Elevated Life: Real Wellness and Transformation
by Elevated Life
Elevated Life walks alongside the internally driven individual through real wellness and transformation. We're Johnna and Clint, a couple who've done the work and are still doing it, cutting through the noise with honest, unfiltered conversations about wellness, movement, mindset, spiritual growth, and personal responsibility. Our framework: Wellness is the foundation. Movement is the tool. Mindset is the driver. Personal responsibility is the container. Lived experience is the proof. We don't coddle, we don't sell false promises, and we don't trade in empty motivation. We share raw personal stories and practical tools for people ready to do the actual work, from nervous system regulation to attachment theory, from nutrition protocols to shadow work, from resistance training to authentic transformation. This is a real talk wellness podcast for people tired of quick fixes, surface-level motivation, and the comfortable hell of staying stuck. If you've been searching
Episodes
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Men's Health Reached Out: Signs We're on the Right Track
Johnna and Clint with an update on a week of good news: an editor from Men's Health reached out to Clint, Johnna had her first in-home training consultation on the island, and a few signs showed up that we're on the right track. Before that, our neighbor told us Halloween is a big deal on our…
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Learning to Surf in Our 40s: Starting Something New
Learning to surf in our 40s: Johnna and Clint on the first weeks of surfing almost every day on Kauai, the soreness, the fear and the ego, and what starting something new teaches you about everything else. Johnna surfed on Maui 25 years ago. Clint had never surfed. We bought boards, drove five...
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Clint's Relationship With Alcohol: Fighting the Voice, Not the Booze
How Clint changed his relationship with alcohol on July 4, 2023, and why he says the fight was never with the booze. It was with the voice. Clint did not have a rock bottom moment. He decided he was done fighting, kept a fully stocked bar in view on his counter, and spent his nights proving to...
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Social Media vs. Real Life: What's Right in Front of You
Social media vs. real life: Johnna and Clint on the comments that followed Clint's video from Kauai, and why the real world is the people in front of you. Online, a pile of comments. In person, since we moved here, every interaction has been great to amazing. This episode is about knowing which…
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Is Personal Training Worth $100 an Hour? Johnna Answers
Someone commented on Johnna's training post asking about the cost. She answered, and this episode breaks down that answer: what you pay for when you hire a trainer, why free workouts are everywhere, and why most people will spend on instant gratification before they invest in lasting value. This…
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Shit's Changing
Shit's changing: Johnna and Clint on outgrowing who we were and sharing what our real lives look like. We aren't the same people we were when we started, and we're done pretending we are. There's a funny story behind it, and it starts last week. Whether we've outgrown what we've been doing A…
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Why Don't You Value Yourself? Clint on Self Worth
How to value yourself: Clint on self worth and what drinking was really covering for. Four years ago Clint was stuck in what he calls a comfortable hell. This week he said out loud that the alcohol was never the problem. It was his way of coping with something deeper, and he only fully realized…
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Retatrutide Side Effects: What Our Third Cycle Taught Us
Retatrutide side effects and dosage from our own third cycle. Johnna and Clint on what we felt, what we got wrong, and why habits matter more than the quick fix. We did a third retatrutide cycle after the move and fell off our nutrition. This is our lived experience, not medical advice. Why we…
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She Talks to Nature Spirits in the Trees
Johnna sees and talks to tree spirits. She has since she was three years old, and today she says it out loud. What we get into: How Johnna was raised as a fundamentalist Christian and told from a young age that what she sees in nature was demonic What she actually sees: faces in trees and other...
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Personal Training with Johnna: It's Never Too Late to Build Strength
Johnna just posted her own personal training offer on a local Kauai Facebook page, and she was still shaking when we hit record. Want to start on your own first? REBUILT for Men and REBUILT for Women guide you through the first 12 weeks of a habit you keep for life. What we get into: Johnna's...
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Remember Henry: What a Stranger at Home Depot Taught Us
A week after Hurricane Lowell, we were in a genuinely dark place, not from the storm itself, but from a week spent doomscrolling a local Facebook page that made an entire island feel like it hated us. What we get into: Why a week glued to a toxic local Facebook page did more damage to us than the...
