This week, we're joined by Alanna’s friend and certified badass Stevi Gable Carr, Founder & CEO of WISe Wellness Guild, a platform that works to advance women through whole-self wellness.
What many people don't know is that Stevi is a cervical cancer survivor. In this episode, she discusses her rare form of cervical cancer and how it shifted her outlook on parenthood and well, life itself. If you're needing inspiration to change the narrative and write your own story - this one is for you.
Oct 19, 2021
54 min
Alanna and Nicole are joined this week by Endometriosis Warrior Sam Abel, who is taking initiative and sharing her journey with this debilitating disease on social media. Sam tells us about her symptoms – which severely impacted her life – and how she had to deal with these symptoms for SIX YEARS before one doctor finally took her seriously. She talks about her various surgeries, the importance of advocating for yourself and how she is now inspiring others to speak up and speak out.
Sep 28, 2021
53 min
This week on the podcast, we have an EXCLUSIVE! Nicole & Alanna are joined by Alanna’s friend Brittany Baldi – a Boston-area native, social media influencer, podcast host & former reality TV star! Recently, on Britt’s podcast (The BosBabes), Britt shared something shocking with Alanna: that she suffers from allergies so severe that she's been hospitalized multiple times throughout her life!
Isn't it crazy that the people who look like they're thriving might just be fighting something else on the si
Sep 14, 2021
55 min
This week, the Gals are joined by Alanna’s friend Cody O’Connor, who is having a rest day at the time of recording – while embarking on a journey WALKING ACROSS THE COUNTRY to raise money for cancer research!
At age 14, Cody was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer – and was told he'd never walk again. However, with a heavy dose of faith and a strong support system, he was able to overcome the odds. Now, he runs a nonprofit called Champions Do Overcome, and boy, is he living up to that!
Sep 7, 2021
58 min
In this episode, Nicole and Alanna are joined by Lauren Berberich, a mental health professional in Alaska, to talk about EMDR - and how this form of science-based therapy can help enable people to heal from symptoms and emotional distress that are a result of a triggering experience.
Lauren discusses how EMDR therapy works, how many sessions are typically needed, and even gives us real-life examples of cases in which this form of therapy has worked (Note: not all cases are human!)
Aug 31, 2021
47 min
This week on the podcast, the Gutsy Gals chat with Alanna’s Friend/News Reporter/Celiac Warrior Meredith Barack (well, Nicole does most of the talking since Alanna lost her voice!)
In this episode, Meredith shares a piece of her past – reflecting on how her childhood behaviors revealed major clues to her eventual celiac disease diagnosis. She chronicles how she and her parents constantly missed the distress signals, which finally reached a pinnacle with the stress and challenges of college life....
Aug 24, 2021
52 min
This week, the Gutsy Gals chat with Alanna’s friend Conor Daly, an Indianapolis-based professional INDYCAR driver who lives life full-throttle - despite living with Type 1 Diabetes. We chat about his diagnosis, how he manages a high-intensity sport with his condition, his discipline with diet and exercise, how he doesn’t let his condition get in the way of living a normal life, and so much more! And Conor is hilarious, so you won’t leave this one without cracking up!
Aug 3, 2021
42 min
Originally, when we booked Nicole's friend Tamara for this conversation, we planned on discussing her battle with Stage 4 HER2+ Metastatic Breast Cancer - and the success she's found in beating it NATURALLY with Gerson Therapy. But we got so much more! Tamara reveals to us that she had kept the cancer a secret from her friends and planned to make it to one more big bash before she kicked the bucket - but as her "death day" approached, something unexpected happened that reignited her will to live...
Jul 27, 2021
48 min
This one is longer, but TOTALLY WORTH EVERY MINUTE!
If you need some inspiration (and let’s be real, who doesn’t?!), this week's episode is PERFECT for you. Today, we chat with Nicole’s pal Danny Gomez, a Los Angeles-based actor, model and disability advocate – who is paralyzed from the waist down. We chat about his life before the accident, the actual accident (wow this story is WILD), and his life after. Danny also reveals the ways the accident has impacted his life, surprisingly, for the better.
Jul 20, 2021
1 hr 18 min
Have you ever dealt with excessive hair shedding? Not just your standard "losing hair in the shower" type of hair shedding -- we're talking “hair coming out in clumps” type of hair shedding! It can not only be scary but can also take a major toll on your emotions. This week on the podcast, we speak with Dr. Abby Waldman, a dermatologist in Boston, Massachusetts, about Telogen Effluvium - a very common phenomenon of temporary hair loss which happens after some sort of stress, trauma or shock to the body.
Jul 13, 2021
32 min
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