The Calm Collective – a wellness podcast for women
The Calm Collective - a wellness podcast for women
Podcast Description
Co-hosted by Ashlee Livingstone and Colleen Kurtz, experts in wellness, stress management, and finding your calm.
Stress is a normal part of life, but the chronic effects don’t have to be. Join us for raw, relatable conversations as we explore how everything is connected—mind, body, and even the powerful mind-gut connection. We’ll share simple, practical tools to help you move out of survival mode and transform your wellness.
The Calm Collective is your space to pause, breathe, and realign. Ready to feel more calm and in control? Tune in weekly for your wellness.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast centers around themes of stress management, personal wellness journeys, and the mind-gut connection, with episodes featuring discussions like Colleen's transformation from chronic fatigue and Ashlee's exploration of breathwork as a stress-relief tool. Other topics include sustainable lifestyle changes, emotional health, and community support.
Co-hosted by Ashlee Livingstone and Colleen Kurtz, experts in wellness, stress management, and finding your calm.
Stress is a normal part of life, but the chronic effects don’t have to be. Join us for raw, relatable conversations as we explore how everything is connected—mind, body, and even the powerful mind-gut connection. We’ll share simple, practical tools to help you move out of survival mode and transform your wellness.
The Calm Collective is your space to pause, breathe, and realign. Ready to feel more calm and in control? Tune in weekly for your wellness.
Feeling exhausted but wired? Crashing every afternoon? Getting hangry when you're hungry? Your symptoms aren't character flaws – they're your body's way of telling you something important about your cortisol and blood sugar balance.
In this solo episode, Colleen is breaking down the hidden connection between what you eat and how you feel.
You'll discover why that 3 PM energy crash happens, what's really going on when you feel anxious out of nowhere, and how to use nutrition to stabilize your energy and mood naturally.
What you will learn:
✨ The cortisol-blood sugar connection – Why these two systems are intimately linked and how they affect every aspect of how you feel
✨ The real reason you're tired but wired – How blood sugar imbalances trigger stress hormones that leave you exhausted yet unable to relax
✨ Why skipping meals backfires – How under-eating or irregular eating creates chronic cortisol elevation
✨ The mood-food connection – Why you feel anxious, overwhelmed, or irritable when hungry (it's not just being ”hangry”)
✨ Foods that stabilize vs. sabotage – Specific nutrition strategies to keep your blood sugar and cortisol in their happy place
✨ How to build the perfect plate – The exact macronutrient balance that supports stable energy and calm mood all day long
Key Takeaways:Your afternoon energy crashes aren't normal – they're blood sugar crashes triggering cortisol spikes
Feeling anxious when hungry is a physiological stress response, not a personal weakness
Every meal should include protein, healthy fats, and complex carbs for optimal hormonal balance
Consistent meal timing is just as important as what you eat
When you support stable blood sugar, you're supporting your entire nervous system
This episode is perfect for you if you're tired of feeling like you're at the mercy of your energy levels and mood swings. It's time to work WITH your body's natural systems instead of against them.
Resources Mentioned:
Protein Powder: Equip Prime Protein – my go-to for easy, clean protein to stabilize blood sugar: https://www.equipfoods.com/COLLEEN15Ready for More? Join Colleen's Fatigue to Flourish group coaching program for the complete system to transform yourenergy and calm your nervous system: https://fatiguetoflourish.my.canva.site/fatigue-to-flourish
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