Top 5 Wellness Tips for Women

Courtney Swan (@realfoodology) is an Integrative Nutritionist with her masters of Science in Nutrition and Integrative Health and she also happens to be a dear friend of Raeann. Courtney posts daily about the real food and organic movement on her Instagram account: Realfoodology as well as her weekly podcast, also called Realfoodology. She aims to educate on the dirty practices of the food industry and how to eat healthy, with real food, and today she’s on the podcast sharing her top 5 wellness tips for women who are looking to improve their overall health.

“You need to cancel out the noise and stop being so focused on, ‘this one thing is bad, and this is good.’ Just come back to, ‘is it real food?’” - Courtney Swan

What we talk about:

  • Raeann recaps Stagecoach

  • Tips to wind down to prioritize sleep

  • The danger of heating food in plastic

  • How to tell if packaged food is okay to eat

  • Ingredients to avoid in sunscreen

  • Why sunscreen doesn’t protect you from skin cancer

  • How spending time in nature impacts your nervous system

  • Unsuspecting foods that can be high in sugar

  • How to find ways to enjoy moving your body

  • Tips for tracking your cycle naturally

  • What Courtney recommends for testing yourself for food sensitivities or allergies

  • The hypocrisy of skinny women being able to eat whatever they want but plus size women are shamed for loving food

“Getting outside in nature does wonders for your nervous system.” - Courtney Swan

New podcast episodes of Confident Collective drop every Tuesday.

“It’s so f*cking hypocritical that for a skinny woman part of her personality can be how much she loves food and it can be accepted. But then if a curvy woman is doing the same thing she’s promoting obesity and being unhealthy.” - Raeann and Kristina

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Things Men Don't Get

Not wearing socks with holes in them. Folding damp towels. Planning literally anything. We love the men in our lives, but living with them is not the easiest sometimes! We’re reading off the things men just don’t get that drive our listeners crazy and it’s equally hilarious and frustrating. Tune in to see if your submission made it into the episode and if you can relate to any of these situations!

“When it comes to men not understanding urgency, we need to meet in the middle. Why create more stress?” - Kristina

“I am concerned for the general straight male population with their lack of ability to make a plan.” - Raeann

What we talk about:

  • Raeann’s prep for Stagecoach

  • Raeann’s recent health issues

  • Raeann shares about getting her IUD removed and off of birth control

  • Reality TV relationship trainwrecks

  • Why are women better at multitasking?

  • How to allow men in our lives to do more for us

  • What men do that drive women crazy and why we think that is

  • Ask away: changing sizes/getting comfortable with going up in clothing size

“Tracking your cycle and knowing your body is such a powerful tool.” - Raeann

“Once you let go of the number or size of clothing you wear, which means nothing, and are in clothes that fit your body, you’re going to feel so much better and look so much better because your clothes are going to fit you.” - Raeann

New podcast episodes of Confident Collective drop every Tuesday.

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Ditching Toxic Habits for Fair Play with Eve Rodsky

Feel like you contribute more to the household duties than your partner? Do you find yourself saying, “I’ll just do it myself” more than not? If you’re feeling burnt out or overwhelmed by all of the invisible mental work required to run a household, this episode has your solution. Eve Rodsky, author of the best-selling book Fair Play, is sharing her simple strategy for dividing household tasks fairly using boundaries, systems and communication. Whether you’re single and can use this information to start strong in your next relationship, are married or have kids and truly need more peace and to truly be able to enjoy your free time, we hope this conversation is helpful, validating and enlightening. 

“A boundary is 3 things: a permission to be unavailable from your roles, vanquishing guilt and shame in that unavailability so it doesn’t ruin your unavailable time and being able to ask for what you need.” - Eve Rodsky

What we talk about:

  • Scheduling European adventures (Kristina lets us know THE time to be in the Greek islands)

  • Kristina has a spooky story that will give you chills

  • Our hot take on The Kardashian’s new Hulu show

  • The “invisible mental load” we carry

  • WHY women have been pigeon-holed into roles within the home

  • Overcoming the urge of saying “I’ll just do it myself”

  • Developing the “why” behind your systems at home

  • Examples of how you can have these conversations with your partner

  • Implementing CPE (conception, planning, execution) and minimum standards of care

  • Eve plays the Fair Play Card Game with Raeann and Kristina and we get to learn more about their family systems growing up

  • Feeling deserving of your free time

“Even though time is our most valuable currency, we’re taught to give it away for free.” - Eve Rodsky

New podcast episodes of Confident Collective drop every Tuesday.

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