Rock Your Bliss
49 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsWelcome to the Rock Your Bliss podcast with co-hosts Jacki Carr and Mary Beth LaRue. This podcast is an interview series filled with inspirational conversation, self inquiry into how to rock your bliss and storytelling from inspiring humans all over the globe. The intention of each episode is to provide insight, tools and a new way of thinking to make shift happen in your days, weeks and perhaps even your life. Join us on this journey. We'd love to hear from you along the way.
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Episode 48: Jacki & MB - "Hell Yes" Pt. 2
September 09, 2019 12:01 - 14 minutes - 20.5 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB continue to explore the embodiment of their ‘hell yes’, those moments when you know that something has to change, expand or shift. They talk about how our ‘hell no’ can inform how we find our ‘hell yes’ and also talk about the necessity of faith over fear and allowing ourselves to hold space for all the unknowing.
Episode 47: Dr. Elizabeth Wade
September 02, 2019 12:00 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Dr. Elizabeth Wade. Dr. Wade talks to us about her path to becoming a doctor and her passion to bring women into a more harmonious relationship with their bodies. We talk about hormone health, getting to the root of our bodies imbalances and how to support a healthy and thriving menstrual period. Get out your favorite pen and journal and have fun taking lots of notes.
Episode 46: Jacki & MB - "Hell Yes" Pt. 1
August 26, 2019 14:00 - 22 minutes - 30.7 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB talk about how thier “hell yes” has evolved over time. They highlight their top 3 “hell yes” moments and what it felt like to choose their internal wisdom over what “everyone” felt was right for them. Stay tuned for Part 2 of this episode in the finale of Season 8.
Episode 45: Katie Brauer
August 19, 2019 14:00 - 30 minutes - 55.2 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Katie Brauer. Katie is former Professional Snowboarder turned Yoga Teacher, Educator and Personal Transformation expert. In this episode, we talk about the importance of renegotiating what success looks like in our lives, re-orienting towards pleasure, and what feels important now and practices to help us move inward as we age.
Episode 44: Ashley Tracey
August 12, 2019 14:00 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Ashley Tracey. Ashley is our go-to astrologer and is a wealth of wisdom and knowledge about modern astrology. In this episode, Ashley shares about her passion to demystify Astrology and make it more accessible to everyone. She believes that our personal charts can help us navigate and more through our lives with greater ease and compassionate understanding. We talk about we talk about our personal astrology signs, what pla...
Episode 44: Welcome to Season 8!
August 05, 2019 14:00 - 17 minutes - 31.5 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB welcome you to Season 8 and chat about what life looks like this Summer. They share their aha moments from the past few months and what is making them come alive in their work, families and personal commitments. They explore redefining success and the power of ritualizing commitment to find solid ground amidst the ever-shifting balance in work and life. They’re so excited to meet you here for the next five weeks. Thank you for brin...
Episode 43: Creating & Cultivating Community
April 29, 2019 14:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBIn this final episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB talk about the value of community in our businesses, our relationships and in person with other women. They talk about their different community building styles and the newest community offering at Rock Your Bliss, The Membership.
Episode 42: Tricia Huffman
April 22, 2019 14:00 - 36 minutes - 49.9 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Tricia Huffman, founder and creator of YourJoyologist. Tricia’s mission is to inspire you, yes, you to fully LIVE your life and love yourself through it all. She believes life will always be throwing us surprises and challenges, no matter how much money or success we have and that the most important thing we can do is to be connected to our minds so that we can see our thoughts and shift them. In this episode, we talk abo...
Episode 41: Lindsey K. Matthews
April 15, 2019 14:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Lindsey K. Mathews. Lindsey is the founder & CEO of BirthFit, a movement with a mission, that cultivates awareness and enhance education throughout the motherhood transition by developing and producing one of a kind BIRTHFIT experiences through in-person classes and distance learning so that a woman has the space to make her own informed, intuitively guided choices. In this episode, we explore the ways in which we all moth...
