If today was your last day on earth, are you happy?

Whether you go into an office or work from home, you likely spend the majority of your time “at work” with colleagues. So if you’re not happy at your work, chances are, you’re not happy in life, which is not a healthy way to live.

And when you peel back the layers, many times it can be attributed to a misalignment between your priorities and your work, a lack of boundaries, and/or poor communication.

The good news is, these things are all fixable!

Joining me in this episode is my colleague and former manager, Terri Quinn. Terri started her career in the tech industry 25 years ago and was one of the early pioneers of the TME (Technical Marketing Engineer) role.

You’ll hear Terri share what it was like starting her career as a young wife and mother in a male-dominated, fast-paced, highly-demanding industry. She discusses how it taught her the importance of knowing what your priorities are (because not everyone does) and owning them without guilt.

You’ll also hear us discuss how to establish boundaries in the workplace by:

• Understanding your priorities and using them as a guide in setting boundaries

• Recognizing your power within and asking for what you want

• Self-marketing yourself with effective communication

This episode is a mirror of the discussions that Terri and I had every day for the three years that she was my manager. While always supportive, she constantly challenged my way of thinking. Her influence had a profound impact on how I approach my work and my attitude towards it, which has changed my outlook and how I communicate with others beyond the job.

In this episode, I’m continuing the solo series of walking you through my own personal health journey, and my aim for doing this is to illustrate the things that seemed so common, but yet weren’t normal.

Today, we’re talking about a condition that approximately half of all digestive and intestinal complaints are attributed to - Irritable Bowel Syndrome aka “IBS.” It’s the most common of digestive complaints.

But IBS is an “umbrella” term meaning that it can be applied to a number of different things. So if you have IBS, there’s a likelihood that there’s an underlying issue going on.

I had pretty severe IBS that had a significant impact on how I lived my life on a daily basis. So in this episode, I share with you:

• What IBS is and common causes of it

• What my life was like, suffering from it

• What things I did to to overcome it

In this episode, I’m joined by Monica Cox, a Fertility Health Coach, host of the Podcast Finding Fertility, author of “Baby & Me” and creator of #gratedvegbrekkie. Her infertility journey was a 9-year evolution, which led her to overhaul her diet and lifestyle choices.

You’ll hear Monica share:

• What her life was like before deciding to start a family

• What her 9-year journey looked like - the struggles, the wins and the role autoimmunity played in it

• How she’s now a mum to two little boys and she now helps other women create the family of their dreams

Me: “I’m waking up at 2 am every night STARVING!”

My Dr: “Naomi, you have a blood sugar problem.”

This solo episode is the first in a series of solo episodes over the next few months taking you on a journey of my health history over the past 8-ish years. And we’re starting off talking about my blood sugar problem.

You’ll hear:

• What blood sugar is

• Why is fundamentally important to everyone’s general health (even just diabetics)

• How I struggled with a blood sugar imbalance

And then I’ll give you a little bit of coaching by sharing what I did to address it, and what you can do too.

In this episode of The Live FAB Life Podcast, I’m joined by Sadie Adams, the Proprietress of Take Care, a spa with locations in New York City and in the Venice Beach area of Los Angeles where a collective of practitioners explore conversations of beauty and health, authenticity, and self-expression.

You’ll hear Sadie share:

• How she started her career studying Ayurveda and teaching yoga

• How she became an esthetician

• What is microcurrent and the origins of it

• How she cultivates relationships with her clients by working with intention to explore the schism between where their motor actions are, and how they can integrate their intentions closer to their motor actions and become more integrated beings.

Joining me in Episode 116 is Sarah Morgan of xosarah.com. Sarah is an Emmy-Award winning digital strategist who’s been blogging and building websites since age 13.

After escaping her corporate design job, she made it her mission to help business owners grow their online presence without overwhelm + indecision slowing them down.

In this episode, Sarah tells her story of how she escaped her corporate job as a graphic designer in a newsroom by doing freelance work and eventually building a thriving business where she now helps other business owners grow their online presence without overwhelm and indecision slowing them down.

You’ll hear Sarah share:

• Her route from a corporate job to profitable solopreneur

• How she battled burnout and feeling disconnected to her work

• What it was like working with a coach then bringing mindfulness into her business and personal life

• Her best productivity tips and what her daily routine is like to manage her time and energy

She even shares a bit of what it was like teaching aerial silk and how it helped her find a balance between her mind, body, and work!

What would you do if you weren’t afraid?

As women, we spend so much time living in fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of being judged and of what others might think, fear of not having or being enough, fear of failure.

But what could happen if we release those fears? What’s possible for you, if you weren’t afraid? What would you do? How far would you let yourself dream?

In this episode I explore:

• How living in fear holds us back and limits us from reaching our potential

• What happens if we don’t release our fears

• What’s possible if, instead of giving what we fear power over us, we let our drive to pursue our dreams outweigh it

And I even share a personal story and my best tips of how to work through fear and stop being afraid.

If I were, to sum up, the last year, it would be “the year of burnout.” During that time, I’ve come to surmise that burnout is simply the misappropriation of energy and time.

In this episode, I take you behind the scenes and share with you what burnout looked like for me - the bad and ugly parts of it (hint: it’s probably not much different what it looks like for you),  what steps I took to bring myself out of it and what lessons I took away from the experience.

In this episode, I’m joined by Jennifer Tyler Lee. Jennifer is an award-winning author, game creator, self-trained home cook, and healthy eating advocate. 

Her first book, The 52 New Foods Challenge, was nominated for an IACP Cookbook Award, and her nutrition game, Crunch a Color®: The Healthy Eating Game, was named one of Dr. Toy’s “10 Best” Children’s Products and received the Parent-Tested Parent-Approved seal of approval.

In her newest book is called Half the Sugar, All the Love.

Jennifer and I connected on Instagram as we both help people with sugar addiction. But as you’ll hear in this episode, we have different approaches. I coach people through the 21-Day Sugar Detox where they learn how to stop eating sugar to change their palette (and mindset) so they no longer crave sweet things.

Jennifer shares delicious low-sugar recipes to show that reducing added sugar doesn’t mean completely giving up the foods you love. She shows you how to sweeten foods, both savory and sweet, naturally with fruits and vegetables instead of added sugar.

Jennifer’s easy, healthy recipes have also been spotlighted by Jessica Alba, Jamie Oliver, Michael Pollan, Oprah, Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn Kids, Whole Foods, Parents Magazine, and US Weekly, among many others.  She is a featured contributor at Red Tricycle and shares her recipes each week on her blog, www.52newfoods.com.