Small Changes Big Shifts With Dr. Michelle Robin

How can something as simple as nutrition, especially fiber, have a positive impact on your health? Joining Dr. Michelle Robin on the Small Changes Big Shifts podcast is the Founding Director of the Culinary Medicine non-profit in the UK, host of The Doctor’s Kitchen Podcast, and author of both The Doctor’s Kitchen and his latest, Eat To Beat Illness, Dr. Rupy Aujla. Dr. Rupy Aujla is a medical doctor specialized in General Practice who is a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle changes to heal and prevent illness. In this episode, he shares his mission of helping others live healthy, enjoyable new lifestyles through deliciously accessible food. As you listen to Dr. Michelle and Dr. Rupy’s conversation, you will learn about: How he suffered from atrial fibrillation for years and the moment he decided to change his lifestyle and diet before fully committing to an operation. How nutrition and The Doctor’s Kitchen became a passion of his after personally witnessing the medicinal effects of eating wel

Be the change you wish to see in the world - Gandhi We are all facing our own battles. You might never know what the people in your life including the stranger next to you or even your best friend are going through until they open up and share their story. Today, I am joined by Lyndsey Fennelly as she shares her own story and mission with us. Lyndsey Fennelly is a sports enthusiast, entrepreneur, and former Iowa State women’s basketball player. She is the co-owner of CampusCycle and serves as a color analyst for the ISU women’s basketball team. Lyndsey is married to ISU women’s basketball assistant coach, Billy Fennelly, and they have two children. Lyndsey is a motivational speaker who can tailor events to meet each individual company's needs. Join Dr. Michelle Robin and Lyndsey as they discuss: Lyndsey’s own mental health journey and mission to end the stigma about disorders. How she’s used social media to start to share her story. Her condition, Bipolar 1, and what mental health challenges she faces. How

What impact can changing your environment have on your life? Well, for our guest today,  Fitness Coach and Life Changer, Rickie “Rude” Hodges, it saved his. At the age of 22, he was sentenced to 87 months in prison and before that experience he never had much of an interest in exercise or eating healthy but then he became completely engulfed with this new love for fitness and wellness. While in prison, he lost over 100 pounds, tried new diets including vegan, and earned his first personal trainer certificate in 2003. When he came home in 2007, he launched his fitness career followed by his bodybuilding career in 2010. After many years of successfully running his own independent personal training business, RickRude Productions, and successfully coaching many physique competitors, he decided to go back to school in 2018 to pursue his passion for culinary arts.  With the life mission to help change lives, he honors that purpose and responsibility. He believes that in giving energy to the universe, he will receiv

You can’t heal what you don’t reveal. How is the universe holding you today? That is the question our guest this week, Rev. Cynthia Alice Anderson, asks herself every single morning when she wakes up. In this bonus episode, Rev. Anderson and your host, Dr. Michelle Robin dive deep into how you can bring more gratitude to your life, a breakdown of her 7 Spiritual Laws of Release, and how you can take your soul’s journey into your own hands. About Rev. Cynthia Alic Anderson Rev. Cynthia Alice Anderson has been serving as senior minister at Christ Church Unity in Orlando, Florida since 2007. Under her spiritual leadership, Christ Church Unity continues to be a thriving, welcoming community that is dedicated to transforming lives, celebrating diversity and supporting soul growth. Rev. Anderson recently wrote 7 Spiritual Laws of Release and it is in its 3rd printing currently. She has two other books: A Grateful Life: 30 Days of Conscious Gratitude is a 30-day mindfulness and prayer book and her prosperity book

The most powerful words in the world are, ‘me too.’ - Anne Lamott on the positive impact of vulnerability How can we take back the power to fuel our mind, body, and spirit? This week, Dr. Michelle Robin is joined by mother of three, blogger, self-proclaimed lover of food, and Author of the best-selling book, Instant Loss Cookbook, and her latest, Instant Loss: Eat Real, Lose Weight, Brittany Williams. Brittany has a remarkable Small Changes Big Shifts story as she decided to take charge of her family’s health by removing processed snacks, takeout and high-calorie meals from her their menus. She replaced those foods with healthier meals she could make in her Instant Pot. She has since lost 125 lbs and has been featured in several media outlets including Good Morning America, The Today Show, US Weekly and more.  Click here to learn more about Brittany’s upcoming event at Your Wellness Connection with Rainy Day Books on December 12th! As you listen to this episode, Brittany shares: The moment she decided both

