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Education Episodes: Video Holistic Care Medical Mindset

E19: Burnout, Stress & Survival Mode: A Doctor’s Guide to Fixing Your Health Before It Breaks You

E19: Burnout, Stress & Survival Mode: A Doctor’s Guide to Fixing Your Health Before It Breaks You

Featuring Dr. Meredith Sweeney, SANO Longevity

If you’re building a business while running on stress, caffeine, and “I’ll deal with it later”… this episode is your wake-up call.

In this episode of Small Business Success Talk, Christy sits down with Dr. Meredith Sweeney—a former bariatric surgeon turned longevity specialist—who walked away from traditional medicine to focus on proactive, data-driven health.

Together, they unpack what most entrepreneurs ignore until it’s too late:

  • The real impact of chronic stress and “survival mode” on your body
  • Why traditional healthcare often misses early warning signs
  • The 4 core pillars of longevity (and how they actually show up in real life)
  • How burnout affects decision-making, weight, sleep, and performance
  • What it looks like to build a business without sacrificing yourself

Dr. Sweeney shares how she transitioned from surgery to prevention, why she believes most diseases are preventable, and how simple (but intentional) habits like breathwork, movement, sleep, and nutrition can dramatically change your trajectory.

If you’ve ever felt like your body is working against you… or like success is costing you your health… this conversation will hit home.

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Business Coaching Episodes: Video Holistic Care Leadership Mindset

S3:E16 – Isolation: Reset or Self-Destruct?

S3E16: Isolation: Reset or Self-Destruct?

Featuring Christy Smallwood

In this episode of Small Business Success Talk, host Christy Smallwood opens up about the fine line between healthy solitude and harmful isolation—especially for entrepreneurs navigating chaos, debt, and change.

Drawing from her own “cocooning” season, Christy shares how isolation can either transform you or trap you, and why intention and reentry are everything. She dives deep into:

  • Why business owners hide their struggles (especially financial ones)

  • The difference between cocooning for growth vs. isolating from pain

  • How to use solitude to recharge, realign, and reconnect

  • The physical, emotional, and spiritual effects of chronic isolation

  • How to build your support system, find accountability, and rejoin community

 

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Episodes: Video Holistic Care

S3:E9 – From Allergies to Entrepreneurship: How Two Global Leaders Built Bodhi Salt Wellness Center

S3E9: From Allergies to Entrepreneurship: How Two Global Leaders Built Bodhi Salt Wellness Center

Featuring Anna Shulgina and Dasha Grankina of Bodhi Salt

Two international professionals—one a former Nestlé and Ferrero executive, the other a certified yoga trainer and team leader—cross paths in Louisville while searching for solutions to their children’s severe allergy issues. What followed was the founding of Bodhi Salt, a wellness center that fuses Eastern traditions with Western science.

On this episode of Small Business Success Talk, Anna Shulgina and Dasha Grankina share their journey from strangers to business partners and friends. They discuss building a 2,400-sq.ft. wellness oasis from the ground up, complete with kids’ programs, red light therapy, cold plunges, and ancient Ayurvedic techniques—all rooted in their own stories of healing.

If you’re a purpose-driven entrepreneur or wellness-curious parent, this conversation is filled with real talk, real solutions, and a little dog named Ozzy.

Ozzy’s Instagram:  @ozzy.prince.Of.darkness

Bodhi Salt Center of Louisville:  https://bodhisaltcenter.com

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