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Invest in Yourself Before You Expect Anyone Else To
This one's about the gap between the person you keep visualizing and the person you actually are right now, and why closing it always comes down to one thing: investment. What we get into: Why you can't expect other people to believe in you if you haven't invested in believing in yourself first...
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REBUILT for Men and REBUILT for Women Are Live: Here's What's Inside
Quick programming note: REBUILT for Men and REBUILT for Women are officially live, so we sat down to walk through what's actually in them and why this is the fourth rebuild of REBUILT itself. What we get into: Why Johnna rewrote it again, this time built for one specific person instead of trying…
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Hurricane Lowell: The Real Kauai vs. the Online Version
This one's different. We recorded it once already and scrapped it, the storm needed some distance before we could talk about it clearly. What we get into: What it was actually like riding out Hurricane Lowell in our home on Kauai's South Shore The real damage we saw firsthand along the coastline,...
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What Raygun's Olympic Meltdown Taught Us About Courage
We watched Netflix's Untold: Raygun - Breaking Badly and couldn't stop talking about it. What we get into: The kind of courage it takes to do something in public knowing it might fail badly, and why that matters more than confidence The Olympic breakdancer everyone mocked online, and the risk she...
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The Island Chooses You: One Month on Kauai
One month into living on Kauai, we sat down and catalogued everything that's actually shifted, big and small, since we moved. What we get into: How the island pulled both of us off our phones without either of us trying to make that happen The mental shift of going from water scarcity to real...
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When You Start Valuing Yourself Not Everyone Will Be Happy About It
Leveling up sounds clean until the people around you start reacting. Diet changes, training, boundaries, quitting the old habits — all of it shifts the roles in your relationships. Some people will be glad for you. A lot of them will not. What we get into: How your change creates comparison and...
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Fear Finally Made Them Ready So We Started With Food Not a Cleanse
Someone who's been feeling like shit for years finally reached out. IBS, exploding eczema, years of "cleaned up-ish" eating that never went far enough. Fear finally did what advice never could. This episode is what we told them to do first, and why we refused to start with a parasite cleanse.…
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Where to Start When You're Finally Ready to Stop Sliding
Summer is ending and the "I'll get serious later" window is closing. If you're sick of your own half-efforts and ready to stop sliding, these are the simple starting points that actually work. What we get into: Walking every day — even if it starts with just getting the mail Resistance training...
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We Fought for Days During Hurricane Lala and Finally Got Our Stuff After a Month Without It
Two weeks of pure adjustment on Kauai. Hurricane Lala hit, we had a multi-day fight neither of us saw coming, our household goods finally arrived after a month of living out of suitcases, and we're starting to feel like we actually live here. What we get into: Weathering our first hurricane — 35...
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We Fell Off Nutrition and Workouts During the Move and How We Reset
Over the last month of packing, an empty house, travel, and landing on Kauai, our nutrition and exercise took a clear hit. We ate out more, relied on quick options, and worked out far less than usual. This episode is an honest look at what that actually felt like and how we got back on track once...
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Why Leaving Your Comfort Zone Feels Unbearable and How It Rewires Your Brain
Stepping outside your comfort zone sounds simple until you're actually in it. Johnna's first day at her new beach hut job left her questioning everything halfway through the shift. That discomfort is exactly what we're unpacking. What we get into: Why adult comfort zones feel harder to leave than...
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We Finally Made It to Kauai and Everything Started Falling Into Place
We are here. After weeks of packing, house drama, a full week of travel down the Washington and Oregon coasts, and more logistics than we care to count, we landed on Kauai. This is a real-time update from our first few days on the island. What we get into: The final stretch leaving Tonasket, the...
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Practical Tools to Help You Fall Back in Love With Your Life
Whether you've fallen out of love with your life, feel stuck in the middle, or already love it and want to go deeper, these simple tools can create real shift. Nothing fancy. Just practical actions you can start using today. What we get into: Go outside every day with intention — observe, ground,...
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Why We're Done Being the Bigger Person and Learning to Trust Our Own Decisions
This one is transparent and intense. We're in the middle of a mop-up season — packing, closing chapters, Mercury retrograde energy, and old patterns rising one last time. The conversation starts with a hard question: why do people from the past still act like Clint can't make his own decisions?...
