This podcast is for female entrepreneurs who know that when they show up for themselves, they show up better for their business. Each week, you can expect to hear from guests who will discuss self-care topics in mental, physical, and spiritual health. And since I understand that every female entrepreneur has different definitions of self-care, we have episodes that cover practical steps on how to care for yourself to the woo-woo.
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March 4, 2026Episode 318 min
How to Create Your Baseline Happiness as a Female Entrepreneur with Yenvy Truong
Send us Fan MailWe explore what baseline happiness means and how to build it with a simple Wheel of Life check-in, using awareness, proactive health, and small daily habits to restore energy and focus. We share practical ways to personalize self-care without guilt and why “go slow to go fast” truly accelerates growth.• defining baseline happiness and the role of awareness• using the Wheel of Life across eight domains• spotting daily stressors versus core causes• shifting from reactive care to proactive health• movement, sleep, and nutrition for stamina• meditation to calm reactivity and spark clarity• customizing routines without comparison• simple next steps to raise low-scoring areas• why fun and connection protect performanceIf you loved what YenB said, please leave a review and subscribe for other self-care self-care tidbits as we go along with our week on the showSupport the showConnect with Wendy Manganaro: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendymanganaro1/
February 14, 2026Episode 219 min
Food Freedom, Not Fear with Sloane Elizabeth
Send us Fan MailDiet rules don’t just live on your plate—they live in your head and your history. We invited food freedom coach and holistic wellness expert Sloane Elizabeth to unpack how fear-based nutrition, viral trends, and moralized labels push smart people into smaller, more anxious lives—and how to step out of that loop with clarity and calm.We start by taking a hard look at diet culture’s favorite tactics: intermittent fasting as identity, carb and bread panic, and the halo of words like natural and healthy. Wendy shares a personal story about hidden allergens in a “simple” bar, reminding us why label literacy matters without spiraling into obsession. From there, we redefine healthy as personal and flexible—where taste, allergies, and sensitivities count, and where forcing “perfect” foods undermines trust. Sloane maps out a model that fuses evidence-based nutrition with spirituality, so choices are guided by both facts and felt safety.The conversation digs into family scripts like the clean plate club and using food as reward, showing how scarcity and people-pleasing shape overeating and urgency. Sloane shares her own journey from perfectionism and control to intuitive eating, explaining why the real first step isn’t macros—it’s the subconscious. By addressing root beliefs around worth, scarcity, and trust, you create change that sticks and watch it ripple into work, relationships, and self-care. We also flag red signs for entrepreneurs: constant food thoughts, purity-driven label checks, skipped events due to body worry, and rules that sound like can’t or must.If you’re ready to stop outsourcing your choices to trends and start listening to your body with compassion and skill, this one’s for you. Tune in, take what serves you, and test it gently in your next meal. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs food freedom today, and leave a review to help others find the show.Support the showConnect with Wendy Manganaro: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendymanganaro1/
February 4, 2026Episode 118 min
The Power of Journaling for Mental Clarity and Self Discovery with Kerstin Phillips
Send us Fan MailWe explore a five-step journaling method that helps busy people find clarity in minutes and explains why pen and paper unlock more honesty than typing. Kristen shares practical tools, common blocks, and how short, messy pages turn shoulds into clear next steps.• Defining thoughtful journaling and why it works• Kristen’s path from venting to a repeatable method• Breaking the myth that journaling needs 20 minutes• Pen and paper vs typing for deeper honesty• Tools that make you want to write• Brain dumps to clear mental clutter• Sorting shoulds from wants for entrepreneurs• When prompts help and when they don’t• First steps to start and keep the habitIf you go to loveandlivewellness.com slash journaling, that's where you will find the guide thank you so muchIf you love what you heard today, please subscribe for more self-care tips as the weeks go forwardAnd if you love what Kirsten had to say, please write us a reviewSupport the showConnect with Wendy Manganaro: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendymanganaro1/
