Balanced Living For Busy Professionals Podcast
78 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsBalanced Living for Busy Professionals, a podcast hosted by Diane Randall, MA- Whole Living Expert covering topics of life balance, self care, self help, health, fitness, mindfulness, plant-based nutrition, and much more to give you the best inner tools and strategies with small, actionable steps that sustain real change even with the busiest schedule. Find out more at: www.balanced-living-for-busy-professionals.com
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Rethinking Your Food Choices With Amy-Lee Goodman
May 20, 2016 10:00 - 21 minutes - 20 MBThe unanimous scientific truth is that you are not meant to be sick and the skyrocketing rates of disease are due to your diet and lifestyle! Today Diane and Amy-Lee Goodman Co-author of the book,"Rethink Food:100+Doctors Can't Be Wrong," talk about the food myths you are told and what simple dietary & lifestyle changes you can make to live the life you want. Most people are steered into the system of conventional medicine believing that your genetics dictates your destiny. The misinf...
6 Essential Elements for Improving Your Health with Amy Love
May 13, 2016 10:00 - 45 minutes - 62.5 MBToday – Diane shares a wonderful interview with Amy Love and together they discuss how to change your life, incrementally, to improve your entire picture of health. They discuss the 6 Essential Elements for improving your health and how every system in the body is connected. Diane takes a close look with Amy at what “real food and whole food” is and how they make a difference in your health and well being. Diane and Amy also talk about the chemicals we use in our homes to clean them and th...
Post Traumatic Growth with Michaela Haas
May 06, 2016 10:00 - 26 minutes - 36.2 MBTraumatic events happen all the time, and the secret is knowing how to “bounce forward” and transform the negative events into dynamic growth and greater good. Diane and best selling author, Michaela Haas talk about over coming trauma and “post-traumatic growth”. What is “post traumatic growth”? Post traumatic growth is the benefit we can derive from experiencing a crisis. Almost every trauma survivor thinks that they could never lead a happy life again, however, the science of post traumat...
Signs That You're Tipping The Balance Between Normal Ups And Downs and Depression Or Burnout - Dr. Tracey Morgan
April 29, 2016 10:00 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBToday Diane talks with Dr. Tracey Marks about signs that you’re tipping the balance between the normal ups and downs of life and actual depression or burnout. Busy people overlook building enough margins into their day and end up sacrificing sleep by working late, getting up too early, working while in bed and generally believing that sleep isn’t or should be a priority. It’s easy to cut things way too close and see doing nothing as a waste of time, but if you fill every waking hour with a ...
Never Binge Eat Again with Dr. Glenn Livingston
April 22, 2016 10:00 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBToday, Diane and Glenn Livingston, PH.D talk about a revolutionary way to think about food and eating. Sometimes you feel like you can't stop eating even though you're full. And sometimes you feel guilt and shame of what you've eaten. You behave differently in private than you do when you're eating with other people. Dr. Glenn Livingston's tips help you to create a happier, healthier relationship with food and your own brain. A veteran psychologist and long time CEO of a multi-million d...
How Feeding Your Life Can Help You Lose Weight Naturally and Safely
April 15, 2016 10:00 - 29 minutes - 27 MBYes! There is a way to release weight naturally and safely. Today Diane talks about the way she was able to change her body and overall health through her diet. She has “dieted” her entire life, and it wasn’t until she made the changes she talks about in this episode that she had real and lasting results – in her weight and her overall health. *You will learn about primary foods, and what happens when you don’t have those primary foods. You’ll also learn what secondary foods are and the rol...
Mindful Eating with Alison Ozgur
April 08, 2016 10:00 - 34 minutes - 16 MBToday Diane's guest is Alison Ozgur is a registered dietitian, author, certified meditation teacher, and registered yoga teacher. Her greatest passion is educating and guiding others on their journey toward mindfulness, plant-based nutrition, and optimal mind/body health. Through the integration of evidence-based practices, she teaches people how to thrive and live a vibrant life. Diane talks with Alison about the benefits of being mindful while eating and what a difference mindfulness make...
The Dangers Of GMO's And What You May Not Know with Carla Lee Johnston
April 01, 2016 10:00 - 27 minutes - 38.6 MBToday, Diane brings powerful information about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in her interview with Carla Lee Johnston, Founder and President of One Team Humanity Foods and Managing Member for The Truth Movie, LLC. Carla tells us that we would be surprised to learn about the food we are eating because there are so many “things” in our food that we don’t even know about, mainly Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and these GMOs are killing us. As a result she founded Carla’s Nut Burg...
Interview with The Chicago Raw Food Community On Breaking Your Food Addictions
March 25, 2016 10:00 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBA large percentage of the population is suffering from food addiction. Plenty of people are literally addicted to food in the same manner that an addict is irresistibly drawn to his drug of choice, and just like the addict, when they fail to feed their habit they suffer from cravings, changes in brain chemistry, and other unpleasant withdrawal symptoms that make it very hard to lose weight or moderate the intake of unhealthy foods they logically know are bad for them. Today Diane shares an i...