Episode 40: Soshy Adelstein
April 08, 2019 00:00 - 37 minutes - 50.9 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Soshy Adelstein. Soshy is an Intuitive Eating Expert with a focus on wellness coaching for women that want to make peace with food and their bodies. In this episode, we talk about the trends in body image, media consumption and comparison in the social media age. We explore what it feels like to liberate ourselves from “feeling wrong” about food and healing our thoughts and cultivating compassion and kindness in our bodies.
Episode 39: Meghan McCoy
April 01, 2019 14:00 - 36 minutes - 49.9 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Meghan McCoy. Meghan is one of our favorite people and we are so honored to have her on the podcast. We talk with Meghan about her recent goal-crushing journey to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and what she learned both off and on the mountain. We explore how she is using that experience to create a new platform, Great Human Inc., that stands for honoring people's innate gifts and bringing their goals into supportive alignment with...
Episode 38: Welcome to Season 7!
March 25, 2019 14:00 - 27 minutes - 37.3 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB welcome you to Season 7. We talk about how 2019 has landed in our hearts, bodies, and homes and how we are evolving over-and-over-again. We explore how we are being intentional with our time and our commitments and where are celebrating already this year. We're so happy to be back in this space with you!
Episode 34: Bliss Quickies - Books
December 26, 2018 15:00 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBIn this mini-episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB talk about their favorite books from 2018. They dive into how they nerd out at the library, what their reading styles are and some of their favorite nuggets of wisdom from the books they read this year.
Episode 37: Bliss Quickies - Connection
December 26, 2018 15:00 - 20 minutes - 18.3 MBIn this mini-episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB talk about how they created conscious connection in 2018. They dive into how to make your time matter, how to embrace your connection style, and exploring what their inner connection feels like right now and how they want it to feel in 2019.
Episode 36: Bliss Quickies - Investing in Self
December 26, 2018 15:00 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MBIn this mini-episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB talk about how invested in themselves in 2018. They dive into why investing in self-care matters, how to look into the areas of your life where you need to ask for help and then gift yourself the space for connection, as well as exploring how our beliefs can keep us from investing when we need it the most.
Episode 35: Bliss Quickies - Movement
December 26, 2018 15:00 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBIn this mini-episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB talk about how they stayed committed to movement in 2018. They dive into how to their movement styles have changed this past year, how they organize their energy and how to find balance in the yin and yang moments of life.
Episode 33: Shonda Moralis
September 24, 2018 13:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB talk to Shonda Moralis. Shonda is a psychotherapist in private practice with over twenty years experience, specializing in stress-related disorders and women’s issues. Trained as a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher in 2006, Shonda presents workshops and keynotes in numerous settings. Her award-winning first book, Breathe, Mama, Breathe: 5-Minute Mindfulness for Busy Moms, is a Parent’s Magazine “Mom Must-Read.” She lives in...
Episode 32: April Gargiulo
September 17, 2018 16:17 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB talk to April Gargiulo. April is the founder of Vitner's Daughter, a luxury beauty brand, that began in 2012 in Napa Valley. They talk about creating April's 'desert island' product, dive deep into our traditional definitions of beauty and what it looks and feels like heal our bodies with products that are thoughtfully created.
Episode 31: Amber Rae
September 10, 2018 13:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBIn this episode, Jacki and MB talk to Amber Rae. Amber is the bestselling author of Choose Wonder Over Worry: Move Beyond Fear and Doubt to Unlock Your Full Potential, the creator of the global art movement The World We Want, and a teacher and speaker on creativity, self-awareness, and personal growth. Amber believes that when we embrace and honor all of who we are — the wonder as much as the worry, the compassion as much as the shame — we build lives that are fulfilling and create work that'...
