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The Optimized Life

by Amy Guerrero & Jess Janda

This show is about stories and strategies to help you optimize your health, your relationships and your business. We focus on keeping it simple and having fun.

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Episodes

  1. 36: Creating Clarity & Structure Around Money

    36: Creating Clarity & Structure Around Money In episode 36, we’re diving into part 2 of our 3-part series all about money. In part 1, we talked about your relationship with money and why money triggers you. In this episode, we’re focused on getting clear with your money right now. We’re talking...

  2. 35: Why You Avoid Money

    35: Why You Avoid Money How do you feel about money? Does that question trigger you? If so, you’re not alone. The truth is that no matter how we were raised, we all have stories about money that impact how we relate to money today. And for a lot of us, these beliefs and stories are holding us…

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  3. 34: Working with Your Body's Natural Rhythms

    34: Working with Your Body's Natural Rhythms You see posts on social media and you feel like everyone else has figured out this adulting thing and they’re sticking to a schedule, a routine, like a boss; and you’re a big hot mess with no structure, no schedule. Or maybe you are sticking to a...

  4. 33: The Gut Brain Axis, Weight Loss & Happiness

    33: The Gut Brain Axis, Weight Loss & Happiness Have you ever felt like you are doing all the things and still feel stuck? If so, this episode is for you. On this episode of the Optimized Life podcast, we are joined by world renowned Psycho-Nutritionist and award-winning product formulator of...

  5. 32: How to Feel Safe While Expanding into Something You’ve Never Been Before

    32: How to Feel Safe While Expanding into Something You’ve Never Been Before What if paying attention to your gut microbiome could allow you to feel safe in the uncertainty while you expand into something you’ve never been before? Introducing KEEP AUSTIN HAPPY! A movement to feel good, more often...

  6. 31: How to Feel Anger From a Place of Groundedness

    31: How to Feel Anger From a Place of Groundedness In each of our lives, there will inevitably be someone or something that triggers in you either a burning rage or intense fear. We know we should get it out of our nervous system and let it go, but that’s easier said than done. How can we so…

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  7. 30: Consistency & How to Create More of It

    30: Consistency & How to Create More of It Admit it. We all want consistency in our lives. In our eating habits, workout schedule, morning routine, cashflow, and even in our relationships…we crave consistency. In an effort to better improve in this area, we buy all the best motivational books,...

  8. 29: Ayahuasca and What Comes Next

    29: Ayahuasca and What Comes Next Ayahuasca is way more than just “showing up and throwing up.” It helps your brain to rewire neuropathways, it allows your body to purge things that are no longer serving you, it heals the body and boosts mental well-being. With proper integration post ceremony…

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  9. 28: Feeling Through Love and Loss

    28: Feeling Through Love and Loss Today Jess and Amy are sharing their very own experiences of grief, loss and also the profound joy that comes with the celebration of life. Death and unconditional love are entirely interdependent. You can't have one without the other. Our nervous systems have...

  10. 27: The Great Resignation - What is Stopping You From Dreaming Big?

    Episode 27: What Stops You from Dreaming Big There's something that's happening right now called the great resignation. People are looking for more fulfillment, more flexibility in their lives. They are starting to dream bigger. Bigger dreams lead to bigger action, right? And bigger action leads…

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  11. 26: Learning to Trust Yourself

    26: Learning to Trust Yourself What does it mean to trust fully? “Trust is defined as choosing risk, making something you value vulnerable to another person's options.” - Charles Feltman Knowing how to trust yourself is such a fun and timely topic to come back to our truth in this world that…

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  12. 25: Life Beyond the Amends Process

    25: Life Beyond the Amends Process Why are the action steps so difficult for people when working through the 12 steps to recovery? Because if your nervous system is not regulated and optimized then it is all too easy to revert back to familiar coping mechanisms instead of facing your fears and...

  13. 24: Nona Kindsvater - How to Take Your Health to the Next Level in Recovery

    24: Nona Kindsvater - How to Take Your Health to the Next Level in Recovery If you have ever been on a journey of recovery, you know there are several stepping stones to get to a place of healing. When we let go of addictive patterning, we almost always realize that we are physically unwell. Our...