Vegans Have More Fun, And Other Great Reasons To Be Vegan - With Ori Shavit
March 18, 2016 10:00 - 34 minutes - 48.2 MBToday on Balanced Living For Busy Professionals Diane talks to Ori Shavit. Ori’s life is all about a passion for food, photographing it, learning how it was prepared and where it comes from and generally, the entire food culture. During that time, she eagerly ate almost any kind of animal on this planet. Today she shares with Diane the change in her life that led her to become vegan and the joy of vegan food. It’s not deprivation. Vegan eating is robust, tasty, soul satisfying, sustainable a...
Reduce Your Stress and Build Resilience with Lawrence Mitchell
March 11, 2016 11:00 - 25 minutes - 35.9 MBToday Diane welcomes Lawrence Mitchell, Transformation Coach, Global Marketing Director for Europe’s Largest B2B Publisher and Founder of Raw Energy. Lawrence helps people regain control of their personal health through education, food awareness and physical activity. In this episode, Lawrence talks about a time when he felt completely out of control and shares his own journey to reducing the stressors in his life, preventing burnout and building resilience. Listen and learn what the devasta...
Work/life Balance – Putting It All Together
March 04, 2016 11:00 - 5 minutes - 8.03 MBToday Diane walks you through how to minimize the negative and accentuate the positive influence to your work/life balance. Diane demonstrates how to use this information to bring greater balance into your life. What good is having all the parts if you don’t know how to put them together and use them? Diane expertly guides you in all of the steps, using them as a whole process to gain, or even reclaim the balance in your life. Continue working on your work/life balance with her eBook, “How T...
Identifying Influences to Work/Life Balance
February 26, 2016 11:00 - 7 minutes - 10.3 MBIdentifying those things that affect your balance is critical. Knowing where those influences come from is even more important. Today Diane goes over how to identify internal vs. external factors of imbalance, and balance to help you maintain your healthy work/life balance. This episode is a critical part of this series, Diane's eBook, “How To Create Balance In our Busy Life” can help. Purchase and Download the companion eBook: http://www.dianerandallconsults.com/shop/ And ask Diane a...
The Good And Bad Consequences Of Work/Life Balance
February 19, 2016 11:00 - 9 minutes - 13.2 MBThere are consequences to everything – good and bad. Do you know what the consequences to your life are when your work/life balance is out of whack? Do you know the consequences to your life when your work/life balance is in balance? Today Diane walks you through the steps to identify what those consequences are in your life and strategies to bring work and life back in to balance. Download the companion "How to Create Balance in Your Busy Life" e-book here: http://www/dianerandallconsu...
Love Yourself - This Valentine's - Be Your Own Valentine
February 14, 2016 11:00 - 5 minutes - 7.4 MBThis Valentine's Day, Diane encourages you to accept and love yourself for the wonderful human being you are. With all of the struggles and challenges that make up your life and you - embracing all of it, and loving yourself makes everything easier. Happy Valentine's Day To All My Listeners! I am so grateful to be on this journey with you and humbled that you listen to this podcast! Thank you so much. Contact Diane: [email protected] Website: http://www.dianeranda...
Welcome to the Work/Life Balance series!
February 12, 2016 11:00 - 13 minutes - 19.1 MBWelcome to the Work/Life Balance series! Balance is what this show is all about and for the next 4 episodes Diane is going to walk you though exactly what you need to do to support balance in your life. Defining what balance in your life looks like for you and looking at what your life consequences are with, and without balance is an important first step. Visit the website and download the companion e-book that will help you on this journey. And, as always, please comment, leave feedback,...
Building Inner Relationships with Ishika Aswani
February 05, 2016 11:00 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBToday Diane welcomes Ishika Aswani, Empowering You! Relationship Counselor; Ishika shares her wisdom about how each of us is consistently responding in relation to other people, money, work, our bodies, experiences, our goals, how we use our voice and our will. In some of these relationships we are already empowered and flourishing while in others we feel somewhat debilitated, overwhelmed, drained, resentful and need a different perspective. Today's episode will teach you how to strengthen y...
Energy Boosting Tips Are Exactly What You Need
January 29, 2016 11:00 - 25 minutes - 35.1 MBAre you tired all the time? Do you negotiate with yourself in the morning trying to get those 5 extra minutes of sleep? Do you find that you’re drained by mid-day or too exhausted at the end of the day to enjoy anything? Do you use eating, drinking alcohol, or smoking as a way to relax. Do you want more energy? Then this is the episode for you! Today Diane goes through the 5 tips to manage your energy and have a healthier outlook and more balanced life. 5 Steps: Identifying and reducing st...
Change The Way You Think About Retirement With Roger Whitney
January 22, 2016 11:00 - 27 minutes - 37.5 MBFinancial health is part of Balanced Living For Busy Professionals! Retirement and investment strategies, financial management, portfolio building and meeting your lifestyle goals are all topics on the show today, and Diane has an amazing guest. Winner of the 2015 PLUTUS award for Best Retirement Focused Blog/Podcast, Roger Whitney, The Retirement Answer Man himself is here. As a Financial Advisor in 1991, Roger has witnessed first-hand the rise and fall of the “new economy” and the Dot-co...
