Up For A Chat

Romeo and Juliet – Kim and Danny are synonymous with extraordinary love stories. Thank goodness Kim and Danny are still around to tell their story. The lights are dimmed the voices are hushed as Kim tells Cyndi and Carren one of the most beautiful love stories. It is a story of true connections, of undying love, of being in the right place of knowing when it was the right time. She doesn’t give all the secrets away but Cyndi and Carren realise that the love story was the unfolding of someone who would touch the world in profoundly unique ways. The post UC 74: A Beautiful Love Story appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Carren has a surprise for Cyndi and Kim with regards to a new part to her business. The Up For A Chat girls (Kim and Cyndi) decide to interview Carren about the amazing success of her business from vomiting on her first stage presentation to speaking to millions of people world wide. Carren’s story and her business have evolved and morphed as does the hour with these 3 extraordinary women. Don’t miss the unveiling of Carren’s surprise for Cyndi and Kim. The post UC 73: Carren’s Couch appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Carren, Kim and Cyndi began this podcast in Part 1 the previous week, the discussion continued for 2 hours, so it has been broken down into 2 parts. This week the Up For A Chat girls talk about the lessons Cyndi has learnt in business and how this can help other people with an idea to launch into an opportunity for business. This is definitely not conventional business advice, it includes synchronicity, intuition and passion. The post UC 72: The Business of Changing Habits Part 2 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Carren and Kim begin the discussion asking Cyndi about her business, Changing Habits. This business started with an idea and has morphed into a business employing 15 people and growing. As Cyndi has evolved so has Changing Habits, it’s surprising the turns and changes that have occurred. Joined by her husband 5 years ago, the business has gone from a place to find information, now coupled with a health food business and emerging into the world wide online health education and study phenomenon. The post UC 71: The Business of Changing Habits – Part 1 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

It was an emotional day for Carren, Kim and Cyndi, the podcast started and Cyndi said that she loved Carren and Kim, this may sound soppy but it was prompted by a near miss experience that happened to Kim, the thought of Kim not being in Carren and Cyndi’s life was more then they could bare.  This Up For A Chat is all about Near Misses and how they change our life and help us experience the clarity of living in the present and not being distracted by the past and future.  It is one of the more quiet chat’s that just may bring you to tears. The post UC 70: Near Misses and Presence of Mind appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Kim and Cyndi have just completed the Mooloolaba Marathon, both of them had times when their mind was telling them to stop but they knew they couldn’t let each other down.  Carren explains what was happening with surprising clarity.  The Up for A Chat girls also discuss how they went with No Spend February – Listen In The post UC 69: Money, Mindset & Marathons appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

No this is not about horror stories, this is about reviewing pregnancy and birth and looking at all the modern day things we do with regards to pregnancy.  Ultrasounds, glucose tolerance tests, amniosentesis, rh incompatibility injections, foods to avoid, due date, hypno birthing, Vitamin K, Oxytocin, inductions, c-sections, water births and even touch on abortion. Listen In The post UC 68: Pregnancy appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

The Up For A Chat girls continue talking about the thyroid gland and all the things that seem to go wrong with it, it’s role in the body and how chemical calories in food, personal care products, the environment and what you think has an effect on the thyroid. Cyndi talks about the importance of Iodine and the necessity to stay away from gluten if you have an autoimmune disease of the thyroid. Kim delves into personal care products and the chemicals that effect the hormones, her new research will make you think twice about the perfume you use. And Carren gets into Behavioural Epigenetics and how our cell biology changes as a result of our thoughts The post UC 67: Thyroid – Part Two appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

