Such an important topic and when you hear the statistics that Joyce shares in this interview its truly so strange that we don’t talk about it more. The Blues, Depression….. We need to talk about it …
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CAST 081 Authentic Motherhood
Inspiring, authentic and realistic views and topics. How I love being able to talk to these empowering women and offer you in-depth knowledge.
X Dr Kaz Jaffe
Eva Visser’s Bio:
Eva Visser Plaza is passionate about guiding women to create ease, purpose and connection in their lives to become authentic inspired creators of their lives.
She was not born a coach, guide or mentor. She has done different studies and worked in different work environment. In 2009, while she was working as a project manager/consultant in a consulting firm, she became a mother for the first time. When she returned to her job after her maternity leave, she struggled for a year to create purpose and alignment with her new self as a mother.
Reconnect
Her priorities hadchanged and her work field and activities did not resonate with her anymore. While she was juggling my role as a mother and consultant she landed in a burn-out in 2010. She took a wise decision by following her heart and started the three-year Rebalancing Bodywork therapy training where she was invited to reconnect with her heart and soul.
Fast forward, 6 years later she has become a certified Rebalancing Body worker and stress coach. Until today she have guided many intuitive, sensitive, creative, international women (and since this year many men are knocking on her practice door) successfully explore their mind, body, soul alignment to create ease, purpose, flow, authenticity and autonomy.
Since 2014 she is the the owner of the holistic coaching and bodywork practice Eva Authentic Living, based in Amsterdam.
She offers 1-1 coaching programs, workshops and training regarding soul-centered career coaching, Burn-out and stress recovery coaching and personalized rebalancing bodywork programs. She is on a mission to facilitate women and men to connect with their authentic self and embody themselves to transform them into leaders of the new economy.
She invites my clients to embody their soulful value through authenticity, compassion, intuition, collaboration, sensitivity and long-term view and contribute with that to a sustainable, heart-centered world. When we allow ourselves to step into our light, magic starts to happen and that transforms our lives and that of others and the world.
Eva’s Quote:
“Listen to your body to receive Wisdom.”
CAST 079 Good Gut Health from Birth
A super important topic and it was a joy to hear Joann’a passion for her work adn also her drive in what got her started on her journey to the work that she is doing now. A wealth of knowledge and it was an honour to have her on the show this week
Please share far and wide!
Enjoy!
X Dr Kaz Jaffe
Joanna Krzeslak’s Bio:
Dr. Joanna Krzeslak-Hoogland is a certified nutritional coach, a registered paramedical natural medicine practitioner and a functional medicine practitioner in training. She has a Biology MSc from a Polish University (Warmia and Masuria University) and she has earned a doctorate in molecular microbiology at the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands.
Promote Health for People of all Ages
After her academic education she went on to work in the biotech industry. In 2015, following her gut and returning to her lifelong passion for health, microbes, nutrition and education she brought to life her own company ProBiotic DIGEST. Now, she consults and promotes health through education about nutrition, gut health, human gut microbiome and lifestyle to help people in their journey to wellbeing. She is a voice for voiceless microbes – to tell you how important microbes are in our lives. Dr. Joanna as a mother of two daughters is acutely aware of the impact of healthy living – physically, emotionally and psychologically – on children. It drives her to promote health for people of all ages. Joanna is an author of scientific publications and contributed to several books. She offers individual consulting and workshops. For more information visit her website www.probioticdigest.com
Joanna’s Quote:
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep balance, you must keep moving”. Albert Einstein.
Joanna’s Resources:
- “Follow your gut” by Rob Knight
- “The Good Gut” by Justin and Erica Sonnenburg
- “Missing microbes” by Martin Blaser
- “Eat Dirt” by Dr. Josh Axe
- “The Mind-Gut Connection” by Emeran Mayer
- “Gut and Psychology Syndrome” by Natasha Campbell
- “The probiotics revolution” by Gary Huffnagle
- “Food rules – an eater’s manual” by Michael Pollan
- “The urban monk” by Pedram Shojai
- “Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids” by Laura Markham
Joanna's Deets:
- www.Probioticdigest.com
- Probiotic Digest
- info@probioticdigest.com
CAST 078 Daily Dinners for Busy Parents
An episode for all busy parents this week. You will love this mama’s jouney from corporate career to burnout to self taught chef to Dutch Masterchef finalist to cookbook creator.
Such a great one. Get listening. I can’t wait for the book and yes I have already pre-ordered.
X Dr Kaz Jaffe
Bojana Snijders’s Bio:
Bojana is Serbian, living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She is a wife and a mom of two boys. Bojana has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from INSEAD. During her corporate career, she held positions as a strategy consultant; investment banking associate; strategy and finance manager at eBay. Bojana is a self-taught chef and following her passion for cooking, she reached the finals week of the Dutch version of the popular TV cooking show Masterchef. She has since run her own culinary business Bojana Flavors (www.bojanaflavors.com) and is currently writing a cookbook. Her favourite cookies are still macarons.
