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 Aug 20, 2013
Tuesday Aug 20, 2013
Foods of The World – Edible Gardens; Kim, Carren and Cyndi have been traveling over the last month, and they discuss the foods of the world. America does not come up trumps and Kim becomes desperate looking for a Wholefoods during her stay in the US. Carren falls in love with gelato, pizza and tomatoes while Cyndi is in raptures with the food bearing trees covering the country side of Greece and Spain, she discovers that there is no need to carry snacks and food on the many mountain trails as the nature abounds with all. It is a magical food tour that evokes the topic of Edible Gardens.
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Tuesday Aug 13, 2013
Tuesday Aug 13, 2013
The average 4 year old laughs 300 times a day, the average 40 year old only 4. Now you know Kim, Cyndi and Carren love a good laugh they especially love a good belly laugh. Cyndi thinks that Kim is the funniest person she knows, while Carren believes she is hilarious (but we’ll let you be the judge of that). This podcast is all about laughter. When did all the hilarity get replaced with furrowed brows? Are we taking life so seriously, getting so caught up in the pursuit of success, so bogged down with our problems, so busy with our lives, so lost in the web of fiction spun by the mind, that we forget to look at life through the eyes of wonder and mystery and notice just how funny things can be? Enjoy an hour of stories and fun as the Up For A Chat girls laugh there way through 60 minutes of fun.
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Tuesday Aug 06, 2013
Tuesday Aug 06, 2013
The Magic of Aromatherapy is Up For A Chat this week. Carren and Cyndi sat dumbfounded and in aure while Kim taught them about plants, oils and therapies and how aromatherapy can by used throughout your days and life as instrumental tools in mental, physical and emotional wellbeing. Kim explored how oils were extracted, how they can be used all the way from Romance to Burns, the podcast gives a warm fuzzy feeling as Kim explains how the oils are used in rituals, baths, beauty, food and healing.
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Tuesday Jul 30, 2013
Tuesday Jul 30, 2013
Travel Tips – Kim, Carren and Cyndi love to travel, they are all experienced with traveling around the country and internationally. Carren is off on a beautiful trip around Europe and this prompts them to talk about all things travel, from security, currency, travelling with children, essential oils, food, time zone changes, things to pack, healthy first aid kit, luggage weight and much more.
Travel Checklist
Superfood Powders – especially Greenfood & Probiotics
Essential Oils – Twenty8 Immune Boost, Instant Calm, Energy & Vitality and Lavender
Olive Leaf Throat Spray
Smelling Salts – Himalayan Rock Salt, 5 drops of each Immune Boost, Eucalyptus and Peppermint oils
Electrical Adapters – iPhone
Healthy Food Snacks like Date Squishy’s, Fruit and Nut Slice, Nuts and Seeds
Travel Insurance – either a yearly one or look at a credit card supplier
Currency – eftpos card and emergency credit card
Personal Care Products – natural skincare, shampoo and conditioner
Water – drink plenty of it
Oregano Oil
Natural Hand Wipes
Natural Washing Powder
Emergency First Aid Kit – including homeopathics like Arnica, Rescue Remedy, plasters
Blender – Thermomix, Bamix or Blender – if easy to take
Tea Bags
Homeopathic Melatonin
Adapt to the arriving city timeline as soon as you depart
Sewing Kit
Yoga Mat
Swim suit for swimming at hotel pool
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Tuesday Jul 23, 2013
Tuesday Jul 23, 2013
The rate of depression and mental illness has increased dramatically in the last decade. The question is asked as to – do you wake up one day and have depression or is it a slow slide – before you finally go to your doctor? How do you get out of the slow slide, what are the steps to take? Carren has been through depression so Kim and Cyndi ask questions to find out the answers. All three Up For A Chat hosts provide valuable information on how does depression start and what are ways to combat mental illness, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This discussion just didn’t stop – the information was just too important, so it goes for 1 hour 16 minutes.
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Tuesday Jul 16, 2013
Tuesday Jul 16, 2013
Is it as bad as they all say? Cyndi starts the discussion on cholesterol and how it has been given a bad rap, she goes into how the rate of people with high cholesterol and taking statin medications has risen from 4.5% of over the age of 45 taking cholesterol lowering medications in 1995 to, in 2010, 30% of the same age group are now taking these medications. Cholesterol lowering medications are worth $80 billion per annum to the drug industry. Cyndi brings up some interesting new research and Kim and Carren are stunned that the wool has been pulled over the public’s eye. Their outrage is palpable, and yours will be too. Cyndi has offered a list of questions to ask your doctor when he suggests you go on cholesterol lowering medication as well as references for further reading.
