green smoothies, chocolate, and bacon

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For most of us, our jobs are important to our personal survival and economic well-being.  While some people have found personal fulfillment through the work they do, others are doing what they have to do to collect a check. No matter where you are in your career or employment journey, what you do for money and how you do it matters.

I really enjoyed this conversation with Aileen Axtmayer of AspireWithAileen.com, a career coach with a broad range of experience and expertise in career counseling and personal development.  What makes Aileen different from other career coaches? Her training as an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and Yoga Instructor offers an holistic approach to the way we (view) work, especially as our work impacts our relationship with food, our relationships and our overall well-being.

Check out these resources Aileen has for creating a meaningful career and healthy lifestyle: 

• Self-Assessment Guide
• 4 Essential Steps to Find Work You Love
• Why See a Health Coach?

Also mentioned in this episode:

• The Desire Map
• Work-Life Balance is a Waste of Time

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• Linkedin

Green Smoothies, Chocolate, and Bacon invites you to challenge the belief that dieting, deprivation, willpower, and regimented exercise is the only way to have a healthy and happy life.

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While we can prevent or reduce our health risks, there’s no-one-size-fits-all solution. As an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, I invite my clients to take their wellness journey “off the plate”.

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This episode is supported by Plan to Eat. Plan to Eat helps make meal planning and grocery shopping easy. You can add recipes from anywhere, drag and drop them into your planner, and then print your grocery list or view it from your phone. You can also share your recipes and menus with friends and other users on the Plan to Eat network. To get started, click here. 

This episode is for all the well-meaning and concerned trolls folks who feel compelled to speak about other people’s bodies, most specifically, fat bodies. Do a Health Coach a favor and STOP IT.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Heart disease in runners
• Weight bias and discrimination in healthcare
• Seeing Aretha Franklin Sing for the Last Time

What’s Next? There’s more to being healthy than diet and exercise.

If you want to learn how to feel good in your body without dieting and deprivation, join Honeybee Wellness Club and get access to my wellness library, coaching calls, workshops, and more.

Green Smoothies, Chocolate, and Bacon is for education and information purposes, and is not intended to replace the advice of a licensed healthcare professional. Please exercise personal wisdom and discretion before making any changes to your diet or lifestyle, especially if you are living with an illness or disease, are pregnant, elderly, or have health concerns that require the constant attention and care of a healthcare professional.

Melissa Danielle is an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and host of Green Smoothies, Chocolate, and Bacon, the podcast that challenges listeners to ditch dieting and detoxes in favor of loving food and our bodies at any size.  A graduate of Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Melissa offers health coaching and workshops online and in person via her wellness club.

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This episode is supported by Thrive Market. Thrive Market takes the hassle out of healthy living so that organic food and natural products are accessible to everyone. It offers organic, nutritious foods and nontoxic home and personal care essentials at discounted prices—all delivered right to your door.  Become a member of Thrive Market today by clicking here.

I finally sat down to watch What the Health and the main thing I have to say about it is:  I’m sick of these food and health documentaries.

I’m sick of the intentional misinformation or cherry picking of facts. I’m sick of them counting on the viewer taking what they say at face value and not doing their own research to verify and confirm the so-called facts. I’m sick of them interviewing black, brown, poor, and sick people without addressing their own implicit bias or intersectionality of the single issue they’re so passionate about. I’m sick of all the revisionist history of human evolution. I’m sick of the moral superiority. I’m sick of them not telling the truth.  They’re all recycling the same information to push whatever agenda they have, and no one is really being honest about the core of the problem they’re speaking out against.

I had several working titles for this episode and so much I wanted to talk about (are vegan diets sustainable/realistic in the long-term? / did this fool really just say sugar doesn’t cause diabetes? / did they really just poverty pimp the black and low-income communities like these folks haven’t been dealing with environmental racism and disenfranchisement from day one?),  until I realized that until we start addressing the elephant in the room,  no amount of dietary change is going to change the food system or our collective health.

Mentioned in this episode:

• What The Health Film
• Stuff about fat vegans
• Stuff about sick vegans
• Even Vegans Die
• How the Drought is Affecting California’s Black Families
• The Dark Side of Almond Use
• This Documentary Is Convincing Thousands To Go Vegan — But Does It Tell The Whole Story? Here’s What Doctors Say
• What The Health: A Wolf’s Eye Review
• Are You Ready to Consider that Capitalism is The Real Problem?
• The Troubled History of The Supermarket Tomato
• Why Your Supermarket Only Sells 5 Kinds of Apples
• Food Chain Workers Alliance
• Coalition of Immokalee Workers
• Sistah Vegan Project
• Food Empowerment Project

What’s Next? There’s more to being healthy than diet and exercise.

