His & Her Life Hacks
Dawne and Larry were former high-achieving corporate executives both living outwardly successful lives. Internally, they were spiraling. Life circumstances had brought them to their knees. Rather than giving up, they leaned into their faith and did the hard work to make themselves whole again. Now thriving, they are on a mission to lead others to find their true purpose so they too can live a life of joy.
Creating this podcast is part of our mission.
We will be sharing life hacks from a His and Her perspective from our combined experiences that include: Raising 10 children, Overcoming significant loss to thrive again, Navigating 30-year careers in Corporate America, Falling in love, Building a relationship in our 50's, and much more!
We keep it real, offering inspiration and hope, and creating a community where you can sit back with your spouse, partner or best friend to listen, laugh or cry, and learn. Most of all, we want you to leave our podcast feeling uplifted and empowered to take action!
The His & Her Life Hacks Podcast is part of our company, Grit2Grace, designed to offer hope, inspiration, and real-world solutions to those in need. Through our experiences and transformative process, we teach you how faith, resilience and hard work can help you:
- Get unstuck and find your true purpose
- Overcome and heal through loss
- Remove limiting beliefs
- Navigate single parenting challenges across many different ages and circumstances
- Double down on your faith to find true joy.... and much more
His & Her Life Hacks
Episode 15 - Taking Control of Your Health Through a Holistic Approach
In this episode, Dawne & Larry are joined by a very special guest, Dawne's oldest daughter Lexi Jacoby. Lexi has had quite the health journey over the past few years. It started with an array of symptoms - sudden unexplained weight gain, problems with her monthly cycle, horrible acne, constantly bloated and sick after everything she ate, sleep issues, constant fatigue, racing heart and much more.
Her first step was going to her primary care physician to get bloodwork done and discuss the issues to find out what was going on. She had to beg for the bloodwork despite her symptoms, but she finally got it done.
The bloodwork revealed elevated levels in her liver functions to which her doctor suggested that she should lay off alcohol and decrease Tylenol, neither of which she consumed often.
Lexi ultimately felt let down by her doctor so she took matters into her own hands and sought out a holistic physician. One who would get to the root cause of the issues - not try to put a bandaid on it. Lexi knew in her heart there was something wrong and thank goodness she was an advocate for her own health because there was a lot wrong....which she shares in great detail on this episode today.
Lexi was on a mission to heal from the inside out and has transformed her health through a lifestyle change which incorporates the food she eats, the products she uses, her exercise regimen, natural calming remedies, and everyday self care. Her mission is to now help others who have had or are currently having these same issues.
To learn more, you can follow Lexi's Instagram dedicated to this topic @ healing_lifestyle_with_lexi
and her tiktok is linked in her bio as well.
Resources that she mentions in this episode are as follows:
My instagram: healing_lifestyle_with_lexi - tiktok is linked in bio as well
Holistic Healing in Wayne, PA - Dr. Nadia Ali
Lionville Natural Pharmacy, Lionville, PA - Ben Briggs, and Mike Briggs
Fullscript for high quality supplements physicians use: https://fullscript.com/ - a lot of physicians will have discount codes available through their websites/instagram
EWG Website and App for rating clean/toxic home and self products along with information about what every ingredient and chemical is and does to our body *amazing resource
EWG Dirty Dozen/Clean Fifteen - which to buy organic, highest/lowest pesticide and chemical amoutns
Dirty Dozen: https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/dirty-dozen.phpClean Fifteen: https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/clean-fifteen.php
Aldi for cheaper produce (organic if possible!)
Good RX for coupons for medications
Ghia for non-alcoholic aperitif or seltzers: drinkghia.com
Yuka app - easily scan (free version) or type in ($8/year) products to have ingredient list rated for toxic ingredients like endocrine disruptors
Bobby approved app - guide for clean eating / food products
Think Dirty app - another scan or type in products app like Yuka to see if there are any harmful ingredients or "clean"
Flo app - for tracking cycle naturally
Premom app - use the app along with the LH test strips to test ovulation and then log in the app for results so can track cycle along with Flo
Down Dog app - free or paid, amazing at home yoga app with many customizations/various types of yoga practices, focus areas, levels, etc.
Insight timer - free meditation app