It seems everyone has a thyroid condition so over the next two weeks The Up For A Chat girls talk about the thyroid gland and all the things that seem to go wrong with it, it’s role in the body and how chemical calories in food, personal care products, the environment and what you think has an effect on the thyroid. Cyndi talks about the importance of Iodine and the necessity to stay away from gluten if you have an autoimmune disease of the thyroid. Kim delves into personal care products and the chemicals that effect the hormones, her new research will make you think twice about the perfume you use. And Carren gets into Behavioural Epigenetics and how our cell biology changes as a result of our thoughts. The post UC 66: Thyroid – Part One appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Amanda Gore joins The Up For A Chat Girls for an hour of motivation. Amanda is a high profile international speaker and author and much loved friend of the girls. The chat begins around motivation and what motivates people to change? Amanda has some insightful thoughts on this which leaves Carren, Cyndi and Kim knodding heads and ooing and ahing. FARCing becomes the hot word of the hour, standing for focus, awareness, repetition and celebration. The crux of the talk comes down to how you feel about yourself and whether you are worthy of change. A fabulous discussion that will change your position on motivation. The post UC 65: How to FARC in Public appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

The Up For A Chat girls tackle a curly question – are fat people lazy. This conversation is prompted by two high profile women, having it out on national radio about whether fat women are lazy? The radio interview ends with one of these women (who happens to be fat) hanging up on the other woman who just happens to be fit and lean. Carren, Kim and Cyndi debate this issue with surprising outcome. http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/chrissie-swan-and-fitmum-sharny-kieser-battle-on-air-about-weight/story-fneuzle5-1226822851593 http://www.bionicafitwarrior.com/youre-fat-but-youre-not-a-victim-an-open-letter-to-chrissie-swan/ The post UC 64: Are Fat People Lazy? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

The Up for A Chat girls interview Sharny and Julius, an amazing young couple who don’t know the meaning of compromise.  They have 4 children, 3 under 3 and another on the way, they have a thriving business, both are hands on parents and they have a love and respect for each other that is Listen In The post UC 63: Sharny & Julius – The Power Couple appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Cyndi and Carren have begun to experience the symptoms of menopause, neither of them are prepared to put up with the discomforts and talk about what they are doing. HRT and drugs are not an option. Listen in as they tell their stories and what they are doing about becoming an even better version of health than they already are. Kim smirks throughout the whole hour. If you could only see her face. But she does come up with one good quote after the hour. “Investigate and Educate don’t complain and complicate”. The post UC 62: Menopause appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Christmas holidays are over and the Up For A Chat girls are finally back together.  By the time they sit down to record hours have passed, so finally they turn on the record button and talk about their experiences.  Cyndi has just come back from 4 weeks away from the office and social media, Kim and Carren just say that they have noticed her absence. Cyndi is very excited about the Up Lift Festival she has attended and the conversation starts about a near death experience. There was no plan to this podcast but it creates a life of its own and what a life it gets. The post UC 61: Living Without Fear appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

LIVE – In this live recording from the Wellness Summit in Melbourne Cyndi O’Meara exposes why grains aren’t all they’re cracked up to be, and why genes are not the answer to our health and disease. As usual Cyndi has you thinking and going right down the rabbit hole with regards to food and your Listen In The post UC 60: Cyndi O’Meara LIVE at The Wellness Summit Melbourne appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

LIVE – In this live recording from the Wellness Summit in Melbourne Kim Morrison explores what makes us all tick and how we are in fact different and not wrong. Based on the four main personality types – Sanguine, Choleric, Melancholic and Phlegmatic – this interactive, informative and humorous workshop will help you see how Listen In The post UC 59: Kim Morrison LIVE at The Wellness Summit Melbourne appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

LIVE – In this live recording from the Wellness Summit in Melbourne Carren Smith tells her remarkable story of survival, how her partner’s suicide took her on a path to self-destruction and what major occurrences and learnings she endured to transform her own life. From depression and dis-engagement to self-empowerment and a business that creates Listen In The post UC 58: Caren Smith LIVE at The Wellness Summit Melbourne appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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. The post UC 57: New Years Resolutions appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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. The post UC 56: The Wisdom of Age appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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