You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. - Zig Ziglar  Have you always been a skeptic of hypnotism? Well today you get to learn that it’s so much more than encouraging people to do silly acts on stage. In this episode, Dr. Michelle Robin is joined by Consulting Hypnotist, Host of The Anxiety Relief Revolution Podcast, Author of The Hypnotic Connection, Dan Candell, shares how he is helping people break free from anxiety fast and live a more high performing life through his 5-step process. More About Dan Candell Known in business for being a behavioral communications specialist, Dan Candell is a world renowned expert on high performance and helping people Break Free from anxiety on all levels. He is an international speaker, coach and also a Board Certified Hypnotist and Certified Instructor through the National Guild of Hypnotists, as well as a columnist for the Journal of Hypnotism. He teaches people how to positively re-program their subconscious minds to overco

The future belongs to the curious. The ones who are not afraid to try it, explore it, poke at it, question it, and turn it inside out. - Anonymous What can you learn from the culture of Rock and Roll to impact your leadership, relationship, and communication skills? Today we have a very special episode for you with two guests as Dr. Michelle Robin is joined by Wayne Strickland and Tanya O’Callaghan of Leadership Rhapsody. Though they have very different backgrounds, the two have found similarities in both the business and music worlds. As a successful 25-year Vice President at Hallmark Cards and the Author of Get Over Yourself, Decide to Lead, Wayne Strickland has extraordinary experiences to share that include winning and losing billion dollar contracts. His success and failures have informed his approach to building a competitive culture with enlightened leadership. Tanya O’Callaghan is an established freelance musician / bassist with an eclectic impressive career to date. 100% born and raised in Ireland wh

Life happens for you. - Miriam O’ Malley Choose health. Extraordinary Things Will Happen  Today on Small Changes Big Shifts, we are joined by Dr. Ann Kulze who is a best-selling author, physician, and highly sought after motivational speaker in the areas of nutrition, healthy living and disease prevention. More About Dr. Ann Kulze With formal training in both nutrition and medicine, along with extensive “hands-on” experience as a wife, mother of 4, and trusted family physician, Dr. Ann has distinguished herself as a one-of-a-kind “real world” nutrition and wellness expert. She is the Founder and CEO of the wellness education firm, Just Wellness LLC. She is also the author of six books including her best-selling Eat Right for Life series (WELCOA). She has been featured in many national media outlets including the Dr. Oz show, Oprah and Friends Radio, and Time Magazine among many others. Dr. Ann lives her wellness message enjoying swimming, running, kayaking, cooking, gardening, and spending time with her famil

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday. - Eleanor Roosevelt What impact does food have not only on our own health but the wellness of future generations? In this special episode, Dr. Michelle Robin is joined by journalist and author, Judith Finlayson, who is teaching us how we can live a healthy life and leave a legacy of wellness by looking both to the past and to the future. As a journalist, she has written on a variety of subjects, from personal well-being, women’s history to food and nutrition. She has also written more than a dozen cookbooks. In today’s show, Dr. Michelle and Judith are taking a deep dive with her latest book, You Are What Your Grandparents Ate: What You Need to Know About Nutrition, Experience, Epigenetics & the Origins of Chronic Disease. Be sure to catch Judith when she is in Kansas City on Monday, October 28th at the Unity Temple on The Plaza for a special event at 7:00pm. Click here to learn all about the event. Join us as our Small Changes Big Shifts Podca

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Do you find yourself consuming more entertaining than nourishing foods? What does healthy living truly look like and how can you get started today? Author of Habit That!: How You Can Health Up in Just 5 Minutes a Day, Dr. Jaime Hope, joins us to share how we can be the creators of healthier lives with small changes today that will lead to big shifts tomorrow. One of the many important shifts that she and Dr. Michelle Robin will discuss is how we can create healthier habits around nourishing vs. entertaining foods.  More About Dr. Hope Dr. Hope is a dual board-certified physician working outside of Detroit, Michigan, in one of the busiest emergency departments in the country.  In over twelve years on the job, she has learned that no matter what brought her patients to the ER, they all want the same thing: to live happier, healthier lives.  Whether she's helping patients, teaching future doctors, or engaging the local com

Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.- Morgan Freeman An expert on the technique for sensory emotional regulation, Emotional Resolution Process (EmRes), and Founder of the Emotional Health Institute, Cedric Bertelli, is on a mission to help others further better understand our emotional functioning. On this episode of Small Changes Big Shifts Podcast with your host, Dr. Michelle Robin, he shares how he began studying emotional functioning in 2009 and how through his years of working with clients, therapists, parents, educators, and physicians, he has developed complete mastery of the physiologic capacity for emotional resolution. Tune in with Dr. Michelle Robin and Cedric Bertelli as they discuss: The struggles with negative emotions that he experienced from a young age and how he became comfortable in his own skin. Various techniques that he tried including psychotherapy before discovering Tipi and the sensory emotional regulation, The Emotional Res

When you’re aware, you’re halfway there. - Wendy Basch Sentenced to sixty-five years in a Texas prison, Damon West once had it all. He came from a great family, in a home full of God, love, support, and opportunities to reach any goal. A natural born leader, an athlete with good looks and charm, he appeared to be the all-American kid pursuing his dreams. Underneath this facade, however, was an addict in the early stages of disease. After suffering childhood sexual abuse by a babysitter at the age of nine, Damon began putting chemicals into his body to alter the way he felt. Once he was introduced to methamphetamines, however, he became instantly hooked—and the lives of so many innocent people would forever be changed by the choices he made in order to feed his insatiable meth habit. After a fateful discussion during his incarceration with a seasoned convict, Damon had a spiritual awakening. He learned that, like a coffee bean changing with the application of heat and pressure, he was capable of changing the e

Why is nutrition and sleep just as important if not more than just exercise? We sacrifice our health in order to make wealth, then we sacrifice our wealth in order to get back our health. - The Dalai Lama  For as long as he can remember, Founder of the Premier Fitness Center brand, Eupraxia, Dr. Steve Czys DC, CCWP, CSCS has been obsessed with health and human performance. He still has copies of the workouts he wrote when he was in grade 9! After studying business and pre-med, Dr. Czys graduated from the University of Wisconsin La Crosse and went on to get his Doctorate from the prestigious Palmer College. While in college Dr. Czys played football, wrestled and traveled the country playing rugby. He also served for 6 years in the Army National Guard. After college Dr. Czys moved back to La Crosse, WI and opened a private practice. He quickly learned that what the overwhelming majority of people needed to truly regain their health was a facility that showed them exactly how to eat and exercise. Dr Czys decided

If you don’t heal the heart, you will never heal the body. - Dr. Michelle Robin In this special BONUS episode of Small Changes Big Shifts, we are joined by two of Resolve Counseling & Wellness Center Licensed Counselors in Kansas City, Allison Kidd, LMSW and Jessica Nickels how to live a healthy life by making small changes for big shifts but also two incredible upcoming events: Care4U2 and The SHIFT Experience. Care4U2 - October 25th  Click here to learn more about the Care4U2 Event The 3rd Annual Care4U2 is A self-care event for helping professionals that is happening on Friday, October 25th 2019 from 9:00 am - 3:30pm at the KU Edwards Campus. Helper: someone who spends their time and energy supporting someone else. (social workers, counselors, clergy, doctors, nurses, community health workers, aids, wellness professionals...) Is that you? This event if for you! This year’s CARE4U2 theme is Leave Feeling Better. Speakers will cover topics from body image, relationships, grief, communication, mindfulnes

When you know your why, it’s much easier to comply. - Dr. Michelle Robin In this episode of Small Changes Big Shifts, Dr. Michelle Robin is joined by Kara Goldin, who is the founder and CEO of Hint Inc., the San Francisco-based healthy lifestyle company, best known for Hint Water and most recently, Hint Sunscreen. When Kara left AOL, where she built the eCommerce business to a billion-dollar division, she recognized that she needed to put down the diet soda and make a change which led to the creation of Hint Inc. Kara is also the host of the podcast, Unstoppable, and a regular speaker. She speaks to large teams and executives at companies, including Google, LinkedIn, Instagram, Oracle, Chobani and others to get them to think about purpose in business as well as one's own life. Her mission is to get the audience to think about the "why" in what they are doing today or in the future. She’s sharing that mission with us today as both her and Dr. Michelle discuss: Her personal need to create the great-tasting, na

