Podcast 483: Small but meaningful daily choices to make yourself happier & healthier
CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf
Dr. Caroline Leaf
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
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SHOW DESCRIPTION: In this podcast I talk to Colleen and Jason Wachob, founders of mega-health platform mindbodygreen, about their incredible new book The Joy of Well-Being, knowing when to change your life, how to take back control of your health, finding balance in life, and so much more! Over the past decade, Colleen and Jason Wachob have cultivated a leading wellness lifestyle media brand for everyone seeking to cut through the noise and live a happier, healthier, and greener lifestyle. The Joy of Well-Being is a distillation of almost fifteen years of this experience on the forefront of the well-being conversation; they’ve done the legwork so you don’t have to!
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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:
2:18 Why Jason and Colleen wrote The Joy of Well-Being
3:10, 40:00 Why joy is essential to wellbeing
4:10 How modern society manipulates & uses our negative emotions
6:00 Why wellness can be so confusing & overwhelming
6:50 Balance vs. extremes in the wellness world
10:30 Different things work for different people—we are not all the same
13:00 How wellness can become like a religion
17:45 Colleen & Jason’s amazing journey
29:52 The mind-brain-body connection
36:45 Tips to cultivate a joyful lifestyle
55:40 It’s okay to have good & bad wellbeing days!
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*DISCLAIMER: This podcast and blog are for educational purposes only and are not intended as medical advice. We always encourage each person to make the decision that seems best for their situation with the guidance of a medical professional.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Dr. Caroline Leith and welcome to my podcast, Cleaning Up the Mental Mass. |
| 0:11.0 | How do you know when it's time to change your life? |
| 0:15.6 | Sometimes the realization is simply the slow accumulation of nagging voices inside your |
| 0:21.2 | head. |
| 0:22.8 | Sometimes that knowledge lands all at once like a cosmic kick in the butt. |
| 0:28.2 | Well that's how things happen for my guests today. |
| 0:31.1 | Jason and Colleen Wukcup, the founders of the mega health platform, Mind, Body, Green. |
| 0:37.6 | After some major scary health scares, they knew it was time to stop and pivot. |
| 0:43.4 | Jason and Colleen and I discussed their new book, The Joy of Well, where they share how |
| 0:48.6 | they got through their major struggles, what they learned and what everyone to know, and |
| 0:53.2 | how to take back control of your health. |
| 0:56.1 | We also discussed the dangers of extreme fixation on health and wellness, how to find balance |
| 1:01.6 | and how to find what works best for you. |
| 1:04.4 | So let's dive in. |
| 1:06.0 | Well with me in the studio today I have two of my favourite people, great friends, Colleen |
| 1:13.4 | and Jason Wukcup. |
| 1:14.4 | I always say your name wrong, have I said it right? |
| 1:17.2 | It's Wukcup, but it's close to it. |
| 1:19.2 | Oh God, okay, you see, because I'm your friend I'm allowed to say your name wrong. |
| 1:23.8 | I don't know what that is, it's the myself African background I think, but the CH always |
| 1:27.5 | want to do the, the sound, you know, so anyway Jason and Colleen, it is such an honour |
| 1:32.5 | to have you in the studio with me. |
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