The Eversio Experience Podcast

At ten years old, Dr. Angela Kingdon decided she'd been born smart, efficient, and stuck with a terrible personality. Decades later, an autism diagnosis rewrote that whole story. Turns out she was never a bad duck. She was a swan. This week we sat down with Dr. Angela Kingdon, an autistic author, podcaster, and cultural advocate. Angela is the founder and executive director of the Autistic Culture Institute, co-founder of the Autistic Culture Podcast Network, host of the Late Diagnosis Club podcast, and author of Am I Actually Autistic? We talk about why so many women in our generation are only now discovering they're autistic, what masking costs over a lifetime, and why autistic brains may be taking in far more of the world than the rest of us. Brandi spent 20 years as an elementary school teacher, so this conversation hit close to home. If you've ever wondered whether you (or someone you love) might be on the spectrum, this one is for you. What You'll Learn: Why Angela spent her childhood believing she simply "got a bad personality" (and the fairy tale that finally made it make sense) What left-handedness in the 1940s can teach us about today's rise in autism diagnoses Why late diagnosis is a generational gap, and why today's kids likely won't face it What masking really is, and why Angela compares it to a pirate accent slipping out when you're tired Why women, people of color, and queer people often mask harder, and how that kept them from being diagnosed The curb-cut question Angela asked Brandi that reframes how schools should support every kid Why Angela says autistic "mind reading" is really pattern matching, and what synaptic pruning has to do with it Why closing your eyes to meditate can send some autistic people into high alert (and what works instead) How Angela can hold a book and tell you what's inside it without opening it Your Next Steps: Follow Eversio Wellness on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eversiowellness/ Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products Take our wellness QUIZ to find the right mushroom for you: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz

What if skipping your workout has nothing to do with discipline? Jenn Pike is back with us, and she makes a case we haven't stopped thinking about since we hit stop: movement was never meant to be an appointment. It's how you come home to yourself. Jenn Pike is a Medical Exercise Specialist, Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist, and the founder of Synced, an online movement studio and community. She has been teaching group fitness since she was 17, and in 30 years she has watched what happens when people stop one rep short of the change they came for. In this conversation we talk about why so many of us treat movement like a chore, what feeling safe has to do with getting stronger, and why "I don't have time" is worth asking about twice. Dr. Desiree shares the car accident that forced her to relearn movement from scratch, Brandi tells the story of the yin class that changed how she handles discomfort, and Jenn introduces us to her 81-year-old mom, who now goes to the gym almost every day after 45 years away. We also talk about the Mushroom Moment Reset Box, our collaboration with Jenn, and why we built it around mushrooms and movement together. What You'll Learn Why "the plan said 12 reps" might be the exact moment you stop short of what you came for What Jenn changed in her own training in her mid-30s, and how doing less, more intentionally, got her better results The two cues Jenn gives more than any others in class (and why so many of us need permission to slow down) How Dr. Desiree relearned movement after a car accident and a series of concussions, and why safety mattered more than the exercises The two-word swap that turned Brandi's workouts from a chore into something she looks forward to Why "it has to feel comfortable" can quietly keep you from the things you value most A five-second test for whether you really don't have time to move (your phone already knows the answer) How Jenn's mom found her way back to the gym at 81, and the one thing that made it stick Why we think the answer is mushrooms and movement, not mushrooms or movement Your Next Steps Follow Eversio Wellness on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eversiowellness/ Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products Take our wellness QUIZ to find the right mushroom for you: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz Jenn Pike's website: https://jennpike.com/ Jenn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennpike Synced by Jenn Pike: https://jennpike.com/synced

What if the fear you keep trying to get rid of is the exact reason you're here? Our friend Fabian thinks it is. And he came all the way from Germany (well, over Zoom at 9 PM his time) to tell us why. Fabian is our first guest ever from Europe, and he's someone who has been working quietly in the background at Eversio, helping us figure out what running a conscious business looks like in real life. We met him at the meditation retreats we love so much, and it turns out the three of us share a lot: human design, a deep love of meditation, and a serious nerdy streak. Fabian started meditating at 15, studies quantum physics and neuroscience, works with quantum computers, and spends his days helping people and companies work with their belief systems. In this episode, he walks us through why fear might be useful, what your nervous system is doing to your attention every single day, and where he sees quantum physics and consciousness meeting. Dr. Des also asks him the question we think everyone should be asking: where does established science end, and where does hypothesis begin? What You'll Learn: Why Fabian believes we came here for the fear, not to avoid it (and what that means for every entrepreneur lying awake at 3 AM) The "find everything red in the room" exercise that shows you, in about 30 seconds, how your nervous system narrows what you see How the sympathetic and parasympathetic sides of your nervous system shape whether you spot threats or opportunities The breathing shift Fabian uses to widen his focus (inhale through the nose, long exhale through the mouth) What 40 Hz gamma waves and six breaths per minute have to do with Fabian's view of heart and brain coherence Why Fabian sees a quantum computer and a meditating human doing a similar thing The one-foot-in-each-world balance: why manifesting from the couch with a bag of chips is not a plan A sneak peek at a sleep course the three of us are building together (you heard it here first) Fabian's answers to our rapid-fire round, including Cancun vs. California, coffee vs. matcha, and his favorite way to experience mushrooms Your Next Steps: Follow Eversio Wellness on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eversiowellness/ Watch the episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@eversiowellness Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products Take our wellness QUIZ to find the right mushroom for you: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz

