Staying Conscious with Meg & Aly
Storytelling Podcasts
Hi we are Meg and Aly. We are two friends that have recently discovered our voice. By having conscious conversations with each other, we have created a space where we feel seen, heard and enough. In sharing this space with others, we began connecting on the universal messiness of life. We found ourselves being inspired by the experiences and perspectives of the people in our daily lives. We invite you to join us in these vulnerable conversations as we host our very own podcast! We encourage you to listen and remain receptive to expanding your mind. Stay conscious and curious.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Storytelling Podcasts
Description:
Hi we are Meg and Aly. We are two friends that have recently discovered our voice. By having conscious conversations with each other, we have created a space where we feel seen, heard and enough. In sharing this space with others, we began connecting on the universal messiness of life. We found ourselves being inspired by the experiences and perspectives of the people in our daily lives. We invite you to join us in these vulnerable conversations as we host our very own podcast! We encourage you to listen and remain receptive to expanding your mind. Stay conscious and curious.
Language:
English
Contact:
7405063184
Episodes
Kit Yoon - Relearning to Trust Yourself & Find Your Intuition
5/20/2020
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 practice and transitioning more into life coaching and now moving into more intuitive work through inner voice work. We discuss learning to live in the...
Duration:00:51:15
Sam Vander Wielen - Creativity, Connection, & New Perspectives
5/6/2020
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 what we hope does not. Sam tells us about how her career has shifted, how this legal business kind of found her, and how she had to change her...
Duration:00:53:44
Brandon Goodyear - Visual Storytelling, Empathy, & Community
4/29/2020
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 and we have loved to see how he has grown and evolved over the last year! In this episode, we discuss how this current pandemic has closed some...
Duration:00:55:56
Nikki Costa Lang - Coming Back to Center, Katonah Yoga & That Ron Swansan Life
4/22/2020
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 Columbus, Ohio. Although Nikki is located in the Cleveland/Akron area, she is a frequent visitor to the Columbus area. We loved this episode with...
Duration:01:17:40
The Why Behind Meg & Aly with Guest Host Josie Schweitzer
4/15/2020
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 with us on a deeper level. We’re so honored to have Josie interview us and we are really excited to share this episode with you. We discuss...
Duration:01:25:30
Kym Lisk - Mindfulness, Self-Discovery, & Releasing Expectations to Find Sensory Relief
4/1/2020
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 creating. We discuss how important mindfulness practices are and how floating is just like any other practice where you must release your...
Duration:01:06:54
Geri Peacock - Baked Goods, Overcoming Hardships and Curiosity
3/18/2020
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 business up and running. Cherbourg Bakery is a gluten free/nut free bakery, everything is made fresh daily, by-hand in small batches and following...
Duration:00:55:25
Simi Botic - UNMEASURED - A Virtual Barre Movement Membership to Celebrate Your Body
3/11/2020
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 episode we discuss our own journeys with movement over the years and how we are so thankful that it has shifted and evolved to a place where we want...
Duration:00:46:58
Dr. Hanisha Patel - Hormones, Gut Health, and Naturopathic Medicine
3/4/2020
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 an Indian household with Ayurvedic practices and how this shaped her view of medicine from a young age. We discuss her own personal health...
Duration:01:09:16
Diana Wang - Fine Feather, Clean Beauty and Wellness
2/26/2020
This week we are chatting with Diana, the owner of a local clean beauty store called Fine Feather right here in Grandview, Ohio. Fine Feather is the only exclusively clean beauty and wellness store here in Ohio. In this episode, Diana defines what clean beauty is to her and tells us her story and background for why she wanted to start Fine Feather. We discuss how important it is to bring the community together over shared interests, passions, and learning new things and how Fine Feather does...
Duration:01:01:34
Tony Tanner - Local Farmers, Clean Meat, and Conscious Consumerism with The Butcher & Grocer
2/19/2020
We cannot wait to share all of the fun that we had with this week on the podcast with Tony Tanner. Tony is the owner of The Butcher & Grocer, a local butcher shop where you will find the highest quality Ohio meats that are 100% pastured and are antibiotic and growth hormone-free. Tony tells us what motivated him to start the shop and why he has continued on this conscious journey for clean meat products. We could not agree more about the importance of knowing what goes into your food and...
Duration:01:10:01
James Fryer - Mindful Movement, Massage, and Breathwork
2/12/2020
This week we are so excited to be chatting with James Fryer on the podcast as he has a wealth of knowledge about the human body. He is a Licensed Massage Therapist and performance therapist who has a very holistic approach to health. He defines his work as blending movement and massage as a way to help restore your health. We loved chatting with James about how important it is for people to be in tune with their body, have better body awareness, and a willingness to learn about their own...
Duration:01:12:01
Dr. Prashant Malhotra - Cochlear Implants, Passion for Medicine, and Conscious Parenting
2/5/2020
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 discuss hearing loss in adults. We talk about the stigma in adults with hearing loss and how scary it can be and in turn can cause social isolation,...
Duration:01:30:29
Human Design with Amy Lee
1/29/2020
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-Brahmin Chakra systems with current scientific knowledge in the fields of Physics, Astronomy, Genetics and Biochemistry. In this episode, we dive deep...
Duration:01:33:12
Mission Coffee Company's Christian Ott
1/22/2020
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. Where it comes from, what flavor notes you can taste in different roasts, how it’s roasted, how different brewing methods make the same coffee beans...
Duration:00:53:20
Tobi Ewing - Passion, Intuition, and Diving into the Unknown
1/15/2020
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 episode, Tobi tells us about not being fulfilled in the corporate world and how she dove into the unknown to search for passion in her work and the...
Duration:01:16:17
Nicole Davis - The Journey of Co-Founding Native Cold Pressed and The Joy of Embracing the Unexpected
1/8/2020
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. Nicole tells us about how she found a home in Columbus and why she decided to stay instead of trying to start a health food store in an...
Duration:01:08:11
Dr. Brandon Kozar - Corporate Psychologist, Leadership Strategies, and the Ripple Effect
1/1/2020
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 Nationwide Children's Hospital, and still provides executive coaching and clinical psychotherapy in his own practice as well. In this episode, we...
Duration:00:54:52
Business & Marriage with Allie and Adam Lehman from The Wonder Jam
10/28/2019
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, and all the goodies in-between. We touch on the topics of codependency, owning a business with a partner/spouse, being kind, planning time apart,...
Duration:01:11:31
Alexis Joseph - Hummusapien, Intuitive Eating, Running a Business, and Exciting Future Plans
10/18/2019
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 the not so glamorous part of owning a business/restaurant. We also talk about how her vision for both the blog and the restaurant has shifted over...
Duration:00:50:22