Go Play in the Dirt
Go Play in the Dirt is an educational health and wellness podcast that focuses on the importance of biodiversity and its impact on our gut, overall health, soil and community. Go Play in the Dirt features Lauren Bryson's personal healing journey and practices, as well as interviews with doctors, healers, visionaries, rebels and more.
Episodes
23 episodes
022 | Why A Seasonal Reset Is For You with Cat Elumba
Have you been feeling sluggish lately? Brain fog? Imbalanced digestion? Skin issues?You probably need a reset!I am thrilled to announce that Cat Elumba & I are hosting a Spring Vitality Seasonal Reset May 8 -12 2023. Join us...
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Episode 22
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37:03
021 | Food Freedom with Kiki Athanas
Research shows that 75% of our eating habits are emotionally driven (Cleveland Clinic, 2021). My guest today is Kiki Athanas, who helps people conquer emotional eating and practice healthy, balanced eating with consistency and ease - ev...
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Episode 21
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40:06
020 | Supporting Thyroid Health with Divya Gupta
The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped endocrine gland located in your neck that is key for supporting every system in the body. It helps to regulate your metabolism, mood, digestion, circadian rhythm, bone maintenance, and body temperature....
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Episode 20
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38:51
019 | Digestive Wellness with Morgan Lewis
Gut health is foundational to our overall health. You are not what you eat, you are what you digest. My guest today is Morgan Lewis, a Certified Holistic Nutrition Consultant, Yoga Teacher, and believer in wellness. She utilizes holisti...
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Episode 19
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39:16
018 | Metabolism 101 with David Bennett
A recent study showed that only 6.8% of Americans are metabolically healthy (Ohern et al., 2022). The latest statistics from the CDC report that 70% of Americans are overweight and 40% are obese. 1 in 3 has prediabetes.What is the commo...
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Episode 18
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29:19
017 | Loyal to My Soil
This podcast is called Go Play in the Dirt, but it should be called Go Play in the Soil. The health of our soil, the health of humans and the health of the planet are all intricately connected. Do you know how critical soil is to our very exist...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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8:16
016 | Movement and Hydration with Michele Riechman
Movement & hydration are two major components of overall health that you can begin to incorporate into your daily routine today. My guest today is Michele Riechman, a certified personal trainer, yoga teacher, and health coach with a...
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Episode 16
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32:56
015 | Nourishing Your Hormones with Anastasiia De La Cruz
Brain fog? Missed periods? Fatigue? Feeling tired and wired? These can all be symptoms of hormone imbalance.Hormones are a hot topic. These little chemical messengers are involved in almost every bodily process and are a crucial piece o...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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40:15
014 | Balancing Your Microbiome
What’s my favorite word? MICROBIOME!Your microbiome is one of the most complex ecosystems on earth made up of different bacteria, fungi and viruses. The microbiome is all about balance #balancingyourbiome and a healthy microbiome is fou...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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34:27
013 | New Year's Intentions
I am here to tell you to forget your New Year's Resolutions. What are your New Year's Intentions? A resolution ties you to the future with no clear path forward while an intention grounds you in the present. Intention is something we aim to do....
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Episode 13
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10:00
012 | Financial Fitness with Anna Bryson
We’ve talked about many facets of holistic wellness on Go Play in the Dirt. But one thing we haven’t discussed yet—which is an aspect as important as the others—is our financial health. How do we maintain our physical and mental health if we ar...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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32:56
011 | Elevating Diverse Voices with Shalonda Ingram
Biodiversity is a word used to describe the vast variety of life on earth. This podcast celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion and is a safe space to elevate diverse voices. These conversations can support developing biodiversity in our own...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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29:20
010 | The 12 Days of Kids Cooking
Let’s get more junior chefs in the kitchen! In this episode we discover how the quality of a child's diet impacts their overall health and some simple ways to get kiddos involved in the cooking process. This episode is a fun one. I ...
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Episode 10
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8:07
009 | The Wand Chooses the Wizard with Lauren Bryson
“The wand chooses the wizard, Mr. Potter.”Remember this line from our all-time favorite Harry Potter? There are many lores about the wand to explore; for one, the wand picking its person is a combination of the wood and core and the pers...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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31:45
008 | Life After Sugar with Netta Gorman
Recent statistics show that the average American consumes about 70 pounds of added sugar a year. Sugar is everywhere! Sugar can be seen as a comfort food. Some of these foods even take us back to our core memory of childhood: moments of f...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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29:06
007 | Seven Foods To Support Your Mood
Have you ever had a gut feeling? Butterflies in your stomach? An immediate instinct? The way our bodies give us clues is truly a work of art.The gut-brain connection explains where your gut feelings come from. The gut and the brain are i...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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11:14
006 | Beauty Foods with Jessica Rose
The world has put such pressure on women regarding the way we look, we walk, we talk, we dress, we act, and carry ourselves. The standards of beauty are skewed and society pushes many products on people (botox, fillers, serums) that actually co...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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30:27
005 | Ways to Be Well with Dr. Ed Bauman
Dr. Ed Bauman has been at the forefront of the holistic health and nutrition renaissance for the past 50 years.Dr. B literally learned nutrition from the ground up by starting in the soil as an organic farmer.In our conversation...
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Episode 5
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32:12
004 | Reasons to Eat with the Seasons
Numbers do not lie. According to the CDC prior to the pandemic, 51.8% of all US adults have at least 1 pre-existing chronic disease. 30% of all us adults have 2 or more chronic diseases. Today, one out of three Americans is clinically obese whi...
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Episode 4
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8:47
003 | Mental Wealth with KJ Nasrul
Storyteller, podcaster, and psychotherapist Kimberly Jane Nasrul, or KJ as her friends and family call her, is a believer of the arts and creativity as means to maintain mental wellness.This incorporation of the arts to explore mental he...
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Episode 3
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28:20
002 | The Ingredient Guru with Mira Dessy
Mira Dessy’s story of discovering holistic nutrition is a tale so familiar to me. It’s a parallel story of going through a health crisis, having doctors over-prescribe medications but never getting the answers to what’s wrong with our bodies—un...
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Episode 2
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