Daily Dinners for Busy Parents
Pick, Prep and Plate Your Way To Delicious Family Dinners
For busy working parents, getting dinner on the table is a daily struggle. Stressed and pressed for time, they resort to the same tired recipes and processed foods to do the job.
Mom and Chef Bojana Snijders-Nikodijevic brings a method to the weeknight madness, making it easy to cook healthy, delicious family dinners in 10 minutes—or less.
Having been a working mom in a high-pressure corporate career, I know the challenges busy parents face. And as a professional chef, I have learnt invaluable planning and preparation skills that I have translated into a method suitable for home kitchens.
Bringing the efficiency of the professional kitchen into the home, her easy-to-follow approach teaches readers how to:
- Remove daily stress: plan, organize and prep the basics in advance, without sacrificing nutrition or quality
- Shorten daily rush time: finish healthy and delicious dinners in 10 minutes or less
- Provide flexibility: last minute mix and match approach to feed even the pickiest eaters without cooking two meals
Bojana’s zero-recipe method is a spark of genius that fills family dinners with variety and healthy goodness. She equips busy parents with the skills and strategies they need to provide the healthy, delicious food their family deserves—and to do it brilliantly every day.
Bojana’s Quote:
“I never anticipated how much becoming a mum would change me”
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CAST 077 Baby Sensory and The Importance of Play
So great to have Natalie on the show discussing this vital topi and sharing all about The Baby Sensory Program. We touch on so many aspects in this interview, those that affect new babies and their new parents and why these parents need to put attention to developing their child’s awareness and experience with the world around them. Pure and simple getting back to basics, no gimmicks.
Such a great episode!
Enjoy.
X Dr Kaz Jaffe
Natalie van Gelder's Bio:
As a mother of three young kids, Natalie decided to quit her job as Head of Research and Development at IMC Weekendschool. As a pedagoog (child developmentalist), she wanted to spend more time with her kids. But she also wanted to follow her ambition and start her own business. Natalie was looking for a way to combine her passion for children and parenting and her drive to run her own business, in her own time so she could be there with her kids. Then she discovered Baby Sensory and fell in love on the spot. What an amazing program. It is positive, preventive (not problem driven), and is a great inspiration for parents. At the course, parents learn all about children’s developmental phases and how parents can stimulate their development through play, communication, games, and music. And most of all it is just a lot of fun.
Natalie’s Quote:
“Live in The Moment”
Natalie’s Resources:
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CAST 067 Raising Natural Super Kids
Inspiring, authentic and realistic views and topics. How I love being able to talk to these empowering women and offer you in-depth knowledge.
X Dr Kaz Jaffe
Jessica Donovan’s Bio:
Jessica Donovan is a mama of 2, naturopath and holistic health expert who helps families thrive. She is passionate about educating parents on nourishing their children with real food, helping to boost their health and heal naturally. Jessica combines her extensive naturopathic knowledge with a realistic, empathetic, inspiring and down to earth approach to empower women to look after themselves and take charge of the wellbeing of their families.
Jessica has created an ebook – ‘5 food secrets of kids that rarely get sick’ to help parents boost their kids immune system with real food.
Jessica’s Resources:
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CAST 055 Beware of The Compare
It was so great to have Dr Ali on the show sharing her wisdom. We’ve know each other since the ’90’s so we go way back and the episode flowed so easily. We thought it wold be good to discuss the “comparison epidemic” and so here it is.
Enjoy the episode.
X Dr Kaz Jaffe
Alison’s Bio:
Dr. Alison Young is a mum and Chiropractor. She began practicing in 2003 in a family practice, and her desire to help her children patients more, especially those with special needs, drove her to complete her Masters in Chiropractic Pediatrics. Along her journey she went from being an associate chiropractor to being an owner of a practice in Palmyra (Western Australia), and in that time having a predominantly kids and family focused practice. She eventually sold this practice to move overseas with her husband, and in this time became a mum for the first time. Since then she has had a second child, and is currently residing in South Korea.
Family focused
She has a strong passion to help chiropractors be their best when working with families, which prompted her to create INNATE Child, a coaching and webinar based learning program that helps chiropractors to learn more about working with children, and to set up their practices and develop their teams to be more family focused.
Alison has been a board member of the Western Australian Chiropractors Registration Board (until it joined with AHPRA), and executive member of the Chiropractors Association of Australia (WA Branch). She has spoken at conferences around Australia and has run her own conference “Empowering Chiropractic Families” for Chiropractors and their teams in 2016.
On her journey as a mum, both as an expat and in Australia, she has become increasingly aware of the role that mum’s can play as supporters and nourishers of other mums. There is nothing like a good cup of tea, and a chat to help another mum feel that she isn’t too alone. All too many times she has seen the ‘comparison’ of one child to another lead to greater stress and anxiety for the mums and families concerned. She strongly feels that we need to compare less, and use our motherly intuition, quality healthcare providers and develop strong ‘village-like’ support circles to help each other on our journey.
