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
22. Making Time for Health: Productivity Talk Continued!
We take insights and tips from the productivity world to help us on our health journeys. Plus, a Wellness While Walking community is in the works!
LET’S TALK THE WALK!
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21. Productivity and Purpose With Laura McClellan
Productivity just to fit more stuff into our brimming days? Nope. Productivity for a purpose? Sign us up!
*** MAY MONDAYS PHOTO CHALLENGE ***
Share photos from your walk!
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20. Getting Real About COVID-19 (and our general health)
We take on a tough issue today, but we also discuss how we can take some steps to improve the situation.
*** MAY MONDAYS PHOTO CHALLENGE ***
Share a photo from your walk!
For each Monday that you e…
19. My Pre-Diabetes Story
Pre-diabetes – millions have it, and almost none of them know they do. Listen to the story of Carolyn’s own diagnosis, and what happened next. Plus, a favorite sleep tool, and join us on our Mondays …
18. Prioritizing Positivity, Fermented Foods and Some Photo Fun
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Chasing happiness can backfire. Today, we talk about another approach to wellbeing and feeling good. Then we turn to fermented foods, which c…
17. 5 Ways to Get Walking When You’re Not Feeling It
In this short episode, Carolyn helps the reluctant walker get out the door. If walking’s not your thing, apply the 5 steps to whatever is!
LET’S TALK THE WALK!
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16. Anxiety in a Different Light with Dr. Jill Stoddard
Anxiety in the time of coronavirus (and in normal life) is the topic of a conversation with Dr. Jill Stoddard. We talk about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and the wisdom (and sense of relief) of…
15: Boost Immunity with Laughs, Tears and Water; Pets Helpful in a Crisis
We discuss 3 easy ways to boost our immunity to the coronavirus, or any other virus. Dog owners walk more than other folks, and pets in general are good for our health overall. We talk about a partic…
14: Coronavirus Isolation, Curiosity, Gratitude and National Walking Day
Fighting isolation through schedules, journaling and connection kicks off this episode. We also talk about the roles of cultivating gratitude and curiosity in times of adversity, and we celebrate wal…
13. Slowing Down, Reaching Out, and Eating for Mood, Especially in a Crisis
Keeping on top of our fundamentals and knowing ourselves are two keys to maintaining our wellbeing in a crisis. In this episode, we cover finding the silver linings in this and any situation for the …
12. Coronavirus and Uncertainty: Taking Life Step by Step
A lot has changed in the past week, and walking may now be an even bigger part of your routine. However, the stress and anxiety produced by the coronavirus (COVID-19) can be an obstacle; in this epis…
11. Finding Our Tribe, Tough Love on Screens, Staying Healthy and Planning for Health
Feeling part of a tribe is key to our wellbeing -- human beings want to belong to a tight community. We might think we don’t have the time to move our bodies, but new research says we spend 3+ hours …
10. Designing Your Path to Wellbeing
Consider yourself the subject of your own lifestyle medicine experiment, becoming a study of 1. Address the low-hanging fruit of change by getting your Episode 1-10 Cheat Sheet, and don’t forget to t…
9. 3 Simple Steps to Improving Our Lives Through Better Sleep
Make sleep your superpower! How you sleep can affect the length of your life, and the quality of it! It contributes to your weight, your memory, your appearance, your physical health and your mental …
8. Meditation and Mindfulness 101: What Are They and How To Do Them
Meditation and mindfulness – what are they? The terms can mean so many things to so many people, but the science is clear: a small practice of it can be life-changing. Let’s dip our toes in the water…
7. Q&A: Fruit Sugar, Best Time to Walk and Is It Okay to Complain?
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We tackle the topics of fruit and fruit sugar, the best time of day to walk, and complaining and venting in our first Q and A episode!
LET’S TALK THE WALK!
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6. Decluttering for Health: What Does Organization Have To Do With It?
Simplifying our spaces can have a huge impact on our health. We talk about organizing and decluttering for health – how to get started and what benefits to expect. And then we break down the idea of …
5. 3 Easy Ways to Add More Vegetables to Our Diet and Designing Our Lives
We make the case for adding more another vegetable or two into our diets, and then talk about how to do it seamlessly and deliciously! In the Destination: Life Design segment, we talk about setting u…
4 How to be Happier: Taking Steps to Wellbeing
The science of wellbeing, Positive Psychology is an academic sub-discipline that can directly help us improve our lives and be happier! We delve a little bit into some concrete ways to improve our li…