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
41. Departing Our Comfort Zones + Making New Friends
Approaching life with curiosity and a growth mindset is correlated with wellbeing and life satisfaction. Those are the facts, but guest Terri from the Mixing Up Midlife podcast brings those ideas to …
40: The Ins and Outs of Coffee + Health and Health Decision-Making Clarity
Episode 40: The Ins and Outs of Coffee and Health + Health Decision-Making Clarity
Is coffee good for us or should we quit drinking it? A mega-meta-analysis shows there could be many health benefits.…
39. My Coffee Journey: Flavored, Decaf, Rituals + A Wrong Turn
We cover a lot of ground (he he) in this episode all about java! I've been around the block a few times when it comes to coffee. You'll hear all about the good, the bad, and the unfortunate!
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38: In Wellness + in Health: Walking, Cooking, Eating, + Learning Together
What’s it like to live with a health coach? Our guest today tells all! Was he fully onboard or an unwitting accomplice? We'll find out today!
LET’S TALK THE WALK!
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37. Math + Marcia Brady + “Just” Watch Your Language!
Are there investments we can make in our health now, especially for those of us who will spend more time indoors soon? We talk about how words – our own and others’ – can affect us, and how we have t…
36. To Snack or Not to Snack: Why, When and How + Dr. Rangan Chatterjee’s Take on “Snacks”
Need a snack to get you to stave off hunger until the next meal? What are the right times to snack, and what’s a healthy snack if we’re partaking? We’ll talk specific snack ideas and recipes. We won'…
35: Reducing Inflammation, Belly Fat + Sugary Drinks
We break Dr. Elizabeth Boham's wisdom into possible next small steps! Not sure about how to attack the inflammation that brings on disease or makes a fight with Covid more challenging? Listen in for …
34. All About Walking and the Wellness While Walking Podcast
Molly Watts and I talk all about walking and the motivation behind my starting this podcast on her show, Live Happier Longer.
You can order Molly's Five for Life planner by contacting her at info@fi…
PreAmble #1: Walk Kick-off + Podcasts to Check Out + Strengths
In this brief episode, I duck in for a quick hello - to perhaps kick off a walk (PRE AMBLE!) or other activity, or just to say hey! I mention two podcasts on which I was a guest recently, and we brie…
33. Food as Medicine, Gratitude, Movement + More with Dr. Elizabeth Boham
Dr. Elizabeth Boham joins us again in a continuation from last week, to talk about the need to bring nutrition into medicine, the exercise/movement distinction, eating real food, the role gratitude a…
32. Dr. Elizabeth Boham: Reducing Inflammation for Optimal Health
Inflammation is at the root of many of our most feared diseases. Today, with guest Dr. Elizabeth Boham, we talk about the small steps we can take to reduce inflammation so that we reduce our risk of …
31: Chewing the Fat (+Protein+Carbs) for Better Health
Improved nutrition, more mindful eating, increased satiety and possible reduction in rates of dementia are all possible outcomes of…. chewing our food more? Dive in for more on this simple tweak!
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30: 6 Lessons I Learned at Weight Watchers® + Other Tidbits!
What can we borrow from one of the best-known diet and weight loss programs in the world, Weight Watchers® (now WW), even if we aren’t interested in dieting? And then we’ll do some listener and revie…
29. Leafy Greens are Life + Emily’s Weight Loss Journey Epilogue
Weight loss, mindset shifts, fasting and knowing herself (AND working with a coach!) were all part of Emily’s journey, and we wrap up our discussion of it today. And we focus on greens -- leafy green…
28. Emily’s Journey: Intermittent Fasting, Yoga, Mindset and More!
We're talking weight loss, wellness and mindset today as we listen to guest Emily Prokop talk about her health journey! I’m sure you’re going to appreciate that she shared details of her action step…
27. Toxins Are Making Us Sick and Heavy: 5 Steps to Keep Them at Bay
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26. 10,000 Steps: Myth or Mandate? Plus, Toxic Products on Your Shelves
Is 10,000 steps the end-all/be-all? We’ll check that out, plus we’ll talk about some big news in the health world that happened this week, and what you can do about staying on your health journey! Oh…
25. We Could Be Dancin', Yeah!
Like walking, dancing is another inborn aspect of our humanness, and offers a nice complement to walking – even if it’s just bopping around the house!
LET’S TALK THE WALK!
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24. Variety (Good? Bad?) and Dwelling on our Wins
Let's use the principles behind a varied diet for good, and avoid the downsides. Also, why do we have a tendency to gloss over our wins and progress? Let's turn THAT ship around!
LET’S TALK THE WALK!
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23. Intermittent Walking and Japan Wellness Insights
There are so many benefits of walking – we talk about a few, and the idea of intermittent walking! Then we travel to Japan to learn about how the wellness practices there might help us all!
LET’S TAL…