We have never had a guest like this on the podcast before. We told her nothing was off the table, and she took us at our word. Fair warning: you're about to get Adele'd. Adele Tevlin is a cognitive behavioral therapist, mindset coach, and the founder of the CEO Blueprint. She studied neuroscience at McGill and has been teaching this work for 25 years. We first heard her name at the Pink Skirt Project, which Eversio Wellness sponsored back in July, where people were still talking about her talk months later. In this conversation, Adele opens up about the five-year family court battle and the 2023 crash that brought her to her knees, and why she now says the wobble lasts 60 seconds instead of 60 days. We talk about the grief of outgrowing people, why "this is happening for you" can land like a punch, and why so many moms keep looking at their kids so they don't have to look at themselves. Content note: This episode includes open discussion of PTSD, depression, and a period when Adele had thoughts of taking her life. If you are struggling, please contact {INSERT CRISIS LINE} or a trusted professional. This episode also contains explicit language. What You'll Learn: Why losing people as you grow might not be about them at all (and the fear Adele says is really underneath it) The difference between wanting everyone to come with you and being afraid of being left alone Why happiness every day is not the goal, and what Adele says matters more What "the wobble is 60 seconds, not 60 days" means in real life Why saying "this is happening for you" to someone in crisis can backfire (and what they need first) The mentor advice that stopped Adele from giving unsolicited advice for good Why knowing something is not the same as being it Adele's take on the difference between being responsible FOR your kids and responsible TO your partner Why "put your kids aside, what about you?" might be the most loving thing a mom can hear A first glimpse at Adele's two guided psilocybin ceremonies (and why we already booked part two) Your Next Steps: Follow Eversio Wellness on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eversiowellness/ Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products Take our wellness QUIZ to find the right mushroom for you: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@eversiowellness

Bees on the roof. Chickens in the front yard. A lemonade stand that funds Bitcoin savings. This week we're talking about sovereignty, and our guest is living it on a city lot in Kitsilano. This one is different from what you usually hear on the Eversio Experience, and that's exactly why we wanted it. We're joined by Jarrett Vaughan, an adjunct professor at the UBC Sauder School of Business. He teaches marketing through the lens of sound money, incentives, and real-world economics. Jarrett spent a decade in luxury hospitality, including the Four Seasons, and has been studying and using Bitcoin since 2017. Today he and his wife Ashley raise three kids, keep chickens and honeybees, grow food year-round, and heat their home with salvaged urban firewood. All of it happens in the middle of Vancouver. We talk about the real difference between autonomy and sovereignty, and how his family teaches kids about money, giving, and adventure. Jarrett also explains why he believes the systems most of us depend on are more fragile than we think. What You'll Learn: The moment a decade of five-star hotels made Jarrett realize he wanted out Why autonomy is choosing from a set menu, and sovereignty is writing your own How four hens, a rooftop beehive, and potted raspberries add up to real food on a city lot (bees take him about four hours a year) The three-part money lesson behind his kids' lemonade stand: spend, invest, give Why his family lives by "safety third," and what comes first and second The one-word shift, "is" versus "has," that changed how his family talks about his daughter Sailor's disability How they're approaching homeschooling with the door left open, and why they let their son choose Jarrett's three small first steps toward a more sovereign life, starting this week Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Unshackled Living podcast (Jarrett's show): https://unshackled.living/ Ashley Vaughan on Instagram (@ashvau): https://www.instagram.com/ashvau/ Your Next Steps: Follow Eversio Wellness on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eversiowellness/ Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products Take our wellness QUIZ to find the right mushroom for you: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@eversiowellness