Today Diane Welcomes Author and Health Coach Marelda Rodrigues
January 15, 2016 11:00 - 43 minutes - 60 MBToday Diane welcomes author and health coach Marelda Rodrigues who knows firsthand what it’s like to face the despair of burnout—but refused to let it have the last word. Reclaiming her personal power by owning her decisions, she began to recognize the absolutely essential behaviors that build confidence and ensure forward movement, as well as the derailing actions that stunt emotional growth and block achievement. Are your life’s dreams and current reality in alignment? Or do you wonder ho...
Today Diane Welcomes Empowerment Strategist, host of The Fit 2 Love Podcast Show, JJ Flizanes
January 08, 2016 11:00 - 20 minutes - 27.9 MBToday Diane welcomes JJ Fllzanes. JJ is an Empowerment Strategist, host of The Fit 2 Love Podcast Show, Director of Invisible Fitness, an Amazon best-selling author of Fit 2 Love: How to Get Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually Fit to Attract the Love of Your Life, and author of Knack Absolute Abs: Routines for a Fit and Firm Core, and was named Best Personal Trainer in Los Angeles for 2007 by Elite Traveler Magazine. JJ vividly reminds us that the word ‘fitness’ is not just about the st...
Setting & Keeping Goals - An Awesome Start To 2016
January 01, 2016 15:00 - 11 minutes - 15.4 MBToday Diane walks you through how to maintain the goals you set - and going even deeper - how to set those reasonable goals without overwhelming yourself. Diane covers the strategies, tips, and tricks to working on and achieving your goals and celebrating along the way. She also talks about the support systems that everyone should have when tackling a life altering goal. Great advice for the new year so you have a balanced and healthy 2016. Join the webinar! How To STOP Your Food Addi...
Overcoming Negative Self-Talk
December 25, 2015 11:00 - 14 minutes - 20.2 MBToday, Diane talks about negative self- talk and gives strategies and tips to help you overcome your inner critic. You need to select your thoughts the way you select your clothes. Disputing your negative self-talk means challenging the negative or unhelpful aspects. And doing this enables you to feel better and to respond to situations in a more helpful way. Learning to dispute negative thoughts takes time and practice, but it’s worth the effort. Once you start looking at it, you’ll be sur...
Today, Diane talks with Stephanie Dalfonzo, Intuitive Healer About Emotional Freedom Techniques
December 18, 2015 11:00 - 29 minutes - 40.1 MBToday, Diane talks with Stephanie Dalfonzo, Intuitive Healer and Transformational Coach who, after leaving her radio career to raise her children, began the journey in earnest of finding ways to help herself and others make deep and lasting life changes. Her clients experience deep, cellular level healing, allowing them to breakthrough whatever has been holding them back, so they can reclaim their inner power and joy! Stephanie, like Diane, believes that each of us, like Dorothy in The Wiz...
Diane brings a very special guest to Balanced Living for Busy Professionals, Rick Birdwell, Life Coach of the Mankind Project.
December 11, 2015 11:00 - 31 minutes - 44.1 MBToday Diane brings a very special guest to Balanced Living for Busy Professionals, Rick Birdwell, Life Coach of the Mankind Project. This amazing group for men flies in the face of rigid stereotypes about the "Sensitive New Age Man" AND the "Macho Man". We ask men to go right up to the edge - and beyond - in a culture that seems to be comfortable with mediocrity and passivity from men. We ask men to stop living a vicarious adventure through their TV's and step into a real time adventure t...
Setting And Maintaining Healthy Boundaries
December 04, 2015 11:00 - 11 minutes - 15.4 MBSetting Boundaries In Your Life What exactly does it mean to set and communicate healthy boundaries? Well, ask yourself what will you accept from others by way of the demands they make on your time and emotional energy. For most people, when someone asks something of them, their first response is to give in, to set that other person’s needs ahead of their own. Many of us have been taught from a young age to be “people pleasers.” One of the shortest, yet most difficult words for many people ...
The Concept Of Wellness
November 27, 2015 23:00 - 20 minutes - 27.8 MBThe Concept of Wellness The concept of wellness covers a broad range–with different definitions depending on where you look. But for starters, let’s use the following–wellness is the belief that improvement is possible throughout our lives. We’re continuously seeking information on how we can improve. We’re choosing options and making decisions that support our best interests. Everything we think, feel and believe impacts our whole being. What does wellness look like to you? You are in com...
Introducing Balanced Living For Busy Professionals
November 27, 2015 11:00 - 8 minutes - 11.7 MBIntroducing Balanced Living For Busy Professionals I’m Diane Randall and as a working mother, an on-the-road SAP Consultant, corporate trainer, coach and entrepreneur, I’ve played all or most of those roles at the same time for more than two decades with a commitment to wellness and a balanced lifestyle. In this podcast I’m going to teach you the tools and strategies to a healthier, balanced life. I’m going to share with you my journey and how I can help you achieve the same results I’ve...