Episode 30: Seven Weeks to Bliss
September 03, 2018 12:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB share about how they started their dynamic partnership and how they created their online program, 7 Weeks to Bliss. They also talk about owning our choices in our friendships and business partnerships and the importance of creating a space of education & fun & curiosity and develop a practice for bliss-filled living.
Episode 29: Jana Roemer
August 27, 2018 12:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB talk to Jana Roemer. Jana is a Yoga Nidra teacher, a Mystic, a mama who loves interweaving plants medicine and astrology into her soulful teaching. Jana also run moon circles, essential oils workshops and does natal chart readings. This is a deeply soulful conversation about how we are all continuously navigating healing, how move through the world via our intuition and how to use the Yoga Nidra as a way to reset at the end of the...
Episode 28: Welcome to Season 5!
August 20, 2018 14:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB welcome us back to the airwaves. They talk about all the changes of summer and how they are navigating their lives in this moment. They talk about learning about their bodies as women, making a commitment to dive deeper into educating themselves about how to take care of our bodies naturally and celebrating how far they've come in their healing journeys.
Episode 27: Boundaries & Balance
April 22, 2018 00:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBIn the Season 4 finale, Jacki and MB recap the season and jam on boundaries, balance and finding new ways to shift in the present moment. We are so very grateful for your continued listening and look forward to sitting with you next season. If you love this show, please take a few minutes and leave us a review on iTunes. We appreciate every single comment and review. We love you. Thank you.
Episode 26: Nicole Sciacca
April 15, 2018 00:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Nicole Sciacca. Nicole is a yoga teacher, professional dancer, actress, host, personal trainer, and (most importantly) a mother to her five year-old son Beau. She is currently the Chief Yoga Officer of Playlist Yoga in West Hollywood, where she spearheads their programming and works with teachers to turn each class into the kind of unique, music-driven experiences that have earned Playlist the nickname “The SoulCycle Of Yo...
Episode 25: Bonkosi Alyssa Horn
April 08, 2018 00:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Bonkosi Alyssa Horn. Alyssa's (as MB loving refers to her) life has always been a series of worlds colliding. She is the daughter of a Peace Corps father from Iowa who met a village girl in Zaire. Alyssa is a small town Iowa girl at heart, with a love for big city life (currently she is living in Philadelphia with her two kiddos and husband). She has an passion for style and design and is fueled to create by a desire to be...
Episode 24: Liz Dennery Sanders
April 02, 2018 14:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Liz Dennery Sanders. Liz is a brand consultant, creative a director and a stylist. With 20+ years of experience in branding, marketing, public relations and influencer outreach campaigns, she is highly regarded for her ability to select the words, images and packaging that bring brands to life. She founded SheBrand at the intersection of her marketing expertise and philanthropic activities and recently wrote her book, ‘Sty...
Episode 23: Dr. Christa Schwind
March 26, 2018 00:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Dr. Christa Schwind. Christa has a PhD in Yoga Studies from the University of Denver and teaches South Asian and Comparative Religions at the University level. She is the founder of Wind Wellness and is a nationally recognized educator of yoga asana, history and philosophy, frequently speaking and teaching at workshops and events around the United States, my favorite workshop title she has led is on Gods and Goddesses and ...
Episode 22: Welcome to Season 4!
March 18, 2018 00:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBWelcome to Season 4! In this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB talk about what this season of life looks like, right now. They explore their personal explorations of motherhood - in all it's dynamic forms. MB shares about her journey with foster adoption and what practices she is leaning into now. Jacki gets curious about our ever-changing visions and meeting ourselves in the moment to get possible and shift into a new perspective. We are so excited to this season to unrave...
Episode 21: Rachelle Tratt
January 14, 2018 00:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Rachelle Tratt. Rachelle is a Los Angeles based yoga instructor, community leader, and Soulful entrepreneur who created The Neshama Project, a yoga inspired, socially conscious jewelry company that gives back.