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10 Mental Health Tools That Actually Help Stop Overthinking and Protect Your Peace
We pulled together ten straightforward mental health tools that we've used ourselves and that keep coming up in our own lives. Nothing new or groundbreaking, just practical reminders that cut through the noise when your mind starts spiraling. What we get into: Stop replaying conversations from…
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Home Workouts With Bands and a Trampoline Kept Us Consistent While Packing for Kauai
We've been in full packing mode for the move to Kauai, and the gym is sold. Instead of skipping workouts, we shifted to simple home routines — Johnna in the bedroom with a trampoline, bands, and light dumbbells; Clint trying bands for the first time in years. It's not fancy, but it's working.…
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After Decades of Lessons and Lingering in a Small Town We're Finally Choosing a Fresh Start on Kauai
We're moving. After years of back-and-forth, lists, and honest conversations, we're laying out the real, personal reasons we're leaving Tonasket and Okanogan County for Kauai. These aren't generic complaints about rural life — they're our specific experiences with weather, community dynamics,...
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Cyclosporiasis Outbreak Hits With Explosive Diarrhea — Why Parasite Cleansing Is Non-Negotiable
A real parasitic infection called cyclosporiasis is currently surging, with Michigan reporting 572 cases in a short window and positive cases now confirmed across 18 states. Mainstream outlets are covering the spike in explosive diarrhea, intestinal distress, and the usual warnings around fresh...
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Taking Two Days to Rest Made It Clear We're Ready to Close This Chapter
We took a short camping trip over the Fourth of July to get a break from the nonstop packing, planning, and chaos of the move. What we got back was more than just rest. It was clarity. What we get into: Why we intentionally scheduled this trip even though life felt too busy to pause Local spots…
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We've Made Health So Complicated We've Forgotten What Actually Makes Us Well
One of the most optimized humans on the planet just got diagnosed with an autoimmune condition. We use that as a jumping-off point to talk about how far the health and wellness world has drifted from what actually creates real, sustainable well-being. What we get into: Why information overload,...
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Going All In on Kauai After Selling the Gym Made Everything Finally Fall Into Place
We sold the gym. We locked in on the Kauai move. And once we finally went all in with no exit plan, the right path for shipping our stuff, driving the truck to the port, and what comes next started showing up. In this episode we talk about what actually happens when you stop half-measuring a big...
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How a Phone Call From an Old Friend Helped Me Release Decades of Old Energy Before Our Big Move
We're in the middle of packing up our life and getting ready to move to Kauai when one unexpected phone call from an old friend shifted everything. In this episode we talk about the real process of letting go — not just the physical stuff, but the old energy attached to it — and how it finally...
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When Main Character Syndrome Causes You to Diminish Everyone Else's Story
Main character syndrome has become a popular way to describe the very human tendency to center ourselves in every story. We break down what it actually is, how it differs from narcissism, and why the line between healthy self-confidence and making other people feel small is one worth paying...
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Learning to Trust and Let Go When Life's Chaos Forces the Release
We've been deep in the messy middle of selling the house, purging decades of stuff, finalizing the gym sale, and getting ready to move to Kauai. In this episode we get honest about the real lessons that surfaced when life kept testing our ability to trust the process while still taking care of...
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When Life Hits All at Once: Graduation Chaos and Our Kauai Move
We stepped away from the mic this week to be fully present with family during our youngest child's high school graduation and our granddaughter's first birthday. In this short real-time update we catch you up on what's actually happening behind the scenes as we sell the house, purge decades of...
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When Life Happens We Prioritize Family Over The Podcast
We're in the middle of graduation week chaos with kids and grandkids everywhere, and we wanted to jump in real quick to let you know why episodes are dropping a little late this week. This one is short because we're choosing to be fully present with our family instead of forcing content. What we...
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Perimenopause Patriarchy and the Rage We Have to Move Through
We read a viral quote about perimenopause being a patriarchal conditioning scam with a side of undiagnosed ADHD, and the comments blew up. In this episode we get honest about why so many women are glitching hard right now, what's actually driving the symptoms, the anger phase of awakening, and…
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The Wellness Industrial Complex Exposed
The wellness industry has exploded into a $7+ trillion global machine. We break down the 11 major sectors driving this economy and expose what's actually useful versus what's mostly marketing, guru-driven spending, and expensive avoidance dressed up as healing. What we get into: Why the wellness...
