Hopeful and Wholesome: Wellness, Nutrition, Inner Healing and Self-Improvement for High Achieving Women and Entrepreneurs
You were never meant to override yourself into success.
The Hopeful & Wholesome Podcast is the space where high-achieving women come back to their bodies and find that's where the deeper, richer, more expansive life was waiting all along.
Host Hope Pedraza — Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, Human Design Guide, NLP Practitioner, and Reiki Practitioner — brings weekly conversations at the intersection of functional health, human design, and soul-led living.
Each week we go deep on:
- Functional labs, hormones, and root cause healing
- Human Design, energetics, and body intelligence
- Nervous system regulation and somatic healing
- Subconscious reprogramming and inner authority
- Pleasure, intuition, and the fully reclaimed woman
Join Hope and her inspiring guests for transformative conversations designed to help you live your best life with hope and purpose.
This is where the reclamation begins: from the inside out.
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Episodes
374 episodes
Tired of Supplements? A Root-Cause Approach to Stress, Hormones, and Healing | Chronic Stress, Food Sensitivities, and Inflammation Explained with Christa Biegler
What if feeling “reactive to everything” isn’t a sign you need another restrictive diet, a supplement stack, or $5,000 worth of testing… but a sign your system is overloaded from chronic (often unconscious) stress? In this episode o...
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Episode 375
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47:04
The Mouth-Body Connection: How Oral Health Impacts Gut Health, Autoimmune Disease & Inflammation with Dr. Toni Engram
What if your bloating, autoimmune flares, chronic inflammation, or brain fog weren’t just a gut or hormone issue, but an oral health issue?In this episode of Hopeful & Wholesome, I sit down with biological dentist and integr...
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Episode 374
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31:30
Astrology & Your Soul Message: How to Express Your Purpose in Life and Business with Kathryn Thompson
You’ve done the mindset work. You’ve studied Human Design. You’ve tried to “show up consistently.”But something still feels… off.In this powerful and nuanced conversation, I sit down with marketing and communicat...
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Episode 373
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36:15
Reclaiming the Wise Woman: Healing the Witch Wound, Cyclical Living & Rest as Resistance with Eileen March
What if the word witch never meant evil… but wise?In this expansive and grounding conversation, I sit down with spiritual coach, energy healer, and founder of My Luminous Life, Eileen March, to explore the reclamation of ...
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Episode 372
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33:50
Wellness Noise, Quick Fix Culture & Finding What Actually Works: A Reality Check on Holistic Health with Jess Aldredge and Ashley Ihemelu
If you’ve ever felt like the holistic health world is a screaming room full of contradictory advice—this one will feel like a deep exhale.In this candid conversation, I’m joined by Jess Aldredge and Ashley Ihemelu from the Well...
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Episode 371
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48:34
How to Prepare for the 2027 Shift: Nervous System, Energy & Embodied Leadership (using your Human Design)
You don’t stabilize by figuring everything out. You stabilize by learning how to stay with yourself while things are still forming.In the final episode of this 3 part series all about the 2027 Human Design Paradigm shift, Hope sha...
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Episode 370
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Women and the 2027 Paradigm Shift: Emotional Sovereignty, Identity Shifts, Burnout & Embodied Leadership
This shift isn’t just changing the world. It’s changing who is being asked to lead.This is part 2 of a 3-part series all about the 2027 Paradigm shift we are stepping into.In Episode 2, Hope speaks directly to high-achievin...
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Episode 369
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The 2027 Paradigm Shift Explained: Human Design, Burnout & Global Change
The world feels like it’s unraveling, and you can feel it in your body.This is part 1 of a 3-part series all about navigating the 2027 shift we are all stepping into.In this episode, Hope breaks down the 2027 paradigm shift thr...
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Episode 368
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Emotional Sobriety, Dopamine & Nervous System Healing: A New Way for High-Achieving Women to Change Their Relationship with Alcohol with Colleen Freeland
What if overdrinking isn’t about willpower… but about your nervous system, your emotions, and the stories you’ve been telling yourself?In this episode, Hope sits down with Colleen Freeland, Intuitive Drinking Coach and host of the...
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Episode 367
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33:30
What the 2027 Human Design Shift Means for Leaders, Entrepreneurs & Empaths with Shayna Cornelius and Dana Stiles from DayLuna
What if the real preparation for 2027 isn’t stockpiling plans… but building self-trust, emotional intelligence, and radical authenticity?In this Human Design “nerd party,” Hope sits down with Shayna Cornelius and Dana St...
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Episode 366
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44:18
Why Modern Holistic Wellness Is Failing Women and the New Paradigm of Healing
The wellness and healing industry has never been louder or more confusing. Protocols, supplements, trends, and expert advice are everywhere, yet so many women still feel exhausted, inflamed, disconnected from their bodies, and frustrated that h...