Episode 20: Yami Mufdi
January 07, 2018 00:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Yami Mufdi. Yami is an all around wellness enthusiast with a focus on finding a balance between health and fitness in everyday life. She believes not all fitness is created equal and that in itself is what makes fitness so special. Through her own personal fitness journey, she has been able to help hundreds of men and women find the balance they need to lead a healthy and fulfilling life. Her experience ranges from being ...
Episode 19: Our Husbands
December 31, 2017 00:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview their husbands, Matt & Chris. They all talk about the birth of Rock You Bliss, how it’s evolved over time and what it’s like to be a family of four, in business and life. The husbands chat about their friendship, boundaries and what bliss means to them.
Episode 18: Megan Monahan
December 24, 2017 00:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Megan Monohan. After working in the stressful world of the music industry for 7 years, Megan reached a breaking point in 2009 and knew that she needed to create a change. Although she was living the life she thought she always wanted, she was unhealthy, unhappy and felt burned out from life. Megan turned to The Chopra Center for Wellbeing to learn how to create life balance and manage her stress. She immediately began stu...
Episode 17: MB interviews Jacki
December 17, 2017 00:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, MB interviews Jacki. They jam on what bliss currently means to Jacki and the elusive and ever-evolving pursuit of balance in the day-to-day. Jacki talks about her love of visioning and when to shift into a new vision for the future when it feels right. Oh, and we talk about goals, the hangovers that happen when you meet them and speaking to your future self.
Episode 16: Jacki interviews MB
December 10, 2017 00:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki interviews MB. They jam on what bliss currently means to MB, where bliss lives in the body, and how to craft new perspectives moment-to-moment. They explore MB’s life practices and how they help MB navigate balance in her routine. They also dive into gratitude, failure, learning and MB shares her three favorite teachers and how they inform her life, now.
Episode 15: MC Yogi
December 03, 2017 00:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview MC Yogi. MC Yogi is a graffiti artist, yoga instructor, and hip hop musician on a mission to bring good energy into the world. He and his wife, Amanda, have taught yoga and performed everywhere from headlining festivals, colleges and nightclubs, to the Forbidden City in China and even at The White House. When they’re not on the road, MC YOGI and Amanda teach at their home studio, Point Reyes Yoga, in Northern California. ...
Episode 14: Melissa Hartwig
November 26, 2017 00:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Melissa Hartwig. Melissa is a Certified Sports Nutritionist who specializes in helping people change their relationship with food and create lifelong, healthy habits. She is the co-creator of the original Whole30 program, a four-time New York Times bestselling author (It Starts With Food, The Whole30, Food Freedom Forever, and The Whole30 Cookbook). She has been featured by Dr. Oz, Good Morning America, the New York Times...
Episode 13: Welcome to Season 3!
November 19, 2017 00:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBWelcome to Season 3! In this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB talk about what home feels like right now, in this fall season. They explore their personal relationships with food, health and the responsibility of choice in our lives. They share what workouts they are loving right now and how those new routines have empowered and supported their physical and mental practices. And, they talk about the power of a pause.
Episode 12: Tiffany Russo
October 13, 2017 00:00 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Tiffany Russo. Tiffany was born and bred in sunny Southern California, a rare breed, a total native in SoCal! She has completed her 500 SmartFLOW teacher training certification under the guide of her teacher and mentor, Annie Carpenter and is now a Senior SmartFLOW teacher. She credits yoga for supplying the yin in her life to counter Los Angeles' yang-like energy. As a student and teacher, Tiffany continues to be inspired...
Episode 11: Jordan Younger
October 07, 2017 00:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Jordan Younger, AKA The Balanced Blonde. Jordan is the blogger behind the #realness-based wellness and lifestyle blog, The Balanced Blonde. She is the author of the finding-balance memoir Breaking Vegan and Soul On Fire Yoga ebook. She’s also the creator of The Balanced Blonde Soul on Fire podcast which just celebrated 1.5 million downloads. (Holy what?!) Jordan has emerged as a leading voice in the wellness space due to h...