You've done the personal development work. Read the books. Said the affirmations. Maybe attended the retreats. And still, there is that voice that kicks in when things slow down, when the supplier cancels, when the launch doesn't land, when you're driving through the part of the city that drops your frequency in seconds. That is not a sign the work isn't working. That is the zero-to-seven operating system, still running the show. Anna Lozano spent six years building Love Powered Co., the affirmation card company she launched in 2016, before affirmations were on every Indigo shelf, before the mindfulness industry was a trillion-dollar market. She set three company goals before the company even existed. She hit all three. She sold in 2022 on a high. And then she spent three years quietly processing an identity loss nobody warned her was coming. This conversation is the one you don't find anywhere else. Anna is the founder of the upcoming Maya Pickleball brand, host of The Prosperity Playground podcast, and curator of immersive female founder retreats in Mexico. We found each other through our dear friend Jenn Pike, who stood on stage at the Pink Skirt Project Summit this summer and called Anna an angel. You are about to find out exactly why that word fits. This conversation goes everywhere. We get into why "I am" are the two most powerful words anyone has access to. We talk about what it costs to exit a brand you built from the ground up, and the grief nobody prepares you for on the other side. We get into Human Design and what it means that all three of us are 4/6 generators. We talk about the specific difference between growing and being stuck in a healing loop, and how to tell which one you're actually in right now. We cover Dr. Joe Dispenza, Bob Proctor, Louise Hay, and the six-year-old running your business decisions from inside your nervous system. Clear your afternoon. What You'll Learn: What "I am" followed by anything actually creates, and why those two words run more of your life than any strategy you've put in place The specific lack paradigm Anna inherited as a Polish immigrant child, and why she says every single person carries a version of it regardless of how charmed their childhood looked How Love Powered Co. was built from three specific company goals in 2016, achieved all three, and why Anna still wasn't prepared for what the exit cost her emotionally The difference between a healing loop rooted in not-enoughness and genuine devotion to growth as a student of life (Anna draws a sharp line between the two) What the "six-year-old you" question reveals about every reaction you've had this week, from the email that made your stomach drop to the decision that felt urgent when it probably wasn't What a 4/6 generator is in Human Design and what the three phases of the "six" line explain about the career of anyone who keeps starting over on purpose Why Maya Pickleball was born in a Dr. Joe Dispenza abundance meditation over a year ago, still has no prototype, and why Anna is at peace with that What identity loss after a business exit actually looks like from the inside, and what it means to feel worthy without a title to put in your bio How to tell whether you're investing in yourself from abundance or from lack, and why the frequency of that decision changes the outcome completely Your Next Steps: Take the free mushroom wellness quiz to find your match: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eversiowellness/ Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0cNGNkTVcgpS2an1IFy1HJ Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-eversio-experience-podcast/id1735036660 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@eversiowellness

Dr. Desiree has been sharing pieces of this story on her personal Instagram for years. We finally sat down and told the whole thing. What it felt like when her skin started reacting. Why it took years before mold even crossed her mind. And what it actually took to come out the other side. This episode flips the usual format. Brandi takes the host chair and interviews Dr. Desiree about one of the most personal health challenges of her life: mold toxicity. Starting with the first strange symptoms in 2021 and ending with nasal sprays, binders, a Candida protocol, and a trip to Dallas that gave her the first real window of relief she'd felt in years, Dr. Desiree walks through everything she experienced, everything she tried, and what finally worked. She also gets honest about the hardest part: being a trained naturopathic doctor who still couldn't connect the dots when it was her own body sending the signals. If you've had unexplained skin reactions, relentless fatigue, histamine responses to foods you used to tolerate, chronic congestion, or brain fog that just won't lift, this episode is worth sitting with. What You'll Learn: Why mold toxicity mimics so many other conditions and why even practitioners consistently miss it The full constellation of symptoms Dr. Desiree experienced: skin rashes, eyebrow hair loss, histamine reactions, tongue numbness, chronic congestion, shortness of breath, brain fog, fatigue, and sudden constipation The antifungal tincture that triggered Dr. Desiree's first major flare — and why that flare was actually the beginning of the answer What a slow washing machine leak has to do with years of unresolved symptoms (and why you often can't see the mold causing it) How the fungi kingdom actually breaks down: mushrooms, yeasts, and molds are related but not the same — not even close The layered recovery protocol in sequence: detox pathway support first, antifungals and antimicrobials second, binders and sauna third What Herxheimer (die-off) reactions feel like — and how to know when you're doing too much, too fast The nasal spray protocol that helped Dr. Desiree stop mouth breathing at night and start rebuilding her nasal microbiome What CIRS (chronic inflammatory response syndrome) and MARCONS mean, and why they matter for long-term mold recovery Whether mold testing is worth the cost — and what Desiree actually did and didn't test herself Your Next Steps: Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eversiowellness/ Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products Take the free wellness quiz to find the right mushroom for you: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz

You've read the books. You've done the workshops. You've got the strategy. So why does everything still feel like too much? Tess Rouse has a different answer than what you've been sold: you don't need more strategy. You need more capacity. In this episode, we sit down with Tess Rouse, breathwork facilitator and somatic practitioner, who spent 18 years managing rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease while building a 16-year executive leadership career on sheer drive. She's worked with individuals and organizations on one disruptive idea: burnout isn't fixed by doing more, it's fixed by building the body's ability to hold more. If you've ever wondered why you can have all the tools and still feel like you're running on empty, this episode is the conversation you need. What You'll Learn What "capacity" actually means and how low capacity shows up in your relationships, your rest, and your reactions The honest difference between someone who is genuinely regulated under pressure and someone who has gotten very good at masking dysregulation Why the high-achieving, overperforming coping mechanism is one of the hardest to recognize because everyone is applauding you for it The two specific steps to actually build nervous system capacity (and why everyone wants to skip the first one) What Hebbian law has to do with the automatic patterns running your daily life right now Why the nervous system doesn't update just because your circumstances do, and what it takes to actually rewire old patterns Why the body cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a real one, and how breathwork uses this to help repattern the nervous system What Tess is actually watching for in a session when she sees someone's nervous system shift in real time Why avoiding emotion doesn't dissolve it, it embeds it, and what that embedding looks like in the body over years Your Next Steps: Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eversiowellness/ Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products Take our wellness quiz to find the right mushroom for you: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz

