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Welcome to Neff Inspiration, a show dedicated to revolutionizing your health through the lens of functional medicine. Hosted by a functional medicine practitioner, this platform delves into the science of healing from the inside out. Whether you’re seeking solutions for mental health, trauma recovery, or overcoming addiction, I provide actionable tools and expert insights to help you transform your life. With a focus on root-cause medicine, sustainable wellness strategies, and personal growth, I aim to inspire you to become the best version of yourself. Join me in redefining health, one powerful conversation at a time.
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Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
164 Laurell Eden - Busting the BIG FAT LIE So You Can Lose Weight For Good
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Laurell Eden is a pioneering health and weight loss coach for mind and body. After learning cutting-edge food hacks that can kickstart metabolism, she lost 20 pounds off her own body in just 7 weeks and 5 inches off her waist overall. Laurell teaches her clients these same techniques so they can lose up to 30 pounds in the first 10 weeks and finally learn to lose weight for good. Participants in her 12 week program experience a boost in energy levels, relief from sugar cravings, brain fog and joint pain. Some have gotten off blood pressure and diabetes medicine.
In Laurell's words:
Ever wonder why diets fail? Or why so many dieters gain even more weight back? There's a fundamental misperception that keeps us fat and sick. When it comes to real-life weight loss, the concept of calories is a BIG FAT LIE. We think that 100 calories of roasted beets or guacamole or baked potato will behave the same way metabolically in our bodies, and that a calorie is a calorie. This is completely false. Eating certain foods consistently will force the body to store fat. To lose weight for good, you have to know which foods don't contribute to weight gain.
3 top tips for my audience:
1. Eat foods that have a low GI rating. Here's why: Sugar isn't fattening because of calories. Sugar is fattening because it damages your metabolism.
2. Eat only foods with a GI rating of 16 and under for 5 weeks. When you eat these foods you can eat until your stomach feels full which makes it super easy to lose weight. You don't have to be hungry!
3. If you stop eating sugar and fast acting carbohydrates for two weeks, sugar cravings disappear. Sugar cravings are NOT caused by a personal failing or lack of will power. They are biologically driven! When the body knows sugar is available, you will crave it. if you stop eating it, it's proven that the cravings diminish. This is what all my clients experience.
Laurell's Social media and Contact Info.
Website: BodyUpCoaching,com
Facebook: facebook.com/LaurellEden
facebook.com/BodyUpCoaching
Twitter and Instagram: @LaurellEden and @bodyupcoaching
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Monday Jul 12, 2021
163 Jobe Neal: Thriving in business after a serious gambling addiction
Monday Jul 12, 2021
Monday Jul 12, 2021
Jobe is a former gambling addict who had lost upwards of $30K to online poker before he was 20, from there he channelled that energy into multiple eCommerce businesses and now his own marketing agency.
He is the owner of Bespoke Suited Marketing which helps coaches and consultants to launch and promote their own courses, his mission is to help other people to positively impact and contribute to the world.
3 top tips for my audience:
1. You can’t quit cold turkey without something to channel the same energy into
2. You have to understand what drove you to that addiction, the root problem
3. You need to find ways to make it less accessible, build your environment in a way that makes it difficult to go back
Social Media:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jobe-neal-b729621ab/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/jobeneal
Wait, there is more!!! Have a look at
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Monday Jul 12, 2021
Monday Jul 12, 2021
What inspired Wendy Rose Williams to move from a conservative career as an MBA to become a Past Life Adventure Guide? How did a profound encounter with a ghost that lasted over twenty years combine with Wendy’s two NDEs culminate in meeting the man who would wake her up spiritually? What happened during Wendy’s own past-life regression sessions as the client that would motivate her training with Dr. Brian Weiss (“Many Lives, Many Masters”) and other leaders in the field to be able to help others release the energy that doesn’t serve them?
Wendy Rose Williams had two Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) while pregnant. She met her Angels for the first time while home alone when an organ ruptured. Meeting the soul mate Wendy contracted with to 'wake her up spiritually' led to Dr. Michael Newton’s 'Journey of Souls.’ These events in tandem triggered a rapid and profound spiritual awakening. The remarkable difference in Wendy's quality of life from healing her own past lives inspired her to serve others as an energy healer. Wendy is a Certified Spiritual Teacher as well as Reiki Master, author and speaker.