Oscar Wilde's Quote:
“Be yourself, everybody else is taken”
Alison's Deets:
- www.innatechild.com.au
- The Innate Child
- innatechild
- alison@innatechild.com.au
CAST 051 Behavioural Disorders – A Recovery Story
Inspiring, authentic and realistic views and topics. How I love being able to talk to these empowering women and offer you in-depth knowledge.
X Dr Kaz Jaffe
Kinta Gitsham’s Bio:
Kinta Gitsham an ordinary mum who has had an EXTRA ordinary journey through motherhood. A stay at home mother of 3 gorgeous children; Archie (8), Josie (6) and George (3). She is currently separated from her husband of 10 years Rick since March this year, however they are still an incredible team for the kids, and with time feel things will mend just beautifully. She has pushed through and survived severe PNDA for all three children, recovered from a minor breakdown, helped recover their son Archie, diagnosed from ASD (AUTISM – PDD-NOS), ADHD, ANXIETY, SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER and suspected but not diagnosed ODD.
Gut intuition
It’s been quite the journey, through heavy medication for both Kinta and Archie and with Kinta almost giving up on life. Through years of searching and never giving up on hope, she has now found many answers through gut health, which consists of living a chemical free life where we eat real whole nutritious food. Through following her ‘gut intuition’ and addressing the families extensive gut issues and inflammation, they have successfully began a massive recovery and are both off all medication and are really beginning to thrive!! She is now super passionate about spreading this awareness to help as many people as she can to know they are not alone and where to find the help and support so that they too can also begin to thrive.
Kinta’s Quote:
“Don’t Judge me, You can’t handle half of what I’ve dealt with. There is a reason I do the things I do, There is a reason I am who I am”
Kinta’s Resources:
- The Mindd Foundation
- Bubbayumyum (Charlotte Carr)
- Helen Padarin
- Nourish Ed
- Kirsty Wirth – Kultured Wellness
- Fed Up – Sue Dengate (Elimination Diet)
- Autistic to Artistic by Leah Follett
- Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes you Knew by Ellen Notbohm
- The Out of Sync Child by Carol Stock Kranowitz
- Welcome to Holland Poem
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CAST 044 Expat Families Returning Home
It was great to have Mihal share her story of relocating her family across the globe. Its not our typical birth or pregnancy topic but certainly one that relates to parenting and many of our international listeners. So many great tips and so much I could relate to.
Enjoy!
X Dr Kaz Jaffe
Mahal Greener’s Bio:
Mihal is an Australian writer whose work has been published in The Washington Post’s On Parenting, Salon, Daily Life and The Good Weekend. She recently returned home after seven years in the Netherlands. Mihal writes about topical issues and is especially interested in examining cross-cultural approaches to parenting.
Mihal’s Quote:
“Kids are resilient”
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CAST 038 Tongue Tie
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Jo Sexton’s Bio:
Chiropractor and mum of three, Dr. Jo Sexton, lives and works in the picturesque town of Maleny, 1 ½ hours north of Brisbane. When she is not doing the school run or dropping the kids off at soccer/ ballet, she can be found in her practice; Hinterland Chiropractic.
Helping babies and children with tongue tie
At work, she is a passionate advocate of breastfeeding and has a particular interest in helping those babies and children with tongue tie. Through personal experience she became aware of the impact of tongue tie on babies, their parents (especially the mum’s!) and their families and how difficult it can be to navigate that journey.
In her spare time, (HA!) she serves on the board of SOTOA and runs seminars that aim to increase the knowledge of Tongue Tie and its impact amongst Health Professionals.
Jo’s Resources:
- Australasian Society for Tongue and Lip Ties: professional page
- Tongue Tie: From Confusion to Clarity by Carmen Fernando
- Tongue Tie- Morphogenesis, Impact, Assessment and Treatment by Alison Hazelbaker
- Bobby Ghaheri facebook page : Bobby Ghaheri MD
- Ankyloglossia bodyworkers
- Tongue and lip tie support Australia
Jo’s Deets:
CAST 035 The Gentle journey to being an Opti-Mom
Inspiring, authentic and realistic views and topics. How I love being able to talk to these empowering women and offer you in-depth knowledge.
X Dr Kaz Jaffe
Lisa Engle's Bio:
Lisa Engle, a mother of 5, is widely known for her passion, dedication and commitment to supporting the expression of potential. She is famous for inspiring patients, especially mothers. With nearly 3 decades of service in the chiropractic profession; integrity, congruence, and “inside out health” is her first language. In turn, she has created a safe, effective, and reflective coaching model for mothers without the judgement, comparison, and crippling overwhelm that often inhibits change for families.
Lisa’s Quote:
“If you had to do it over, you’d just make different mistakes”