The Wellness Driven Life Show

Music is a universal language to Nick Hames, and he says it has never steered him wrong. Nick, a Boston-raised, Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter and guitarist who fronts the band HAMES, explains why there's a song for every emotion, why a crowd kept dancing straight from a Stevie Wonder cover into a deep, traumatic song he wrote, and why his new album, West Coast Wannabe, is the closure he needed four years after leaving Boston.

He watched Jimmy Page play guitar at three, started lessons at six, and still calls himself a bedroom guitar player playing to...

Songwriting as therapy is how Julian Shah-Tayler turns betrayal and anger into music he can walk away from. Julian, a singer, songwriter and producer with a Golden Trailer Award for his work with Lana Del Rey on Disney's Maleficent, breaks down how Carl Jung's shadow work shapes his songs, why his first angry song ends with his 11-year-old daughter Phoebe singing "make it stop," and why he compares a finished song to the bowl Dumbledore pours his memories into.

He sang as a soloist chorister at Durham Cathedral Choir School from the age of seven and spent 10...

Lynne McTaggart has spent twenty-five years gathering evidence that we are not separate. The Field made that case with physics, The Intention Experiment with thought, and The Power of Eight with groups. Her new book, The God Notes, makes it with sound, and she tells April why her answer to "are we made of sound?" is yes: "It's singing out there. Everything from ourselves to the cosmos."

She walks through the research behind the book: cells that make one sound when they're content and another when they're stressed, a psychologist who heard his own nervous system whining...

Christy Uffelman has coached more than 12,000 leaders, and on the way into this conversation her inner critic still asked who she thought she was, on a podcast with April. Christy, founder and CEO of EDGE Leadership and author of Wayfinding, talks about self-trust, the critic she named Edith, and why she calls this work "less of a learning and more of a remembering."

Less than a year into her first sales manager job, at Bayer, she went down in flames. She explains why the skills that make an A-plus sales rep make a C-minus manager, why most...

A spiritual awakening at 27 brought back the gift Regan Caruthers shut off at nine. Regan, author of the memoir Tragic Magic and founder of Aset Center, talks about childhood trauma, the morning she forgave the stepfather who had been violent toward her, and the daily practice she teaches for staying loving when something triggers you.

At nine she screamed for the visions to stop, and they did. Eighteen years later she woke at a national sales meeting to a luminous figure at the foot of her bed. The next morning she called home to tell her stepfather...

At 29, five months pregnant, Eileen M. Vélez-Vega was diagnosed with stage four Hodgkin lymphoma. She had chemotherapy while she was pregnant, and her daughter was born that December, healthy, with a lot of hair. Years later she became the first woman to lead Puerto Rico's Department of Transportation and Public Works in its 105 years.

She grew up in Sabana Grande writing letters to NASA and NOAA for posters, fundraised her way to Space Camp, and became the first engineer in her family. When the governor's office asked for her résumé in November 2020, she said no. Her...

What if your skin is telling you about more than your skin? Dr. Mimi Vega, PhD biochemist, former biotech executive, and founder of VGAM Biome, talks about the skin microbiome, the gut-skin connection, and how sleep, stress, and hormones show up on your skin.

She started as a teenager in the chemistry club, trying ingredient after ingredient on her own inflamed skin. Years later, working in oncology, she looked at her son's MRI and knew in an instant what it meant. He is doing well today. The questions that came after led her to the organisms living...

Letting go of a dream does not make you a failure. Dr. Kimberly Robinson, a 31-year NASA veteran, former astronaut trainer, and former CEO of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, talks about the astronaut who changed the course of her life at a high school awards ceremony, the eyesight rule that closed the door on her own astronaut dream, and why she stopped defining herself by one title.

A NASA astronaut in a blue flight suit flew in on a T-38 to hand a Birmingham high school student an award, and that student decided on the...

AI overwhelm is the feeling that everyone else already figured this out. Eliot Prince, an AI coach and the founder of Prince AI Training, breaks down the one hour a day that changed his work, why human expertise matters more as AI becomes a commodity, and why nobody has a head start on you.

Eliot went from twelve-hour shifts in France to fitting five days of work into eight hours, and the method was slower and simpler than most people expect. He talks about the project that was going to fail, the wedding in Greece he was...