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Why Smooth Life Transitions Feel Unnerving When You're Wired for Chaos
We just wrapped a successful yard sale, the house went under contract in only eight days, and everything is lining up fast for our move to Kauai. But instead of pure relief, the speed and smoothness triggered deep nervous system discomfort. In this episode we get honest about what happens when…
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10 Things Every Healthy 50 Year Old Should Be Able To Do
We put together the exact 10 functional tests every healthy 50-year-old should be able to pass. These aren't gym bro maxes or Instagram challenges. They're real-life movements that predict strength, mobility, balance, and how well you'll actually live as you age. What we get into: Push-ups with...
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Recognizing When Stress Is Telling You to Scale Back Your Workouts
We're deep in the middle of selling our house, packing, and prepping the move to Kauai and it has us soul-level tired. In this episode we get real about what actually works when life feels like too much: protecting sleep, adjusting workouts for high-stress seasons, and why scaling back is smarter...
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Near Death Experience Story Teaches Earth Is a Classroom Not a Courtroom
We watched a powerful near death experience on Soft White Underbelly and it challenged everything we thought about judgment, fear based religion, and what really happens when we leave this planet. This episode is a deep dive into what NDEs reveal about love, compassion, ripple effects, and why...
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Ego Awareness The Seven Deadly Sins That Reveal the Truth
Ego is not the enemy to kill. It is the operating system that lets you function as a human. The problem is when it runs the show unchecked. We break it down using psychology, real talk, and the seven deadly sins to show exactly how ego shows up in everyday life and what to do about it. What we…
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The Decision We've Been Waiting For
After over a year of searching, closed doors, exploring Oregon, RV life, and everywhere in between we finally received a clear yes from Kauai. This is the full story of how we asked the islands if we could come and how the land answered in the loudest most undeniable way possible. What we get…
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Working With Your Cycle Instead of Against It: The Nutrition and Training Guide for Women
Women have a 28-day cycle with four distinct phases that directly impact energy, strength, motivation, recovery, and cravings. Most women have been taught to ignore those signals and train like men. This episode breaks down exactly how to work with your biology instead of fighting it. What we get...
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Stop Feeding the System and Take Back Your Power
A viral Facebook post about being taxed on unrealized home value gains sparked a much bigger conversation. We are not here to debate tax policy or call for mass rebellion. We are here to talk about what actually moves the needle in your life when the world feels like it is designed to keep you...
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Who to Listen To and Using Discernment to Protect Your Frequency
Going within is 90 percent of the work but it is not everything. Today we talk about the other side of leveling up: the people you let speak into your life, how to use wisdom and discernment, and why who you surround yourself with is either rocket fuel or dead weight on your frequency. What we…
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Generational Entitlement and Why Every Generation Blames the Next
We started with a real story of a boomer woman who completely ignored clear instructions, drove across our lawn and nearly hit the beehives, then handed over money with zero apology or awareness. That single incident opened the door to a much bigger conversation about entitlement — it isn't just…
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How to Find Your Superpower Through the Ugly Inner Work That Actually Works
A listener asked the exact question we all hit on this path: How do I find my superpower? We went straight in because this isn't some fluffy purpose-driven life book answer. Your superpower is already inside you. The only thing blocking it is everything you've stuffed down for years. What we get...
About this show
Elevated Life walks alongside the internally driven individual through real wellness and transformation. We're Johnna and Clint, a couple who've done the work and are still doing it, cutting through the noise with honest, unfiltered conversations about wellness, movement, mindset, spiritual growth, and personal responsibility.
Our framework: Wellness is the foundation. Movement is the tool. Mindset is the driver. Personal responsibility is the container. Lived experience is the proof.
We don't coddle, we don't sell false promises, and we don't trade in empty motivation. We share raw personal stories and practical tools for people ready to do the actual work, from nervous system regulation to attachment theory, from nutrition protocols to shadow work, from resistance training to authentic transformation.
This is a real talk wellness podcast for people tired of quick fixes, surface-level motivation, and the comfortable hell of staying stuck. If you've been searching
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