rather than suggesting we simply stop worrying, Ken offers a different way to work with money stress: becoming more conscious of where we place our attention, practicing appreciation for what we do have, and staying open to possibilities we may not see when worry dominates our thinking. He talks about how the power of appreciation draws more that you can appreciate to you, like how money in a savings account appreciates in value. Ken and Deborah also explore following the heart and intuition in your approach to money, and ikigai — finding the gifts, purpose, and work that can bring greater meaning and new possibilities to your life. When financial pressures are real, changing your money mindset won’t necessarily make them disappear. But changing your relationship with money stress may lighten the load or show you new options. Deborah wraps up the conversation with a guided heart meditation to help amplify our appreciation for what we have and bring our heart and brain into physiological coherence to find more ease with any stressful or challenging situation. About our guest: Ken Honda is a global bestselling author who has sold over 9 million copies of books worldwide since 2001. With more than 120 books published, Ken's work has been translated into over 32 languages, including the popular Happy Money and True Wealth. Known as the “Money Healer” and “Zen Millionaire” in Japan, Ken semi-retired at the early age of 29 to raise his daughter. During that time, he received a vision of becoming an author to share his unique views about success and happiness. His work helps to bridge money and purpose, inviting people to heal their relationship with money, manifest meaningful abundance, and use their gifts in alignment with their life purpose.

In this episode of the Add Heart Podcast, join me as I delve into the transformative connection between the heart and our urges, impulses, and cravings with expert Brad Jensen. After overcoming a decade-long battle with addiction, Brad discovered the power of HeartMath techniques, which helped him not only achieve sobriety but also support over a thousand clients in their journeys toward personal transformation. We explore how heart-focused breathing and coherence can effectively manage stress and enhance emotional regulation, ultimately improving decision-making and performance. Tune in to learn practical strategies for cultivating a heart-centered approach that can empower you to navigate life's challenges with resilience and clarity.

Guest: Michelle Papanicolaou Title: The background noise of stress: Small daily shifts that restore calm, energy, and resilience If you’re often tired, overwhelmed, or feel like you’re running on empty — even when nothing seems “wrong” — you may be experiencing what health coach Michelle Papanicolaou calls the hidden background noise of stress. As a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach and Functional Medicine Coach at Dr. Mark Hyman’s UltraWellness Center, Michelle has helped countless people uncover the connection between chronic low-level stress, nervous system dysregulation, and symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, poor sleep, irritability, and burnout. In this insightful conversation with Dr. Deborah Rozman, Michelle shares why so many of us overlook the subtle ways stress accumulates in our bodies. Michelle explains why building resilience isn’t about pushing harder — it’s about learning how to recover more quickly. You’ll also hear the simple approach to stress recovery that Michelle teaches clients, and why just a few minutes of heart-focused breathing has made a measurable difference. She shares how small daily heart-based practices have helped her patients feel calmer, clearer, and more energized. If you’ve ever felt like you’ve “tried everything” but still struggle to quiet your mind or reset your nervous system, this episode offers practical insights you can begin using today. Deborah ends the episode with a heart-focused meditation to help regulate and reset your system. About our guest: Michelle Papanicolaou is a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach and Functional Medicine Coach at the UltraWellness Center, where she helps clients address the root causes of stress and chronic health challenges through evidence-informed lifestyle change. With a background as a marriage and family therapist, she holds a Master of Social Work from Temple University and a Master of Arts in Religion from Westminster Seminary. Michelle combines functional medicine and positive psychology to help people build sustainable habits that improve resilience, restore energy, and support lasting physical and emotional well-being. To learn more about The UltraWellness Center, please visit: https://www.ultrawellnesscenter.com/

Guest: Estelle Bingham Many of us are moving through life with a subterranean emotional overload — we’re functioning, coping, and pushing forward, but not really feeling connected to ourselves or others. What if the missing piece isn’t more mind trying to figure it out, but a deeper return to the wisdom of the heart? In this episode of the Add Heart Podcast, therapist, author, and “Heart Whisperer” Estelle Bingham joins Dr. Deborah Rozman for a conversation on emotional healing, heart intelligence, nervous system regulation, and the inner clarity that can emerge when we reconnect with our deeper heart. Estelle has more than 20 years of experience helping people move through trauma, stress, and emotional blocks. She shares her discovery of why the heart holds a kind of intelligence that the mind alone can’t access. She also offers a powerful understanding of why people’s hearts need to come together — now more than ever — as a collective response to the challenging times we’re all living in. Together, Estelle and Deborah explore what it means to live with more heart coherence, self-awareness, and intuition to release the overload and regain our emotional freedom in a world that often leaves us overstimulated or disconnected. The episode closes with a guided Heart Lock-In® meditation designed to support calm, balance, and a deeper sense of connection. About our guest: Estelle Bingham, known as “The Heart Whisperer,” is the host of the leading podcast Love Purpose Connection and an internationally renowned holistic therapist and healer. For over two decades, she has dedicated her life to guiding others through profound journeys of healing and empowerment, helping them embody their true joy and potential. Her recent book, Manifest Your True Essence: Clear Your Blocks, Find Your Joy, Live Your Truth, is a practical guide offering heartfelt guidance to support building a daily practice that aligns the reader with their True Essence — where joy, potential, and the power to co-create reality reside.

Guest: Valerie Orsoni What if optimizing your health isn’t just about tracking more data, but understanding how your nervous system, thoughts, and emotions are impacting each other in ways you might not realize? In this podcast episode, biohacker, adventurer, and wellness pioneer Valerie Orsoni joins host Dr. Deborah Rozman to explore the evolving world of biohacking—from performance, energy, and recovery to the often-overlooked role of mental, emotional, and physiological balance. Valerie Orsoni has defied the odds—healing from serious illness, scaling mountains, diving deep into the ocean, and inspiring others to realize their own capacity for health and transformation. She shares insights from her global work in health and wellness, along with personal experiences that challenged her assumptions about what fuels sustained changes in health and wellness. As the conversation unfolds, they dive into how stress, emotions, and heart rhythm patterns influence the body in ways many traditional biohacking approaches miss. Valerie reflects on powerful group experiences where collective intention and heart-focused practices created a tangible shift in energy—something both measurable and deeply felt. This episode offers a fresh perspective on optimizing your health—one that blends science, self-awareness, and a more intuitive understanding of the body. Whether you’re deeply into biohacking or simply looking for more energy and less stress, you’ll walk away with insights you can actually use. The episode closes with a guided heart-focused meditation to help get our heart and brain in sync and power up our personal coherence. About our guest: Valerie Orsoni is a globally recognized biohacking expert, longevity specialist, and bestselling author of 56 books. Her latest, Eat WRONG & Live BETTER, launches in the USA on April 10. Based in San Francisco, she is the founder of ValBiohacker.com, biohacker.fr, and LeBootCamp.fit, and a sought-after international conference speaker. A Hall of Fame inductee at the University of Hartford, Valerie translates cutting-edge science into actionable longevity protocols—backed by her own measurable biomarker transformations, including telomere lengthening and improved epigenetic pace of aging. An extreme athlete who has skied toward the South Pole and summited 44 peaks over 14,000 feet—20 of them in just 9 days—she embodies the philosophy she teaches. Valerie bridges the worlds of performance, precision health, and everyday wellness for a global bilingual audience.