Meditation does not require a quiet mind. Jeff Patterson, founder of The Yielding Warrior and Portland Tai Chi Academy, breaks down the five regulations of the meditative arts, the three pillars of yielding, and why getting distracted fifty times in twenty minutes is fifty repetitions of finding your way back to center.

Jeff has spent 37 years in the meditative and martial arts, 32 of them teaching. He tells the story of the two monks and the mud puddle, which is really about what we keep carrying, and he lands on the practice underneath it all: catching the first...

Meditation does not require a quiet mind. Jeff Patterson, founder of The Yielding Warrior and Portland Tai Chi Academy, breaks down the five regulations of the meditative arts, the three pillars of yielding, and why getting distracted fifty times in twenty minutes is fifty repetitions of finding your way back to center.

Jeff has spent 37 years in the meditative and martial arts, 32 of them teaching. He tells the story of the two monks and the mud puddle, which is really about what we keep carrying, and he lands on the practice underneath it all: catching the first...

🙏 The Science of Gratitude: Dr. Debra Gonsher Vinik on why thanking more, not wanting more, builds real resilience.

Gratitude gets dismissed as a soft sentiment, or lumped in with tarot cards and crystals. Dr. Debra Gonsher Vinik makes the harder case: gratitude is a measurable science with real effects on the body and brain, and it holds up even when life breaks your heart. A six-time Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, Ph.D., and CUNY Professor Emeritus known as the Gratitude Wrangler, Debra returns to The Wellness Driven Life Show to talk about her newest film, "I T...

🙏 The Science of Gratitude: Dr. Debra Gonsher Vinik on why thanking more, not wanting more, builds real resilience.

Gratitude gets dismissed as a soft sentiment, or lumped in with tarot cards and crystals. Dr. Debra Gonsher Vinik makes the harder case: gratitude is a measurable science with real effects on the body and brain, and it holds up even when life breaks your heart. A six-time Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, Ph.D., and CUNY Professor Emeritus known as the Gratitude Wrangler, Debra returns to The Wellness Driven Life Show to talk about her newest film, "I T...

How to rewrite the subconscious programs running your life. This is Part 2 of our conversation with cell biologist Bruce Lipton, author of "The Biology of Belief."

In Part 1, Bruce showed us that our genes do not run our lives. We do. Now comes the part that changes everything: how you actually rewrite the programming you have been living inside, and why the science of it reads like a story of hope.

In Part 2, you'll explore:

- Why "The Matrix is a documentary," and the red pill nearly...

How to rewrite the subconscious programs running your life. This is Part 2 of our conversation with cell biologist Bruce Lipton, author of "The Biology of Belief."

In Part 1, Bruce showed us that our genes do not run our lives. We do. Now comes the part that changes everything: how you actually rewrite the programming you have been living inside, and why the science of it reads like a story of hope.

In Part 2, you'll explore:

- Why "The Matrix is a documentary," and the red pill nearly...

Epigenetics, and why you are not your genes. This is Part 1 of our two-part conversation with cell biologist Bruce Lipton, author of "The Biology of Belief."

What if the chaos all around us isn't the end of the world, but the cocoon before the butterfly? Bruce Lipton has spent his career showing that our genes do not run the show the way we were taught. The environment does. And that changes what is possible for our health, our beliefs, and who we can still become.

In Part 1, you'll explore:<...

Epigenetics, and why you are not your genes. This is Part 1 of our two-part conversation with cell biologist Bruce Lipton, author of "The Biology of Belief."

What if the chaos all around us isn't the end of the world, but the cocoon before the butterfly? Bruce Lipton has spent his career showing that our genes do not run the show the way we were taught. The environment does. And that changes what is possible for our health, our beliefs, and who we can still become.

In Part 1, you'll explore:<...

🐝 Overwhelmed by too much to do? Jones Loflin, keynote speaker, beekeeper, and author of "Focused as a Bee," breaks down how to focus in a distracting world, the six permissions that make rest possible, and what a hive of honeybees taught him and his daughter Sydney about presence.

We spend our days busy, and end them wondering what we actually accomplished. Jones has spent thirty one years helping people out of that loop. His answer is not another productivity system. It is permission. Permission to be unavailable, to recharge, and to give your attention to...

