Wellness Me Up Podcast
The Wellness Me Up Podcast features real conversations with coaches about wellness, growth, and personal development. Hosted by Amanda Reece, the show offers support without pretense, covering topics like mental health and self-improvement. It is intended for informational purposes only and not as medical advice.
Episodes
Visualize Your Foot in Your Ass
Three cancers. 9/11. Two and a half years bedridden. Four knee surgeries. Four abdominal muscles removed.Dr. Sun Pandé has been through the boot camp and came out the other side joyful, crowned, and ready to teach you how to adjust your sails. Also there is something about visualizing your foot in your ass. Just trust it.
Everybody Has a Story. Everybody Has Worth.
Speaker. Author. Growth coach. Suicide survivor. Mullet enthusiast. David Chamotzky has been through it and came out the other side with 30 years of corporate wisdom, a Lucille bat, and the firm belief that everybody has a story and everybody has worth. This one goes everywhere.
The Warrior Stays Calm in the Chaos
My longest episode yet and I would do it again immediately. Natalie Zacharias is a healer, space holder, and emotion code practitioner where spirituality and psychology collide. Subconscious healing, trapped emotions, grief, plant medicine, Etch A Sketch, and why the warrior stays calm in the chaos. You're welcome.
The Diamonds Are in the Darkness
Danae Jensen is a plant medicine and healing guide based on Quadra Island BC. She has watched people crawl into ceremony at their lowest and walk out realizing their life is actually pretty amazing. Plant is going to show you what it needs to show you. And the diamonds are always in the darkness.
Accepting Your Darkness Is Part of Accepting Yourself
You don't stop the negativity coming in. You let it out. Empress Sparkle is a healer and energetic cleanser here to talk about energy, darkness, judgment, soul ties, and why accepting yourself — all of yourself — is where wellness actually begins.
Burnout Is Sticky. So Is Peanut Butter. Let's Talk About Both.
The helpers are burning out. And not enough people are helping them. Kathleen Foldvari is a registered social worker and psychotherapist here specifically for the healthcare workers, first responders, teachers, coaches, and parents who give everything to everyone and forget themselves. This one is real, practical, and ends with pickles and peanut butter. You're welcome.
Fuck Being the Glue. Be the Acetone
People pleasing is just self betrayal with a smile on. Janessa Neighbors is a certified relationship and trauma recovery coach who gets it — because she's lived it. This one goes deep into people pleasing, neurodivergence, limited beliefs, and why you were never supposed to be the glue.
Tiger. Sloth. Alpaca. Pick Your Healing Mascot.
Darcy Birch has crawled through some serious basement level rock bottom moments in her life. Now she helps others do the same - faster than they think possible. This episode goes everywhere. Trauma. Accountability. Change. And somehow ends with a sloth. You're welcome.
Hey. You Can Whisk Wellness In Slowly.
Vera Jackson is a nutritional therapist helping women who feel exhausted, can't figure out why, and have been told by their doctor that everything looks fine. Spoiler — it's not fine. And you don't have to overhaul your entire life to feel better. You just have to whisk it in slowly.
S&S - The Wellness Code You Didn't Know You Needed
Peer support, speaking, art, journaling workshops, and now a book - Jessica Compton has been showing up for humans for almost a decade. This one is warm, real, and funny. By the end you'll have a brand new wellness code word for checking in on your people. S&S. We said what we said.
Aware Me Up
You've been showing up ready to do battle every day and you don't even know it. Amanda Kirkland is a trauma conscious transformational coach who helps you see what you can't see yet - because awareness is always the first step. And she's been there. Done that. Got the tattoo.
Set Me Up. But Make It Wellness.
What if you could walk up to a wellness bar and just order exactly what you need? Reiki. Crystal healing. Shamanic work. Iridology. Corinne Van Kampen has the whole shelf stocked - and she's here to help you figure out what to order. She’s a reiki master, iridologist and shamanic healer. Pull up a stool - this one's a full pour.
Your Energy Body Is Frozen. Let's Defrost It.
What if your trauma isn't something you need to process through? What if you could just... defrost it? Heather Cypel is doing something unique and my brain has not stopped since our conversation. If your relationships keep looping, give this episode a listen... Heather explains why and what to do about it.
Do Your Laundry on Sunday. Be a Renegade.
Sometimes you don't need a push. You just need to tilt your head. Transformational life coach Connelia Houston on rediscovering who you are after 50, why the gap isn't the end, and the Sunday laundry rule she finally broke at 55. Grab some Rocky Road ice cream and pull up a chair for this one!
Cake Happens. Shame Spirals Can F*ck Off.
The fitness industry is counting on you to fail. Kim Winsor is here to blow that whole thing up - one tiny habit, one honest conversation, and one slice of Karen's birthday cake at a time. If you'd like to unsubscribe from shame, give this a listen.
Stop Optimizing. You're Not a Bot.
You have the title. The degree. The life that looks perfect on paper. So why does something still feel missing? Meghan Deford helps women stop living someone else's playbook and start building their own. No optimization required — you're not a bot, you're nature.
Belly Dancing, Breath Work & Bags of Tostitos
Two Amandas walk into a podcast... and somehow end up talking about Tostitos, belly dancing, and why joy and the shit can exist at the same time. This one is messy, real, and exactly what wellness actually looks like.
When Wellness Me Up Meets Wellness Me In
Sometimes the shift we’re looking for out there actually starts within. In this episode, Crystal Trevors shares how spiritual awakening, energy, and belief systems can help us move from feeling stuck to truly living joy. Turns out… Wellness Me Up might actually begin with Wellness Me In.
Tornado Energy Meets Take-a-Breath Energy
Amanda shows up in full tornado mode... and Christina Day meets it with calm and a reminder to just take a breath. They talk nervous systems, perimenopause, small shifts that move the needle, and why you don’t have to overhaul your whole life to feel better. Sometimes the real wellness move is simply slowing the fuck down.
The Shit That Helps the Shifts
Moms are expected to hold everything together... while slowly burning out. Amanda and Emily talk slow motherhood, self-trust, boundaries, and why the system around parenting is kind of bullshit. Because supporting moms changes everything for kids too.
Mercury Retrograde… Grab Your Umbrella
In this cozy, cosmic convo, Amanda chats with Marie-Noëlle “Coach MNM” about using astrology like a weather report for your life… from Mercury retrograde to intuition as a muscle, plus Moon Meetings and a gentle reminder… you’re not broken, you’re learning your own blueprint.
Can Wellness be an All Inclusive Vacation?
In this juicy convo, Amanda and Kayla explore consistency, self-sabotage, and even the “Call Her Daddy” side of wellness… all through the lens of the luxurious vacation version of health.
Letting Yourself Be Held
You don’t need to harden yourself… you need a safe place to soften. In this deeply nurturing convo, Amanda and Jonathan talk about plant medicine, inner child healing, human design, and being held by something bigger. If you’re needing a hug, this episode is it.
Patterns You Can’t See Alone
You don’t need to fix yourself - you need to find yourself. In this punch-in-the-gut-but-in-a-good-way convo, Amanda and Lara talk about being witnessed, calling out your patterns, and why your body already knows the truth. Hit play if you’ve been tired of pretending everything’s fine.
Wellness Me Up - Introduction
Okay, so here’s the thing… most of us don’t start wellness work because life is going awesome. We start because we’re tired, looping, and googling symptoms at 2 a.m. If you’re just beginning... or on your 57th healing spiral thinking “didn’t I already deal with this?.... you’re in the right place.This podcast is honest, practical, and a little sweary (okay a lot sweary lol). It’s about feeling bet
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