Colorful Eats

On today’s episode we are giving you 5 ways to take some of the stress out of the holidays and give yourself grace to really relax into the season and spend more time family, friends and those in need. Plus, we’re announcing the winner of our conscious holiday gift basket! We are big believers in really sinking into life, feeling all the feels, enjoying the little moments and taking the time to live intentionally. We hope these 5 actionable steps will help you to have a beautiful season with your loved ones, with a little less overwhelm and guilt and a whole lot more joy! This is our final episode for 2017, but we will be back to share our passion for healthy living on Monday, January 8, 2018! We absolutely love putting out actionable healthy living content for you, but we are definitely looking forward to a few weeks of quiet before the start of a brand new year!   Thank you Sunbasket for sponsoring this episode! Click here to get $35 off your first order! Highlight Reel 03:13 | Giveaway winner announced

We’re finally doing it, digging into the nitty gritty of environmental toxins–the cold, hard facts about chemicals within the beauty and skincare industries in the US, ways these chemicals get into our bodies and how they reveal their nasty little side effects and affect our health. The episode is not for the faint of heart, we definitely go deeper than usual and use some big words, but we break it down, explain the buzz words and connect it all to real life (like how it affects babies in utero, how you experience their effects and more). Our goal is not to scare you, rather to empower you to be an advocate for your own health, to be able to make decisions that affect positive change within your health journey and create more balance and beauty within your life. No stress, just steps forward. Know better, do better, right? Don’t forget that November 30 is the last day to enter to win our conscious holiday gift basket. Don’t worry, we made it super simple for you! Head to the purple podcast app on your ph

Oh friend, the holidays are upon us and we are beyond excited! This is definitely the most wonderful time of the year in our eyes! On today’s episode, we are sharing some of our favorite conscious gifts, supporting companies who are making things cleaner and greener and doing business better, for everyone in your life–the precious mamas who bless so many, the fashionista, that fitness enthusiast, the kiddos you love so much and we can’t forget all the men out there, plus a few more in between! We love to do this type of episode, just as we did last year, because we believe that the businesses we support have the ability to create positive impact in our world with the products they create, the good they support and the way they do business. And since we’re feeling all giddy about the holidays, we wanted to bless one lucky gal with a few of our favorite clean beauty goodies and tasty holiday treats! All you have to do to enter is head to iTunes or your purple podcast app and write a review for the Colorful

The holiday season is upon us! How exciting! We absolutely love this time of year, but with all the celebration, festive parties, gifts and crazy family gatherings, we know it can also be a time of stress, leaving us overwhelmed, a few pounds heavier and down right pooped. Not to mention the fact that it’s cold and flu season and that has it’s own challenges! Taking care of yourself during this time of year can be a game changer on how you feel come January 1, boost your immune system and bring more joy and excitement to the season. In today’s episode, we’re sharing our top tips for staying healthy this holiday season along with our fave supplements and ways to better manage the stressors of the season. We’re all about bringing more joy to the season and keeping it a healthy season, despite the sweet treats floating around and holiday parties galore. We’re challenging you to take a balanced approach to the season and we hope it will make this year your most joyful yet! Listen in iTunes.   Highlight Reel

Today’s episode is all about you, our listener! We talk about a lot of different topics related to nutrition and healthy living and though we try to get as specific as possible, sometimes we just don’t get to that topic or question you’ve had lingering. Well, today is your day!   On today’s episode, we’re answering a few listener questions we’ve gotten over the past few months– from where to start if you haven’t been feeling well and when to turn to a practitioner for help, a few ways to improve your gut health and how to support IBS naturally to our fave breakfast options. We also dig into a mom’s question on detoxing after breastfeeding and how to manage keratosis pilaris naturally. We love getting your questions and we’d love to do more episodes answering all your burning healthy living questions! Whether it be about motherhood or feeding little ones, health issues and struggles, food or product specific, stress and emotional health related, etc.– we love them all! Email me with your questions, we’ll s