  14. 23: The Pressure to Find Your Purpose

    23: Pressure to find your purpose Have you ever wondered what your purpose in life is? Whether this is something you think about all the time, or something you haven’t given much thought to, take a little time to listen to episode 23. In this episode, we talk about this idea of purpose, what it…

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  15. 22: How to Ditch Ruminating Thoughts and Overwhelm

    22: How to Ditch Ruminating Thoughts and Overwhelm Have you ever found yourself replaying conversations and scenarios over and over again in your head? Whether they have or haven’t happened, or whether they’re maybe going to happen. When we can't see something, our brain goes and tries to find...

  16. 21: Mike Govoni - Healing Masculine Energy

    21: Mike Govoni - Healing Masculine Energy On this episode of the podcast we’re talking about how healing masculine energy, no matter your gender, can help you in your life, relationships, business and how you interact with money. With us today is Mike Govoni. He is passionate about healing…

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  17. 20: The Power of Letting Go

    20: The Power of Letting Go In this episode of The Optimized Life Podcast, we're diving into the power of letting go. I mean, how relevant is this topic right now? So just as we're starting to presence this, think to yourself, what are you holding onto that's no longer serving you. What is taking...

  18. 19: Mackenzie McGehee - How to Create Healthy Love

    19: Mackenzie McGehee - How to Create Healthy Love Did anyone give you a handbook on love and dating before you entered into that space of the world? Yeah, us neither. But lucky for you our guest today has dedicated her life’s calling to helping single women see that their dating behaviors…

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  19. 18: Coregulation and Building Safe Connections

    18: Coregulation and Building Safe Connections Deep down we all long to connect with others in meaningful and authentic ways. Sometimes we think we are doing this, but we become so good at showing people what we want them to see and hiding the less desirable parts of ourselves. Through deeper...

  20. 17: Eva Medilek - How to Be an Ally for People of Color

    17: Eva Medilek - How to Be an Ally for People of Color Over the past year, more of us are waking up to the systemic racism within our country. And while many of us mean well and want to be allies for people of color, the truth is that we often don’t know where to start. So in episode 17 of The...

  21. 16: The Patterns That Keep You Stuck

    16: The Patterns That Keep You Stuck The BEST thing we can be doing right now to change the world is to heal our emotional trauma and get OPTIMIZED. Especially as entrepreneurs. Emotional trauma and unresolved patterns play a big role in how we show up for our relationships, our commitments, and...

  22. 15: Jesse Harless - Harnessing Your Strengths To Shift From Addiction To Abundance

    15: Jesse Harless - Harnessing Your Strengths To Shift From Addiction To Abundance We can all use a little inspiration and whenever you’re doing something new in your life, it helps to hear from those who have been where you are and are a bit further along. In episode 15, we’re talking all about...

  23. 14: Freedom Is a State of Mind

    14: Freedom Is a State of Mind In this episode, we’re talking about one of our favorite topics - optimizing your state of mind. Even when we’re in this period when it feels like there’s so much happening beyond our control, we actually have the ability to take our power back. Join us this week as...

  24. 13: Hiep Tran - Creating Residual Income Through Mental Wellness

    13: Hiep Tran - Creating Residual Income Through Mental Wellness (2:45) Hiep’s journey into entrepreneurship (6:05) Entrepreneurship and mental health (7:39) The birth of Amare Global, the world’s 1st Mental Wellness Company – the vision to create the largest mental wellness company in the world...

  25. 12: Amplifying Your Message & Impact Through Podcasting

    Episode 12: Amplifying Your Message & Impact Through Podcasting (1:31) Finding your voice (5:50) Your life experience matters, use your life experience to make an impact (6:55) Podcast statistics (13:22) Have fun with the process, flow with the details (17:01) How we got started with The…

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  26. 11: Optimizing Your Environment For Remote Work

    Episode 11 Show Notes: Optimizing Your Environment For Remote Work (3:15) Being highly scheduled with purposed while working remotely (4:50) Before you start your week do this (7:00) Getting honest with your time (10:15) Optimizng your time through time blocking (12:10) Plan your work and day...