Episode 10: Boundaries & Body Image
September 30, 2017 00:00 - 49 minutes - 34 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB dive deep into the stickiness of personal and business boundaries. They unravel how we define boundaries at Rock Your Bliss, why boundaries are so hard to create (and uphold), and navigate how to honor our wholeness through our "hell yes" and our "hell no”. They also lovingly explore body image and the importance of finding the pause in the everyday, to get quiet, listen in, and heal ourselves.
Episode 9: Erin Trealor
September 23, 2017 00:00 - 35 minutesIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Health Coach, Founder and CEO of Raw Beauty Talks and Founding Partners of Free to Be Talks, Erin Trealor. In 2014, Jacki met Erin in LA while she was doing an interview series of 200 women sans makeup, no photo editing, all real for Raw Beauty Talks. She was the most passionate powerhouse Canadian woman with a message to share with the World empowering women to explore a healthy body image, trust in themselves and courage...
Episode 8: Jess Davis
September 17, 2017 00:00 - 34 minutesIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview girl crush, Mama, entrepreneur, beautiful human, writer, and good friend, Jess Davis. They ironically first found Jess through the interwebs. Ironic because Jess’ lovechild of a company, Folk Rebellion, is a movement that brings attention to offline living in the new screened-in world. She has taught them life hacks in batched inboxes, digital detoxes and real time conversation. They did a collaboration with her at a Rock ...
Episode 7: Welcome to Season 2 & Creating Rituals
September 10, 2017 00:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB welcome you to Season 2 and the themes (boundaries, social media, comparison, etc.) that recur with our radical guests throughout this season. Jacki and MB also jam on exploring daily rituals (for 7 days) and how a small shift in how they end/start their days informed their moods, relationships and experience of available joy and peace moment-to-moment throughout their week.
Episode 06: Jenny Lynn Newell
June 15, 2017 00:00 - 31 minutesIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Jenny Lynn Newell, our own Community Cultivator here at RYB. She is a radiant human with a smile for days, a fiance, resident of LA and Denver, and total plant lover. We dig into how she found Rock Your Bliss, the power of creating community and how in the hell the number 20,000 showed up on her FitBit.
Episode 05: Lindsay Jean Thomson
June 11, 2017 00:00 - 30 minutesIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Lindsay Jean Thomson of Women Catalysts. Lindsay, who was diagnosed with Stage 3C breast cancer almost a year ago, shares about her journey and what she’s learned along the way. Get ready to be really inspired by this inspiring superwoman.
Episode 04: Adulting
June 04, 2017 00:00 - 25 minutesIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB get REAL on adult life. And even though adult like can be super challenging (Hello taxes, home repairs and changing diapers!) they love, love, love every moment of getting older. And maybe wiser?
Episode 03: Nicole Antoinette
May 26, 2017 00:00 - 39 minutesIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Nicole Antoinette of Real Talk Radio and NicoleAntoinette.com. She is all truth, no bullshit and a self-proclaimed cat lady. We dig into what it means to be in self help recovery (think the books you are reading) and how to think for yourself.
Episode 02: Rosie Acosta
May 20, 2017 00:00 - 35 minutesIn this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Rosie Acosta of Radically Loved Radio. We dig into bliss rituals, morning routines (at 4:30am?!) and the importance of daily practice.
Episode 01: Welcome to the Rock Your Bliss Podcast!
May 15, 2017 00:00 - 21 minutesWelcome to the Rock Your Bliss podcast with co-hosts Jacki Carr and Mary Beth LaRue. This podcast is an interview series filled with inspirational conversation, self inquiry into how to rock your bliss and storytelling from inspiring humans all over the globe. The intention of each episode is to provide insight, tools and a new way of thinking to make shift happen in your days, weeks and perhaps even your life. Join us on this journey. We'd love to hear from you along the way.