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Episode 365
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37:12
When Success Stops Feeling Good: How to Find Fulfillment Again with Annie Adragna
What happens when you finally “get there”… and it feels like nothing?In this episode of Hopeful and Wholesome, Hope is joined by fulfillment mentor, coach, and strategist Annie Adragna, host of The Luminous Life Podca...
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Episode 364
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44:44
The Quiet Signs You’re Meant for a Different Path: How Your Body Signals It’s Time for Change
There comes a moment when something in your life no longer fits.On the outside, things may look fine... successful, stable, even aligned. But inside, there’s a quiet stirring. A restlessness. A knowing that something deeper is calling.
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Episode 363
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45:18
Motherhood, Money & Meaning: Values-Aligned Business Growth Without Burnout with Laura Shoenfeld
What happens when your business is thriving… and then motherhood changes your energy, identity, and capacity overnight?In this episode of Hopeful and Wholesome, Hope sits down with Laura Schoenfeld, RD, registered dietiti...
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Episode 362
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49:36
Managing Overwhelm in Undefined Centers: Energy Protection, Minerals & Nervous System Healing | Stepping into the Year of the Horse Fully Resourced
Overwhelm often appears right at the edge of expansion, not because something is wrong, but because your body is sensing movement.As we transition from the introspective energy of the Year of the Snake into the forward-moving, expressive...
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Episode 361
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44:06
How Trauma Lives in the Body and Shapes Our Relationships | Somatic Healing, Attachment Styles & Self-Abandonment with Becky Aste
What if the reason your relationship feels hard isn’t because you’re doing it wrong, but because your nervous system never learned how to feel safe?In this deeply honest and grounding conversation, Hope is joined by Becky Aste<...
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Episode 360
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40:58
Year of the Horse 2026: Human Design Energy Leaks, Undefined Centers, and Sustainable Success
Welcome to 2026 and to the energetic “in-between” that most people miss. While the Gregorian New Year has already begun, the energetic new year doesn’t shift until February 17, when we move from the Year of the Snake into the Y...
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Episode 359
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48:04
Intuition vs. Fear: How to Know What’s Guidance and What’s Ego with Emily Aarons
What if the missing piece in your business growth isn’t another strategy, but your energy?In this deeply grounding and expansive conversation, Hope sits down with energy healer and business mentor Emily Aarons to explore ...
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Episode 358
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40:16
Money Isn’t Your Problem,Your Nervous System Is | Wealth Embodiment, Safety & the Frequency of Money with Kiki Rae
What if money wasn’t something you needed to chase… fix your mindset around… or “work harder” to earn?In this raw, expansive conversation, Hope sits down with Kiki Rae, Trauma-Informed Wealth Embodiment Mentor and founder...
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Episode 357
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41:50
Rewriting Your Operating System: Identity, Energetics & Embodied Success for 2026
This is the episode that ties EVERYTHING together: the activation, the embodiment, the identity reset your next level requires.Part 3 of The Energetic Reset teaches you how your identity, frequency, nervous system,...
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Episode 356
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49:55
Soul-Deep Exhaustion, Mom Burnout & Motherhood On Your Terms with Scottie Durrett
If you’ve ever looked at a picture of yourself and thought, “I don’t even recognize her anymore…” this episode is for you.In this powerful conversation, I’m joined by Scottie Durrett, host of the MOMPLEX Podcast, board-cert...
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Episode 355
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37:27
Debunking Burnout and Rebuilding Your Capacity with Human Design, Minerals & Energetic Frequency
If you’re ending 2025 feeling depleted, overstretched, inconsistent, or overwhelmed… this episode will hit home.This is part 2 of a 3-part series to end 2025, THE ENERGETIC RESET: Recode Your Body, Your Leadership & Your Life for ...
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Episode 354
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51:26
The Hidden Role of Anger in Burnout, Hormones, and Nervous System Dysregulation with Kim Paull
In today’s episode, I’m joined by burnout recovery and resilience coach, Kim Paull, to talk about one of the most misunderstood emotions for high-achieving women: anger.We unpack how suppressed anger, resentment, and mis...
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Episode 353
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36:50
Your Body Is Your Business Plan: Decode Your Symptoms with Human Design, Minerals & Energetic Alignment
Your body has been trying to tell you something (probably all year long).And today, you finally learn how to listen.This is part 1 of a 3-part series to end 2025, THE ENERGETIC RESET: Recode Your Body, Your Lea...
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Episode 352
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50:17
From Disordered Eating to Divine Self-Trust: Releasing Control, Body Shame & “Good Girl” Conditioning with Alex Long
In this raw, soul-expanding conversation, Hope sits down with Registered Dietitian, trauma-informed coach, and unapologetic truth-teller Alex Long to explore the kind of healing that goes far beyond food, macros, or “health rules.” ...
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Episode 351
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