Summer is over, and your body already knew it before your calendar did. If you've spent every September trying to white-knuckle yourself back into discipline and ended up feeling worse than when you started, we made this one for you. It's not another checklist. It's something better. In this episode, Brandi and Dr. Des introduce the Return to Rhythm Mushroom Moment Reset Box: a collaboration with functional diagnostic nutritionist and cyclical living expert Jenn Pike. This box, and this whole episode, are built around one idea — the problem isn't your willpower. It's that most of us have been trying to run on a 24-hour clock while our hormones are running on a 28-day one. We walk through why September feels so hard every year, what cyclical living actually looks like broken down by the four phases of your cycle, and exactly what's in the box, what each piece does, and why the sequence matters. Jenn is not on this episode, but she's all over the box: her free masterclass comes inside it via QR code, and her cycle-matched fitness membership Synced is included as 30 days free. This episode is for anyone standing in September thinking they don't even know where step one is. What You'll Learn: Why your body feels September coming before your brain has even caught up — and what that signal actually means The real difference between a routine (which can still burn you out) and a rhythm (which works with your body's actual pattern) Who Jenn Pike is, what she built, and why her cyclical living framework applies even if you're postmenopausal or not currently cycling What the four phases of the menstrual cycle mean for your energy, strength, and stress tolerance — and why ignoring this makes consistency feel impossible Why you cannot build a sustainable rhythm on top of a nervous system that is already maxed out What the five-mushroom blend in the box contains and what role it plays in your morning Why Reishi is included separately in capsule form and what it has to do with sleep What Synced is and why the 30-day trial means no two people using this box will be doing the same thing What Jenn's masterclass actually teaches inside the box - and why it's the operating manual for everything What "nourish, sync, prime" looks like as a daily arc from morning to night Your Next Steps: Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eversiowellness/ Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products Take our wellness quiz to find the right mushroom for you: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz

We have both stayed somewhere that was quietly hurting us. For Brandi, it was a classroom and a pharmaceutical protocol that had stopped feeling like healing. For Desiree, it was an apartment with mold and a body that would not stop signaling that something was wrong. We stayed because leaving felt like the bigger risk. This episode is about what it actually took to move. Abundance is not a vision board word. It is not about your bank account. It is a nervous system state a felt sense that there is enough and your body either lives in it or it does not. In this episode, Brandi and Dr. Desiree get into the physiology of what scarcity does inside your body, walk through their own stories of staying stuck longer than they should have, and share what it really looks like to shift out of survival mode and into something that actually feels like a life. This one gets personal. We cover the science, the stories, the receiving problem most high-achievers have, and where Reishi and Lion's Mane fit into all of it. 📃What You'll Learn The body-level difference between scarcity and abundance and why it is not just a mindset issue Why your nervous system cannot tell the difference between "there is a bear in front of me" and "I might not make rent" The fourth stress response most people forget (and why so many women spend most of their lives there) Brandi's full origin story: two decades of teaching, an autoimmune diagnosis, a medication stack with mounting side effects, and the moment staying finally felt scarier than changing How Dr. Desiree "called in the one" while managing mold illness, living on arugula, and showing up to work every day without complaint Why receiving is so much harder than giving for most high-achievers, and what a real practice for it looks like The difference between a season of quiet building and a season of failure (they are not the same thing) How to tell in your body whether your effort is coming from devotion or from fear How Reishi supports the body's stress response and sleep, and why Lion's Mane was Brandi's first experience with cognitive clarity A simple sentence-completion exercise that surfaces the story keeping you stuck right now 📃 Your Next Steps Take our wellness quiz to find out where your body needs support right now: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products Follow us on Instagram at @eversiowellness: https://www.instagram.com/eversiowellness/

