We are so excited to be back this week with another amazing guest! Today we are chatting with Kit Yoon, a holistic health coach & life coach who has a very wide background in Chinese Medicine, intuitive eating, hypnotism, and inner voice facilitating. Kit walks us through her journey of coming from California and starting her own acupuncture practi…

Today we are chatting with the most lovely human, Sam Vander Wielen an attorney-turned-entrepreneur who helps creatives and other entrepreneurs legally protect their own businesses. We loved this conversation with Sam as we talk about how our lives have changed over the past month during the pandemic and what we hope continues in the future and wha…

This week we are excited to bring you Brandon Goodyear, a local Columbus photographer, videographer, and visual storyteller. Brandon has taken all of the photos for us here at The Staying Conscious Podcast and he takes the photos for The Space where Alyson teaches yoga and posts a lot of these photos on her own instagram. He is incredibly talented …

This week we are bringing you a super special guest, our very good friend, Nikki Costa Lang. Nikki is the founder of The Ultra Dose, where she has an online membership program called the Digital Dose, and she is a yoga teacher who specializes in private therapeutic sessions. We both met Nikki through our yoga studio called The Space, right here in …

Today we bring you a very special episode where you have the opportunity to see behind the scenes of your hosts Meg & Aly. Previous podcast guest, Josie Schweitzer (aka mom), sits down with us at The Space to chat with us about our why behind starting the podcast with hopes that you, our listeners, could gain some insight into our lives and connect…

Today we are chatting with Kym Lisk the owner of Ebb & Float, a local float spa here in downtown Columbus. If you’ve never been to Ebb & Float, it is an experience unlike any other and we cannot recommend it enough! Kym walks us through her journey of self-discovery and how she came to believe in herself and trust in all that she is capable of crea…

Today we are bringing you an episode that will fill you with hope, nostalgia, and joy. During these rough times, I think we could all use a little more of those things in our lives. Geri Peacock opened Cherbourg Bakery over 10 years ago during some hard times. She shares her story with us and all of the stages/phases she went through to get her bus…

SIMI IS BACK! We are so excited to bring you our first repeat guest, Simi Botic! Of course we could chat with Simi probably every week, but we have her back on the podcast to chat about UNMEASURED, her new virtual barre movement membership! UNMEASURED is designed to help you celebrate your body, not try to "change" or "fix" your body. In this episo…

We had so much fun sitting down and chatting with Dr. Hanisha Patel this week on the podcast! Hanisha is a Naturopathic doctor practicing here in Columbus, Ohio with patients who have issues with hormonal imbalances, mental health, digestive issues, thyroid disorders, and other chronic diseases. Hanisha tells us about what it was like growing up in…

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On this weeks episode we are chatting with Dr. Prashant Malhotra, an Otolaryngologist with a special interest in improving hearing. In this conversation he tells us why he got into medicine and explains why he is so passionate about hearing and the impact that improved hearing can have on a persons life. He specializes in pediatrics, but we also di…

Due to a high influx of requests, we could not be more excited to bring you Amy Lee, a Human Design/Gene Keys analyst and guide. Human design is a tool that provides us with a way to understand ourselves better, so that we can have a better sense of belonging. It is a system that synthesizes astrology, the I Ching, the Kabbalah and the Hindu-Brahmi…

Curious about coffee? We are too and that’s why this week on the podcast we interviewed Christian Ott, the Director of Roasting Operations at Mission Coffee Company here in Columbus, Ohio. The coffee scene in Columbus has grown a lot over the last five years and over that time we have grown to really be curious about the coffee we are drinking. Whe…

We are so excited to bring you this weeks guest, Tobi Ewing! We met Tobi at The Wonder Jam and we knew the moment we met her that we HAD to interview her! Tobi is the office manager at The Wonder Jam and she started her own line of products called Beyond The Clouds where she sells essential oil blends, wellness blends, artwork, and more.In the epis…

