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Power Up: The Importance of Protein in Your Daily Diet
Protein is more than just a buzzword tossed around by fitness enthusiasts; it's a vital nutrient that plays a key role in how every cell in your body functions. From repairing muscle tissue after a workout to supporting your immune system, the benefits of protein touch nearly every aspect of your health. However, many people struggle with incorporating enough high-quality protein into their daily meals. This article will delve into the importance of protein, provide practical tips for adding more to your diet, and share delicious, high-protein recipes to help you meet your health and wellness goals.
The Science of Sleep: Enhancing Well-being with Health Coaching
In our fast-paced, always-connected world, sleep is often undervalued, with many treating it as a luxury rather than a necessity. Yet, the science of sleep paints a different picture, revealing its critical role in everything from physical health and mental acuity to emotional resilience. Chronic sleep deprivation can sabotage your health, undercut your productivity, and dampen your mood, making every day feel like an uphill battle. This article will uncover how enhancing sleep quality can dramatically improve your life and how health coaching can help you overcome the barriers to a good night’s rest.
Fitness for the Time-Starved: Efficient Workouts and Wellness Goal Coaching
Navigating the demands of a bustling schedule, many find fitness slipping down their list of priorities. Yet, the quest for a healthy, balanced life and to meet your wellness goal remains incomplete without the inclusion of regular physical activity. How, then, can the chronically time-starved make room for exercise? This dilemma brings wellness coaching into the spotlight, offering a beacon of hope. With efficient workout strategies and the personalized touch of a health coach, anyone can tailor their fitness journey to fit the tightest of timetables. This article unveils how to weave exercise seamlessly into your daily routine, promising health benefits that extend well beyond the physical.
Eating Well in a Hurry: Nutrition Tips for the Busy Professional
In the high-speed carousel of meetings, deadlines, and ever-growing to-do lists, maintaining a nutritious diet often falls by the wayside for busy professionals. Learn how to make smart, healthful eating decisions to meet your wellness goal amidst your packed schedule, ensuring you're fueled for success in every aspect of your busy life.
A Side of Syrup Podcast - EP022: Why You Should Be Eating Fermented Foods Everyday with Julie O'Brien of Firefly Kitchens
What if I told you the secret to gut health is just forkful away? And you could start doing it today…
Julie and her business, Firefly Kitchens, are on a mission to make vibrant, flavorful organic ferments full of gut-nourishing goodness. Julie is an advocate for eating fermented food every day - regardless of your age. Why? because fermented foods, and Firefly Kitchens specifically make their products the old-fashioned way because wild ferments need time to cultivate their probiotic power and tasty tang. That power and tang helps take care of your gut - which helps with immunity, energy, skin health, and so much more. It’s really the superfood for superfood.
A Side of Syrup Podcast - EP020: How Social Retail and Simple Branding Elevates Your Business with Jessica Haley
This episode with Jessica Haley is a crash course in all things branding, social selling, and breaking down a new-to-me concept of social retail. If you’ve started your own company or thinking about it, this episode is for you! Truth be told, after recording this episode I immediately called my husband and said, “we have to redo everything!”
A Side of Syrup Podcast - EP018: How to Stay Focused When You Have Too Much on Your Plate with Shannon Pfeffer
How to get vitamins that work.
As we age vitamins are our insurance policy. The thing that prevents very preventable things, keeps our immune system boosted, and when done correctly, make you feel better.
In addition to living a life that balances eating well, movement, stress management, and sleep - I’ve always taken vitamins. Not the same ones for every season of life. But vitamins have been my mainstay.
And while the vitamins I take today don’t exactly taste like the Flintsones, they are the key to keeping that childlike spirit and energy possible. In this episode we'll dive into how to shop for high quality vitamins that work and strategies to remember to take your daily vitamins.
A Side of Syrup Podcast - EP016: Finding Room for Daily Gratitude with Sabena Suri
Hitting the pause button to move forward
In today's episode strategist, entrepreneur, and leader to the core Sabena Suri explains not only her career path and how everything's sort of built on another based on her big brain and sort of intuition of where she wanted to go. Wellness-wise, she also talks about the importance of pausing taking a moment sitting still and figuring things out an important lesson for all of us at any stage of life or career or parenthood. Sabena also has really awesome strategies of small ways she incorporates wellness into her life. It's not overwhelming and the habits all built upon each other. I think you'll really find her quick actionable tips to be super smart and easy to implement - which is the way wellness should be.
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