🐝 Overwhelmed by too much to do? Jones Loflin, keynote speaker, beekeeper, and author of "Focused as a Bee," breaks down how to focus in a distracting world, the six permissions that make rest possible, and what a hive of honeybees taught him and his daughter Sydney about presence.

We spend our days busy, and end them wondering what we actually accomplished. Jones has spent thirty one years helping people out of that loop. His answer is not another productivity system. It is permission. Permission to be unavailable, to recharge, and to give your attention to...

Your closest-relationship patterns were set before you had words for them, and they keep repeating. Marc Cameron on attachment styles and how the core pattern can change.

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⏱ EPISODE CHAPTERS (confirmed against edited cut, 31:22 runtime)

00:00 The question underneath how we love

02:04 Meet Marc, How We Love, and the free quiz

04:04 Why most of how we relate is subconscious

05:12 Two tornadoes: Marc's own marriage

09:30 Stuck on repeat, and wh...

Your closest-relationship patterns were set before you had words for them, and they keep repeating. Marc Cameron on attachment styles and how the core pattern can change.

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⏱ EPISODE CHAPTERS (confirmed against edited cut, 31:22 runtime)

00:00 The question underneath how we love

02:04 Meet Marc, How We Love, and the free quiz

04:04 Why most of how we relate is subconscious

05:12 Two tornadoes: Marc's own marriage

09:30 Stuck on repeat, and wh...

What if the anxiety, the allergies, the flare that keeps returning every autumn are not separate problems, but one conversation your body is having with everything it has ever met? Dr. Bernard Straile has spent thirty years listening to that conversation. In this episode, he and April sit with a quiet, provocative idea: that emotional trauma belongs on the same list as radiation and toxins as something that can mark our genes, and that the mark is not always permanent.

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What if the anxiety, the allergies, the flare that keeps returning every autumn are not separate problems, but one conversation your body is having with everything it has ever met? Dr. Bernard Straile has spent thirty years listening to that conversation. In this episode, he and April sit with a quiet, provocative idea: that emotional trauma belongs on the same list as radiation and toxins as something that can mark our genes, and that the mark is not always permanent.

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Workplace burnout can make you a stranger to yourself. Jesse Favre, leadership and well-being expert, on the burnout she felt in her body and the way back.

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⏱ EPISODE CHAPTERS

00:00 A stranger to yourself

02:24 From healthcare leadership to teaching burnout

02:43 Burnout in months, not years

05:37 Halos around the lights

06:14 The patient she turned away

06:47 Burnout as stress left unma...

Workplace burnout can make you a stranger to yourself. Jesse Favre, leadership and well-being expert, on the burnout she felt in her body and the way back.

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⏱ EPISODE CHAPTERS

00:00 A stranger to yourself

02:24 From healthcare leadership to teaching burnout

02:43 Burnout in months, not years

05:37 Halos around the lights

06:14 The patient she turned away

06:47 Burnout as stress left unma...

Isabelle Daikeler co-created Shakeology. Then a decade she couldn't walk taught her to surrender, and everything she thought gave her worth quietly fell away.

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00:00 Who Isabelle Is, and the Story She Wants to Tell

02:32 The Decade She Couldn't Walk

04:00 What Losing Your Health Teaches About Aging

04:44 Chronic Fatigue, No Answers, and Real Depression

06:08 Meeting the Innate Intelligence

Isabelle Daikeler co-created Shakeology. Then a decade she couldn't walk taught her to surrender, and everything she thought gave her worth quietly fell away.

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⏱ EPISODE CHAPTERS

00:00 Who Isabelle Is, and the Story She Wants to Tell

02:32 The Decade She Couldn't Walk

04:00 What Losing Your Health Teaches About Aging

04:44 Chronic Fatigue, No Answers, and Real Depression

06:08 Meeting the Innate Intelligence

🎙️ The Coherence Effect: Mickra Hamilton on healing, breath, and becoming more. A retired Air Force Colonel who broke down at 40 shares how coherence became her way back, and why health is something we remember.

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00:00 The question that frames it all

01:07 Meet Dr. Mickra Hamilton

02:21 A childhood that knew we're limitless

05:06 Breaking down at 40, and the question that opened everything

06:49...

🎙️ The Coherence Effect: Mickra Hamilton on healing, breath, and becoming more. A retired Air Force Colonel who broke down at 40 shares how coherence became her way back, and why health is something we remember.

