Up For A Chat
Ever wanted to be a fly on the wall when two international speakers, best-selling authors and celebrated business women get together and have a chat discussing issues on health, wellbeing, relationships and mindset? Well here’s your chance to hear a duo of professional specialists working with the guys on the Wellness Couch - and they’re up for a chat! These girls are about challenging the norm and challenging traditions. Wellness nutritionist extraordinaire Cyndi O’Meara and wellness health and lifestyle educator Kim Morrison believe tapping into one’s innate intelligence and using a common sense approach is what makes positive change. They are your professional reminders teaching new truths about health, discussing issues you have thought about - even issues you may not have thought about. Up For A Chat is not just facts, figures and status quo this podcast series is about thinking outside the square, doing things differently so that you can make a difference in your life, in your family’s life, and not become a sickness statistic mentally, emotionally and physically. And most importantly this trio of girls are a reminder that learning can be fun!!
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Episodes
Tuesday Dec 31, 2013
Tuesday Dec 31, 2013
As 2013 comes to a close and 2014 is about to dawn, we listen in on the Up For A Chat girls as they talk about their New Years Resolutions. What becomes glaringly obvious is how different Kim, Carren and Cyndi view a resolution. Each of them do them differently and one doesn’t believe in them at all. By the time this chat finishes all have decided on some key resolutions that they must do for 2014. The Up For A Chat girls all learnt in this podcast the importance of resolution no matter what time of the year it is. And Carren summed up how to create one, by having a compelling why, state what the goal is and how will it be achieved.
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Tuesday Dec 24, 2013
Tuesday Dec 24, 2013
Sandy Morrison a woman in her 60’s and mother inlaw to Kim joins the Up For A Chat girls for an hour that melted the hearts of all listening. Sandy’s wisdom has all the girls silenced and listening intently to her graciousness and words of wisdom. Her voice creates a peace and quiet that has never been heard in the history of Up For A Chat. Listen in and feel the emotion that is so palpable in the room when Sandy describes her life through the beginning of feminism, love, loss of a child, politics and faith. She is truly counted as one of the wise elders of her generation.
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Tuesday Dec 17, 2013
Tuesday Dec 17, 2013
Three Beautiful, intelligent teenage girls from the local Sunshine Coast area join the Up For A Chat girls on a riveting conversation that was hard to find an end to. The insight of these teenage girls on life, love, body image, family, food and lots more inspired Kim, Carren and Cyndi more then they could ever imagine. The last question Kim asked each of the girls was their top 3 tips for other teenage girls. The tips have been made into A Young Women’s Manifesto which we have shared with you below. Listen in to hear what this young generation really thinks.
Young Women’s Manifesto For Life
Be Yourself
Look After Yourself both mind and body
This is me love yourself for who I am
Don’t take shit
Stand up for yourself
Be indépendant
No matter what happens see it as a lesson
Have respect for your parents
Confidence – fake it till you make it
Be comfortable in your own skin
Instead of thinking the negative of an event and beating yourself up see the good and the purpose in the situation
Be Grateful
Don’t have a boyfriend just for the sake of it, war for the right one.
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Tuesday Dec 10, 2013
Tuesday Dec 10, 2013
The Up For a Chat girls have a little mantra of their own. It goes a bit like this; we take full responsibility for our lives, our health and our relationships, by taking responsibility we are in control of our life. If we blame we become victims rather then controllers of our destiny. It is this mantra that begins the conversation this week. Are you a blamer and a victim or do you take full responsibility of where you are in your life. Listen in on this wonderful conversation that teaches you to become masters of your life and destiny
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Tuesday Dec 03, 2013
Tuesday Dec 03, 2013
Up For A Chat is getting into the spirit of Christmas. Carren started the conversation by talking about the amazing gift idea she has for her family and friends, Cyndi becomes all melancholy and says that she has so much stuff she doesn’t need another Christmas of gift giving and wants to give it all away to charity, while Kim remains quiet, she loves presents and wants them all. This podcast is filled with ideas for Christmas gifts, Christmas day and surviving the Christmas parties.