3 top tips for my audience:
1. We can all discover and do our best to live our life purpose
2. Having a daily spiritual practice such as meditation can immeasurably improve your life!
3. Learning how to ground and clear your energy and to be sovereign in your own beautiful energy is a game-changer
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/waking-up-spiritually/id1558284339
https://www.amazon.com/Wendy-Rose-Williams/e/B07N5WZNDK%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
Wait, there is more!!! Have a look at
www.mystepstosobriety.com
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Monday Jul 12, 2021
161 Dawn Menge: Overcoming Adversity& Making Teaching Families Fun
Monday Jul 12, 2021
Monday Jul 12, 2021
What do you do when life throws you challenges such as domestic violence, a divorce and then a stalker, just to round things up? In this case, you start writing and creating educational books that allow you to address the hard topics in life with your children and family.
Dr. Dawn Menge has won forty-one International awards as a self-published author of the Queen Vernita's Educational Series including the Special Recognition Champion Award in the Conquering Disabilities with film festival.
Her published works also include: THE SIX FEDERAL INDIVIDUAL EDUCATION PLAN GOALS AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THEIR IMPLEMENTATION IN PREPARING FOR TRANSITION.
Dr. Dawn Menge has a PHD in Education. She specialized in Curriculum and Instruction. A Master's and a Clear Credential in moderate/severe disabilities and a Bachelor's in Human Development. Dr. Dawn Menge has been teaching severely handicapped students for sixteen years.
Dr. Dawn Menge is the mother of three and the grandmother of five beautiful grandchildren.
3 top tips for my audience:
1. Follow your passions
2. Never give up
3. Make life fun
Social media and contact info:
http://www.facebook.com/dawn.menge1
http://www.instagram.com/dawnmenge
http://www.twitter.com/queenvernitas
http://www.drdawnmenge.com
http://www.rushmorepress.com
Wait, there is more!!! Have a look at
www.mystepstosobriety.com
to see which other books and projects I am involved in!
And follow me on Instagram, Podcast, Facebook and Linkedin!
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Tuesday Jul 06, 2021
Tuesday Jul 06, 2021
Dr. Debi Silber is the founder of the Post Betrayal Transformation Institute and is a holistic psychologist, health, mindset and personal development expert, the author of the #1 bestselling book: The Unshakable Woman: 4 Steps to Rebuilding Your Body, Mind and Life After a Life Crisis and her newest book: Trust Again: Overcoming Betrayal and Regaining Health, Confidence and Happiness. Her recent PhD study on how we experience betrayal made 3 groundbreaking discoveries that change how long it takes to heal. In addition to being on FOX, CBS, The Dr. Oz Show, TEDx (twice) and more, she’s an award-winning speaker, coach and author dedicated to helping people move past their betrayals as well as any other blocks preventing them from the health, work, relationships, confidence and happiness they want most.
3 top tips for my audience:
1. Betrayal is a unique type of crisis that requires a unique type of healing
2. To fully heal from a betrayal, we go through 5 proven and predictable stages
3. There’s a collection of symptoms so common to betrayal it’s known as Post Betrayal Syndrome-likely many of the symptoms we have stemmed from that or those experiences
Connect with Debi:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspireEmpowerTransform
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DebiSilber
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debisilber/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/debisilber/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/debisilber
Wait, there is more!!! Have a look at
www.mystepstosobriety.com
to see which other books and projects I am involved in!
And follow me on Instagram, Podcast, LinkedIn and Facebook!
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Saturday Jul 03, 2021
159 Julie Paulston: Who Were You Before the World Told You Who You Should Be?
Saturday Jul 03, 2021
Saturday Jul 03, 2021
Julie Paulston is a transformational life coach who uses humour, life experience and strategies learned in her 31 years in recovery to empower women to reclaim their Divine inner phoenix. To rise from the ashes of their lives and rediscover who they were before the world told them who they should be. She has been a speaker and educator for over 10 years and has her own podcast Be the Phoenix of Your Own Life. Her courses give real-life, practical ways to learn, grow and live a life of purpose.
In her own words:
We were all born enough, we were all born Divinely inspired. We chose this path to overcome obstacles and create the life of our dreams. Somewhere along the way, we lost our focus and our direction. We allowed the voices of the outside to become louder than our inner knowing. We started using substances to dull the pain of losing our way. We started using alcohol to stop feeling the loss, the grief and the knowledge that we were destined for more. We adapted the role of victim and gave our dreams, hopes and inspiration to the bottle, the pills, and to the people in our lives hoping it would bring comfort. We gave our power away hoping for connection and a sense of belonging. It is time to remember who you are. It is time to remember your Divinity, your power and the reason you are here.
