Healthy Living by Willow Creek Springs
A podcast about practices to promote healthy lives featuring experts, businesses, and clients: we gather to share our stories about success, failure, exploration, and so much more. Our subscription episodes feature some personal and vulnerable, real-life stories that are sensitive to some of the general public.
Episodes
356 episodes
Closing The Door On Your Old Life with Earl Thompson
One moment can split your life into “before” and “after” and you still have to wake up the next day and decide who you’re going to be. Earl Thompson joins me to share the deeply personal story of losing his wife to acute myeloid leukemia, the y...
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27:44
Science Is Not Certainty with Dr. Robert Hoffman
“Trust the science” is easy to say until you are staring at a scan that can’t truly rule cancer out. We sit down again with Dr. Robert Hoffman to talk about what medical evidence can prove, what it can only suggest, and why patients get trapped...
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56:16
Empathy Behind Bars with Megan McDrew
Walking into a prison for the first time changes your body before it changes your mind. Gates, rules, metal detectors, and then something you don’t expect: a room full of people trying to practice honesty, calm, and respect. I’m joined by Megan...
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42:25
Secrets And Healing: pt 6 Healthy living through adversity
A secret can feel like armor, especially when you learned early that telling the truth might cost you love, respect, or safety. We get honest about how childhood trauma turns into a vow of silence, how that vow shapes identity and “manhood,” an...
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54:50
So Your Oncologist Said “Remission”—Now What? with Dr. Robert Hoffman
A hard truth sits at the center of cancer care: remission isn’t the finish line. We open up about the maintenance mindset—how to manage cancer for the long haul—through a rare blend of lab insight, clinical pragmatism, and real-world patient ex...
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43:37
How A Lawyer-Therapist Turned Trauma Into Tools Any Parent Can Use with Paula Yost
What does it take to stand up for your family when the system feels stacked against you? We sit down with Paula Yost—both a seasoned attorney and a licensed mental health clinician—to unpack the real skills of advocacy through stories that move...
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30:03
Rebuilding After Hurt: Healthy living through adversity pt 5
What if we measured justice by how well it heals? We sit down with Juan to unpack a rare, unfiltered look at growth behind the wall—how being seen and heard can jumpstart dignity, how trauma-informed practices rewire the brain, and why labels f...
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57:05
Trauma, Therapy, And The Mosaic Of You with Scott Stolarick
What if feeling truly safe was the first step to feeling truly better? We sit down with licensed psychotherapist Scott Stolarick to explore how trauma ripples through the body, why listening can be more powerful than lecturing, and how the righ...
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35:39
Dr. Jonar de Guzman: Reversing Diabetes With Lifestyle
What if reversing type 2 diabetes could start with your next meal and a five-minute walk? We welcome Dr. Jonar, a dual board certified physician in internal and lifestyle medicine, who left hospital medicine after seeing the cycle of late-stage...
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35:14
Inside Madness Misdiagnosed: A Journey Through OCD, Schizophrenia, And Recovery with Benton Savage
One diagnosis can shape a decade—and the wrong one can steal it. We sit down with author Benton Savage to unpack how a bipolar label masked what was really driving his life: severe OCD and schizophrenia. His account is unsparing and deeply huma...
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32:42
Why Descheduling Beats Rescheduling For Patients’ Rights with Jason Greninger
The headlines make rescheduling sound like progress, but what if shifting cannabis to Schedule III quietly shuts dispensaries and makes patients criminals again? We dig into the science and the policy with guest Jason Grenninger, a certified su...
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43:58
From Diagnosis To Purpose: Glenn Sturm On Integrated Cancer Care
A single phone call at Gate B13 changed everything for Glenn Sturm—and then he changed the playbook for how to live with cancer. Glenn’s rare T cell lymphoma set off a 17-year run of oral and IV chemo, 55 surgeries, and a minefield of side effe...
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Fighting Stage Four Cancer In Prison With Faith, Food, And Grit epsode 4 (healthy living through adversity)
A diagnosis can take your breath away. For Chisholm, it literally did—fluid in his lung, a kidney tumor, metastasis, and a “terminal” label delivered inside a prison where information moves slowly and empathy moves slower. What emerges is not a...
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34:08
From Epilepsy To Educator: Zuzu’s Holistic Blueprint For Lasting Wellness
What if disease isn’t a life sentence but a set of missing pieces you can replace? We sit down with Zuzu—holistic health educator, author, and speaker—to trace how she ended seizures in her early 20s by shifting neurotransmitter nutrition, then...
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35:42
Rethink Heart Health: Systems, Not Symptoms with Dr Melanie Icard
What if the clearest path to a stronger heart starts far from the cardiology lab? We sit down with Dr. Melanie Icard, a naturopathic physician and mind-body expert, to unravel a terrain-based blueprint that helps patients stabilize blood sugar,...
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32:41
Healthy Living Through Adversity part 3 with Cain Velasquez
What if your hardest moments are actually training you for the life you want? We sit down with Cain Velasquez to unpack how breathwork, meditation, and carefully held plant medicine experiences can turn hair-trigger reactions into grounded, lov...
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46:04
Health Is An Investment, Not An Expense with Ari Rastegar
What if the fastest way to level up your career, relationships, and energy is to treat your body like your most valuable asset? We sit down with Ari Rastigar—entrepreneur, author of The Gift of Failure, and committed biohacker—to map a clear, n...
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32:41
Healthy Living Through Adversity part 2
A rough childhood doesn’t just fade; it leaves tracks in the body and mind that can guide every choice we make. We sit down with Juan, who speaks candidly from inside prison about ACEs—Adverse Childhood Experiences—and how early abuse, neglect,...
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Healthy Living Through Adversity part 1
What if the difference between adversity and trauma is whether someone helps you carry it? We sit down with Juan, speaking from incarceration with striking clarity, to explore how childhood adversity, attachment, and the simple act of asking fo...
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When Life Gives You Gluten, Bake A Better Cookie with Carolyn Haeler
A bad cookie changed everything. When our guest, Mightylicious founder and CEO Carolyn Haeler, was blindsided by celiac disease, she didn’t just swap pasta for salad—she rebuilt how gluten free cookies are made, from flour particle size to prot...
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31:40
What If Beating Cancer Means Outthinking Evolution, Not Finding A Silver Bullet with Dr Robert Hoffman
The loudest voices in cancer care rarely come with footnotes. We wanted to flip that script and build a conversation anchored in data, lived experience, and strategies patients can actually use. With Dr. Robert Hoffman, a researcher who has spe...
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Desire Sets The Direction, Habits Carry You There
What if the difference between survival and a life you actually want comes down to one honest question: what do you truly desire? Joe opens up about staring down an aggressive cancer diagnosis and discovering that desire alone wasn’t enough—he ...
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31:49
From Kitchen Experiment To Functional Wellness Brand waith Jan Dalton
What if a simple bar could carry real purpose—calm your nerves on a flight, ease a sensitive gut, or support daily resilience—without the sugar crash? We sit down with eBars co-founder Jan Dalton to unpack how a family project became a function...
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No Options, Only Forward with Ty Gipson
What if your hardest season became the catalyst for your greatest purpose? Ty Gibson takes us from an eight-year-old’s brittle diabetes in the 1970s to a dual transplant that changed everything, through two decades of wins and setbacks, all the...
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30:06
Rewrite Your Story For Health with Dr Karen Parker
What if the words you use about yourself could shift your health, your relationships, and your capacity to create a life you love? Joe sits down with Dr. Karen Parker, creator of Quantum Human Design and author of Quantum Wellness, to unpack ho...
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