  27. 10: Optimizing Your Belief Systems

    Episode 10: Show Notes: Optimizing Your Belief Systems (1:13) Tony Robbins on belief systems (4:50) How many of you have struggled with believing in yourself? (7:25) A framework to shift your belief systems (21:43) New level, new devil (26:52) Learning to what your body is telling you without...

  28. 9: Optimizing Your Nervous System

    Episode 9 Show Notes: Optimizing Your Nervous System (00:52) How to make your nervous system you ally (6:41) Have you ever felt this way in Costo? (10:06) What no one told you about what it looks like to have an optimized nervous system (14:04) Dulling the nervous system vs treating the root…

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  29. 8: Optimizing Your Relationships

    Episode 8 Show Notes - Optimizing Your Relationships (2:00) You don't have to sit through a bad movie because you paid it (5:01) Do you unconsciously take baggage from one relationship to another? (9:33) Do you pause to ask yourself if you feel safe in your relationships (14:00) The feelings were...

  30. 7: Optimizing the Way You Generate Money

    Episode 7 Show Notes - Optimizing the Way You Generate Money (1:10) Optimizing the way you generate (4:56) Do you love the action you to take moment to moment as you are generating? (6:43) Do you feel overwhelmed, stressed out or anxious while you are working? (14:20) The excuses you be making...

  31. 6: Danielle DiGrandi - What Optimizing Looks Like in Real Life

    6: Danielle DiGrandi - What Optimizing Looks Like in Real Life (3:50) Danielle's optimization story and how she was finally able set healthy boundaries (7:32) Traditional recovery vs optimized recovery (12:05) How Danielle optimized her mental wellness (15:30) How plant medicine allowed Danielle…

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  32. 5: Optimizing Your Financial Wellness Without Guilt and Shame

    Episode 5 Show Notes: Optimizing Your Financial Wellness Without Guilt and Shame (2:34) How COVID-19 can be an opportunity for you (5:29) Financial wellness starts with knowing your numbers (6:28) More is never enough mentality (11:26) How big do you want to play? (13:20) Taking your power back…

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  33. 4: Optimizing Your Life With Plant Medicine and Psychedelics with Ian Benouis

    Episode 4 Show Notes: Optimizing Your Life With Plant Medicine and Psychedelics with Ian Benouis 4:26 How optimizing is a lifetime journey 5:44 - Taking care of yourself is the best low side to having a positive impact on the world 5:50 - If you know anyone who has served in the military 9:24 -...

  34. 3: Optimizing Your Stress Resilience with Gut-Brain Axis Expert Dr Shawn Talbott

    3: Optimizing Your Stress Resilience with Gut-Brain Axis Expert Dr Shawn Talbott (3:35) Dr Shawn on the relationship between uncertainty and stress (6:50) Dr Shawn on what drives you to drink and use (7:45) Take the mental wellness quiz here: http://10043.amarecontent.com (8:50) Stop the…

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  35. 2: Optimizing Your Mental Wellness - What No One Taught You

    Episode 2 Show Notes: Optimizing Your Mental Wellness - What No One Taught You (:57) Optimizing Your Mental Wellness - what no one taught you (2:05) Feeling an emotion (2:47) Adverse childhood experiences (7:54) Coping mechanisms started to show up (12:50) Getting to the root cause (24:22) The...

  36. 1: How to Optimize Your Boundaries

    Episode 1 Show Notes: How to Optimize Your Boundaries (:52) Jess Intro (7:44) Amy Intro (12:36) Jess Why setting healthy limits feels hard (13:31) Amy/Jess Defining healthy limits (15:30) Amy What fear feels like when you set a limit with family (16:20) Amy Safety comes from within (16:50) Amy…

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This show is about stories and strategies to help you optimize your health, your relationships and your business. We focus on keeping it simple and having fun.

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Amy Guerrero & Jess Janda

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