Wisdom seekers, humor mongers, perfectly imperfect celebrants of the human condition, Steph & Anja, two friends and long-time, wellness-oriented bodywork therapists, explore light and love, dis-ease and vibrant aliveness, and everything in between.
170 - Interview with Annalina Scalise, Expanding the capacity for empathy and the “Elation of nostalgia”
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week we spend time with Annalina Scalise, a wise youth heading off to brave the world of continuing education in creative explorations at a time when human ingenuity, creativity, and asking challenging questions matters more than ever. We learn about the importance of kids books, writing as a valuable skill, and the love of reading (and hearing one’s own voice). We hope you enjoy this discussion as much as we did!
168 - Heidi Piper Leads With Love - executive coach, book author and a Fortune 50 company c-suite innovator for 30 years
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week Anja is out of town and Steph brought in Heidi Piper as a return guest speaking about her experiences of influencing human dynamics in the corporate world as well as in the pursuit of happiness at the individual scale. If you are excited to learn how to lead with love, please join us.
167 - Petrichor, Natural Medicine, and Retelling Old Legends
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week Anja and Steph chat about the smell after rain, the perks and perils of natural medicine, tricky family dynamics, and what Boulder might look like during the Sundance Film Festival next year.
166 - Interview with Somatic Healing Mediations creator Karena
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week Anja is out of town and Steph interviewed @helloinnerlight entrepreneur and somatic healing guide Karena Neukirchner. Come connect with us as we dive into the superficial “I’m ok” mindset and the body-centered “I’m here to listen to what my body is trying to tell me” mindset as options we can choose from as we work through present and past emotions and body sensations.
165 - Proprioception, Personal Space, and Playing to Your Strengths
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. T\Follow us down the rabbit hole this week we as we talk about how "people-y' people can be sometimes, and how important it is to stay in your lane
164 - Gathering for the Spirit of Music, Frontierism, Savants, and the right size for your village
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week we explore our common and uncommon heritages on the land, foraging in Colorado, bluegrass festival as a form of gathering like a village, and the fortunate thriving versus elusive survival mindset.
163 - Interview with Rachel Cole, Podcast Host and Author of "Choose Happiness"
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week we chat with a dear friend and accomplished creator Rachel Cole. Grab a pen and a notepad, this one’s check full of nuggets that you're going to want to remember!
Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week we dive in to the deliciousness of a celebration of Mahler and charcuterie, the Choose Happiness podcast (we were guests on it!), sitting with the unknown and uncertainty about the future, and wonder/awe as a counterbalance to overwhelm. Surprise!
160 - Getting "Unstuck" and exploring healthy anger
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week we chat about the phenomenon of getting stuck (in a mood, a situation, a pain pattern), the challenges and resistance to change, feeling the emotions, and allowing the movement to progress - sometimes motivated by the power of healthy anger.
159 - Choose your news & find your sexy dragons, family isn’t always blood, and sometimes in the stillness is hope
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week we look we go deep into curating your experience when the world feels chaotic
Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week we look at nourishment of the body and delight for the soul, self care at the metabolic level, and plant based remedies for common ailments. Plus new hope for Alzheimers and some great books and authors we know and love.
157 - Stop and Smell the Roses ad Get Centered in the Face of Big Changes
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week we discuss the idea of how to face big change, and how discomfort can lead to dreaming big
156 - Lean into empowering others
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week we discuss therapy vs coaching, raising kids to be functional, listening to your own internal wisdom, and more.
155 - Saying yes to shot put, kids in the kitchen, and the most delicious improvisation
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. Who would have thought we’d mix children’s books with talk of high school sports and winging it in the kitchen. Stay tuned for another super fun random ramble.
154 - Evolutionarily toddlers…and colonizing other rocks in space
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week we explore hoarding (billionaires as well as average people in their packed dwellings) and toddler/ego driven behaviors that prove we are collectively still “growing up”. Plus, showing up with a helping hand.
153 - The Death of expertise, AI, hoarders, the E-car conundrum, and finding the positives
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week is a doozy, as we chat AI, Swedish death cleaning. Never a dull moment, right?
152 - Singing in choirs, sharing wisdom as only an elder can, and envisioning the possible
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week we marvel at extraordinary athletes, exquisite endeavors, and the chance to participate in envisioning the future.
151 - A little Rock 'n Roll, and trying not to worry before there's something to worry about
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week we endeavor to remember to enjoy the little things, take time to remember some recent celebrity passings, and talk a bit about alternative therapies, including our various approaches.
150 - Finding our way when we're ready, reclaiming joy, being a lighthouse
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week we celebrate the wisdom of both asking for help and learning to wait to help until asked. We also discuss the “you are not a mess” response especially when so much is going right in your body.
149 - Kitten social dynamics, animal sanctuaries, fear of failure, and the olympics
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week we start with wecoming a new kitty into Anja’s home and launch into how grateful we are for all the people creating sactuary spaces for animals of all sorts. From there we wander through reminiscences, a little psychology, and who knows what else. Might include weather, politics, the olympics, and more.
148 - Let the Wildlife ROAM - our interview with author Hillary Rosner
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week we share the mic with Hillary Rosner, environmental science journalist and author of ROAM: Wild Animals and the Race to Repair Our Fractured World. If you want to learn how you can have a positive impact by empathically connecting with the flora and fauna in your neighborhood and local ecosystem, join us for this empowering conversation.
147 - The cost of convenience, the science of well-being, and finding our own motivation
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week we talk a bit about the joys of home ownership, how every advance in technology and convenience can have unexpected costs down the road, and then tumble into further discussion, as we tend to do.
146 - Interweaving; the funky estate sale, crochet connections, migrations, and the mystery of mycelium
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week we popcorn around various topics starting with the idea of moving abroad and why (and how) when things feel unstable we can trust mycelium as a symbol of connection and restoration.
145 - Reviving the direwolf, traveling conscientiously, the artist's process, and the evolution of language
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week we talk about resurrecting prehistoric animals, our place in space and time, how to be a respectful tourist, and as always, many many book and film mentions
144 - Celebrating humans braving challenges and staying present in the balmy, windy, Colorado Front Range
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week we share some awe at witnessing humans facing their wellness curiosities, more awe at a few inspiring books and podcasts, including a review of a Dickens on Christmas episode from Through Line, and still manage to enjoy the holidays despite unfamiliar settings.