Lifestyle Listener: Tackling Life One Conversation at a Time Samantha Rhodes

Welcome back! Jessica and I took a small break from recording to handle life, and now we find ourselves recording in different locations! How are you holding up during the “Great Quarantine?” In this episode, we talk life with Covid-19, what it’s like wearing multiple hats for our families, and trying to find the silver linings in an otherwise bleak situation. Come take a listen and see if anything we say resonates with your own quarantined world! If have questions about this podcast or want more information, please feel free to comment below or simply e-mail me with your questions: samantha@lifestylelistener.com. If you like what you heard here today, SUBSCRIBE!!!!!!!!! That way you stay on top of all the great topics that is coming your way for 2020 from Lifestyle Listener. Be sure to follow me on social media too and get constant tips and motivations for finding your healthy lifestyle. Instagram: @lifestyle_listener, Facebook: @lifestylelistener, and Twitter: @lifestylelistener. Or just visit my webpage for more information about what I do as a health coach, recipes, other podcasts, and my blog. I look forward to hearing from you!

In our last podcast, Jessica and I talk about finding balance and space to make positive changes that will LAST in your life! This week we dig a bit deeper and give you more tools and ideas on exactly how you can make happiness and goals a reality. And of course it’s never boring when you have cats and dogs playing in the background!! Thanks for spending 30 minutes of your day with us and hope to see back the next time. If have questions about this podcast or want more information, please feel free to comment below or simply e-mail me with your questions: samantha@lifestylelistener.com. If you like what you heard here today, SUBSCRIBE!!!!!!!!! That way you stay on top of all the great topics that is coming your way for 2020 from Lifestyle Listener. Be sure to follow me on social media too and get constant tips and motivations for finding your healthy lifestyle. Instagram: @lifestyle_listener, Facebook: @lifestylelistener, and Twitter: @lifestylelistener. Or just visit my webpage for more information about what I do as a health coach, recipes, other podcasts, and my blog. www.lifestylelistener.com. I look forward to hearing from you!

We all deal with stress.  It's just a part of life and there is no getting around it.  In this episode, Jessica and I talk about how stress and work go hand-in-hand, but there never seems to be time to relive ourselves from it.  It doesn't matter if you have an office job or if you work inside the home (yes, you stay-at-home parents are career people too!), stress affects us all and has detrimental outcomes on our health.  

So take a listen and see if the tips and pointers I discuss with Jessica could help you alleviate stress in your own life and make things a little more peaceful.  Remember, STRESS CAN HARM YOUR HEALTH!!!!  So let's find some ways to help you learn to calm your mind, lower cortisol levels, and help you breathe a little easier each day.  

If you have questions about this podcast or want more information, please feel free to comment below or simply e-mail me with your questions: samantha@lifestylelistener.com. If you like what you heard here today, SUBSCRIBE!!!!!!!!! That way you stay on top of all the great topics that is coming your way for 2020 from Lifestyle Listener. Be sure to follow me on social media too and get constant tips and motivations for finding your healthy lifestyle. Instagram: @lifestyle_listener, Facebook: @lifestylelistener, and Twitter: @lifestylelistener. Or just visit my webpage for more information about what I do as a health coach, recipes, other podcasts, and my blog. I look forward to hearing from you!

In January Jessica and I decided to do a cleanse, but not the type of cleanse that involves smoothies and certain food groups.  This was a cleanse to help clear out the used space in our brains squashed by mindless spending and social media apps.  For the entire month of January, we decided to ONLY purchase things out of a necessity.  So Target runs were only for needs like toilet paper, paper towels, and any other personal hygiene product we were out of at the moment.  No running through the dollar aisle or picking up cute "shirts with words" because they would be fun to wear.  We were working on being mindful of our shopping habits and seeing where we dropped extra cash on items we really didn't need.  We also decided to take a break from social media apps and not waste time mindlessly scrolling through news feeds or get wrapped up in the latest and not-so-greatest news regarding celebrities or other famous figures.  

This is a quick podcast, so take a listen and see how we did! If you had your own cleanse of something in January, we would love to hear from you and your experiences, so comment or e-mail!  

If you have questions about this podcast or want more information, please feel free to comment below or simply e-mail me with your questions: samantha@lifestylelistener.com. If you like what you heard here today, SUBSCRIBE!!!!!!!!! That way you stay on top of all the great topics that is coming your way for 2020 from Lifestyle Listener. Be sure to follow me on social media too and get constant tips and motivations for finding your healthy lifestyle. Instagram: @lifestyle_listener, Facebook: @lifestylelistener, and Twitter: @lifestylelistener. Or just visit my webpage for more information about what I do as a health coach, recipes, other podcasts, and my blog. I look forward to hearing from you!

January is off to a great start and we thought talking about physical activity would be the perfect topic for those still knee-deep in diet resolutions.  So, the connection between diet and exercise has always been promoted as a key to weight loss, but what if you were told exercising doesn't cause you to loose weight?  Would you still do it?  Would you stop all activity and become a couch potato?  

I did some research and digging on the correlation between physical activity and weight loss, and I was not surprised to find several articles with credible citations making the claim that moving more won't help you weigh less.  So why even bother?  Not all of us enjoy physical activity, but what is important to remember when it comes to a healthy MIND AND BODY is that physical activity is necessary for both.  

Some of my information came from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (http://www.integrativenutrition.com/).  I also found some great info about this topic from the book, Intuitive Eating:  A Revolutionary Program that Works by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch.  You can get it on Amazon or at any other bookstore.  I also found some interesting research links via an article on VOX.com  (https://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11518804/weight-loss-exercise-myth-burn-calories).  Go check it out if you want to learn more for yourself. 

Come take a listen and let's see if you agree or not with what we discovered about why Exercise Won't Make You Skinny!

If you have questions about this podcast or want more information, please feel free to comment below or simply e-mail me with your questions: samantha@lifestylelistener.com.  If you like what you heard here today, SUBSCRIBE!!!!!!!!!  That way you stay on top of all the great topics that is coming your way for 2020 from Lifestyle Listener.  Be sure to follow me on social media too and get constant tips and motivations for finding your healthy lifestyle.  Instagram:  @lifestyle_listener, Facebook: @lifestylelistener, and Twitter:  @lifestylelistener.  Or just visit my webpage, www.lifestylelistener.com for more information about what I do as a health coach, recipes, other podcasts, and my blog.  I look forward to hearing from you!

We are all consumers...it is the world we live in.  But have you ever thought about taking time off from being a Consumer?  For the month of January, Jessica and I are challenging each other to buy less this month.  We only are going to try and buy the necessities-food, toilet paper, paper towels, household cleaners, etc.  What we are not going to buy is random things that look shiny and fabulous, but really don't need to be purchased.  After spending so much during the holiday season, we just want to be more conscientious of how we spend our dollars.  It's just our way of trying to ring in the new year being mindful of how we spend and how we save.  What are you doing this new year to add positive changes to your life?  

If you would like to ask questions regarding this podcast or any other podcast you hear on Lifestyle Listener, please e-mail me: samantha@lifestylelistener.com.  I am also on social media:  FB (@lifestylelisener), IG (@lifestyle_listener), and Twitter (@lifestylelistener).  Or check out my web page, www.lifestylelistener.com.  We look forward to hearing from you and don't forget to hit that subscribe button to keep up with the latest podcast from Lifestyle Listener!!