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
346 episodes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Raw, Simple, And Powerful with Axay Shah
What if the most straightforward question—why Axay Shaw, founder of RawFoodiest, to explore how eating for energy and minimizing harm can transform performance, clarity, and long-term wellbeing.e His story spans sixteen years of raw nutrition, ...
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Spring Into Wellness Retreat with Vee Martinez
Quiet can change a body. That’s where we start—stepping out of the city hum and into a garden where owls work the night shift and mornings begin with breath, not sirens. From that ground, we sketch a retreat designed for real life: simple pract...
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Planning For Care Without Panic with Raymond Lavine
Most people plan to “figure it out later,” until later arrives with a hospital bracelet and a stack of bills. We invited Raymond Lavine—financial services veteran, caregiver advocate, and host of Planning with Purpose—to help us design long-ter...
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From Backyard Herbs To A Holistic First Aid Revolution with Jodi Scott
What happens when a clean-living family realizes their first aid cabinet is the last place to live clean? We sit down with entrepreneur and health psychology expert Jodi Scott to explore how Green Goo grew from backyard herbs and screen doors t...
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Oxygen, Energy, And The Hidden Cost Of Deficiency
Feeling wiped out, lightheaded, or strangely clumsy isn’t just a bad day—it can be anemia quietly starving your body of oxygen. Joe shares a candid look at how anemia showed up during cancer treatment and the exact steps that brought energy bac...
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When Proof Matters More Than Bold Promises with Dr Robert Hoffman
Bold claims don’t save lives—repeatable results do. We bring Dr. Robert Hoffman back to unpack a simple experiment with big consequences: when cancer and normal cells grow together in the same dish, methionine restriction hits tumors while spar...
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From Sacred Plant To Supreme Court: How Illegal Surveillance Threatens Everyone
A simple question with enormous consequences: can the government send someone into your home to record you without a warrant and use it to put you in prison? We sit down with longtime activist Wesley Sudberry to unpack how a cannabis case becam...
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Inside A Formulator’s Toolkit: Why Peppermint Elevates Natural Remedies
Peppermint doesn’t just taste fresh—it changes how a formula feels, works, and even smells. We open the lab door on our small-batch process and walk through the many jobs this single herb can do: calm a stubborn gut, lift a foggy mind, cool a t...
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Prune For Growth
Winter hands us a quiet invitation: press pause, clear the clutter, and set the stage for stronger growth. We take you into the garden at dormancy and show how smart pruning—removing dead wood, thinning crowded branches, and opening the canopy—...
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Choose Being Over Doing: Finding Serenity When Life Sends You To Kathmandu with Bron Watson
What happens when life swaps your sun-soaked vacation for a one-way flight to Kathmandu? That’s how Bron Watson describes the jolt from “I’m cured” to a fresh diagnosis of multiple myeloma—right as her family and business finally felt steady. A...
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