Today’s episode is quite exciting because one of us is sharing some very exciting news! Along with this, we thought we’d dive into a topic we’ve yet to touch on in our 55 episodes of the Colorful Eats podcast–– pregnancy nutrition! We’re sharing our thoughts and feelings on first trimester wellness, dealing with morning sickness that lasts all day and how giving yourself grace through it all can create a positive change in perspective and improve your first trimester experience and most importantly, your baby’s health. We each share tips for surviving this draining trimester and how to best nourish yourself and that little miracle with love and grace. We hope this episode encourages you! If you know anyone who could benefit from this open conversation episode, please pass it along! We’d be ever so grateful! If you’re pregnant or planning to conceive in the near future and would like extra nutrition and lifestyle support to optimize your experience and outcomes, head over to alowellness.com for more info on

On today’s podcast episode, we are hanging out with the adorable and vibrant Bri McKoy, author of the new and beautiful book, Come and Eat, and the blogger behind Our Savory Life. Bri shares with us what motivated her to begin her cooking journey (hint: she got married) and how living in a military community opened her eyes to the need to drop perfection and send out the dinner invites, despite the simple menu and less-than perfect home. This shift in perspective has allowed her to create and encourage community with her social influence and is the foundation to her new book, Come and Eat. Bri shares with us her best tips for creating community for women out there wanting to connect, but feel overwhelmed and aren’t quite sure how to make it happen. Bri is such a breath of fresh air and we absolutely adore her take on community around the dinner table. Get inspired over on Bri’s Instagram and Our Savory Life blog and purchase her new book here! Thank you Sunbasket for sponsoring this episode.  Listen along

It’s safe to say that as Nutritional Therapy Practitioners, we get asked about vitamins, minerals and other supplements- All. The. Time. So, we figured you’re probably just as curious! Are supplements really necessary for good health? What should I look out for? How do I choose the best option? These are all questions we answer on today’s Colorful Eats podcast episode plus we share our take on the popularity of supplements and how we use them in our own nutrition practices. And since you probably also have questions about specific health issues or phases of life (like preconception and pregnancy), we’ve got your back and we’re sharing some of our top supplement specific recommendations. Disclaimer: Remember that we are not physicians and are in no way diagnosing, treating or curing.  Always check with your medical doctor when starting a new supplement plan. We hope you enjoy today’s episode, thanks so much for tuning in!   Thank you Primally Pure for sponsoring today’s episode.  Listen along for your fre

Self-care is such a beautiful thing, but why aren’t more women doing it? On today’s episode we are sharing our take on self-care and why we believe it’s crucial to your overall health and well-being as well as your relationships. As women we tend to put everyone else first and taking time out of our busy schedules to focus on ourselves can seem next to impossible. Or maybe you’re just unsure of how to create this time in your own life, but have been longing for it’s quiet or laughter filled moments. On today’s episode, we share some helpful steps that’ll teach you how to create time in your schedule for self-care and why it’s so important to make it a priority. We are pretty sure you’re going to love us just a tad bit more after this episode! We are giving you permission to take some time to take care of YOU because you deserve it beautiful! Subscribe in iTunes or leave us a review if you like what you hear!

Preconception health kind of feels like a new topic in our nutrition and health world, it’s not talked about much within doctor’s offices or between mother and daughter, but it’s an area of health that can serve to be a game changer with fertility. Far too many couples are experiencing infertility and loss, but is there something we can do in our daily lives to improve this heart-breaking fact, optimize our fertility and help create a less stress-filled conception story? On today’s episode, we’re sharing our heart for this incredible form of preventative health and why we believe preconception health can be an absolute game changer on your journey to conceiving and growing a vibrant, healthy little one. We dig into how prep can positively impact fertility and your ability to conceive with ease as well as improve baby’s health, both in the womb as well as long term. We’ve also created a few action steps for you and the hubs to help put today’s info into action in your own life. Our hope is to inspire a posi

