Up For A Chat

UC 201: Getting Things Done – Elspeth Haswell-Smith

What drives someone to open a cafe, parent 2 children alone, get a degree in psychology and anthropology, counsel in psychology on domestic violence, finish Twenty8 HLE program and the Changing Habits Online Nutrition Course (first graduate), complete her masters and want to journey into a PhD at the age of 31.  Elspeth Haswell Smith has done just that and at a young age has the wisdom of someone much older.  Self love and self respect is something that we delve into in order to see how we can feel the fear but do it anyway.
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UC 200: Our 200th Episode

200th Episode – friends, tears, laughs, giggles, stories and cutting edge information on diet, fads, essential oils, mindset mastery, physical challenges and much more have been the theme of the Up For A Chat podcasts for the past 4 years.  The girls reminisce on the past and think about the future direction of the podcast and what they have learnt and what people have taught them.  It is in this episode that the 2017 hiking and adventure trip to New Zealand and 2018 hiking and safari trip to 4 countries in Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe) are announced.  If you need further information on these two trips send an email to info@carrensmith.com. The trips have limited space, between 12 and 15 people will get to go, so put your expression of interest in asap.
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UC 199: Ask a better question to get a better answer – with Fouad Kassab

Kim and Cyndi interview chef, restaurant owner, podcaster, poet, father, husband, soft ware engineer, author and all round nice guy with an amazing out look on life.  His story from war torn Lebanon, health issues to wellness and the clarity around his life is mesmerizing.  At one stage Foaud takes Kim and Cyndi on a short meditation to explain a concept Cyndi was having a hard time understanding.  All became clear.  A thought provoking and eye opening interview with a man that thinks differently.
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UC 198: Linda Alston

She trekked Peru with us, she shared our laughs and our tears and she inspired us along the way as she embraced Cyndi’s nutrition course with passion, completed Carren’s Mindset Mastery and has gone on to become a member of Carren’s Inner Circle and today, she shares her journey of investigation and application!
Carren and Kim welcome the beautiful Linda Alston to the show this week to talk about the transition from meat to vegetarianism and all things ‘nutritarian’!!
Having been a vegetarian since 3 years old, Linda reveals the easy steps to explore this way of relating to food safely and with awareness of the body, it’s needs and how to pay attention to any whispers if things are right. Deeply grounded in and sharing Cyndi’s philosophy of whole foods Linda explores what it means to eat a rainbow and how to do it with ease! Enjoy!
PS – Get ready to be hungry after this show…. Linda is a chef extraordinaire and your taste-buds will be left tingling!!
To reach out to Linda and to enquire about her upcoming programs, send an email to Carren at info@carrensmith.com and all contacts will be forwarded on.
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UC 197: Autoimmune Disease with Madison Wright.

Emerging into her teens Madison was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis and the only option that was given to her was drugs for the rest of her life.  A few years later she was further diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, more medications was her only option.  Madison spent much of her teenage years in pain, missing school and missing a teenagers social energetic life.  When all her peers were heading off to university and work Madison was at home.  A chance meeting with an “Angel” changed her life forever.  Madison is now 20 and off all medications but one.  It’s a spine tingling, heart wrenching story with an humble, strong, amazing young lady.  The Up For A Chatters had tears in their eyes throughout the hour.
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UC 196: Permaculture with Morag Gamble

Morag is a woman who lives a very different life, 80% of the food she and her family eat she produces, she home schools her children and she thinks about her foot print on the planet and how to teach people to respect not only their planet but the resources that enables all to live abundantly. This podcast is meditative as it takes the Up For A Chatters out of the stress of life and transports them to a whole new way of living.
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UC 195: The Wellness Summit 2016.

The Up For A  Chat girls are speaking at the Wellness Summit, this is not so much about what they are speaking about but how profound, inspiring and life changing a live event can be.  They all discuss their latest live conference they attended and the learnings they all got and implemented into their life.  The excitement of meeting their mentors, the information gleamed and the continuing education that they continue to do is all talked about in this podcast, listen in learn and implement.
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UC 194: Bruce Lipton – The Biology of Belief.

Bruce is well known as beginning his life as geneticist and now has morphed into one of the most inspirational spiritual teachers.  He asks the question What would your life be like if you learned that you are more powerful that you have every been taught.  Cyndi interviews Bruce on his level of thinking and Listen In
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UC 193: Pam Peeke – Integrative Doctor talks to Cyndi.

Walking her talk of mental and physical fitness has always been key to to optimizing Pams role as a doctor, coach and educator in integrative health and wellness. Cyndi discusses with Pam her latest book The Hunger Fix where she talks about eye opening new science why with repeated exposure to processed food products your Listen In
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UC 192: The Effortless Self And A Field Of Lavender!

This week the girls delve into what it truly means to allow yourself to grow and expand in a way that is natural and organic – in other words – EFFORTLESS! Carren has been working in this field of work for the past two decades and this week shares one of her greatest and most profound pieces of work. With topics of conversation around awareness, love, money, health, purpose, family and personal expansion the conversation opens up into all aspects of life. It is exciting, liberating and quite frankly breath taking. And we top it all off with a little lavender love (#lavenderlush) from Provence! If you are interested in Carren’s brand new program check out www.effortlessself.com and if you are keen to know more about Aroma Tours for 2017 check out www.aromatours.com. Oh and the online French Shop is www.saveurdujour.com. Enjoy!
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UC 191: It’s A Crazy World – Terrorism Love And Fear

Terrorism is usually understood as the use or threat of violence to further a political cause and there is no doubt this has accelerated in recent years. Modern terrorism and the attacks of 9/11 certainly marked a turning point in world history and the beginning of the ‘War on Terror’. Carren has been personally effected by terrorism and Kim recently returned from France where Nice was under attack. This week the girls ask an important question. Has the global campaign against terrorism, known as the ‘War on Terror’, made us any safer? What really is the driver here? The conversation takes a turn when we go deeper and start to look at this crazy world and how things occur when humans act out of both love and fear – and more importantly – how this effects us in our own lives, in our homes and in our relationships.
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UC 190: Peru – Part 2

This is Part 2 of Up For A Chat talking about their latest trip to Peru.  Lives change when 15 strangers go to a foreign country and do things that they would normally not do at home, like climb to an altitude of 4600 meters and walk all day through the Andes as well as test their ability to sustain such conditions.  Such was the Awaken the Change Within tour of Peru and it’s ancient civilization.  Listen in as we talk to the hiking, travelling group and all they learnt about Peru but also about themselves and each other.  A truly heart warming hour.
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