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A riverside Airstream with zero cell service became the digital detox I didn’t know I needed. With no bars and no pressure to post, the urge to document every beautiful moment faded. What replaced it was deeper: a full-body exhale, a simple meal by the fire, the quiet joy of reconnecting with myself and listening to my inner knowings. That unexpected reset opened the door to a powerful conversation with coach and entrepreneur Mari Weullner, who took a 90-day break from social media to rebuild her relationship with time, self-worth, presence, and connection.

In this episode, we explore the hidden cost of constant connectivity—how social media drains attention, disrupts sleep, fuels comparison, hijacks dopamine, and slowly steals the pleasure of doing things for their own sake. Mari shares how “engagement metrics” once defined her value, why stepping away felt like a small death, and how, week by week, she rebuilt her "In Real-Life" connection: more phone calls, more coffee dates, more presence with her family.

One of her most powerful insights: when her teen realized she wouldn't post him, their moments together softened. Trust deepened. Real connection returned.

If you’ve ever felt the joy drain from cooking, parenting, or travel the moment you start filming—or noticed you're performing your life for the camera—you’ll recognize this trap. We offer practical, sustainable digital wellness strategies:
• delete and re-download apps only when posting
• keep Facebook on the laptop instead of your phone
• move your phone out of the bedroom
• set a nightly screen cutoff
• curate your follows to reduce comparison & emotional clutter

If you’re craving a gentle reset, Mari’s five-day social media detox provides simple prompts to help you run your own experiment—no guilt, no moralizing, just honest data: how you feel before and after, where FOMO kicks in, and which tiny shifts return the most peace.

With AI polishing everyone’s highlight reel beyond reality, discernment and boundaries matter more than ever. This episode is your reminder to design a digital life that supports your real life, not the other way around.

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The lights are up, the calendar is full, and your nervous system is waving a tiny white flag. As we celebrate one year of Life is Delicious, we’re giving you something better than another obligation: a calmer, kinder December you can actually enjoy.

If December has you feeling overwhelmed, stretched thin, or stuck in holiday roles you never signed up for, this episode is your permission slip to reclaim a calmer, simpler, more joyful season. Designed especially for midlife women navigating menopause, burnout, emotional labor, and the demands of the sandwich generation, this conversation helps you let go of pressure and create holiday traditions that actually feel good.

We explore why the holidays hit harder in midlife: increased stress, caregiving responsibilities, financial pressure, changing family dynamics, and the mental load women carry without even realizing it. You’ll learn five practical ways to reduce holiday stress—simplifying traditions, shrinking your to-do list, delegating without guilt, spending less while creating more meaning, and setting warm, healthy boundaries.

If you’re craving a holiday season centered around connection, presence, and emotional well-being instead of perfection and performance, you’ll find actionable tools you can use today. Expect grounding prompts, mindset shifts, and simple strategies to help you lower stress, protect your energy, and enjoy a more intentional December.

We’re also celebrating one year of the Life Is Delicious podcast with a special giveaway featuring our guided journal and planner—supporting you in creating your most joyful, empowered next chapter.

This episode is for you if you want to feel calmer, happier, and more in control this holiday season—without losing yourself in the chaos.

We’re also celebrating our one-year anniversary with a special giveaway featuring the Happy Is Not an Accident Guided Journal and the Life Is Delicious Monthly & Weekly Planner—your new companions for creating a life that truly feeds your soul. To enter, leave a review on Apple Podcasts OR enter your email at https://www.LifeIsDelicious.ca to subscribe and i'll put you into the draw. You have until Christmas Eve to enter.

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This week in week 3 of our 8 part Miniseries on reverse engineering the New Year and crafting your own MidLife Manifesto, we dig into SPIRIT.

You don’t need a full life overhaul to feel aligned—you just need a few soul-level habits that actually stick. In this episode of Life Is Delicious, we’re building your midlife manifesto around SPIRIT—your inner spark, your intuition, your sense of meaning—and translating it into simple daily rituals that help you feel grounded, hopeful, present, and fully alive.