There are an overwhelming number of nutrition fads filling our bellies and confusing the most well intentioned women looking to eat better and live healthier. A lot of times we hear these common fads on blog posts, news stories, social media and even within our friend circle, but we don’t always know exactly what they are or the purpose that they serve. On today’s episode, we take a closer look at 5 common nutrition fads and break down exactly what they are, how they impact our health and what we think about them. From that famous Bulletproof coffee to the new buzz word “adaptogen”, we are giving our two cents on these nutrition fads and even sharing how we use some of them in our own daily lives. Thank you for listening to the Colorful Eats podcast! We are so grateful for your support and hope today’s episode will give you a little healthy boost as you go into your week! Highlight Reel 02:43 | Our take on common food fads 05:50 | Bulletproof got us like :) 10:15 | What’s up with adaptogens? 23:52 | How

50 episodes!? It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since we started this journey, sharing our passion for real food and mindful living with you, our beautiful friends. We’re beyond grateful for all the times you’ve shared an episode with a friend or told a family member to tune in! We can’t say it enough, thank you for listening! We share a lot of helpful information about creating a healthier life, but we’ve never shared our own daily routines with you. Some have asked to get an insider look at our day to day, so on today’s episode, we’re sharing the routines that keep us healthy each day- what we do for breakfast, when we work and why, our struggles and everything in between. Now, for the fun part! We’ve been talking about our 50th episode giveaway for weeks and we officially announced the winner in this episode! Thank you Primally Pure for sponsoring this episode! Be sure to listen along to learn how you can get your free lip balm!   Highlight Reel 04:20 | The crazy beginning to our podcast 06:36 | W

Today’s episode is so fun because we are digging in and answering YOUR burning questions, the things you wish you could ask your Nutritionist bestie...if you had one. Well, now you do! We reached out to you, our listeners, and asked what you want to know more about, from nutrition, lifestyle, business and everything in between. In today’s episode, we dive into our fave environmentally-friendly clothing brands, our top cookbooks (even for feeding little ones), some of our favorite everyday detox methods, the best busy mom snacks and more! We’ve linked to all of the products, books or sites we mention in the episode below so you can snag all our faves! We’re also spilling the beans on our upcoming GIVEAWAY in celebration of our 50th episode! Don’t miss out on your opportunity to score these delicious eats and clean beauty treats. All you have to do is write a review in iTunes and you’ll be entered to win! Highlight Reel 02:02 | Episode 50 Giveaway items...revealed 05:03 | Our fave environmental-friendly, et

This episode was so exciting for us to record and we are thrilled to share it with you today! Joining us today is the passionate, clean living expert behind our favorite cleaning product brand, Allison Evans of Branch Basics! On today’s episode, Allison shares her story of healing and how she went from meds, countless doctors and being told she’d never conceive on her own, to experiencing the freedom of health and conceiving a beautiful baby girl naturally. Allison shares what motivated her to really take her health seriously and how her journey to heal her body naturally led her to create a non-toxic all-purpose cleaning product that is able to help others live healthier and thrive. We’re so excited to be able to able to share Allison’s story and Branch Basics’ amazing new product with you! Head over to Branch Basics to purchase their brand new formula, learn more about non-toxic living on their blog and follow along on Instagram.   Highlight Reel 02:55 | Allison’s diagnosis that challenged her fertility

Stress is inevitable, but what if we could make seasons of stress more tolerable? Approaching them with more energy, grace and better health. Just like seasons in nature, our own lives have times of rest and times of grow, adventure and hardships and we believe that it’s what we do within these different seasons that encourage us to thrive. Today we’re sharing some of our tried and true tips for taking care of yourself during seasons of stress and how these tips can actually make difficult times more tolerable, allowing you to be your best self even when the going gets tough. From the importance of listening to your inner dialogue to the best foods to eat while you’re stressed, these tips will definitely help push you through a challenging season. We’ve also got some helpful Action Steps to really help you bring it home and make it happen in your own life. Since we are so close to our 50th episode, we are celebrating by doing a giveaway! It’s super simple to enter - all you have to do is leave us a review

