The We Shine Well Podcast

Zoë Kelsey
  • 5.0 (17)
  • Alternative Health

The We Shine Well Podcast is your weekly dose of inspiration, real talk, and community-rooted support to help you live your most aligned and intentional life from the inside out, hosted by me - Zoë Kelsey, founder of We Shine Well. Join us for honest, heart-opening conversations with thought leaders in wellness. Expect weekly episodes filled with empowering stories, practical tools, and powerful insights to support you in taking your next right step to live your most vibrant life. This isn’t just a podcast, it’s an invitation to go from feeling contained to feeling ignited and expanded - to shine as your most radiant self. New episodes drop every Tuesday. Subscribe, dive deeper with guests and prompts by joining our growing community committed to living well on Substack, and share with a friend!

  1. 3d ago

    The Gut, Brain, and Body Truth: What's Actually Making You Feel Like This with Dr. Mary Pardee

    What if the problem isn't your gut? That's the question Dr. Mary Pardee, Naturopathic Doctor and Founder modrn med, shares her in this episode. If you've ever walked out of a doctor's office with a label but no answers, this one is for you. In this episode: Why "everything starts in the gut" is an oversimplification and what to look at insteadWhat IBS actually is, the criteria you have to meet for a real diagnosis, and why so many people are misdiagnosed or lumped into the wrong categoryThe gut-brain axis: how the brain and gut communicate bi-directionally, what "visceral hypersensitivity" means, and why two people can have the same amount of gas but only one feels terribleThe eating disorder and GI connection,Why skipping meals when you're bloated makes your symptoms worse, not betterSIBO: when motility is the root cause and how to actually address itHow Dr. Mary uses cognitive behavioral therapy to rewire the stress response around GI symptoms and the IBS symptom severity scores she's seen drop from 220 to 75What your muscles actually secrete when you exercise (myokines, BDNF, insulin sensitivity) and why exercise is "one of the best drugs we have"GLP-1s vs. research-grade peptidesConnect with Dr. Mary Pardee: Instagram: @dr.marypardyWork with Dr. Mary modrnmed.com Longevity + prevention course: launching soon — follow her for detailsWays to Support the Show: Leave a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify — it helps more people find usSubscribe to the We Shine Well Substack for deeper dives, journal prompts, and moreShare this episode with someone who's been dismissed by a doctor or is still searching for answers

    The Gut, Brain, and Body Truth: What's Actually Making You Feel Like This with Dr. Mary Pardee

  2. Oct 27

    Dress Like You Mean It: Style as Identity Work with Chellie Carlson

    What if getting dressed in the morning could change the entire trajectory of your day, your confidence, your opportunities, the way people receive you? In this episode, I sit down with Chellie Carlson, wardrobe stylist and creator of the Magnetic Style Method, for a conversation that goes so much deeper than clothes. Chellie has spent 25 years in the fashion industry and has built her career on a truth most women have never been told - style is a personal development tool. A manifestation tool. A physical vision board for your next level self. And your closet? That's where all of your skeletons live. We go deep on why high-achieving women hide, what it costs them, and the practical codes that will shift everything starting today. Tune in! Key insights: Why most high-achieving women are blending in when they were built to stand out (it's in our DNA)Your closet as a microcosm of your life and why cleaning it out clears the path forwardStyle as a physical vision board — Chellie styles clients 3 to 5 years into their futureGet rid of half your clothes. Seriously. You will not miss a single piece.Outfit repeat. Less is more. Find what people respond to and wear it again.Create a signature look — it saves time, builds trust, and raises your frequencyHow Chellie went from farm girl in Missouri to unemployment to 7 figures in 4 yearsWays to be Supported: Follow @chelliecarlson on Instagram (Chellie with a C!)Explore the Magnetic Style Method + Style Society at chelliecarlson.comWays to Support the Show: Join our We Shine Well Substack for prompts + communityConnect at @weshinewellFollow, rate + review, and share with a woman who's ready to stop hidingYou are loved, supported, and exactly where you're meant to be.