This week we are chatting with the lovely Nicole Davis, co-founder of Native Cold Pressed in Columbus, Ohio. We absolutely adore Nicole and loved this conversation. In this episode, we chat about how Native got started through Nicole’s journey of yoga, an eating disorder, traveling to Thailand, nutrition, juice, manifestation, and her faith in God.…

Happy New Year!! We are so excited to bring you our first guest of 2020 on New Year's Day! Dr. Brandon Kozar is a licensed clinical psychologist, who defines himself as a hybrid physiologist as he now primarily functions as a corporate physiologist, is the director of the Leadership Coaching & Development Program and the You Matter Program at Natio…

SEASON ONE FINALE! We LOVED this episode so much and we could not have picked a better couple to be our final episode for this first season of our podcast! Allie and Adam Lehman are the co-owners of The Wonder Jam, a marketing company here in Columbus, Ohio that specializes in local business. We jammed about everything from business to marriage, an…

This week we have an amazing guest, Alexis Joseph, the founder of the blog Hummusapien and the co-founder of Alchemy Juice Cafe and Kitchen. We loved this conversation so much and love how transparent Alexis is around her challenges and struggles throughout her career. We discuss hard work, hustling, learning how to be a business owner, and also th…

So sorry for the hiatus, but we are back and so excited to bring you today's guest Roo Cotter! Roo is a personal trainer here in Columbus, Ohio, who quit her finance/accounting job in Chicago and is now pursuing her passion for helping others live a healthy lifestyle. This conversation was so much fun and we had so many laughs with Roo, just sippin…

We are so excited to share with you the fiercely strong, fun, and inspiring Victoria Frye. Victoria founded the Black Lotus Sanctuary Collective, a nonprofit that assists people through whatever transformation they are going through and she is currently in training for her 500 RYT. Victoria tells us about her journey as a lupus warrior and how she …

We are so excited to bring you Regan Walsh, an executive and life coach who helps women and men find joy and fulfillment in their lives by helping them uncover their truest selves. In this episode, we discuss navigating success and hardships in business, believing in yourself and your work, feeling your emotions, and knowing that it’s ok to feel di…

This week on the podcast we are so excited to bring you our friend Rachel Kerr. Rachel is the owner and founder of The Beauty Boost, a space for women to come to feel empowered, healthy, and beautiful. The Beauty Boost hosts so many cool and fun events throughout Columbus, that we have personally attended, including taste of fitness events, retreat…

This week we are so excited to bring you our dear friend Simi Botic. Simi is a health coach who helps women embrace their beautifully imperfect lives through intuitive eating and intuitive movement. This was such a special episode for us because both of us have worked with Simi and can equally say that our work with her changed our lives and our re…

Today we are so excited to bring you a very special guest, Josie Schweitzer. Josie is the owner of The Space, a yoga studio recently opened in Columbus, Ohio that teaches a blend of Vinyasa and Katonah yoga, along with breathing and meditation techniques. In this episode, Josie tells how she transitioned from her career in hair to her career in yog…

This week on the podcast we are so excited to introduce you to Dr. Jonathan Grischkan. He is a pediatric Otolaryngologist with an intense passion for teaching and educating future medical professionals. His infectious energy for showing up as the type of physician he wants to see in the world, lit a fire in us that we hope inspires you to show up a…

We are excited to bring you today's guest Dr. James Murakami, a pediatric interventional radiologist who treats patients from all over the world. In this episode, he defines interventional radiology and sclerotherapy in a way that anyone can understand. We discuss how he grew up in Hawaii and how his parents have made a great impact on his life in …

Today's guest, Dr. Patrick Walz, is a warm-hearted and caring ENT surgeon who fills us in on how he navigated surgical residency, marriage, family, having their "miracle baby" and adopting their beautiful baby girl. He opens up about their adoption process and you can feel how much love he has for his beautiful family. The three of us laugh at ours…

Dr. Tarun Bhalla is an anesthesiologist with an infectious positivity for life. We knew this would be a great conversation when it started with him telling us about his current curiosity with magic and learning how to DJ. He tells us about how his father was the first one in his family to move from India to America, how he met his wife in his first…