You will fall in love with today’s episode with the bubbly and endearing Meredyth Cann of Meredyth Delayne Nutrition.  Meredyth is a fellow NTP and in our words, “She’s just our people.” We absolutely adore her take on nutrition and healthy living and know she’ll be a light in your day. On today’s episode, Meredyth shares how a rough time in her life led her to the field of nutrition, how powerful a nutrient-dense diet was on impacting her emotional and physical well being and how this drove her to share her passion with others. She also gives us some helpful tips on how to make healthy changes stick, creating a mindset shift and really making it a lifestyle.  Meredyth goes beyond just the aesthetics of nutrition, really getting to the heart of the matter and her fresh take on healthy living will leave you inspired. We hope this episode inspires and encourages you to continue to take your healthy journey forward, one day at a time, one bite at a time and to always find beauty in the process!   And before

Today we are sharing our thoughts and feelings on slowing down, what we believe may just be the new hustle, creating more time and space for the things we love and being more productive because of it. There’s a movement toward slowing down and we really like it. It’s something we’ve both been working toward in our lives and we’re seeing beautiful and positive impact on our health, our personal lives and our businesses. But it isn’t always easy to figure out how to do it in your own life so we’re sharing some ways to begin slowing yourself down and living with greater intention and purpose. We definitely haven’t perfected it in our own lives, but it’s not about doing it “right”. It’s about learning how to move with the seasons of life and fit it into your own journey.   What are your thoughts on slowing down? Leave a comment below! Highlight Reel 03:41 | Caroline and Justine’s recent victories and struggles 08:15 | There’s a change happening in society around that “go, go, go” mentality and we like it

Happy Monday and welcome back to another episode of the Colorful Eats podcast! We are so excited to have on a very special guest, Blair Staky, the brains and beauty behind the lifestyle and fashion blog, the Fox and She. We loved the shift we saw in her blog, sharing her new found passion for healthy living and thought her story could encourage other women to make it happen. On today’s episode, Blair shares a bit about her healthy living journey, gives us some insight into her lightbulb moment and shares what advice she’d give to other women just starting out on their health journey. Blair also talks about how changing direction with her fashion focused blog has changed her business and her impact in a super positive way. We are crazy about this beautiful mama-to-be and we know you’ll love her too! To get more Blair in your life and follow her super fashionable, cute little baby bump, visit her website, The Fox and She, or Instagram! Highlight Reel 4:00 | Why Blair began her health journey 6:50 | Blair’s

We’re back beautiful! And we are so excited! We’ve missed our Monday podcast dates with you, but it was a nice break for both of us and we hope for you as well. Summer is a time for creating memories, basking in the sunlight celebrating togetherness with family and friends and that is exactly what we did! We hope you’ve had some good summer fun and are relaxed and ready for a great second half of 2017! Today we’re talking about the pains of poor body image and self consciousness, a topic that is near to our hearts and something we’ve both struggled with at some point in our lives. This episode is the first of it’s kind, but a conversation we hope we can continue for as long as we need to. And to be honest, this conversation was pretty challenging for us to start, you’ll hear more about this in the episode, but we knew it was something that we wanted to be a part of.  There’s a movement with young girls and women to learn to love your body, no matter your size or shape, and all the incredible things it allo

Summer is in full swing and we are excited to talk about our safe summer beauty tips and how to nourish your beauty routine. We believe that true beauty comes from the inside out-- cliche or not, it’s true! So we are sharing our top beautifying foods and why eating getting more of these tasty eats can help fight aging and create more supple skin. We talk about some of our favorite clean summer beauty products so we’ve linked to each of the items under our “Link Love” below. These items are all tried and true and we only recommend products we actually use and love. Plus we have a fun summer beauty challenge that YOU get to participate in TOO! Today’s episode will be our last before a lovely little summer break. We do this to allow ourselves to rest and rejuvenate and want to encourage you to do the same! Enjoy time in the sun, with your loved ones, doing a whole lot of nothing or adventuring. We’ll be back in action on Monday, July 31 with an episode all about body image and our open conversation with it! T