    Dress Like You Mean It: Style as Identity Work with Chellie Carlson

  3. Oct 20

    You Cannot Heal in Survival Mode: Naturopathic Medicine with Dr. Elizabeth Wade

    You cannot heal in survival mode. Your body will not prioritize creating life, balancing your hormones, or healing your gut when it thinks it's being chased by a tiger. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Elizabeth Wade, naturopathic doctor, educator, and founder of Fertility Reclaimed, for a conversation about what root cause medicine actually looks like in practice, and what most of us are still missing when it comes to our health. Elizabeth went from coordinating international exchange programs in Chicago to sitting on a beach in Costa Rica reading The Blue Zones, realizing her real passion had nothing to do with her career, and eventually becoming one of the most grounded practitioners in the fertility and hormonal health space. Her path led her to build the program she needed and couldn't find. Tune in! Key insights: What naturopathic medicine is and why the iceberg analogy explains everythingThe dermatologist story that made Elizabeth genuinely frustrated at 20, and why it called her to medicineHow to quiet the wellness noise and actually hear what your own body is telling youThe lab trick that gets conventional doctors to run panels they'd otherwise refuseThe gut microbiome as the foundation and what happens when it's offHow scrolling your phone creates the same stress response as being chased by a predatorWhy your body won't conceive — or heal — when it's in chronic survival modePreconception health and the Fertility Reclaimed program: what it covers and why it mattersDaily choices as self-love: sleep, hydration, self-talk, and reparenting yourself Ways to be Supported: Follow @dr.elizabethwade on InstagramWork with Elizabeth virtually or in person at drelizabethwade.com Ways to Support the Show: Join our We Shine Well Substack for prompts + communityConnect at @weshinewellFollow, rate + review, and share with a woman who's ready to come home to her body You are loved, supported, and exactly where you're meant to be.

    You Cannot Heal in Survival Mode: Naturopathic Medicine with Dr. Elizabeth Wade

  4. Oct 13

    Train Your Brain: Neurofeedback, Trauma + Peak Performance with Angie Noack

    Your brain is your best asset. So why do most of us treat it last? In this episode, I sit down with Angie Noack, licensed professional counselor and Sr. VP at Brain Code Centers, for a conversation that started before we even hit record, with an actual brain map of my brain. Angie fractured her skull at 19 donating blood. Spent weeks in the ICU. Was released in a walker. Reversed her own severe anxiety and panic attacks through neurofeedback. And built her entire career around helping other people do the same. She believes you are not beholden to what you were born with. Your brain is neuroplastic. It is capable of change and neurofeedback is the hardware-level work that no amount of supplements, meditation, or cold plunging can replace. This one gets specific and personal, including what Angie saw in my own brain scan. Tune in! Key insights: Angie's skull fracture at 19, the TBI that changed her life, and 40-60 sessions that reversed her panic attacksWhat a brain map (QEEG) actually is and what it reveals that an MRI or standard scan can'tThe four brain waves — delta, theta, alpha, beta, high beta — and what happens when they're offSoftware vs. hardware: why supplements and meditation can't fix a neurological patternWhat Angie saw in Zoë's brain map — hyperfixation, alpha dominance, and the impact of a 12-year-old head injuryAnxiety and depression through a neurological lens — and what lifting that fog can do to someone's identityThe 13-year-old hockey player who had two schools and one hockey team threatening him — two months into neurofeedback, a different kidHow neurofeedback works differently from medication — and why the results don't have a shelf lifeFertility, pregnancy, and postpartum — why neurofeedback is safe and why fight-or-flight brains struggle to conceiveDaily brain health: morning sunlight, box breathing, bilateral tapping, puzzles, blood sugar, and making sleep your superpower Ways to be Supported: Follow @braincodecenters on InstagramBook a free consultation + explore brain mapping at braincodecenters.comUse code SHINE for a discount on the neurofeedback program Ways to Support the Show: Join our We Shine Well Substack for prompts + communityConnect at @weshinewellFollow, rate + review, and share with someone who has tried everything and is ready for the hardware work You are loved, supported, and exactly where you're meant to be.

