Learning to Embrace Your Body, Taking First Steps with PCOS, Building Confidence, and Speaking Your Life Into Existence with Self-Made Model and CEO of Confidence, Ella Halikas
Wellness Her Way with Gracie Norton
Dear Media
4.6 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Episode 15: Today we welcome self-made model, influencer, and CEO of Confidence, Ella Halikas. I met Ella at an Alo event in Hawaii and knew immediately I needed to have her come on the podcast to share all of her wisdom! Ella’s life completely changed when she went from being a waitress in Hawaii with zero connections to being a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model in just a few years. In this episode, we talk about her journey with discovering her authentic self, how confidence and body positivity shifted her life, her journey with PCOS, and so much more! We even get to hear Ella’s recent experience with being roofied in West Hollywood and what tips she has for us to keep safe when going out. Ella created her own path to success, and in this episode, she shares on how we can do the same. If you are “tired of being tired” as Ella says, and are wanting to align with your true calling, this episode is for you!
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TOPICS DISCUSSED:
1:17: Ella’s mental shift to creating her dream life
2:59: Growing up with confidence
5:51: Going from a waitress to a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model
8:41: Ella’s journey into modeling
9:29: Don’t give up even when you are told no
11:14: Starting in LA with zero connections
12:20: How to start from the bottom and get to the top
14:10: Taking baby steps to reach your goals
15:01: Don’t wait until you feel ready
16:19: Cleaning out the negatives in your life
18:09: Ella’s journey with PCOS
24:14: Finding supplements for you
25:39: Health and size doesn’t always correlate
30:26: Ella’s experience with being roofied in West Hollywood
36:06: Tips for going out and being safe
39:14: Tips for posing in pictures
42:17: 2024 Ins & Outs
44:25: One thing to do every morning to increase confidence
45:51: Be selfish!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:05.7 | You're listening to the Wellness Herway podcast. I'm your host, Gracie Noren, and I'm so |
| 0:10.7 | excited to provide you with the space where you get to shape what wellness feels like to you. |
| 0:15.0 | Wellness Her Way is where we make a home of our body, mind, and soul, instead of jumping on |
| 0:19.4 | trends for short-term results. We've got one body. We're going to nourish it, love it,, mind, and soul, instead of jumping on trends for short-term results. |
| 0:25.7 | We've got one body. We're going to nourish it, love it, respect it, and embrace it through all its forms. |
| 0:28.9 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of Wellness Her Way. We have the CEO of Confidence |
| 0:35.2 | with us, Ella Halikis, And this is the conversation that I think everyone |
| 0:39.6 | is going to benefit from listening to. I think comparison really is the quickest way to minimize |
| 0:45.5 | something beautiful. But unfortunately, we are all human. And it's pretty difficult not to compare |
| 0:52.2 | when we're scrolling on social media or even just |
| 0:55.2 | pick ourselves apart when we're looking in the mirror. Ella shares how she switched her insecurities |
| 0:59.5 | and shifted that initial instinct of comparison to confidence. This transition took her from |
| 1:05.0 | feeling unfulfilled, working as a waitress, to a full-time model and body positivity activist. She was also recently diagnosed with |
| 1:13.3 | PCOS, and this is the first time that she really opens up about her symptoms and the changes |
| 1:19.2 | that she's making in her lifestyle to heal. Ella is the hype girl and friend that everybody needs, |
| 1:24.0 | and this is one of those conversations that you'll listen to multiple times anytime you need a confidence boost. I'm so excited to have her on the show. So let's get into it. |
| 1:34.8 | Today we have Ella Halikas with us. And I'm so excited to have you on. We actually met on an |
| 1:40.9 | alo brand trip. Yes. It was so much fun. I'll tell you what, brand trips can be so |
| 1:46.0 | hit or miss, especially when it comes to who's on the trip, what brands you're with. But this |
| 1:52.4 | trip was so much fun. It was a trip with aloe in Hawaii, and it was a cycle sinking trip. |
| 1:56.8 | So we went through all of these workouts with aloe. We talked about cycle singing your nutrition |
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