Discover how a five-to-ten-minute stillness ritual can reconnect you to your inner voice without pressure or perfection. You’ll learn how to create a friction-free space for meditation, breathwork, or quiet reflection, plus how a quick journaling moment afterward helps you trust the ideas that rise to the surface.

We’ll step outside together—literally. You’ll learn why morning sunlight boosts serotonin, supports hormone balance, and resets your sleep cycle, and why distraction-free nature walks are one of the most powerful ways to rebuild presence and calm your nervous system in midlife.

To expand your sense of possibility, we add a weekly practice of awe, inspiration, and curiosity—through books, podcasts, music, and stories that soften your worldview and widen your hope. Then we lock it all in with identity-based statements like “I am someone who listens to my inner wisdom” so your actions finally align with who you are becoming.

We’ll also talk honestly about navigating change—midlife transitions like divorce, diagnosis, empty nesting, burnout, restlessness, and reinvention—and how small, consistent spiritual practices become anchors that calm your mind and strengthen your resilience.

If you’re ready to trade autopilot for intention, this episode will help you craft a simple, personal Spirit Manifesto that fits real life.
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What if the best parts of your life came from the moments you almost ignored? We explore the power of saying yes to odd chances, trusting your gut, and treating detours like design. With my dad, Burton, back for Coffee with Burton, we trace how tiny openings turned into decades of meaningful work and why midlife might be the perfect time to reinvent.

Burton’s journey moves from retail and insurance to commercial sign writing after he watches a painter letter a restaurant door. One $40 sign sold on a cold call replaced a week’s wages and sparked a career. He reimagined “window painting” as window advertising, turning dealership glass into illuminated billboards and using traffic counts as media metrics. That eye for opportunity led to large-scale murals—from a Chilliwack pub’s New York skyline to a Gastown ceiling blooming with roses—paired with clever marketing ideas to draw cruise-ship crowds. We talk about risk tolerance, learning on the job, and the art of letting go when a new owner paints over your masterpiece.

My path follows the same compass in different lanes: a hallway conversation and a cassette audition sent me to LA to study voice. I bootstrapped with side hustles, later pivoted out of real estate, and built a voiceover career from a DIY studio, landing the on-hold voice for the Hard Rock Hotel. Volunteering led to MC gigs; a winery shoot became a tasting room role. The throughline is clear: test quickly, market around your craft, and stack skills so each yes compounds into momentum.

If you’re crafting your next chapter, you’ll hear practical ways to spot hidden opportunities, price your value, detach from outcomes, and build courage through action. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a nudge, and leave a review—then tell us the left turn you’re ready to take.

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Start the new year by choosing how you want to feel in your body—and let that feeling become your north star. We explore a kinder, smarter path for midlife wellness that trades punishment and extremes for body loyalty, identity-based choices, and small daily habits that actually stick. Instead of chasing a 25-year-old ideal, we partner with the body we have today and build energy, strength, and ease from the inside out.

We walk through three simple questions to reverse engineer your goals: name one core feeling you want to live in, identify the behaviors that create it, and define who you need to become to sustain it. From there, we craft power statements like “I honor my body with consistency, not perfection” and choose two anchor habits—think a ten-minute walk, five minutes of mobility, a steady bedtime, or hydration targets—that create real momentum without burning out your nervous system. Along the way, we highlight how gentle movement supports hormones, sleep restores mood and metabolism, muscle protects long-term vitality, and pleasure calms the stress loop.

You’ll leave with a practical framework to write your midlife manifesto, a set of identity-based choices to make on autopilot, and a body-first mindset that turns the end of the year into a celebration of how you’ve lived, not what you’ve lost. Ready to feel strong, rested, flexible, energized, or even a little bit sexy—and let your habits follow? Press play, choose your word for the year, and tell us your two anchor habits. If this spoke to you, subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review to help others find the show.

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Feeling stretched between who you’ve been and who you’re becoming? In this powerful midlife reinvention conversation, I sit down with business strategist and numerology expert Anne Marie Mckenzie to explore how to navigate change with confidence, clarity, and heart-led intention.