    Train Your Brain: Neurofeedback, Trauma + Peak Performance with Angie Noack

  5. Oct 6

    Holistic Healing + Spiritual Transformation: Moving to Your True Self with Lauren Vaknine

    You cannot heal from a place of fear. That's the truth at the center of everything Lauren Vaknine does. And once you hear her say it and hear the story that led her to it you can't unhear it. In this episode, I sit down with Lauren Vaknine, holistic healer, identity coach, and founder of the RISE membership, for one of the most layered and insightful conversations on healing I've had on this show. Lauren was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis at 23 months old. At 18, a chemo-based drug spread it to every joint in her body and left her in a wheelchair. Eleven years later, after piecing together every layer of healing, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, she reached remission. That was 13 years ago. She has been able-bodied since. The root of her healing wasn't a protocol. It was identity. This conversation gets into all of it - why nothing heals in isolation, what the biohacking world gets wrong, how trapped emotions become illness, what identity shifting actually means, and why the most powerful healing tools in the world are completely free. Tune in! Key insights: 27 years of rheumatoid arthritis, a wheelchair at 18, and the decision that changed everythingHolistic means whole, not natural. Why healing one part requires healing all parts.The 18-wheeler analogy: one flat tire and the whole vehicle is offWhy you cannot heal from fear and why most of the biohacking world is operating from exactly thatTrapped emotions and what happens when they don't move through the bodyIdentity shifting as the root of all healing and why "my arthritis" is a language Lauren won't allowThe RISE membershipThe biohacking lie: the stuff that actually heals you costs nothingWomen heal more deeply in community and why Lauren built her whole program around thatHer book I'm Fine — coming later this year Ways to be Supported: Follow Lauren on Instagram and explore the RISE membership at laurenvaknine.com Ways to Support the Show: Join our We Shine Well Substack for prompts + communityConnect at @weshinewellFollow, rate + review, and share with a woman who is ready to stop running from the real work You are loved, supported, and exactly where you're meant to be.

    Holistic Healing + Spiritual Transformation: Moving to Your True Self with Lauren Vaknine

  6. Sep 29

    Your Vision Lives in Your Body: Breathwork + Living Fully with Jamie Janko

    Your vision doesn't live in your mind. It lives in your nervous system. That's the idea Jamie Janko has built her entire life and practice around. In this episode, I sit down with Jamie Janko, founder of ReWild Breathwork, somatic educator, practitioner trainer in over 25 countries, and one of the most nomadically adventurous humans I know, for a conversation about breath, vision, the nervous system, and what becomes possible when you finally come home to yourself. Jamie left a 12-year career in Major League Baseball, a marriage, and the country — all after one breathwork session in Venice Beach that showed her exactly where her life was supposed to go next. She didn't believe it. She thought the universe was talking to the girl next to her, but she followed it anyway and this is where it led. This one is also personal for me. I shared about my own experience with breathwork opening things that years of therapy couldn't reach. I think it'll land for a lot of you too. Tune in! Key insights: Baby Jamie failing a physical exam for cheerleading tryouts and discovering breath at age 12 before the internetWhat conscious connected breathwork actually is and why it's nothing like you expectWhy it's similar to a psilocybin experience — there are actual studies on thisThe difference between functional breath and conscious connected breath — and why both matterYour vision lives in your nervous system, not your mind — what that means and why it changes everythingNervous system flexibility vs. regulation — why the goal isn't calm, it's rangeEmail apnea: the way you hold your breath every time an email comes in without realizing itBuilding ReWild: staying in your lane, giving back globally, and learning it's safe to be visibleGoing nomadic: leaving LA for Ireland, Spain, and Bali — and doing it scaredDo it scared. And if you don't like it, you can always come back. Ways to be Supported: Follow @jamiejanko + @rewildbreathwork on InstagramExplore retreats, trainings + the Somatic Breathwork Practitioner Training at rewildbreathwork.com Ways to Support the Show: Join our We Shine Well Substack for prompts + communityConnect at @weshinewellFollow, rate + review, and share with someone who's ready to follow the thread You are loved, supported, and exactly where you're meant to be.

    Your Vision Lives in Your Body: Breathwork + Living Fully with Jamie Janko

  7. Sep 22

    Pleasure Is the Strategy: Ditch Diet Culture + Design Your Best Life with Laura Conley

