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
Ep. 158 Walking Backwards + Looking Forward (But Not Together!) With A Word of the Year
Have you hopped on the walking backwards trend? Find out whether walking backwards might be right for you! We’ll then pivot to looking forwards – can a word of the year help us make the year ahead gr…
157. Coaches' Corner: 3 Health Books Summarized and Discussed, with Two Fellow Health Coaches!
Three coaches discuss three health books that can change your life! Join our book chat to learn new ideas that change your health and wellness trajectory! My colleagues, Sarah Danforth and Sudha Gopa…
156. Minimalism + Wellness Purchases: A Healthy Gift List (a #healthywhilebusy Challenge Mini-Episode)
In Episodes 152-156, we talk about staying healthy in busy times, as part of our #healthywhilebusy Challenge! This informal challenge – through 5 mini-episodes – can be complemented by a worksheet wh…
155. The Food to Prioritize When We're Crazy Busy (a #healthywhilebusy Challenge Mini-Episode)
In Episodes 152-156, we talk about staying healthy in busy times, as part of our #healthywhilebusy Challenge! This informal challenge – through 5 mini-episodes – can be complemented by a worksheet wh…
Ep. 154 Food Pushers and Boundary Crossers: No is a Complete Sentence! (a #healthywhilebusy Challenge Mini-Episode)
In Episodes 152-156, we talk about staying healthy in busy times, as part of our #healthywhilebusy Challenge! This informal challenge – through 5 mini-episodes – can be complemented by a worksheet wh…
153. Holiday Values and Your To-Do List (a #healthywhilebusy Challenge Mini-Episode)
In Episodes 152-156, we talk about staying healthy in busy times, as part of our #healthywhilebusy Challenge! This informal challenge – through 5 mini-episodes – can be complemented by a worksheet wh…
152. Quick Healthy Actions to Keep Ourselves on Our Own List During Busy Times! (a #healthywhilebusy Challenge Mini-Episode)
In Episodes 152-156, we talk about staying healthy in busy times, as part of our #healthywhilebusy Challenge! This informal challenge – through 5 mini-episodes – can be complemented by a worksheet wh…
Ep. 151 Introducing FRIED: The Burnout Podcast with Cait Donovan, on Burnout Signs and Symptoms
What exactly is burnout, and how do we know if we’re suffering or at risk of experiencing it? Today’s episode will give us the answers to those questions, and will be instructive for all of us. Cait…
150. Could Meat Raised Right Be Healthy for Us and the Planet? Karli Amonite from Heritage Hills Farmstead Tells Us What to Look For
When Karli Amonite couldn’t get the food she needed to heal from a chronic illness, she and her husband dug in, and started farming to have more control over what they – and their community – ate. Ev…
149. Am I Paleo? Plus, Shortcuts in the Kitchen with Michelle Tam of Nom Nom Paleo
Kitchen tips and tricks abound in the second part of our chat with Michelle Tam, co-founder of Nom Nom Paleo, who brings us seemingly endless delicious and easy-to-follow recipes, 3 killer cookbooks,…
148. Michelle Tam of Nom Nom Paleo and a Plan for Fast, Simple, Healthy Flavor-Packed Meals, With a Side of Humor!
Nom Nom Paleo’s Michelle Tam is in the house -- and specifically the kitchen -- today! Her infectious warmth, humor and dose of real-life perspective helps us on the path to cooking simple, healthy m…
147. Walking for Fitness, Health, Weight Loss and More: What Does the Reseach Say, with Prof. Marie Murphy
Long or short walks? Brisk or slow? Count steps or not? Will walking help me lose weight? How can I be motivated to walk? These are questions that come up for us about our walks, and Dr. Marie Murphy…
146. Health Documentaries Demystified, with Prof. Jason Osder
Documentary films can be powerfully persuasive, and our guest today helps us understand why, and then gives us a roadmap for how to watch films in the genre. Jason Osder -- filmmaker and professor of…
145. Walking Pain, Balance, Agility and Footwear: Dr. Courtney Conley of Gait Happens, Part 2 on our Fit Feet!
((BREAKING! Get 10% off the Fit Feet Program*!)) Let’s talk footwear, pain while walking and what to do about it, and our feet as key to our ability to balance and stay injury-free! We sit at the fee…
144. Feet First with Dr. Courtney Conley of Gait Happens: How Our Feet Are Pivotal to Walking and Our Health
Good health starts with our feet! Today, we’ll delve into feet, toes, ankles and everything they’re connected to (which is every other part of our bodies!) with Dr. Courtney Conley of Gait Happens! T…
143. Thin On The Outside/Fat On The Inside (TOFI), BMI, and More Metabolic Madness
Does obesity drive disease, or vice versa? We talk TOFI (Thin On The Outside/Fat On The Inside), BMI, sugar in pediatric cancer clinics, salt being potentially wrongly maligned, keto and vegan diets,…
142. Health and Adversity: Can We Use Hormesis to Impact Our Longevity and How We Feel Today?
Our bodies (and also our minds) were meant to be challenged, and sometimes, in our comfortable society, the challenges aren’t there. It’s okay: we can orchestrate a few challenges fairly easily to ge…
141. My Inactive Lifestyle? Plus, Wellness + Tech: What’s Ahead
Yep, we dig into why (and how often) my wearable technology is telling me to stretch my legs, and what I plan to do about it. And then we talk about wellness and tech a bit more, as tech companies co…
140. Forming Healthy Communities with Candice Maudsley
Maybe forming a group to help support you on your health journey is outside your comfort zone. But maybe it’s worth considering doing it nonetheless! Today, you’ll hear how once such wellness communi…
139. Compound Interest and Your Health Journey + Hunger Hormone Help with Dr. Leslie Meyers, ND
Our levels of hunger and satiety are controlled in part by hormones, as are many of our bodies’ systems. What can we do -- in our daily lives – to ensure our hormones are balanced, so that our bodies…