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⏱ EPISODE CHAPTERS

00:00 The question that frames it all

01:07 Meet Dr. Mickra Hamilton

02:21 A childhood that knew we're limitless

05:06 Breaking down at 40, and the question that opened everything

06:49...

🎬 Why He Films What Heals: Keith Leon S. on Body & Belief

What makes a bestselling author pick up a camera to chase the truth about how we heal? After his aunt outlived a two-week cancer prognosis and his own chronic pain finally left him, Keith Leon S. went looking for answers and put them on film. He joins April on the body, belief, and how he keeps the work hopeful.

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🎬 Why He Films What Heals: Keith Leon S. on Body & Belief

What makes a bestselling author pick up a camera to chase the truth about how we heal? After his aunt outlived a two-week cancer prognosis and his own chronic pain finally left him, Keith Leon S. went looking for answers and put them on film. He joins April on the body, belief, and how he keeps the work hopeful.

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💛 You're Not God, That Job Is Taken: Scott Silverman on asking for help, recovery, and the hope that's always there.

Crisis coach Scott Silverman has spent more than forty years in recovery and in the work of helping others, and his message is simple: you're not God, and that's good news. We talk about why the three hardest words to say are I need help, what he calls funeral avoidance, why addiction is a disease and not a moral failing, and the long view from someone who has walked people from their lowest point bac...

💛 You're Not God, That Job Is Taken: Scott Silverman on asking for help, recovery, and the hope that's always there.

Crisis coach Scott Silverman has spent more than forty years in recovery and in the work of helping others, and his message is simple: you're not God, and that's good news. We talk about why the three hardest words to say are I need help, what he calls funeral avoidance, why addiction is a disease and not a moral failing, and the long view from someone who has walked people from their lowest point bac...

🎙 Mental Wellness Lab: Charley Johnson on consciousness, scalar waves, and the shift happening on the planet.

What if better leadership starts with better awareness? Charley Johnson, President of Mental Wellness Lab, joins April Chavez to talk consciousness, frequency, and why clarity matters more than ever.

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00:00 Better leadership begins with better awareness

01:56 From a neutral upbringing to running a company...

🎙 Mental Wellness Lab: Charley Johnson on consciousness, scalar waves, and the shift happening on the planet.

What if better leadership starts with better awareness? Charley Johnson, President of Mental Wellness Lab, joins April Chavez to talk consciousness, frequency, and why clarity matters more than ever.

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00:00 Better leadership begins with better awareness

01:56 From a neutral upbringing to running a company...

🌸 The Last Human Signal: Yuly Grosman on reading people and staying human.

Situational intelligence expert Yuly Grosman on why people are signals, why real safety is prevention, and the love story whose signs were there years before he met her.

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00:00 The signal no screen can show you

02:00 The most beautiful and the most dangerous business

03:15 Why people are signa...

🌸 The Last Human Signal: Yuly Grosman on reading people and staying human.

Situational intelligence expert Yuly Grosman on why people are signals, why real safety is prevention, and the love story whose signs were there years before he met her.

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00:00 The signal no screen can show you

02:00 The most beautiful and the most dangerous business

03:15 Why people are signa...

What does it take to stay steady when life, leadership, or the mission gets intense? Mark Divine, retired Navy SEAL Commander and founder of SEALFIT, shares the meditation practice, the Zen teaching, and the future-self visualization work that took him from a question — who am I? — all the way to becoming the warrior he was meant to be.

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00:00 — The question: what does it take to stay steady when pressure rises? 01:30 — Meet Mark Divi...

What does it take to stay steady when life, leadership, or the mission gets intense? Mark Divine, retired Navy SEAL Commander and founder of SEALFIT, shares the meditation practice, the Zen teaching, and the future-self visualization work that took him from a question — who am I? — all the way to becoming the warrior he was meant to be.

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00:00 — The question: what does it take to stay steady when pressure rises? 01:30 — Meet Mark Divi...

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What happens when a childhood dream of space becomes a mission to help young people believe their dreams belong to them, too? On The Wellness Driven Life Show, April Chavez welcomes Diallo Wallace, naval aviator, aerospace engineer, educator, analog astronaut, and founder of TESSA, a program that opens real doors for high school students in aerospace, engineering, aviation, and space careers.

Diallo shares the story behind his own path into aviation and space, from the Space Sh...