3 top tips:
1. Breathe, it is a moment. It will pass. It may feel like a kidney stone but it will pass.
2. Don’t do it on your own. There is power in connecting with those who are where you want to be.
3. Stop watching the news!! It stands for Nothing Ever Worth Seeing!!!! Positive in/positive out!
Social media:
Facebook www.facebook.com/julie.paulston
IG www.instagram.com/divinephoenixrising
Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/63CJmAemwbcWrNBi837qKH?si=3fiIMRifT_GhLjpIA-Z_1g
Wait, there is more!!! Have a look at
www.mystepstosobriety.com
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Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
David Medansky, The Health Maestro, is a former divorce attorney, an international, award-winning best-selling author, and Founder of 21-Day Jumpstart Weight Loss Program.
David teaches you how to break through your resistance to improve your eating habits so you can lose weight, have more energy, feel better, look better, and enhance your overall health without going on a diet.
Let’s face it, diets tend to be extreme, temporary, hard to stick with, and potentially harmful. David teaches people how to stop wasting money on FAD (Fat and Desperate) diets because diets are designed to fail.
3 top tips:
1. Drink more pure water
2. Reduce portion sizes because our servings have been super-sized
3. Avoid highly processed and manufactured food products
Check out his books
1. Discover Your Thinner Self
2. If Not Now When? Reduce Weight Create a Healthy Lifestyle in 90 Days
3. Break the Chains of Dieting
https://www.facebook.com/BeTheHealthException
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmedansky-thehealthmaestro/
Wait, there is more!!! Have a look at
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Saturday Jun 26, 2021
Saturday Jun 26, 2021
In his early twenties Nate was a business owner chasing success while dealing with a secret drug addiction. After constantly hitting rock bottom, hurting everyone close, stealing a car and going to jail, Nate went on a journey of changing his mindset and his decisions which helped him create his own comeback story. He quickly found that there were other people, just like him, who were stuck believing the lie that they’d never change. Through his book, onstage speaking, and personal coaching, Nate shares what he’s learned to help other people make their own comeback.
3 top tips for my audience:
1. If you can’t forgive the old you, the new you doesn’t stand a chance.
2. The right voices in your life equals the right choices.
3. Hater’s are a sign of significance.
Social media and contact info.
Instagram - @WhoIsNateDukes
Website - https://www.youllneverchange.com
Special Offers:
Help inspire someone else’s comeback and Pay It Forward. Partner with me as I work with multiple recovery center’s to share my story and give this book away for free to the people who need it most.
https://www.youllneverchange.com/payitforward
Wait, there is more!!! Have a look at
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Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
In Jeff's words: On 10/4/16, our oldest son, Seth died from a heroin overdose. Battling alcoholism, past gambling addictions, divorce and now losing a child seemed to push me to the brink. Today at 55 years old I stand a better man.
I will tell you how I did this and what I discovered along the way. All the while building and running a multi-million dollar business. Death can be a very efficient teacher and I am very grateful for what it has offered to me in the form of gratitude, compassion and love. I am no victim, just the contrary.
My name is Jeff Johnston. I am 55 years old and own a wealth management firm located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. After the death of our oldest son, Seth, at the age of 23 to a heroin overdose in 2016, I decided I would honor him in the only way I knew how.
I stopped drinking, wrote a book called, This One’s For You: An Inspirational Journey Through Addiction Death and Meaning, formed a non-profit, The Choices Network, Ltd. and founded The Living Undeterred Project. I am just getting started.
3 top tips
1. Pain is unavoidable, suffering is a choice
2. Embrace Impermanence
3. Happiness is an illusion, we should strive for peace in our lives
Social Media
My book is “This One’s For You: An Inspirational Journey Through Addiction Death and Meaning published 9/25/20 which would have been Seth’s 27th birthday.
https://www.thechoicesnetwork.org/book
Instagram: @LivingUndeterred
Twitter: @UndeterredDad
Facebook: @LivingUndeterred
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-a-johnston
Website: www.LivingUndeterred.com
Podcast: https://linktr.ee/LivingUndeterred
Wait, there is more!!! Have a look at
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Saturday Jun 19, 2021
Saturday Jun 19, 2021
From an early age, Nath was a storyteller. Throughout his early life, he followed creative pursuits from guitar, roles in high school musicals to creative writing. He dreamed of being an actor in his teenage years but as life does, life went a different way.
He started standup comedy and thought he had found his focus, but when New Zealand went into Covid-19 lock-down, instead of writing his first hour-comedy show he ended up writing the first draft for his first novel. Slave Boy was published on 6th December 2020.
He has now truly found his direction, share the journey with him.
3 top tips:
1. Never too late to follow your dreams
2. If you fail, try again
3. Anger is a gift
Social Media
https://dawnbates.com/nathbrye
Facebook = Democ’Chu Series
Instagram - Nath Brye
Wait, there is more!!! Have a look at
www.mystepstosobriety.com
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