January 7, 2026Episode 1216 min
Self-Compassion Over Hustle: Mindful Leadership for Female Entrepreneurs with Melissa Arroyo
Send us Fan MailWe explore how mindful self-compassion helps women founders trade hustle and grind for gentle, sustainable motivation. A counselor shares practical tools, early warning signs of overload, and simple grounding skills to build a business with real boundaries.• definition of mindful self-compassion for female entrepreneurs• compassionate motivation versus hustle culture• using mindfulness to return to the present• therapist-backed skills before other interventions• Melissa’s journey from burnout to better boundaries• designing business hours and email expectations• three pillars: mindfulness, self-kindness, common humanity• warning signs of overload and isolation• grounding methods: 5-4-3-2-1, nature, “where are your feet”• self-kindness tactics: comfort, soothe, validate, provide, protect, motivateGuest handout link ...please write us a review and subscribe so you don't miss any of the upcoming showsSupport the showConnect with Wendy Manganaro: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendymanganaro1/
December 3, 2025Episode 1130 min
Burnout, Boundaries, and Becoming a Better Leader with Dr. Jacqueline Kerr
Send us Fan Mail Burnout isn’t just exhaustion; it’s a slow shift in your identity, boundaries, and belief system that many women entrepreneurs don’t recognize until they hit a breaking point. In this powerful conversation, behavior scientist and burnout survivor Dr. Jacqueline Kerr joins Wendy to unpack the early warning signs of burnout, the difference between passion and self-sacrifice, and why women leaders are especially vulnerable. Dr. Kerr, one of the top 1% most-cited scientists worldwide, shares the behavior-change strategies she used to rebuild her own leadership after leaving academia, along with practical tools you can apply today—whether you’re leading a team, a company, or your own home office. You’ll learn how to: • Identify burnout before it becomes a crisis • Set boundaries that support creativity, not guilt • Break perfectionism, people-pleasing, and the “always on” habit • Lead yourself (and others) through times of change with more compassion This conversation remains deeply relevant in 2025, as women continue to navigate hybrid work, entrepreneurship, caregiving, and the pressure to be everything to everyone. If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, resentful, or stretched too thin—this episode is your reset point. Support the showConnect with Wendy Manganaro: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendymanganaro1/
November 12, 2025Episode 1037 min
Where Does The Body End And The Spirit Begin? (with Lori Krajewski)
Send us Fan MailIn this episode, Body Begin Spirit Begin, we explore the powerful question: where does the body begin and the spirit begin? Lori Krajewski and I unpack the idea of dis ease as a loss of ease across physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual systems. We discuss ancestral load, industrial toxins, intergenerational stress, and how childhood suppression of feelings and body signals can shape health patterns later in life.Using the body dashboard metaphor, we examine subtle symptom tracking, medical gaslighting, and what happens when women are told everything is normal while their lived experience says otherwise. The conversation moves beyond supplements into holistic care and quantum level integration, highlighting surrender, perspective shifts, and releasing fear narratives that keep people stuck.For female entrepreneurs, we address entrepreneurial dis ease in pricing, messaging, client dynamics, and leadership identity. We talk about observation, mirrors, coaching, repairing foundation cracks, and the link between self worth and sustainable success. When emotional maturity deepens and anger or drama is released, energy returns and clarity follows.Offer: Create a free user account at http://www.therootbrands.com/lorikaye and email Lori your username to receive $10 off your first order.If you appreciate conversations about self care, self leadership, and growth, subscribe to Wellness & Wealth and leave a review for Lori.Support the showConnect with Wendy Manganaro: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendymanganaro1/
October 28, 2025Episode 927 min
From Shame to Signal: Reclaiming Pleasure as Medicine with Stacie Steinbock