    If hunger isn't the problem, food isn't the solution. That's the through line of everything Laura Conley does and once you hear her say it, you won't be able to un-hear it. In this episode, I sit down with Laura Conley, life and weight loss coach, founder of the Yummy Mummy Method, and host of the top 1.5% podcast Lose Weight for the Last Time, for one of the most refreshing and genuinely funny conversations about food, bodies, and what it really takes to get out of the cycle for good. Laura figured all of this out the hard way. She was the woman who knew every diet, had every supplement, had tried everythin and still couldn't follow through. Then her daughter came home from a month in the hospital as a newborn, and Laura took a shower and started beating herself up for not being back in her pre-baby jeans. That was the wake-up call. And the Yummy Mummy Method was born from everything she figured out after it. Tune in! Key insights: Why she had a breakdown in the shower after her daughter came home from the hospital and what it changedWhat emotional eating actually is and why most people don't realize they're doing itHunger hormones: insulin, leptin, ghrelin, and how processed food hijacks your ability to hear your bodyWhy willpower doesn't work and what allow power is insteadHealthy happy restriction: the middle path between 800 calories a day and eating whatever you wantThe when-then game: "when I lose the weight, then I'll feel confident" and how to reverse itPleasure as a non-negotiable why women who don't know what they enjoy are more likely to reach for foodAlmost immediate gratification: how to get a hit of reward without waiting six months for the goalThe five pillars of the Yummy Mummy MethodYou are not bad or wrong. It's not your fault. And it might just be your responsibility.Ways to be Supported: Follow @lauraconleycoaching on InstagramGrab the free Best Weight Loss Plan Ever at lauraconley.com/planListen to the Lose Weight for the Last Time podcastWays to Support the Show: Join our We Shine Well Substack for prompts + communityConnect at @weshinewellFollow, rate + review, and share with a woman who has tried everything and is ready to try something differentYou are loved, supported, and exactly where you're meant to be.

    Pleasure Is the Strategy: Ditch Diet Culture + Design Your Best Life with Laura Conley

  8. Sep 15

    Fizzy Little Overachiever: Building Waay + Life on Your Own Terms with Morgan Zanotti

    The protein movement is one of the best things to happen to women's health in years and Morgan Zanotti has thoughts about it. In this episode, I sit down with Morgan Zanotti — co-founder of Primal Kitchen, founder of Waay, and one of the most genuinely honest founders I've had on this show — for a conversation about building businesses, managing the mental weight of it, and why protein, but make it fun, might be exactly what we needed. Morgan bootstrapped Primal Kitchen to $50 million in revenue without outside investors, pioneered seed-oil-free condiments before that was even a phrase people used, and sold it to Kraft Heinz for $200 million. Then she spotted a gap in the protein space, discovered clear whey protein isolate, and thought: put it in sparkling water. It's not that complicated. Call it day for your protein goals with Waay. We also talk about the mental health breakout session at a VC summit that every founder showed up to and nobody expected, the Untethered Soul and what happened when she closed her eyes at a country club pool in her twenties, and why you don't have to have it figured out to take the next step. Tune in! Key insights: How Primal Kitchen started with mayonnaise and why that wasn't actually an accidentBootstrapping to $50M without investorsPioneering seed-oil-free condiments before anyone had words for itWhy she said no to Walmart in year two and what happened when the timing was finally rightStarting Waay when you know everything that can go wrong (it's harder and she knows it)The protein movement for women: why Morgan thinks it's one of the healthiest shifts in a long timeThe VC founder wellness breakout session no one expected to be standing room onlyThe Untethered Soul, therapy, and how she manages anxiety as a visionaryBuilding community by hiring people you genuinely love, not just people with the right resumeYou don't have to have it figured out. You never do. Keep going anyway. Ways to be Supported: Follow @morganzanotti and @drinkwaay on InstagramShop Waay at drinkwaay.com or find it at Whole Foods, Sprouts, and Target Ways to Support the Show: Join our We Shine Well Substack for prompts + communityConnect at @weshinewellFollow, rate + review, and share with a founder who needs a reminder to keep going You are loved, supported, and exactly where you're meant to be.

    Fizzy Little Overachiever: Building Waay + Life on Your Own Terms with Morgan Zanotti
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The We Shine Well Podcast is your weekly dose of inspiration, real talk, and community-rooted support to help you live your most aligned and intentional life from the inside out, hosted by me - Zoë Kelsey, founder of We Shine Well. Join us for honest, heart-opening conversations with thought leaders in wellness. Expect weekly episodes filled with empowering stories, practical tools, and powerful insights to support you in taking your next right step to live your most vibrant life. This isn’t just a podcast, it’s an invitation to go from feeling contained to feeling ignited and expanded - to shine as your most radiant self. New episodes drop every Tuesday. Subscribe, dive deeper with guests and prompts by joining our growing community committed to living well on Substack, and share with a friend!

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  • Creator
    Zoë Kelsey
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    47
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Zoë Kelsey
  • Show Website
    The We Shine Well Podcast

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