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
138. How to Avoid Hormone Horrors with Dr. Leslie Meyers, ND
Insulin, cortisol, ghrelin, leptin, estrogen – these are some of the hormones that keep the trains running on schedule. Many things can interrupt those processes, though. We chat with Dr. Leslie Meye…
137. An Easy Dinner Framework + Savoring Summer and Life
We do a deep dive into a new approach to thinking about dinner, since the change in seasons can up-end our routines. Between eating out/getting take out and cooking from a recipe, there lies a sweet…
136. Short Walks for our Health (New Research!) + Longer, Slow Walks for Our Well-Being, with Jonathon Stalls
Just 2 minutes of walking could have an impact on our health! We’ll dive into some new research that highlighted the potential power of these 2-5 minute mini-walks, and talk about what that could loo…
135. The Life-Changing Benefits of a Slow Walk with Jonathon Stalls
Walking for fitness and health is finally receiving its proper glory, after being under-recognized for far too long. No other physical activity offers as much opportunity for us to experience being h…
134. Pandemic Weight Gain Persistence + The Power of Coaching with Janet Hunter (listener and new health coach!)
Weight loss isn’t a typical topic here on Wellness While Walking. Perhaps you’ve heard the advice to “eat less, move more,” in order to shed unwanted pounds. Even if that worked for all (hint: it doe…
133. Build Muscle with Only Your Own Bodyweight: Hampton Liu Offers Up a Movement Routine For a Free, No-Fuss Path to Getting Strong
Sometimes, what’s old is new again, and that’s true with a type of movement we might want to reconsider! Join me and my guest, Hampton Liu, as he offers a comprehensive workout in his trademark warm,…
132. Good/Better/Best Health Decisions
Should we use a Good/Better/Best continuum to help us make decisions consistent with our health goals? Or is there something more nuanced -- more personalized and contextual – that might be more help…
131. Fatigue: From "Busy Mom Syndrome" to Long COVID to Chronic Fatigue + More, with Dr. Jenny Tufenkian
Tired? Fatigued? You’re not alone. What can be done? We explore exhaustion with Dr. Jenny Tufenkian today, and I share my story of being diagnosed with Busy Mom Syndrome. How did I solve my tiredness…
130. Heal From Within, with Dr. Jenny Tufenkian, ND: Natural Techniques From Ancient Practices to Modern Science
We’re looking at Naturopathic Medicine today, with the help of Dr. Jenny Tufenkian, ND. What is a naturopathic doctor, and how do they differ from conventional physicians? What kind of approaches mig…
129. Being Our Own Advocate: We Can't Take a Backseat in Our Wellness Care, with Sarah Fay
Sarah Fay and I wrap up our conversation about her mental health misdiagnoses, and what's happened since her book, Pathological: The True Story of Six Diagnoses, was published. I'll then share a stor…
128. Something We Need to Know About Mental Health with Sarah Fay, author of Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses
Sarah Fay, author of Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses, shares with us her decades-long struggle with mental health, which started with her diagnosis of anorexia nervosa as a teen. Wit…
127. Kendra Adachi Returns: Losing the Kitchen Stress and Shame + Finding What Matters in the Heart of the Kitchen, with the Lazy Genius
Kendra Adachi’s bestselling The Lazy Genius Kitchen is a guide to making the kitchen a place of lower stress, zero shame, and more nourishment of every kind for those we care about, and for ourselves…
126. Kendra Adachi Tells Us How to "Lazy Genius" Our Lives to Feel More Like Our Authentic Selves!
Kendra Adachi of The Lazy Genius joins us today to share her approach to living well and on our own, considered and manageable terms! She’s the BEST combination of smart in every sense of the word AN…
125. Secrets of the Well-Hydrated: An Easy Tweak to Our Feeling Our Best, with Dr. Dana Cohen
Dr. Dana Cohen spills the (decaf) tea on what else keeps us hydrated, and we do a speed round of questions, where I get some juicy answers. Hydration is key to so many processes within the body that …
124. Hydration: A 2% Shortfall Has Consequences. What To Do About It, With Dr. Dana Cohen, co-author of Quench
Dr. Dana Cohen joins us to talk about one misunderstood consideration when we’re trying to feel better and enjoy enhanced wellness. It’s not about more – it’s about different! We get a simple step or…
123. Introducing The Hot Flashes & Cool Topics Podcast: Women’s Brains in Midlife with Dr. Louann Brizendine
The female brain has the potential to be stronger and better in midlife! Whether you’re a woman in midlife or love one, this information is valuable and empowering! And it’s all brought to you by the…
122. My Current Elimination Diet (+ Positivity + Fermented Foods Replay)
When my travel digestion woes didn’t resolve, I started an elimination diet to see what could be at the root of my distress. I’ve got some good clues, and I’ll share a few things I’m eliminating and …
121. To Be Healthy, We MUST Walk Against Traffic!
Call it swimming upstream or walking against traffic, but it’s what we need to do if we’re trying to live with vibrant health in our society! In this episode, we’ll acknowledge some of these situatio…
120. Our Busy Brains + Comfort Food + Community + More with Dr. Romie Mushtaq
Dr. Romie joins us today, to talk about her brainSHIFT program, which can help address our too-busy brains. But we also get real about what really matters in health, and how it might not be what we e…
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