Questions to Ask Your Doctor if Your Blood Test is High For Cholesterol?
Is high cholesterol proven to be a bad indicator of total health?
Do our cholesterol levels change from day to day week to week? And if so would I be out of the ‘danger zone” if you took a reading in a week.
Is there really such a thing as good and bad cholesterol, or is it a homeostatic mechanism in the body?
Do you live longer using statin drugs or does it just lower your cholesterol?
Is cholesterol really an indicator of cardio-vascular disease? What percentage of people with heart disease have low cholesterol?
Does the body need high cholesterol levels in times of stress?
Does the cholesterol we eat make any difference to blood cholesterol?
How much cholesterol will the body make if I eat no cholesterol?
Is there another reason why cholesterol might be high?
Is the body really that black and white – high cholesterol – heart disease, low cholesterol – no heart disease?
If my brain largely cholesterol then why is cholesterol bad?
If I take statin drugs will I have a Vitamin D deficiency – after all we need cholesterol to make Vitamin D
Are there side effects to Statin Drugs – if so what is the complete list?
Can you guarantee that if I don’t take the medications that I will die tomorrow of a heart attack or are you just scaring me?
Ask your doctor whether they would take the medications?
Would diet help?
Would a traditional hunter gatherer diet make a significant difference?
Would taking wheat out of the diet as well as sugar cause a reduction in triglyceride and cholesterol readings?
Do I need my thyroid tested, could that have something to do with why my cholesterol is high?
Could it be a iron and copper deficiency that is causing my cholesterol to be high?
Perhaps it is the lack of antioxidants in my diet that may be causing my LDL to oxidise, therefore staying in my blood longer?
What is the particle size of my LDL’s and have you tested for the many different LDL’s in my blood stream or just calculated LDL results from HDL and cholesterol count?
Should I try a diet high in antioxidants and real foods before I use the medication?
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Tuesday Jul 09, 2013
Tuesday Jul 09, 2013
The Up For The Chat girls talk all things dairy. The good, the bad and the downright ugly. How they manage to talk about dairy for an hour surprises them but when you get down to the nitty gritty our dairy has been changed so much it’s not surprising that it seems everyone is intolerant to dairy. Cyndi shares how she makes nut milks and Carren and Kim are not happy she had not let them in on her secret.
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Tuesday Jul 02, 2013
Tuesday Jul 02, 2013
JDRF – Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation have just finished their annual fundraising campaign using the sale of Jelly Babies with the following ingredients; glucose, sugar, water, thickener 1400 (wheat), food acid 330, 331, humectant 422, gelatin, flavours, colours, 102, 133, 110, 122, wheat starch, vegetable oil, glazing agent 903, preservative 220. May contain sulphites. Do you think that a charity looking for health for it’s members should sell this product to make money for research to find a cure for type 1 diabetes? This was the question posed for this weeks Up For A Chat.
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Tuesday Jun 25, 2013
Tuesday Jun 25, 2013
The Power of NOW. Carren leads the Up For A Chat girls on another rabbit hole experience, each of them have AHA’s as the chat turns into an exploration of how to cope with emotional distress of death, relationship breakdown, financial ruin, loss of job and rejection. Their pearls of wisdom in this podcast will change the way you think about emotional stress, it will also create a new terminology for the word ‘present’. Listen in, be a fly on the wall while Carren, Kim and Cyndi change their own perception of time. This is one not to miss.
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Tuesday Jun 18, 2013
Tuesday Jun 18, 2013
This is a two part series on decluttering. Physical mental and emotional clutter can become exhausting to the point where it paralyses your every move. Listen in while the Up For A Chat girls talk about the power of simplicity and decluttering, each have wonderful stories to tell about how they declutter their life physically Listen In
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Tuesday Jun 11, 2013
Tuesday Jun 11, 2013
Am I Really Making A Difference? Is it all worth it? Before The Up For A Chat girls started recording this podcast, Kim looked at Carren and asked if she was OK. Carren’s answer was, “Is this really worth it? Am I really making a difference?” Carren asked a universal question so Kim, Cyndi and Carren decided to explore that very question. It’s amazing where the conversation goes. Do we do things to make a difference in the world or do we do things because we love it? You’ll hear three vulnerable souls looking for answers. This podcast is very different to any you’ve heard, The Up For A Chat girls are contemplative and quiet and it is a look into their very soul.
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Tuesday Jun 04, 2013
Tuesday Jun 04, 2013
Byron on Byron was the venue for the first intensive Awaken The Change Within with Kim, Carren and Cyndi. They decided to do a live broadcast from the seminar. The delegates were asked to put questions to them, so this podcast becomes a burning set of questions with The Up For A Chat girls giving Listen In
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