If you want to learn how to feel good in your body without dieting and deprivation, join Honeybee Wellness Club and get access to my wellness library, coaching calls, workshops, and more.

Green Smoothies, Chocolate, and Bacon is for education and information purposes, and is not intended to replace the advice of a licensed healthcare professional. Please exercise personal wisdom and discretion before making any changes to your diet or lifestyle, especially if you are living with an illness or disease, are pregnant, elderly, or have health concerns that require the constant attention and care of a healthcare professional.

Melissa Danielle is an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and host of Green Smoothies, Chocolate, and Bacon, the podcast that challenges listeners to ditch dieting and detoxes in favor of loving food and our bodies at any size.  A graduate of Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Melissa offers health coaching and workshops online and in person via her wellness club.

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This episode is supported by Thrive Market. For an annual membership fee, you can save up to 50% on your favorite brands and ingredients. Thrive Market supports natural, organic, and whole foods eating, so if you’re looking to save money on your groceries, click here to get started.

Forward your paid membership details to join@honeybeewellness.club and I’ll give you free access to my wellness resource library. 

I spent a month getting an allergy shot every week and taking allergy medication twice a day, while also using a nasal spray. This was not living for me, so I began to research alternatives to allergy medications.

I’m sharing this not as a cure-all, but as a way for you to reimagine what your life might look like if you didn’t have allergies and if you weren’t on allergy medication.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Probiotics
• Broccoli Sprouts Seeds
• Mason Jar Sprouter
• Turmeric
• Cayenne
• Local Harvest
• Cinnamon
• Nettle Leaf Tea

You may also be interested in Wild Fermentation or learning how to lacto-ferment with Summer Bock.

How are you managing your allergies? If you’re not using OTC or allergy prescription medication, what worked? Let me know in the comments.

Green Smoothies, Chocolate, and Bacon challenges mainstream diet dogma that says you must diet, deprive, or willpower yourself away in order to live a health and happy life.

The content presented on this podcast is for education and information purposes only, and is not intended to replace the advice of a licensed healthcare professional. Please exercise personal wisdom and discretion before making any changes to your diet or medication protocol. 

I use affiliate links throughout this website and may receive a commission on any sales made from those links. 

Where could you use support? 

I received my training in Integrative Nutrition Health Coaching from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. I’ve studied over 100 dietary theories and support people just like you in living fully engaged lives without dieting and deprivation.

Click here to find out how to work with me

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Green Smoothies, Chocolate, and Bacon is hosted on the Blubrry platform using the Blubrry PowerPress plugin. Thinking of starting your own podcast? Try it free for one month through this link.

This episode is supported by Thrive Market. Thrive Market takes the hassle out of healthy living so that organic food and natural products are accessible to everyone. It offers organic, nutritious foods and nontoxic home and personal care essentials at discounted prices—all delivered right to your door.

 Become a member of Thrive Market today by clicking here.

Forward your membership confirmation to join@honeybeewellness.club and I’ll give you access to my wellness resource library.

The Integrative Nutrition Plan is a 12-step process for anyone looking to create long-term health and wellness in their lives.  In this episode, I go over each step and offer my own insights from personal experience and over twelve years of health coaching. The Integrative Nutrition Plan is included in Integrative Nutrition: Feed Your Hunger for Health and Happiness.

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Olivia Cleans Green / Vegan Soup Challenge
• How to Cook Everything / How to Cook Everything Vegetarian
• Plan to Eat
• PlateJoy
• Shop Thrive Market for Whole Grains
• The Four Agreements

Green Smoothies, Chocolate, and Bacon is for education and information purposes, and is not intended to replace the advice of a licensed healthcare professional. Please exercise personal wisdom and discretion before making any changes to your diet or lifestyle, especially if you are living with an illness or disease, are pregnant, elderly, or have health concerns that require the constant attention and care of a healthcare professional.

Melissa Danielle is an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and host of Green Smoothies, Chocolate, and Bacon, the podcast that challenges listeners to ditch dieting and detoxes in favor of loving food and our bodies at any size.  A graduate of Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Melissa offers health coaching and workshops online and in person via her wellness club.