Three minutes. That's how long it took Brandi to go from completely dysregulated to completely herself this morning. Three minutes of intentional breathwork, and the tears came, and the only words that followed were: "That's not who I am. What was I thinking?" We walked into this recording session with Dr. Laura Foster shaken, and we're walking out of it with something we had to share with you immediately. Dr. Laura Foster is a chiropractor with over 25 years of experience working with the nervous system. She is also a certified breathwork facilitator, retreat leader, and founder of the Breathe Into Being membership. She discovered breathwork during the pandemic, trained as a facilitator in Costa Rica, and now runs women's retreats in Canada, Costa Rica, Italy, and Portugal. She has spent the better part of a decade watching people come home to themselves through the breath, and she joined us to explain why this particular tool is the one she keeps coming back to: it's free, it's always available, and it lives inside of you. This episode covers the science of what breathwork does to the nervous system, why healing doesn't require reliving what you're carrying, and how Brandi proved the whole thing works through a screen in under three minutes before we hit record. What You'll Learn: Why your body's natural default is healing, and what actually gets in the way of that How breathwork produces altered states of consciousness similar to what Stanislav Grof researched when he pioneered holotropic breathwork after psychedelics were banned from clinical use What the body does with stored experience that the mind can't process, and why the breath bypasses the need to think your way through it Why talk therapy can sometimes keep us wired to the same nervous system loops, and what breathwork does instead How Dr. Laura went from a reluctant first-timer (her words: "my soul wanted to take a decade nap") to certified facilitator to retreat leader Why Brandi was fully skeptical of online breathwork and had a profound release anyway What the cumulative shift looks like over time vs. the single big release most people expect The story behind Dr. Laura's Heart Spark retreats and why she believes women heal more completely in circle with other women How to find community and continued practice through the Breathe Into Being membership Your Next Steps: Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eversiowellness/ Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products Take our wellness quiz to find the right mushroom for you: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz

She had a packed chiropractic practice, 150 to 200 patient visits a week, four kids, a husband who was a pilot, and was training for Iron Man races on the weekends. From the outside, the life was finished. Complete. And then something went quiet on the inside. Dr. Laura Foster spent 25 years as a chiropractor before the gap between who she was and who she was being in her life became impossible to ignore. She'd been setting goals, hitting them, and moving straight to the next one without pausing for even 10 seconds. She'd been outrunning her life in every literal and figurative sense of the word. And when she finally stopped, what she found was not what she expected. In this episode, Laura walks us through the breakdown that became her breakthrough: the year she sat in the discomfort, asked herself the questions she'd never thought to ask, and started making 2% shifts that changed the entire trajectory of her life. She now leads breathwork, homeopathy, and retreats for women going through their own version of that same reckoning. If you've ever hit a goal and felt nothing, or built a life that looks right but doesn't feel right, this conversation is for you. What You'll Learn: Why achieving your biggest goals can make you feel worse, and what that feeling is actually pointing to The difference between achievement and fulfillment, and why most of us have been chasing the wrong one What Dr. Laura means by "the gap" between who you are and who you're being, and why closing it doesn't mean burning everything down The 2% shift: the golf ball foot analogy that reframes what big life change actually requires Why Laura stopped setting goals for a year, and what she discovered when she did How to identify your top values and actually live them, not just list them The homeopathy story that started with two small pellets, a whale-sized pregnant woman, and a very unexpected afternoon What three years in Costa Rica taught her about freedom, health, and choosing your own experience Your Next Steps: Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eversiowellness/ Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products Take our wellness QUIZ to find the right mushroom for you: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz

Acne doesn't care how old you are. It shows up at 15, then again at 37, on the same side of the jawline, around the same time of the month, no matter what you change in your skincare routine. If you've been treating the surface while something else is running the show underneath, this episode is going to reframe the whole conversation. This is the third and final episode in our Skin Series, and we're closing it out with acne. Not just the teenage kind. The adult hormonal kind that shows up like clockwork, concentrates along the jaw, and connects to a single enzyme most people have never heard of. Dr. Desiree breaks down the four types of acne, what makes hormonal acne structurally different, why your blood work can look completely normal and still not tell the full story, and how the research on Ganoderma lucidum triterpenoids connects directly to the enzyme driving sebum production. We also cover the gut connection, which maps more precisely to acne than most people expect, the psychological weight this condition carries at a level the research documents clearly, and where chaga fits in as a secondary supporting player. What You'll Learn: Why acne is actually several distinct conditions, and why getting the category right changes everything about how you address it What malassezia folliculitis (fungal acne) is, why nearly 1 in 3 people diagnosed with acne may actually have it, and the one symptom that gives it away Why hormonal acne concentrates specifically along the jawline, and what androgen receptor density has to do with it The four-factor cascade behind every breakout and how one upstream hormone driver sets all of them in motion Why completely normal blood work does not rule out hormonal acne, and what actually matters more than your lab numbers What the research actually documents about acne's psychological impact, and why clinical severity doesn't predict how much it affects someone The specific compounds in reishi's fruiting body that inhibit 5-alpha reductase, the exact enzyme converting testosterone to DHT in androgen-sensitive skin tissue How a low glycemic diet connects to sebum production through a well-mapped biological line from food to insulin to IGF-1 to your sebaceous glands The gut microbiome research connecting a specific lactobacillus strain to IGF-1 expression and oxidative stress in acne Why dual extraction matters specifically for the reishi compounds most relevant to hormonal acne, and what to look for on the label Your Next Steps: Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eversiowellness/ Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products Take our wellness quiz to find the right mushroom for you: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz

➡️ Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15 ⬅️ https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products Picture someone waking up at two in the morning because the itching finally won the fight against their sleep. Not a mild itch. The kind that makes you consider, for one irrational second, whether scratching until it bleeds might bring relief. Or a parent standing in the pharmacy aisle at midnight, Googling one more cream, because nothing has worked yet and the pediatrician is six months out. That is eczema in real life. And it deserves more than another tube of cortisone. In Part 2 of our Skin Series, we get into eczema, the one that gets dismissed as "just sensitive skin" more often than it should be. Dr. Desiree breaks down the Th2 immune pathway driving atopic dermatitis, the specific cytokines behind that relentless itch cycle, and why eczema in early childhood can be the first signal in a broader immune pattern that sometimes includes food allergies and asthma. She also shares her own experience developing adult-onset eczema from mold exposure, the invisible kind that took four years to identify. We cover how reishi's triterpenes connect to the mast cell and histamine side of the story, where the gut-skin research lands, and three concrete things you can do right now regardless of where you are in managing your skin. What You'll Learn: Why eczema is a mapped Th2 immune condition driven by specific cytokines, not just dry or reactive skin The role of IL-31 in creating the itch signal, and why scratching sends the whole cycle into a physiological feedback loop What researchers call the "atopic march" and what the data says about eczema predicting asthma and food allergies in children Why mold exposure in the home is backed by a 2024 meta-analysis as a measurable eczema and asthma risk factor The five distinct types of eczema and why getting the right diagnosis determines which approaches are actually relevant to your situation Dr. Desiree's personal experience developing eczema as an adult after four years of unknowing mold exposure, and what finally changed How reishi's triterpenes (specifically ganoderic acids unique to this mushroom) target mast cell histamine release at the source of the itch response What makes reishi an immune modulator rather than a straight suppressant, and why that distinction matters for eczema Why infant gut microbiome diversity appears as an early predictive marker for eczema risk, and how reishi's beta-glucans connect to that story The three things to verify before buying any reishi product, and what to walk away from entirely Your Next Steps: Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eversiowellness/ Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products Find the right mushroom for you with our wellness quiz: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz

➡️ Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15 ⬅️ https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-productsThis is Part 1 of our brand-new Skin Series. We're starting with psoriasis because it's personal for both of us. Brandi shares her history with psoriasis starting at age 15, over a decade on a pharmaceutical biologic, and how she eventually found her way to remission through a combination of lifestyle shifts and functional mushrooms. Dr. Desiree breaks down the exact immune mechanism driving psoriasis, including the IL-23/IL-17 pathway, the TH17 cell overactivation loop, and the documented role of oxidative stress as a contributing factor in the disease process. Then we walk through why chaga is the functional mushroom most aligned with this picture, what the research actually shows, and how the gut-skin axis connects it all.📃What You'll Learn▸ Why psoriasis is an immune condition that shows up on the skin, not a skin problem, and why that reframe changes your entire support strategy▸ The IL-23/IL-17 axis explained simply: the self-sustaining inflammatory loop that drives psoriasis flares▸ What actually happens to skin cells during a flare (a 28 to 30 day cycle gets compressed into 3 to 7 days)▸ Why oxidative stress is a contributing factor in the psoriasis disease process, not just a side effect▸ The five types of psoriasis and why many people don't even recognize their own condition▸ The real mental health cost of psoriasis: the numbers are significant, and this episode names them▸ Why chaga has one of the highest measured antioxidant capacities of any natural substance researchers have tested▸ How chaga polysaccharides affect TH17 and T regulatory cell balance, the same immune players driving psoriasis▸ What the gut-skin axis has to do with psoriasis severity, and how chaga fits into that layer▸ Exactly what to look for on a chaga label, and why most products on store shelves wouldn't make the cut📃Your Next Steps▸ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eversiowellness/▸ Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products▸ Not sure which mushroom is right for you? Take our quiz: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz

You have read the books. You've done the retreats. You have overhauled your diet, your sleep, your morning routine. And you still feel the gap. Not broken, not lazy. Just caught in a loop that the next fix never quite closes. We want to talk about why. This episode is about the biology of being stuck. Not the shame of it. The actual mechanism. We get into what is really happening inside a nervous system that has been running on chronic stress, why the search for the next solution is neurologically wired into that state, and what it actually takes to interrupt the cycle for good. We cover the 90-second chemistry of emotion, Hebb's Law, the reticular activating system, Viktor Frankl's stimulus-response space, and the neuroscience of mental rehearsal. This one is about giving you a real explanation for what has felt personal, and a real path forward. What You'll Learn: Why your body can become physiologically addicted to stress hormones, and how that keeps you unconsciously generating the exact conditions you are trying to escape The 90-second rule: what Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor's neuroanatomy research reveals about how long an emotion actually lasts in the body, and what everything after that means Why insight alone cannot change your nervous system, and what your nervous system actually responds to How Hebb's Law works in your favor: every time you practice a new emotional state, you are building real, measurable neural architecture What the reticular activating system (RAS) is doing with your beliefs, and how shifting that filter changes what you are available to see and act on Viktor Frankl's "space between stimulus and response," and why every external fix misses it entirely What mental rehearsal actually is neurologically, and how elite athletes have used it for decades to become familiar with a state before they are living it The identity question that changes everything: who do I need to decide I am for this to become true? Your Next Steps Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eversiowellness/ Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products Take our wellness QUIZ to find the right mushroom for you: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz

For 15 years, the world saw Samantha March's creative output: nine novels, a product brand, a YouTube channel, a loyal audience who shows up because she makes you feel like a friend. What most people didn't see was what was happening inside her body at the same time. Episode 60 is the conversation she's finally ready to have. Samantha March is a lifestyle creator, published author of nine contemporary novels, and founder of By Samantha March, a brand of intentional living products including card decks, planners, and habit trackers. In this episode, Samantha shares the health journey she's kept mostly private until now: an adrenal PCOS diagnosis that took the better part of a year to get and four years of rebuilding her health from the ground up. We get into the symptoms that started appearing in October 2021, why multiple doctors dismissed everything she was experiencing, and what changed when she finally connected with a naturopathic doctor. Samantha also talks about the shame that kept her quiet early in her journey, what it looks like to keep creating when your brain is foggy and your body feels like a stranger, and why she's sharing this story publicly now that she has four years of results behind her. What You'll Learn: Why Samantha's symptoms were dismissed by her OBGYN, primary care doctor, internist, and endocrinologist, and what finally broke through What adrenal PCOS is and how it differs from other types, plus why the condition recently got a new name that actually fits better The brain fog moments that genuinely scared her, including a preheated oven she had no memory of turning on Why she pulled back from talking about her health publicly early on and what gave her the confidence to come back four years later How hormone labs gave her more answers in one appointment than years of guessing ever could The specific changes that made the biggest difference: an elimination diet, stress management, low-impact movement, and functional mushrooms Why Turkey Tail was recommended to Samantha by two completely separate practitioners at nearly the same time How Lion's Mane shifted her concentration and mental clarity within weeks What it looked like to keep writing novels and running a brand through a health crisis Why shame keeps women silent about their health and what shifts when they finally start talking Resources Mentioned: Samantha March on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marchbeautyword/ Samantha's website and novels: https://bysamanthamarch.com/ Your Next Steps: Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eversiowellness/ Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products Take our wellness QUIZ to find the right mushroom for you: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz

You paid good money for a mushroom supplement. You took it every single day. And you felt absolutely nothing. Before you write off functional mushrooms entirely, there's something you need to know. In this episode, we pull back the curtain on the three categories of mushroom products on the market right now, and why the one most people are buying is the one least likely to do anything at all. Brandi shares the story she's never told on the podcast before, the one that led to Eversio existing the way it does today. It starts with a white plastic bottle, organic brown rice, and a very expensive lesson. Dr. Desiree walks through the biology behind what actually makes mushrooms work, and together they hand you a checklist so you can evaluate any mushroom supplement in 90 seconds flat. If you've ever bought a mushroom product and wondered why you felt nothing, this episode is the answer. What You'll Learn: The three distinct categories of mushroom products on the market and why most of what you'll find falls into the least effective one What mycelium on grain actually is, what's inside that capsule, and why the label is allowed to say "mushroom" anyway Why "polysaccharides" on a label is not the same thing as beta glucans, and what that difference means in your body The real reason Brandi felt nothing from the first mushroom supplement she ever took (and why it wasn't her fault) How to read a mushroom supplement label in 90 seconds with eight specific questions to ask before you buy What extraction method tells you about a product's potency and why "mushroom powder" is not the same as "mushroom extract" Why a certificate of analysis from an independent lab is non-negotiable, and what it means when a brand won't give you one The caffeine problem hiding in "mushroom" products that makes people think they're feeling the mushrooms when they're not What USDA organic certification actually means, how to verify it, and how to spot the fake version Resources Mentioned: Episode 2 (Brain Health): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_064s35G0qs Mushroom Math Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbAh8iTyK7w&t=15s USDA Organic Integrity Database: https://ams.usda.gov/organic-integrity Your Next Steps: Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eversiowellness/ Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products Take our wellness QUIZ to find the right mushroom for you: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz

