Luella Jonk Podcasts

Today’s guest, Dr. Aaron Goldman, Ph.D. sheds light on the importance of knowing your genetic make-up to take specific health action toward living optimally and promoting longevity with nutrition, exercise, and specific lifestyle choices. Dr. Goldman goes through the results of my specific DNA results and describes the many different categories of …

Robert Mack is an Ivy League-Educated Positive Psychology Expert, Inspirational Speaker, and Published Author. His work has been endorsed by Oprah, Vanessa Williams, Lisa Nichols, and many others.  In addition to serving as Celebrity Love Coach for Famously Single on the E! Network for two seasons, Robert also worked as Consulting Producer and On-C…

Today I welcomed Dr. Shyamala Kiru. Shyamala is an ex-therapist turned Leadership Mentor, obsessed with the connection between our emotional intelligence and our capacity for success, both personally and professionally. She works with high-performance, female entrepreneurs and professionals who desire to master their emotional intelligence and unlo…

Welcome today’s guest, Dr. Nicole Marcione. She identifies herself as an Empowered Aging Coach, a Body-Brain Longevity Specialist, a Board-certified Health Coach, and the founder of Integrative Aging. Her work bridges science and magic, helping woman deepen their connection to their health, body, and intuition. Her Ph.D. doctoral research at the Un…

Susan Wadia-Ells is the author of Busting Breast Cancer: Five Simple Steps to Keep Breast Cancer Out of Your Body and also the founder of a Busting Breast Cancer Education Project. Her goal is to help everyone understand how and why the new metabolic approach to cancer can finally explain why so many women develop breast cancer, while others may ne…

Today I welcome Shirlee Williams. More than 30 years ago Shirlee found herself on a yoga mat breathing deeper than she had ever had before. From that moment on, Shirlee knew things would be different. Curiosity led her down a spiritual path of yoga, meditation, and entrepreneurship. She ran a brick-and-mortar yoga studio for 14 years. In the last f…

Today I am happy to welcome my guest and friend, Libby Kemkaran to the podcast. Libby is a wildly successful business coach who has leveraged and branded the idea of using individualistic thinking styles to grow successful businesses for entrepreneurs. If you love the idea of being authentic whilst still attracting highly motivated clients with sim…

In today’s solo episode, I discuss the concept of worthiness. Many people lack self-worth and to me, it is the foundation of success. I think we all have moments where we feel a sense of lack, doubt, and unworthiness. Fear is common, and fear often translates to feelings of lack, so perhaps it might be helpful to ask yourself “ What am I fearing?” …

I wanted to share a simple story with you of a woman I met in Tuscany. Martine Janta-Polczynsk invited us over for a beautiful dinner one evening. The view from her home was gorgeous and her energy was equally as attractive. If you want to see some images of that evening with Martine, be sure to visit my Instagram page. I just connected so well wit…

This interview with Kristina came at the perfect time as I am about to hold a Masterclass on the topic Should I Stay or Should I Go. Separation and divorce are known to be one of life’s top three stressors, but it doesn’t necessarily need to continue that way. The pain can be temporary and Kristina Rizzo’s interview shows us this. Not all divorces …

While still on a bit of a high from my trip to Italy, I had the privilege of interviewing Alessio Maina, an organic wine and olive farmer in the province of Arezzo, Italy. In this interview, Alessio and I discussed organic practices applied to his small acreage and why it is more a matter of quality than it is quantity when it comes to harvesting l…

Join me today as I have a candid conversation with Dr. Lauren Berhman. Dr. Berhman and I discuss how oddly common it is for collaborative family law professionals to have shared the burden of emotional fragility as it relates to separation and divorce and the pain that accompanies these life-changing events. However, it is this common thread that a…

Join me on this special episode as I sit down with you and provide a rendition of my journey to Italy and Portugal. Think of us sitting outside on a patio, sipping a glass of wine, or perhaps having a nice coffee together. I describe to you what I loved and what I didn’t love so much, while also providing you with some tips in case you are consider…

Roberta Hughes is the Founder and lead instructor at PeaceFull Living, a boutique hybrid studio that conveys a delicate and personalized Peaceful Living instruction through customized Pilates, Meditation, and Yoga classes. Peaceful Living grants clients a way to filter out life’s pressures through a delicate and highly personalized approach through…

Today I have a repeat offender, Dr. Felice Gersh. She was first on the show a few months ago when she discussed the importance of the female reproductive cycle in terms of long-term health. If you haven’t listened to Episode #7, I highly suggest you do so. Felice Gersh, M.D. is a multi-award-winning physician with dual board certifications in OB-GY…

For anyone who wants to better communicate with THEMSELVES then Kass Thomas is your go-to! Kass is a U.S. native now living in Rome, who realized that some communication issues are a result of misconceptions or ambiguities – and has seen that this often begins within ourselves. How might this flaw show up to you? If you find yourself moving towards…

Lauren Behrman earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and began private practice in 1985. She completed Postdoctoral Training in Child, Adolescent, and Family Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health in 1990. She has evaluated and treated children and families since 1976 at Schneider Children's Hospital, Nassau BOC…

Dr. John Demartini tells a beautiful story of how he went from wearing the dunce cap in the classroom, having a physical disability and a childhood speech impediment, to later creating, developing, and employing a value system used by many individuals, entrepreneurs, schools, and corporations. Everyone will get a different lesson from listening to …

For more than a decade, Ginny Gane has been working intimately with manifestors and empowering women around the world to leverage the law of attraction and become the most powerful authentic versions of themselves, so they can align with their true purpose and experience a life of wild love and freedom. Enjoy this conversation with Ginny, and be su…