We break down what it really takes to move through a midlife pivot without losing yourself—using emotional intelligence, intuition, and a simple “heart compass” framework to make aligned decisions, set healthy boundaries, and create meaningful, purpose-driven work.

Anne Marie also shares how numerology can help you understand the timing of your transformation. We dive into the 2025 universal nine energy (completion, clarity, releasing what no longer fits) and what the 2026 universal one energymeans for new beginnings, self-leadership, and bold reinvention.

Inside this episode, you’ll learn:
✨ How to build emotional resilience and heart coherence
✨ Why balancing flow and structure reduces burnout
✨ How to stop autopilot thinking and reconnect with your intuition
✨ What 2025’s energy cycle means for your next chapter
✨ Simple monthly rituals, prompts, and micro-habits to support your growth

If you’re ready to step into your next season with purpose, peace, and grounded confidence, this episode will give you the tools to shift from overwhelm to alignment—and reinvent midlife on your terms.

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Ready to stop drifting through midlife and start steering with intention? We’re kicking off an eight-part mini-series designed to reverse engineer the new year, and we’re starting with the foundation that holds everything else: your mindset. I share why a personal manifesto is more than pretty words—it’s a compass and a love letter to your future self—and how a handful of identity statements can reshape the way you move through change, set boundaries, and pursue joy.

We dig into practical tools you can use today. You’ll learn how to catch sneaky self-talk like “I can’t” or “I’m too old” and replace it with grounded, believable reframes. I explain how the mantra “Everything is always working out for me” went from eye-roll to life-giving focus, not by magic, but by training attention toward solutions. We also break down a simple journaling habit that spotlights daily wins, builds resilience, and proves to your brain that growth is already happening.

To make this work tangible, I guide you to write one or two identity-based statements—using “I am,” “I believe,” or “I choose”—that become the first lines of your Midlife Manifesto. I read a sample manifesto you can borrow and customize, and I encourage you to record your statements in your own voice for a daily reset. Midlife isn’t a closing act; it’s a turning point. With a clear mindset, a living manifesto, and small, consistent practices, you’ll create a chapter that feels aligned, energized, and fully yours.

If this resonates, subscribe, share the episode with a friend who needs a mindset reset, and leave a quick review to help others find the show. Want the audio version of the manifesto to use each morning? Email lifeisdeliciouspodcast@gmail.com and I’ll send it right over.

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What if midlife isn’t a crisis but a launch window? We sit down with adventure athlete and author Deanette Wells to unpack how a mother of three climbed the seven summits, raced across jungles and deserts, and turned profound loss into a compass for a life lived on purpose. Deanette’s new book, Another Step Up the Mountain, becomes our framework for building resilience: focus on the step in front of you, breathe when fear spikes, and let meaning—not perfection—set the pace.

Deanette shares how she managed a fear of heights on Everest by training her attention and trusting the rope, then maps those same tools to everyday challenges like burnout, reinvention, and getting unstuck. We trace Johnny’s remarkable path—seven summits by 17, wingsuiting, and a fierce commitment to causes like ending genocide and curing Parkinson’s—and explore grief without gloss. Her take is honest and hopeful: don’t give up on your dreams, anchor your days with small commitments, and allow joy to return in its own time.

If you’ve ever wondered how to start adventure racing, climb your first peak, or simply rebuild your energy and purpose, you’ll get concrete steps: sign up before you feel ready, learn just enough to begin, find welcoming teams (especially for women), and let community and practice do the rest. We challenge the myth of “too old” with stories of dragon boat racing at nearly 60 and a seventeenth trip up Mount Whitney, proving that someday is not a date.

Resources and links include Deanette’s book on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, her socials, and two powerful documentaries about Johnny—American Daredevil on Peacock and Born to Fly on Tubi. If this conversation sparks your next step, subscribe, share with a friend who needs a nudge, and leave a quick review to help more people find the show. Then tell us: what’s your Everest, and what is the very next step you’ll take today?

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