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
60. Lectin-Free/Plant Paradox Discussion Pt. 2 + Asking For Help + A Food Waste Tip
Dr. Steven Gundry’s Plant Paradox plan is the subject of the first part of the episode, building off of last week’s conversation with Allana Pinkerton about her new lectin-free e-cookbook. We also to…
59: Dietary Dogma, Being Open-Minded + Going Lectin-Free with Allana Pinkerton
We dip our toes in the morass of closed-mindedness and diet dogma, as we talk about the teachings of Dr. Austin Perlmutter once again to wrap up our coverage of his work – for now! And then we dive i…
58. Dr. Austin Perlmutter, Pt 2: A Roadmap for Flourishing from Brain Wash
Want to be healthier, happier and make a bigger difference in the world? Focusing on the brain can help us with those goals and more! There’s a disconnect between how our brains were designed and wha…
57. Getting Our Brains On Our Own Team with Dr. Austin Perlmutter, Co-Author of Brain Wash (Pt. 1)
Our brains aren’t functioning properly, and this has a tremendous impact on our day-to-day decisions and lives. Dr. Austin Perlmutter shares with us – in an understandable way – what’s going wrong in…
56. 3 Fats Facts + Clubhouse App + No Comparison!
We tackle some fat fears and falsities, trying to make up for the decades when dietary fats were demonized. Then, do we judge ourselves too harshly, especially as it relates to those with whom we com…
55. A Health Journey Unfolds: Perseverence and Leadership with Molly Watts
We talk Alcoholics Anonymous, finding what works best for us on any health journey, and regrouping, reframing, and re-starting. Molly Watts of Breaking the Bottle Legacy joins us again to share her j…
54. Our Relationships With Alcohol + Dry January with Molly Watts - Part 1
Molly Watts of The Breaking the Bottle Legacy podcast joins us today to talk about alcohol, related health myths, abstinence, Dry January, and other approaches. Molly bravely shares her journey, whic…
53. Goals Deep Dive: SMART, Big Hairy Audacious + Otherwise!
Goals and resolutions are helpful constructs, and today, we deconstruct some of what makes goals more likely to be reached. SMART goals, Big Hairy Audacious goals, and where goals fit with our life’s…
52. Friluftsliv: Getting Outdoors More, No Matter the Weather with Oliver Luke Delorie
Can our Norwegian friends help us shift our mindset about spending more time outdoors, no matter the weather? How can we enjoy nature more, on our own terms? What are some baby steps we can take if w…
51. 3 Shifts to Improve Resolutions + The Sleep/Diet Connection
Goals, intentions, targets or resolutions? No matter -- these mindset and action shifts will help make all of them more attainable! Also, we cover the relationship between sleep and diet, as we talk …
PreAmble #2: One Last Look at Your 2020
In this PreAmble episode, where I catch you briefly before you walk or otherwise do your thing, I urge one last look back at 2020 as we turn toward the future. Happy new year to you! See you in 2021!
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50. 2020 in Hindsight + Looking Ahead: Wellness, Walking and the Wheel of Life
Looking backward to see where we've been, we focus on 2020 and the first year of the Wellness While Walking podcast, before turning our sights on the promising road ahead!
LET’S TALK THE WALK!
- Wel…
49: Walking Daily with Dana and Mary: #walk20in20
Join a fun chat with two listeners who've walked EVERY DAY in 2020! How did they do it? Why did they do it? What can we learn about their efforts, practices, and the benefits they’ve derived from the…
48. Cooking in a Pandemic: Kitchen Mindset Upgrade with Karen of Healthy Gluten-Free Family
Cooking during COVID makes us more flexible cooks, and we benefit from home-cooked meals to support our health. We dish on strategies for stress-free meals, and Karen shares her tips for shopping for…
47: Tips and Tricks for Making Cooking Manageable with Karen from Healthy Gluten-Free Family
Are you overwhelmed by cooking? So many of us are. My guest today helps us break down the kitchen overwhelm with some very doable strategies for making cooking more manageable, and tastier as well! L…
46: Diet Soda, Love of Learning, + Gratitude for Health Care Workers
Should I quit drinking diet soda? And if so, how??? What gets Carolyn up in the morning, and the power of our gratitude practice, especially for health care workers.
LET’S TALK THE WALK!
- Wellness W…
45. Our Daily Lives: Embracing + Elevating the Ordinary
Can we shift our mindset around those pesky everyday tasks of life? Or change the way we do them so they are more fun? We might not ever embrace the ordinary daily rituals with the vim and vigor of C…
44. 5 Paths to Wellness: Food, Movement, Stress Reduction, Sleep and Connection
We break down fundamental wellness into categories, and have at them! Your mindset may be shifted as we talk healthy low-hanging fruit! Plus, I have a couple of slots for coaching on my schedule – re…
43. The Case for Cooking (a bit!) + Resilience and Curiosity
We chat about some reasons why we might consider cooking a bit more than we do. And then we tackle resilience and relying on our strengths to keep on keeping on!
LET’S TALK THE WALK!
- Wellness While…
42. Calories 101: To Count or Not to Count?
Counting calories come to mind to many when the conversation turns to health and weight loss. But what are they really? And do we need to focus on them, or is worrying about calories a waste of time …