66 | Creating Holistic Wellness Habits That Stick with Alina Brown
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🗓️ 12 May 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest is Alina Brown, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner co-founder of WellnessCon, and creator of the Aligned Life Planner.
Alina creates video content for her Wellness YouTube channel called ‘Alina Alive,’ where she helps her 23,000+ subscribers take practical steps to deepen their wellness journeys.
In 2019, Alina co-founded 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.
This year Alina launched the Aligned Life Planner, a 2020 planner focused on seasonal intention-setting and key astrological events.
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.
In this episode, we talk about…
- Creating wellness habits you can stick to by using the three pillars of wellness.
- Healthy eating on a budget.
- Why seasonality is important for goal-setting and for our wellness practices.
- How to incorporate astrology into your wellness practice.
RESOURCES:
- Follow Alina on Instagram @heyalinalive
- Check out the Wellness Con website for updates: https://www.wellnesscon.co/
- Subscribe to Alina’s YouTube Channel
- Check out the Aligned Life Planner
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| 0:55.0 | Welcome to the Balance Black Girl Podcast. |
| 1:01.0 | We're putting Black Girl Magic in motion. This show is dedicated to reinventing |
| 1:06.2 | wellness for women of color. I'm your host Lestrandra Alfred. Thank you so much |
| 1:11.0 | for tuning into this week's episode of Balance Black Girl |
| 1:14.4 | podcast. I'm your host Less and I am honored to have you listening this week. |
| 1:20.3 | If you are a new listener for Balance Black Girl, welcome if you are a returning |
| 1:25.5 | listener welcome back. I am so happy to have you again. So speaking of I'm not sure if you |
| 1:32.0 | have yet had a chance to listen to the last episode |
| 1:35.7 | we published, episode 65, all about healing through breath work with guest Kathleen Booker. |
| 1:42.0 | But ever since that conversation with Kathleen, I have really been leaning |
| 1:47.2 | into the breath and honestly I wanted to start this episode just with a big sigh and with a deep breath. |
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