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Tuesday Nov 26, 2013
Tuesday Nov 26, 2013
There has been a lot of talk in the media about cholesterol, saturated fat and statin drugs (cholesterol lowering). Cyndi updates you on the latest information much of it has to do with the functioning of the brain and then Carren and Kim talk about how do we make change in a family that is resistant Listen In
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Tuesday Nov 19, 2013
Tuesday Nov 19, 2013
In medicine the brain and body are segmented into different parts, but in actual fact as the girls point out they are very much connected. Both effect each other. What you feed one either via thoughts or food dramatically effects the other. Your Up For A Chat hosts talk about the latest research on how food effects the brain and brain disease such as Alzheimer’s and Dementia or even just foggy brain. At last the research shows how you can prevent these diseases. Listen in to hear a mind altering chat.
Here are some great references, books and interviews that the girls talk about
Grain Brain by David Perlmutter – http://amzn.to/1fCHRiG
Why Isn’t My Brain Working by Datis Kharrazian – http://amzn.to/1bvFehR
Lose the Gluten, Lose Your Gut. Ditch the Grain, Save your Brain by Dr’s Thomas & Stephanie Chaney – http://amzn.to/1cWculn
Sean Croxton’s Underground Wellness interview with Dr David Perlmutter – http://undergroundwellness.com/podcast-230-brain-grain-with-dr-david-perlmutter/
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Tuesday Nov 12, 2013
Tuesday Nov 12, 2013
The Up For A Chat girls invite one of their long time friends in for a chat. Cathy Ledger is a successful business woman and mother of 4, she has a story to tell that turns her world upside down and then changes it completely. Looking back she can see the lesson in the death of her third child, although she wishes that she could have learnt what she needed to learn in a far easier manner. Sometimes it is through adversity that our greatest advances happen. The passion of Cathy Ledger will propel you to not stop when life gets tough but to find a new path to heal and live again.
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Tuesday Nov 05, 2013
Tuesday Nov 05, 2013
WARNING – Explicit language is used in this podcast
One of the Up for A Chat listeners asked the Up For A Chat girls to talk about the topic of Marketing and Advertising Persuasion. Kim, Carren and Cyndi not only discuss the unscrupulous false advertising produced by drug companies, cosmetic houses, food giants, personal care producers and takeaway business but they point out how easy it is to analyse marketing and advertising to actually see the untruths these companies tell. Most companies find a problem that may or may not exist, let you know about it and then sell the solution. By being aware of this you may not be so easily swayed by the selling tricks sold in marketing. There is a warning on this podcast and that is there are some explicit words that you may not want your children to listen to, but it is part of one particular marketing campaign that Carren just can’t get her head around and so keeps bringing it up.
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Tuesday Oct 29, 2013
Tuesday Oct 29, 2013
Cyndi begins this podcast because she is cross, cross with high profile sports people who flaunt their less than desirable drinking and social habits in front of impressionable young adolescents. Kim and Carren agree entirely, then the conversation changes away from the bad role models and the Up For A Chat girls begin talking about models, actresses, sportsmen and high profile celebrities who are paving a new path. The podcast ends with realising every person on this planet is a role model for one or many and it is up to us to lead exemplary lives for our children and families.
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Tuesday Oct 22, 2013
Tuesday Oct 22, 2013
When Cyndi reveals her amazing experience after reading the book E2 by Pam Grout, Carren and Kim download the book and begin their own experiment with the universe. This podcast takes you to places you may not have known existed, the magic of asking for what you want is revealed over and over. All three girls have stories to tell that will give you goose bumps and create a want to ask your own gifts from the universe.
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Tuesday Oct 15, 2013
Tuesday Oct 15, 2013
The podcasts starts with a great song by Carren, Kim and Cyndi, all about money. At that point they realise they will not make it in the music industry and decide to talk all things money. It’s a talk about how to make money, how to create wealth, the value of money and the anxiety many people have about money. Money makes the world and our lives go round and it’s an important conversation to have. Join The Up for A Chat on a more serious podcast than what you’re used to.
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