Send us Fan MailStress does not just live in your head. It shapes your breath, your hormones, and the decisions you make when you are tired, stretched thin, or carrying tension for too long. In this episode of Wellness and Wealth, we explore reclaiming pleasure as medicine and what that really means for women navigating burnout, shame, trauma, and major life transitions.Wendy sits down with intimacy coach and educator Stacie Steinbock, founder of The Golden Thread, to unpack how pleasure can serve as a reliable, ethical, and practical support for bodies that have been living in survival mode. Stacie brings more than twenty years of experience in sexuality education, including medical curriculum work with the University of Louisville School of Medicine. She also holds a Tibetan Five Element Tantra certification grounded in lineage based somatic practice. Her work bridges academic rigor, embodied healing, and compassionate care.The conversation begins by examining the gaps many people experienced in early sex education. Silence around desire, relationships, and body image often becomes a generational pattern that leaves adults disconnected from their bodies and unsure how to navigate intimacy without shame. Stacie shares her personal journey through ovarian cancer, surgical menopause, and the intimate process of relearning pleasure when familiar pathways no longer worked. Her story highlights the reality that information alone is not always enough. Healing often requires engaging the body directly.You will hear a clear explanation of somatic healing and how cellular memory can hold trauma within the tissues long after an event has passed. We discuss why talk therapy can be essential yet sometimes incomplete when the nervous system still signals threat. From a scientific perspective, pleasure supports the release of dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphins. These chemicals help counter chronic cortisol and restore focus, motivation, and calm. From an Eastern lens, orgasm can be viewed as a brief experience of freedom from suffering, while everyday joys such as a quiet walk or a warm bath can also return the body to safety.Stacie outlines a grounded framework that includes movement, meditation, connection practices, and pleasure practices that clients implement at home. Her approach maintains clear ethical boundaries and collaborative care with medical providers when needed. The episode also includes a brief guided exercise that demonstrates how quickly the body can shift from tension to nourishment through intentional sensory awareness.The central message is powerful and practical. Reclaiming pleasure as medicine is not about indulgence. It is about restoring balance, sustaining creativity, and reconnecting with your internal guidance system so you can lead, create, and live with resilience.If this conversation resonates, subscribe, share it with someone who needs relief, and leave a review to help more listeners discover it. To explore Stacie’s work, you can reach out for a free thirty minute consultation and request her complimentary ebook on pleasure as medicine.Offer One on one private intimacy coaching with Stacie for individuals, couples, and partnership systemsOffer Link https://www.goldenthreadtantra.com/servicesSupport the showConnect with Wendy Manganaro: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendymanganaro1/
August 16, 2025Episode 912 min
Touch Therapy in a Digital World with Kumiko Kanayama
Send us Fan MailIn a world dominated by screens and constant connection, many people are rediscovering the importance of touch therapy in a digital world. In this episode of Wellness & Wealth, Shiatsu grandmaster Kumiko Sanayama, founder of the Five Lives Center of Shiatsu, shares her expertise on managing stress and anxiety through the healing power of mindful touch. Drawing from her family's tradition and decades of experience working with clients including Gisele Bündchen and Nicole Kidman, Kumiko explains how Shiatsu can help restore balance in both body and mind.Shiatsu follows the same pressure points and energy pathways as acupuncture, but instead of needles, practitioners use their hands, elbows, knees, and body weight to release blockages and improve energy flow. Over time, Kumiko developed her own method called Intuitive Shiatsu, adapting traditional techniques to better meet the needs of each individual client.The philosophy behind Shiatsu is deeply rooted in nature and connection. The Japanese characters that represent Shiatsu symbolize the relationship between hands, people, the sun, the moon, and the earth. Each session is personalized, with practitioners observing posture, movement, and physical tension through stretches and careful assessment to understand what the body needs in that moment.For entrepreneurs and professionals, stress often shows up in familiar places: the back, shoulders, neck, and wrists, especially after long hours at a computer. Kumiko explains that heavy reliance on digital communication creates what traditional Chinese medicine describes as “metal energy.” Without balance, this energy can become rigid. Through touch and mindful