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
177. Transforming Your Day + Life: Designing a Powerful Morning Routine, Part 1, with Cristen Marine and Wendy Karlon
Join us in today's episode as we delve into the powerful morning routines of two remarkable women. Discover the secrets behind their unique approaches to nurturing mornings and how these intentional …
176. Ice Cream With Health Benefits? The Scoop on How Researchers Squashed News About a Favorite Dessert, and How to Eat When We Don’t Get Accurate Information
The cold, hard (or soft… serve?) truth on how to follow our health journeys when we’re fed inaccurate information about health research. Don’t worry – we’ll get past this cone-undrum to land on a pat…
175. 3 Tips for a Healthier, Happier You from My Recent Retreat at Canyon Ranch
In a crazy-busy time in my life, I stepped out of the day-to-day, and went on a (healthy) business retreat! We built community, worked on our goals and mindsets, and I was revitalized! Fresh from Can…
174. A Toxic Epidemic: The Predatory Targeting of Teens by the Vaping Industry and the Moms Who Are Fighting Back, with Meredith Berkman
When our policy doesn’t protect us, we need to take on more responsibility in our aim to stay healthy. With the US allowing its youth to fall prey to predatory marketing and selling tactics by a comp…
173. Small, Hope-filled Steps to Fight Back Against the “Shorter Lives, Poorer Health” Reality
Somehow, U.S. authorities decided to ignore the scary trends in a comprehensive report, but the *good news* is that we have the power to fight back and reclaim our health! Our society, culture and cu…
172. The Sweat-Free Secret to Strong Abs/Less Back Pain + Combatting Walking Muscle Woes
Self-proclaimed "lazy girl" Laura Coleman is back to share with us an exertion-free (and $$ free) way to build our abdominal muscles which can help reduce back pain! She'll share tips for a self-mass…
171. Pain, Pain Go Away: Laura Coleman's Proven Techniques to Keep Us Walking (and Living) Well!
Are you plagued by persistent aches and pains? You came to the right episode because Laura Coleman, a highly experienced virtual and personal trainer, is here to share her insights on tackling pain a…
170. Intuitive Eating: My 1995 Attempt + High Impact Physical Activity: Pros and Cons
Intuitive eating didn’t go too well for me when I first tried it – hear what about the movement resonates with me now and what I think isn’t as helpful. If you’ve been thinking about embracing its ap…
169. Oh, Oh, Oh, Ozempic + More with Canyon Ranch's Dr. Stephen Brewer
We're talking routines, prioritizing ourselves, getting back on track and more with Dr. Stephen Brewer of Canyon Ranch. He’s back to discuss his new book, The Canyon Ranch Guide to Weight Loss, and m…
168. The Canyon Ranch Guide to Weight Loss with Dr. Stephen Brewer, MD
Why we need to lose weight, what we need to know about weight gain, and what habits and mindset will help us find success are all on the agenda today, as we welcome the Canyon Ranch Medical Director,…
167. Walk + Talk With a Doc with Dr. Angela Ryan
Dr. Angela Ryan and I sit down for a conversation about walking through life and all that life deals us. Dr. Ryan is a physiatrist, which means she helps people address pain and regain and maintain p…
166. Functional Health: Our Immune Systems + Increasing Longevity and Healthspan with Dr. Jeffrey Bland
165. Functional Medicine: A Solution to the Pill-for-Every-Ill Approach? A Conversation with Dr. Jeffrey Bland
Have you been wondering about functional medicine – what is it and how does it differ from conventional medicine? Dr. Jeffrey Bland, the father of functional medicine, joins us today! We delve into t…
164. From Kegels to Confidence: Overcoming Vaginal Prolapse + Urinary Incontinence with Alyce Adams, RN, The Kegel Queen
We’re jumping into new territory today, with the expert guidance of our guest, Alyce Adams, RN, or The Kegel Queen. Alyce works with women who suffer from vaginal prolapse or urinary incontinence, he…
163. How to Press Reset When We’re Addicted to Sugar, Caffeine, Social Media + More with Dr. Anna Lembke, MD + Author, Dopamine Nation
Dopamine Nation author Dr. Anna Lembke joins us again, to help us level up our life satisfaction. We talk about walking, sugar addiction, and how to incorporate pain and discomfort to help us feel be…
I'm Sick!! And It's a Good Thing!
Why the glee over being sick? Could never getting sick be problematic? What I’ll do to heal + more in this episode from the health coach who isn’t so healthy right now!
LET’S TALK THE WALK!
- ***NEW*…
162. We're All Addicted: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence with Dr. Anna Lembke
News flash: we’re pretty much all addicted to something, whether we realize it or not! Those little hits of dopamine we get – whether it’s from a bite of chocolate, or seeing “likes” on our social me…
161. How to Walk to Combat Sitting All Day + Orthorexia 101
(Exercise) snacks, anyone?? New research answers exactly how much we need to walk to undo our sedentary lifestyles, and then we work through the real-life details together – what to do exactly, how t…
Ep. 160 Healthy Living: JJ Virgin on Tips + Strategies for Changing Body Composition, Eating by the Plate, and Improving Metabolic Flexibility by Reducing Sugar Impact
JJ Virgin, author of four best-selling books centered on improving diet for health, joins us to discuss creating a balanced plate, and shares her approach to helping clients and readers reduce the im…
159. The Most Powerful Health Changes with JJ Virgin, Author of Sugar Impact Diet
We’re kicking off a new year with celebrity nutritionist and fitness expert, JJ Virgin! She shares her perspective on health and wellness, and then talks about the one change she thinks has the most …