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want. - Zig Ziglar In this episode of Small Changes Big Shifts with Dr. Michelle Robin, her guest, Bob Burg, is a sought-after speaker at company leadership and sales conferences sharing the platform with everyone from today’s business leaders and broadcast personalities to even a former U.S. President. Bob is the author of a number of books on sales, marketing and influence, with total book sales of well over a million copies. His book, The Go-Giver, coauthored with John David Mann, itself has sold over 850,000 copies and it has been translated into 28 languages. His and John’s newest parable in The Go-Giver Series is The Go-Giver Influencer. Bob is an advocate, supporter and defender of the Free Enterprise system, believing that the amount of money one makes is directly proportional to how many people they serve. He is also an unapologetic animal fanatic, and is a past member of the Board of Directors of Furry Friends

Look for the helpers. - Fred Rogers  With what we see on social media, hear in the news, and witness in everyday life interactions, does the world seem harsher to you these days? Maybe you feel a little hopeless but there is something you can do and guest, Angela Santomero, explains how in this Small Changes Big Shifts podcast episode.  Not only is Angela helping empower kids and parents through her Emmy award winning kids' shows, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood and Blue's Clues plus her book, Preschool Clues, but she is also on a mission for a kindness revolution through her latest book, Radical Kindness: The Life Changing Power of Giving and Receiving. Find out how you can make the world a better place through radical kindness. See Angela Santomero speak in person at this year's LIV: Living in Vitality Conference in Kansas City  Tune in as Dr. Michelle and Angela discuss:  How to help your children’s transition on the first day of school easier What life lessons her TV shows are teaching both children and a

It's not too late to get the physical health and emotional well-being you desire.   Owner of Rise and Shine Wellness, Wendy Basch, joins Dr. Michelle Robin to share her mission to provide a safe place of belonging and support in which individuals gain the courage, clarity, and purpose needed to achieve their best physical health and emotional well-being.  As you listen, you’ll learn all about:  Her start to the health and wellness world. The importance of educating and coaching people on how to live life well. Why she loves wellness programming and working with people one-on-one. How she launched her own pilates business, Rise and Shine Wellness About the foundation, Jill’s Hope, that she started with her friend to help those with cancer. Listen and find out about Dr. Michelle and Wendy’s new movement, The SHIFT Experience with Win for KC will help you create a tight wellness tribe, learn more about and apply the Four Quadrants of Wellbeing to your life, and connect with health professionals in the local K

People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou Jessica Blublaugh has spent 15 years in the non-profit sector, specifically in events and marketing. After four years at the KC Sports Commission, she moved on to the Women’s Sports Foundation in New York and then Atlanta. In her time there, Jessica had the opportunity to work with sports greats like Billie Jean King, Michelle Kwan, Aimee Mullins, Julie Foudy and Jessica Mendoza, managing the organization’s major fundraisers and community events. Jessica returned to the Kansas City Sports Commission in September of 2018 as the Director of the Women’s Intersport Network for Kansas City after 11 years, having started her career with WIN in 2003 as an intern and then the Program and Media Relations Coordinator.  Tune in as her and Dr. Michelle discuss: Her love of sports and how she’s able to apply that in both a professional space and inspire other women and young girls. The b

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years. - Deepak Chopra  Lisa Adams, an experienced nurse and health & wellness coach, and author of her first book, America’s Real Healthcare Crisis, helps overwhelmed professionals and health care providers recognize and manage the effects of chronic stress—the leading cause of disease, poor work performance and life dissatisfaction. Lisa provides simple, life-long and practical tools to help employees understand how the body functions; how to recognize and address chronic stress; and finally, how to facilitate healing and create lasting change. A former renal care unit nurse, Lisa knows first-hand the emotional, physical and mental toll of unmanaged, chronic stress on the well-being of physicians, nurses and first responders. This debilitating stress is crippling the healthcare industry resulting in lost productivity, high turnover, caregiver burn-out and medical mistakes. Through an integrated Whole Person appr