bodywork, Shiatsu helps melt that metal energy with “beautiful fire energy,” restoring warmth, movement, and connection.Interest in touch based therapies has grown significantly in recent years, particularly after the pandemic, when many people experienced long periods without meaningful human contact. For those curious about exploring Shiatsu but unable to visit a practitioner, Kumiko also shares simple self care techniques on her YouTube channel, including tapping methods that can help relieve tension in the head, eyes, and jaw.If you enjoyed this conversation, subscribe to the Wellness & Wealth Podcast for more conversations about self care, wellbeing, and living abundantly. And if Kumiko’s insights resonated with you, please consider leaving a review.Wishing you a blessed and abundant week.Support the showConnect with Wendy Manganaro: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendymanganaro1/
August 6, 2025Episode 89 min
Calm Your Brain: Lens Neurofeedback Explained with Nicole Bankhead
Send us Fan MailNeurofeedback Explained: In this episode, Wendy sits down with Nicole Bankhead, founder of Serenity Wellness Counseling, to explore LENS (Low Energy Neurofeedback System), a gentle, tech assisted approach to supporting nervous system regulation. Nicole explains how this innovative therapy can help entrepreneurs struggling with sleep issues, anxiety, and burnout through a process that takes only minutes per session.• LENS Neurofeedback provides a mirror for the brain, allowing it to see and correct its own patterns • The therapy maps 21 points on the brain that correlate to specific functions • Many clients report improved sleep and decreased irritability after just a few sessions • Treatment often begins weekly, then decreases in frequency as improvements occur • Sessions last about 20 minutes, with actual feedback delivered in just seconds • Results may be long lasting, unlike medications that require ongoing use • LENS works well alongside traditional talk therapy • The therapy can support entrepreneurs experiencing anxiety, irritability, or sleep challengesIf you are curious about trying LENS Neurofeedback, Nicole offers a free introductory session. If you are outside her area, her team can help connect you with providers near you. Subscribe for more self care insights and leave a review if you enjoyed this episode.Support the showConnect with Wendy Manganaro: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendymanganaro1/
July 15, 2025Episode 724 min
Ditch the Rules, Keep the Wisdom: A Conversation on Intentional Eating with Paige Harris
Send us Fan MailEver feel trapped between diet culture's rigid rules and your body's confusing signals? You're not alone. Wellness coach Paige Harris breaks down why traditional approaches to healthy eating fail so many women, especially those who've cycled through restrictive diets for years. The problem isn't lack of willpower—it's that chronic dieting damages your body's natural hunger cues, making intuitive eating nearly impossible."You can't be intuitive anymore because you've learned so many different rules about what you should or shouldn't be eating that you don't know how to listen to your body's own cues," Paige explains. That's where intentional eating comes in—a revolutionary approach that helps you make conscious food choices based on what your body actually needs, not what diet culture dictates.<br><br>Drawing from her personal journey through orthorexia and her subsequent healing, Paige shares how her study abroad experience in France transformed her relationship with food. Surrounded by a culture that celebrates rather than fears food, she discovered that eating rich, whole foods didn't lead to weight gain but instead sparked a deeper understanding of nourishment.For female entrepreneurs, especially, the connection between proper nourishment and business success can't be overstated. "Low-calorie diets are low-energy diets," Paige emphasizes. When you're not eating enough, your body responds by increasing stress hormones, leading to anxiety, abdominal fat, and decreased productivity—the opposite of what you're working toward.Ready to transform your relationship with food? Grab Paige's Food Feelings Workbook from the show notes and take the first step toward eating with intention rather than restriction. Your body—and your business—will thank you.Guest Offer: Food Feelings Workbook. This guide is meant to help you get more in tune with your eating habits to see how certain foods you eat are affecting your body. Use it, and you can say goodbye to constant bloating, puffiness, and discomfort for good!Link: https://bit.ly/ipwfoodfeelingsSupport the showConnect with Wendy Manganaro: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendymanganaro1/
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