Your dentist has never grabbed your tongue, checked your nose, and asked you about your sleep but maybe they should. In this episode, we're sitting down with Dr. Laura Caylor, a dentist in Chilliwack, BC who has built her practice around a root cause approach to oral health. Dr. Laura didn't set out to become the practitioner who looks at your airway, your tongue tie, your jaw posture, and your nervous system in a single appointment. She got there through her own lived experience as a parent, breastfeeding struggles, chronic congestion in her kids, and a magazine article that changed everything. What she discovered is that the mouth is not a separate system. It's the beginning of the whole story. Dr. Desiree found Dr. Laura while recovering from mold-related health concerns, looking for a dentist who understood airway health at a root cause level. And after that first appointment? She called Brandi on the way home. That's the kind of practitioner Dr. Laura is. What you'll learn: Why the mouth is for eating and the nose is for breathing and what happens when we mix those up chronically The connection between mouth breathing and your oral microbiome (yes, your mouth has one too) How nitric oxide production from the nose affects your blood flow, immune function, and cardiovascular health and how mouth breathing bypasses all of it What snoring is actually telling you and why it's never the starting point for treatment The role of tongue position in guiding jaw development, airway patency, and your midface structure Why a tongue tie isn't just a newborn breastfeeding problem and the signs to watch for at every age How the trigeminal nerve connects jaw instability to nervous system dysregulation and compensation patterns through the whole body The fascial line that runs from the tongue all the way to the toes and what happens when it's restricted Dr. Laura's family's nasal hygiene routine, including the xylitol nasal spray that changed her son's chronic congestion The truth about mouthwash, fluoride, hydroxyapatite toothpaste, and when to brush relative to coffee and lemon water Resources Mentioned: Nelson's Naturals hydroxyapatite toothpaste (BC-based): https://nelsonsnaturals.com Dr. Laura Caylor on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.lauracaylor/ Dr. Laura's clinic: Vedder Dental, Chilliwack, BC https://vedderdental.ca/ Tongue Tie Course for Parents: https://www.thetonguetiecourse.com Dr. Laura Caylor's website: https://drlauracaylor.com/ Your Next Steps: Follow Eversio Wellness on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eversiowellness/ Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products Take our wellness QUIZ to find the right mushroom for you: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz

You're not depressed. You're not in crisis. You're functioning, showing up, holding it all together. But something is still off, and you can't quite name it. This episode is for that person. Brandi and Dr. Desiree Caruso, ND sit down to break down the real biology behind low-grade mood dysregulation — the kind that doesn't show up in standard bloodwork but is absolutely happening in your body. We're talking about two specific functional mushrooms, lion's mane and reishi, and going straight into the mechanisms: the actual compounds, the actual pathways, and the actual research that explains why these mushrooms have a genuine relationship with how you feel. This is not a vibe episode. This is the science. We've been asked over and over again whether functional mushrooms can do something for mood, and if so, how. Today we answer that question properly. If you've ever walked out of a doctor's appointment feeling dismissed — told everything looks normal, maybe it's stress, maybe it's your age — this episode is what comes next. What you'll learn: Why mood is a physiological state, not just a feeling, and what that means for how you address it The specific terpenoid compounds in lion's mane (hericenones) that can cross the blood-brain barrier and what they do once they get there Why BDNF is the mechanism most antidepressants are thought to work through, and how lion's mane stimulates it directly How 90% of your serotonin is produced in your gut, and exactly how lion's mane supports that pathway The three-directional approach lion's mane takes: blood-brain barrier, neuroinflammation, and gut-brain axis simultaneously What the HPA axis is, why chronic stress dysregulates it, and how reishi's ganoderic acids help restore the natural cortisol rhythm Reishi's relationship with GABA, the brain's calming neurotransmitter, and why that explains the felt sense of settling down The 2026 randomized controlled trial showing measurable reductions in anxiety, cortisol, and inflammation at 12 weeks How disrupted sleep literally changes how your brain processes emotional information, and the two specific mechanisms reishi addresses to help with that How to self-diagnose which mushroom fits your experience right now, and what to track over four weeks to know whether it's working Resources Mentioned: Dr. Andrew Huberman episode on adenosine and coffee: https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/using-caffeine-to-optimize-mental-and-physical-performanc e Vigna, L. et al. (2019). "Hericium erinaceus Improves Mood and Sleep Disorders in the Elderly." Journal of Medicinal Food, 22(5). Contato, A.G. & Conte-Junior, C.A. (2025). "Lion's Mane Mushroom (Hericium erinaceus): A Neuroprotective Fungus with Antioxidant, Anti-Inflammatory, and Antimicrobial Potential — A Narrative Review." Nutrients, 17(8), 1307. Frontiers in Nutrition (2025). "Benefits, side effects, and uses of Hericium erinaceus as a supplement: a systematic review." Frontiers in Nutrition, 12, 1641246. Ratto, D. et al. (2023). "Hericium erinaceus: Acute and Chronic Effects on Cognitive Function, Stress, and Mood in Young Adults." Nutrients, 15(22), 4842. Cui, X.Y. et al. (2012). "Extract of Ganoderma lucidum prolongs sleep time in rats." Journal of Ethnopharmacology / Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior. PMID: 22297086. Yong, V.K.J. et al. (2026). "A blend of medicinal mushrooms including Reishi reduces anxiety, cortisol and CRP in a 12-week randomized controlled trial." Brain and Behavior. Your Next Steps: Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eversiowellness/ Shop Eversio Wellness and save 15% with code PODCAST15: https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/PODCAST15?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall-products Take our wellness quiz to find the right mushroom for you: https://www.eversiowellness.com/pages/take-our-quiz