283: Katie Wells aka Wellness Mama - Maintaining A Healthy Family, Home & Business
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Katie Wells aka Wellness Mama (IG: @wellnessmama) is a wife and mom of six, as well as an award-winning blogger, author, podcaster, and real food crusader. Her mission with WellnessMama.com is to provide simple answers for healthier families through practical tips, real food recipes, natural beauty and cleaning tutorials, natural remedies, and more. Katie's latest book is The Wellness Mama 5-Step Lifestyle Detox.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The walk that changed Katie’s life
- Experiencing a myriad of health issues
- The story behind Wellness Mama
- Why it took 8 doctors before Katie was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease
- Be active in your health care decisions
- Remove dangerous oils and artificial foods from your diet
- How to reduce plastic use in your home
- Addressing the mental & emotional side of Hashimoto’s
- Systematize your life
- Navigating pregnancy with Hashimoto’s
- Create a team culture within your family
- What to feed your baby first
- Katie's approach to family mealtime
- Educate your children on choices
- When to introduce solid foods to babies
- Weaning & breastfeeding
- Homeschooling methods
- Why play is important for kids and their mental health
- Removing exposure to chemicals in your home
- Save money by making your own household cleaners
- Benefits of growing your own food
- Grounding & forest bathing
- Kids & technology
- Be efficient with work
- Finding your own way
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Related links:
Katie Wells - The Wellness Mama 5-Step Lifestyle Detox (book)
Katie Wells' website (Wellness Mama)
Follow Katie Wells (Wellness Mama) on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Katie Wells - The Wellness Mama Cookbook
Wellness Mama - Cleaner recipes
EWG - Environmental Working Group
Healing & Dealing with Hashi’s (Marni & Samantha’s Online Course)
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| 0:25.0 | I think that's the antidote to the technological world is fostering that real sense of community amongst our children and also ourselves and finding those relationships or creating them, making them a priority so that we have that builtin support network and structure and something that makes us want to go outside or spend time with others and not just be inside watching TV. Hello and Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman |
| 0:30.0 | and we are here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:32.0 | Each week we'll bring you inspiring and informative and we are here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:32.8 | Each week we'll bring you inspiring and informative conversations about health and wellness, |
| 0:37.2 | covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, fitness, mindset, and so much more. |
| 0:41.6 | And this week our featured guest is Katie Wells, also known as |
| 0:44.6 | Wellness Mama. She's a wife and mom of six, as well as an award-winning blogger, |
| 0:49.2 | author, podcaster, and Real Food crusader. Her mission with Wellness Mama.com is to provide simple answers for healthier families through practical tips, real food recipes, natural beauty and cleaning tutorials, natural remedies, and more. |
| 1:03.0 | It's so great to have Katie on the show. |
| 1:04.7 | She has impacted so many mamas around the world |
| 1:07.5 | on how to live a more conscious and healthy life |
| 1:09.6 | while raising kids. |
| 1:11.0 | If anyone knows how to be a mama it's Katie as Jesse said she has six kids |
| 1:15.6 | and she has so much information to share with us today. So here's what we get into. |
| 1:19.7 | The story behind Wal-on-This Mama, why it took eight doctors before Katie was diagnosed with |
| 1:24.2 | Hashimoto's, navigating pregnancy with Hashimoto's, what to feed your baby first, how to create |
| 1:30.9 | systems at home that work, |
| 1:33.0 | Katie's approach to family mealtime, |
| 1:35.0 | how to reduce plastic use in your home, |
| 1:38.0 | removing exposure to chemicals in your home, |
| 1:40.0 | and how to save money and make your own household cleaning products. |
| 1:44.0 | Katie is just amazing. |
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