Brad Kearns is a New York Times bestselling author, Guinness World Record setting professional Speedgolfer, #1 ranked USA age 55-59 high jumper, and former US national champion and #3 world-ranked professional triathlete. He hosts the B.rad podcast covering healthy living, peak performance, and personal growth with his carefree style and lively sen…

Today I have with me two powerful women, two twin sisters, Ashley and Jenna from Jenna Rae Cakes, a delectable family-owned bakery housed in Winnipeg, Canada. However, if you don’t live here, not to worry, they ship internationally as well! These women took a passion and made it into a rapidly growing business. Jenna needed a medium to express her …

Join me today for a powerful heart-felt ☺ episode with a woman who knows what it is like to become aligned with her feelings and use this ‘heart energy’ to get behind her thoughts. We often speak of how one must align with one’s own core values and beliefs to become our true authentic self, but what does this look like exactly? It seems like an eni…

Molly Downey, RDN, LDN is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN), Licensed Dietitian/Nutritionist (LDN) who specializes in glucose control, metabolism, and weight loss. She graduated from Indiana University-Bloomington and currently works as a nutrition manager at Nutrisense, a health technology company that leverages continuous glucose monitors…

Suzy Patz provides us with a powerful testimony of how she changed as a wife, employee, sister, daughter, but most importantly, as to how she now identifies herself as a woman. Suzy speaks from her heart in terms of how trauma allowed her to springboard into what it truly means to be alive and present in a world filled with incredible frenetic nois…

Today a doubly certified health coach, Elizabeth Resnik, joins me in conversation about how to dumb things down in the noisy world of health and nutrition. In her 40th decade, Liz discovered that the key ingredient to feeling her best is mindset. However, she also shared other tools in her toolbox that radically transformed the health of her skin. …

Today’s episode focuses on how weight loss can be particularly individualistic. How one diet might not be your diet, even though the experts say it is. Gin Stephens was just your everyday woman: a teacher, a mom, and a wife who was committed to feeling better and shedding the weight that she had slowly gained throughout her years. She wanted to bec…

This episode is all about what it means to become intentional with your health and life goals. Patrick Laine explains how his ‘light bulb’ moment changed his perspective surrounding becoming intentional with his health goals. He knew if he didn’t get real about changing his mindset, he would still be his unhealthy self (mind and body) 10-20 years f…

Anne Thériault is a young, talented Canadian essayist and journalist who took it upon herself to research the history of the treatment of those struggling with emotional health. This curiosity led her to a small town in Belgium, named Geel, where she discovered that at one time, individuals were treated with utmost care and compassion. Despite nati…

If you think it - you can do it. This is the mindset of my guest today, Elle Russ. Elle believes she was born this way but also believes this mindset can be cultivated and coached. Being raised as a confident woman, Elle has always taken life by the reins and pushed herself into learning new things. In this episode, Elle shares how she has helped c…

Compromise and communication are the backbones for any happy long-lasting relationship. No two people are the same, but sometimes those differences can put you into conflict with your partner. Joining me today is Julie Sharon-Wagschal. As a certified Gottman therapist, she and I will take a deep dive into John Gottman’s Method of Couples Therapy. I…

The menstrual cycle is one of the greatest health indicators a woman can have. But what happens when something goes wrong? Today’s guest, Dr. Felice Gersh joins us to talk about hormone imbalances, and what we can do to improve our inner balance with lifestyle and supplementation changes. In addition, she’ll be bringing to light the effects of birt…

Our bodies are sacred and we have a responsibility to ourselves to take care of our bodies so we may live happy and healthy lives. But how can we fulfill that responsibility when we carelessly fill it with toxic and unhealthy foods? Food can be just as real and debilitating as addiction, as smoking, and alcohol is and it is a conversation that need…

Once upon a time, pleasure was scarce and expensive. But now with manufactured food available on every shelf and street corner, we’ve begun to consume massive amounts of sugar for that quick and easy dopamine boost thinking it’ll make us happy. But what if I told you that pleasure and happiness aren’t meant to be treated as interchangeable concepts…

Feeling unlucky in your hand in love? Finding love seems difficult, but relationship expert Arielle Ford shares ways to make the search for your soulmate easy by using The Law of Attraction. Rather than settling into the doom and gloom of being alone, we can manifest the partner our soul is calling out for by not only managing our thoughts and beli…

After the success of John Gray’s iconic Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus book, John continued on and moved more into the space of building meaningful relationships. In this episode, John shares with us how we can claim our respective masculine and feminine energies, and really live in harmony with our partners so we may all thrive in stronge…

As a woman, climbing the corporate ladder in a male-dominated industry might seem impossible at times. Though a challenge for some women, Pat Remilliard has proved women are definitely more than capable of taking up their own space in these industries. Taking a methodical and thoughtful approach, her tenacity and courage paid off tenfold. In Octobe…

Not feeling well & not knowing why? Feeling fatigued, bloated, & even irritable? If you’re experiencing all of this plus irregular periods, cramping, & even weight gain-- then it’s probably your hormones that are out of whack! Great news is that we have Karen Martel to shed some light on the topic of hormones & how they affect women’s bodies. Toget…

From the therapy room of a registered psychotherapist and certified functional medicine practitioner, you will be witness to intimate conversations with experts in the field of health, mindset, parenting, relationships and habit change. Let’s just say I Think, I Can has just reached a whole new level. New episodes premier every Tuesday.…