368: 2025 Highlights: How I Completely Redefined Success

Be Well by Kelly Leveque

Kelly Leveque

Nutrition, Education, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 107 minutes

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This 2025 Best Of highlight episode brings together the most impactful conversations on mental health, wellness, performance, and personal growth. I sat down with Joe Hudson, Abbie Smith-Ryan, Sahil Bloom, and Dr. Steven Storage to explore insights and strategies that reshaped how I think about relationships, emotional awareness, parenting, and overall well-being. From emotional intelligence with Joe Hudson, women’s health and fitness with Dr. Abbie Smith-Ryan, redefining success with Sahil Bloom, to brain health and ADHD insights with Dr. Steven Storage, this episode is packed with actionable tips and thought-provoking ideas. Whether you want to boost mental health, performance, or personal growth, these highlights are a must-listen. →Leave Us A Voice Message! Topics Discussed: → How to improve emotional awareness? → Benefits of creatine for women? → How to redefine success? → Tips for brain health and ADHD? → How to boost mental health and performance? Timestamps: → 00:00:00 - Introduction → 00:01:12 - Joe Hudson: Age Appropriate Parenting → 00:06:16 - Repressing emotions → 00:11:44 - Connection & self worth → 00:15:05 - Parenting obligations → 00:18:27 - Anxiety hack → 00:24:21 - What are you afraid to feel? → 00:27:29 - Abbie Smith: Creatine and women → 00:29:46 - Creatine side effects → 00:32:17 - Loading dose → 00:36:06 - Brain health: sleep, & mood → 00:41:06 - Why supplement creatine → 00:43:34 - When and how to take creatine → 00:46:37 - Pregnancy and athleticism → 00:48:31 - Mental health & creatine → 00:52:37 - Sourcing creatine → 00:56:16 - Sahil Bloom: Honoring your time → 01:01:58 - NOBODY CARES → 01:05:22 - Life not numbers → 01:07:19 - Absolute yes and no → 01:08:47 - Creating energy → 01:12:29 - Work-life balance → 01:15:57 - Marriage & “The One” → 01:17:48 - Dr. Steven Storage: SPECT Scans → 01:22:51 - ADHD Frontal Lobes → 01:27:08 - Undiagnosed ADHD → 01:31:51 - Nutrition & ADHD → 01:36:19 - Physical activity → 01:39:12 - Sleep hygiene → 01:43:07 - Caffeine, conflict, and impulse control Further Listening → Repressed Emotions, Anxiety + Why Self-Improvement Doesn’t Exist | Joe Hudson → The Truth About Creatine for Women: Strength, Hormones, + Brain Health | Abbie Smith → Create Financial Freedom + A Purpose-Driven Life With This 5-Part Wealth Strategy | Sahil Bloom → ADHD in Kids Explained + How The SPECT Brain Scan Guides Care | Dr. Steven Storage Check Out Joe Hudson: → Learn more + complimentary transformation guide → Art of Accomplishment Podcast (Spotify / YouTube) → X (Twitter) Check Out Abbie: → IG: @asmithryan → Website Check Out Sahil: → Instagram → The 5 Types Of Wealth (Book) Check Out Dr. Steven: → Website → Instagram: @drstevenstorage ; @amen_clinics → YouTube Check Out Kelly: → Instagram → Youtube → Facebook

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0:00.0	Decisions in life are two-way doors, meaning you can walk through them and if you don't like what you see on the other side, you can turn around and walk back.
0:07.0	But we build up every single decision as being a one-way door.
0:11.0	First off, I think people need to treat life a little bit more like an explorer rather than feeling like you need to have the perfect plan.
0:17.0	Kids really want more than anything a deep level of connection. Going down the rabbit hole with them playing Legos or T.
0:23.6	Mostly it's about allowing them to feel connected to their emotions.
0:26.6	Creatine pulls water from the extracellular space into the muscle, and your muscle is mostly water.
0:32.6	So that's a good thing.
0:34.6	From the scientific side, I actually really love when we see a slight weight gain because
0:40.3	it tells me that the muscle is saturated.
0:43.1	The brain itself, the most complicated machine known to humankind, more connections in it
0:50.0	than stars in the universe, and that number is insane.
0:53.4	100 billion stars in our galaxy, and it's one of 100 billion galaxies.
0:56.0	There's so much more to know about the brain.
1:01.0	You're listening to Be Well by Kelly Leveck.
1:08.0	So my daughter and I, she was a junior in high school.
1:15.6	This is the one who just finished her first year in college.
1:17.6	Her name is Esme, and she was with a boyfriend.
1:22.6	It was like her first serious boyfriend.
1:24.6	And she was having some sort of dilemma. And I looked at her and she's explaining it. I'm like, oh, babe, that's nothing to do with you. That's me. Like, I taught you that. But by the way that I parented you in the early years, I fucked up. Like, I wasn't emotionally available. And so that's what's actually happening. And she looked at me, I looked at her,
1:47.2	we cried for a bit. And then that pattern in her relationship just died. She just stopped it.
1:56.5	And I remember thinking, it wasn't a thought that was particularly serious,
2:01.8	but it came across my head and it went,
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