Wellness While Walking
Are midlife metabolism changes making you feel like your body has new rules you don't understand? Struggling to find the consistency, motivation, and pain-free options to maintain your health after age 40, 50, 60 or beyond? Looking for a walking companion who truly understands your health challenges and helps you cut through the health information overwhelm to discover what actually works for your midlife body?
Join Health Coach Carolyn for Wellness While Walking—your 30-minute movement companion that delivers research-backed strategies for weight management, metabolic health, and extending your healthspan in a motivating, compassionate format!
Each episode addresses the real concerns you're facing: how to navigate shifts in your metabolism, establish sustainable habits despite busy schedules, adapt movement to work for you, and implement doable nutrition approaches that work with—not against—your changing body. Coach Carolyn combines the latest walking and health research with practical wisdom that acknowledges the unique challenges of midlife wellness.
Whether you're seeking accountability for consistent action, clarity on conflicting health advice, or gentle guidance for aging vibrantly, Wellness While Walking meets you where you are with understanding and actionable solutions.
By the end of each 30-minute episode, you'll feel physically energized, mentally renewed, and equipped with clear next steps—having moved, learned, laughed, and found the motivation to take the next meaningful step on your health journey!
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 305
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
296. GUIDED Interval Walking Training #2: How to Supercharge Japanese IWT to Benefit Your Brain As Well As Your Body!
IWT or Interval Walking Training (or Japanese 3x3 walking) is something that’s taking the fitness world by storm, and with good reason! It provides a framework for getting the most out of interval tr…
295. Variety is the Spice of Walking, Health + Life! Plus Mindful Walking and Gratitude (Re-Release)
Hunter-gatherers ate dozens of different plants each day! How can we use variety to maximize our health in the modern day, even while the American Heart Association asks us to limit the variety of wh…
294. My Trial + Error Health Journey: Years of Wrong Turns Before Finding Relief
When I consulted the wrong practitioner, it resulted in years of an overwhelming search for solutions and a multi-thousand dollar bill. I’m taking you along on my journey so you can avoid a similar o…
293. Can You Lose Weight and Still Be Happy? Ditch Depressing Diets + Do This Instead
Alarmist headlines claim dieting leads to depression—should you let that stop your changing up your eating pattern to achieve your health goals? In this episode, we’ll examine those “sad diets,” and…
292. Just One Can a Day Can Be a Problem: The Surprising Effects of Diet Soda + How to Quit or Cut Back (on Anything)
Think your daily diet soda is keeping you trim and healthy? A shocking new study reveals that just one can increases diabetes risk by 38%, while artificial sweeteners disrupt gut health, trigger bell…
291. Your Health Non-Negotiables: Getting Past Mindset Hurdles with Grace + A Daily/Weekly/Monthly Guide to a Healthier Life
Mental roadblocks can sabotage our health goals. The key to success is identifying them, and replacing them with clear, empowering strategies. We’ll also introduce a powerful framework to help you st…
290. Avoiding the Wake-Up Call: Abigail’s Health Crisis + the Small Preventive Steps We Can Take Today
Don’t wait for a health crisis or an unfortunate diagnosis. Let’s take steps now to get on the path to health. It’s not about perfection, but it’s also about not waiting until we have more time or an…
289. Add This to Your Walk for Better Brain Function + Judy Benjamin’s Walking Tips (From Her Walk Across the US!)
Recent research found a way to enhance movement that allowed study participants to reduce their levels of cognitive decline, and we talk about how we can incorporate that add-on activity to our own w…
288. Lifestyle Medicine Success Story: The Steps Judy Benjamin Took to Reverse Cognitive Decline (and to Power Her Cross-America Walk)
Want to know the lifestyle protocol that reversed Judy Benjamin's Alzheimer's diagnosis and transformed her from a sleep-deprived, mold-exposed humanitarian worker into an 81-year-old powerhouse walk…
287. Walking Across America to Highlight Reversing Cognitive Decline! Judy Benjamin Joins Us From the Road
Does an Alzheimer’s diagnosis mean it’s all downhill? Well, today’s guest has something to say about that commonly-held belief!
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286. Can Carbs Help You Age Better? Plus Practical Ways to Make Pasta Healthier
The headlines tell us to eat more carbohydrates in midlife, but should we? Let’s dive into the story of carbs and how they fit into our diets. And then we'll figure out how we can eat pasta while we …
285. The Dark Side of Wellness: How Your Favorite Health Influencers Might Be Influenced Themselves and By Whom – Editor’s Choice Episode/Re-Walk
As I spent time with my family at the college graduation of our youngest child, editor extraordinaire Emily Prokop chose an episode that she felt was important to air again – hear from Emily herself …
284. GUIDED Interval Walk (IWT): Fighting Afternoon Food Fumbles, Safe Grilling + Small Tweak for Overall Health, While Doing the Japanese 3x3 Method with Me!
Try the Japanese 3X3 Interval Walking technique with me today! Today, we've got beeps (of course!) to prompt you to speed up and slow down for five powerful but not too-challenging rounds. Last episo…
283. Japanese Interval Walking (IWT): This 30-Minute Walking Technique Could Out-Perform 10,000 Steps!
Want transformation in a 30-minute walk? Coming right up! A Japanese-inspired walking approach that surprised researchers in its efficacy in building aerobic fitness, reducing blood pressure and bloo…
282. Declutter for a Healthier You: From Swedish Death Cleaning to Systematic Solutions
Is the chaos on your countertops sabotaging your health? Let’s explore the deep connections between clutter and health – including brain fog, overeating and increased stress -- by unveiling two trans…
281. Your Total Health Transformation Journey: Weight Watchers' Best Tools Without the Drawbacks
What if the $1 billion bankruptcy of America's most iconic weight loss company revealed the exact tools you need—and the pitfalls to avoid—for your own health transformation? This revealing analysis …
280. Plastics, Weight Gain + Water: How Environmental Toxins Impact Metabolism, Hormones and Immunity with Dr. Aly Cohen
Citing plastics in our bodies, tainted and under-regulated drinking water and the other toxins we and our families experience daily, Dr. Aly Cohen motivates us to prioritize what’s important to us. W…
279. Our Bodies are Pissed! Why We Need to Detox with Dr. Aly Cohen
When Dr. Aly Cohen’s golden retriever got a very rare autoimmune hepatitis diagnosis 15 years ago, she started to explore environmental toxins and their health impacts. As a practicing rheumatologist…
278. Beyond Diet Wars: What a Dentist Discovered About Traditional Eating 100 Years Ago That Can Help Us Make the Best Choices Today
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