Follow Your Passion: Originally a nursing major, she transitioned to social work after realizing her passion was emotional care.
The Steve Harvey Morning Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Moniek Garside.
A licensed clinical social worker and founder of Fit Life Wellness. Here's a comprehensive summary of the episode:
🎙️ Guest: Moniek Garside
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Georgia, Colorado, Illinois, South Carolina, and Minnesota.
- Founder of Fit Life Wellness, a private mental health and wellness practice.
- Author of the guided journal I Can, I Will.
🧠 Key Topics Discussed 🧘♀️ What Therapy Really Is
- Therapy is not just “talking on a couch”—it’s a safe space for vulnerability, healing, and personal growth.
- It involves unpacking emotional challenges, not just surface-level advice.
🔄 Life Transitions
- Includes shifts like:
- Moving from corporate to entrepreneurship
- Divorce or children leaving home
- Personal reinvention
- Therapy helps individuals navigate uncertainty and redefine stability.
🧑💼 Mental Health for Entrepreneurs
- Entrepreneurs often neglect self-care in pursuit of success.
- Therapy helps them prioritize balance, manage burnout, and maintain mental clarity.
- Moniek emphasizes the importance of processing emotions and having a support system.
📘 About the Book: I Can, I Will
- A 30-day guided journal with weekly themes and daily prompts.
- Designed to help individuals:
- Reflect on their emotions
- Reset their mindset
- Overcome depression, anxiety, and life transitions
- Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and MoniekGarside.com
🧩 Common Mental Health Misconceptions
- Mental health is often oversimplified or trivialized on social media.
- Terms like “anxiety” and “boundaries” are used without understanding.
- Real healing requires professional guidance, not just affirmations or apps.
🧍♀️ Moniek’s Personal Journey
- Originally a nursing major, she transitioned to social work after realizing her passion was emotional care.
- She created Fit Life Wellness to have autonomy in how she supports clients.
- She is both a therapist and a therapy client—emphasizing the importance of self-work.
🧠 Mental Health Red Flags
- Depression: Irritability, isolation, loss of interest, low motivation.
- Anxiety: Racing thoughts, physical symptoms (e.g., heart palpitations), constant worry.
🧰 Therapy vs. Technology
- Apps and AI tools can supplement mental health care (e.g., affirmations, breathing exercises).
- But they cannot replace the human connection and insight of a trained therapist.
🌐 Connect with Moniek Garside
- Website: MoniekGarside.com
- Practice: Fit Life Wellness
- Services: Virtual therapy, clinical supervision, mental health resources
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Hi, I'm Roshan McDonnell. |
| 0:05.7 | I host a weekly money-making conversation Masterclass show. |
| 0:08.8 | The interviews and information that this show provides are for you and everyone. |
| 0:13.2 | It's time to stop reading other people's success stories and start living your own. |
| 0:17.7 | If you want to be a guest on my show, Moneymaking Conversation Masterclass, |
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| 0:28.2 | an entrepreneur, small business owner, motivational speaker, influencer, got a product, I want you |
| 0:33.8 | on my show. My guest is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Georgia, Colorado, |
| 0:40.3 | Illinois, South Carolina, and Minnesota, with over two decades of experience in the field. |
| 0:46.4 | She is the founder of Fit Life Wellness, a private mental health and wellness practice dedicated to |
| 0:53.0 | support individuals through healing, balance, |
| 0:56.0 | and growth. |
| 0:57.2 | She is also the author of I Can I Will, a 30-day guided journal designed to help individuals |
| 1:03.7 | reflect, reset, and overcome challenges such as depression, anxiety, and life transitions. |
| 1:11.6 | Please welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass. |
| 1:13.9 | Monique Garcite. |
| 1:15.1 | How you doing, Monique? |
| 1:15.9 | Hey, great to be here. |
| 1:17.1 | How are you? |
| 1:17.8 | Growing up on TV, you go to somebody's couch and you're laying down on the sofa and somebody |
| 1:23.7 | just talking to you. |
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