The Nutrition Translator Podcast
Colleen Kuhn, a Registered Dietitian and Plant-Based Health Coach, hosts The Nutrition Translator Podcast—a show dedicated to exploring what it truly means to live a nutritious life. Beyond just food, this podcast delves into nourishing all aspects of well-being, including emotional, spiritual, and physical health.
In each episode, Colleen either engages in enlightening conversations with unique guests on a range of topics such as neuroscience, yoga, psychology, trauma, body image, relationships, sacred plant medicine, and plant-based nutrition, or shares deeply personal insights in solo episodes about her own health journey.
This podcast offers a blend of functional and spiritual guidance, providing listeners with actionable advice and transformative insights to enhance their overall health and life.
Episodes
179 episodes
Medicine Song: Rhythm of Life
Embarking on a 10-day dieta with Noya Rao, the "Tree of Light," of the Amazon jungle, was a profound journey into the depths of my being. Known for its luminescent leaves that glow in the darkness, Noya Rao symbolizes illumination and truth. Th...
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Sacred Food Journey 2024 Testimonial
I was so honored to have Yael Joffee, PhD of 3x4 Genetics, join my 2024 cohort of the Sacred Food Journey. Join my 2025 cohort! NOW ENROLLING and starting in March. Click here
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134 - Sacred Food Journey | Live Online Course & In-Person Sacred Plant Medicine Retreat
Join us for the Sacred Food Journey, a 4-month live online course, including an in-person Sacred Plant Medicine retreat with both Ayahuasca & Huachuma, designed to break free from the confines of diet culture and cultivate a healthier re...
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Episode 134
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133 - An Alternative to Ozempic: Wild Health | Dr. Matt Dawson
I tried out the precision health company, Wild Health, for 3 months and it was incredibly impressive. I even made shocking nutrition changes you won't believe, based on my personal genetic testing results. I don't promote services on this podca...
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Episode 133
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132 - Ayahuasca Chronicles | A Shamanic Odyssey Explored in Conversation with Colleen & her teacher, Jess Gold
My Ayahuasca teacher, Jess Gold, interviewed me for her podcast, the Cielo Community Podcast! I decided to share the interview here as well. I have been working with Jess the past 4 years and now helping to facilitate ceremony. Jess has been se...
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Episode 132
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Poem: The Cosmic F**K
Which is better, the in, or the out? It's actually both together. Proximity and separation. The heat and the cooling. The forgetting and the remembering. We are participants and creations of the cosmic f**k. Where we get stuck is preferring one...
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131 - The Cosmic F**k | Kristen Hansen
The yearning, the longing, the ever becoming. It is not a singular fixed location of attaining, it's the spaces in between. Where the meadow meets the forest. The tidal pools, the transition between land and sea is where most life is born. The ...
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Episode 131
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Medicine Song: White Owl
My love affair with Ayahuasca continues... This song was adapted from the original by Johanna Warren, White Owl
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130 - Big P*ssy Energy! | Mohini Gima
Podcast Today’s guest is Mohini Gima. She does work with women of color to reclaim their roots, intimacy, voice and womb so they can thrive in all relationships. In today’s conversation we dive deep right away talking about toxic wellness cultu...
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Episode 130
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Poem: Hydroponic Spirituality
What if our wellness culture isn't making us well. We live in a society haunted by the idea of wholeness, perfection, getting finally getting into an untraumatized body. But what if this ideal of self actualization & getting to the highest ...
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129 - The Pitfalls of Psychedelics, Spirituality & Wellness Culture
Since coming back from the jungles of the Amazon, I have had A LOT to reflect on and integrate. What is not talked about enough is the, "rough landing," coming home from a psychedelic or transformational experience. Along with the rough landing...
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Episode 129
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Medicine Song (Icaro): Marosa
Sweet Marosa, you had me look at all the times I've been hurt, & sit with deep sadness, grief, loss, abandonment, boundary violations, disrespect & dishonorable treatment from others & broken heartedness. I've forgiven them & my...
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128 - The Jungle Will Eat You Alive | Adventures in Peru
My Peru adventure was not what I excepted. Some things went terribly wrong, and I was put in some very dangerous situations. The jungle did eat me alive, and it made me stronger. Though the journey was unbelievably challenging on every level po...
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Medicine Song (Icaro): Redwood
I got to meet the spirit of Redwood this past July, AKA a shamanic dieta with Rojo Caspi (Redwood). Redwood's teachings and wisdom came through my dreams, through the whispers of nature, meditation and synchronicities during our communion toget...
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127 - Liminality: The Realm of Transformation, Magic & Crazy Making
Liminality is the place of no longer and the not yet. Liminal spaces are where the magic happens. This can also be a place of great discomfort. A place sometimes called, ‘crazy space.” Being in a liminal space can be incredibly uncomfortable fo...
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Episode 127
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Medicine Song (Icaro): Agua De Florida
Ayahuasca icaros, or ikaros, are traditional indigenous Amazonian songs that are performed as accompaniment to sacred plant healing ceremonies. They are musical prayers that embody the powers of spirits of plants and animals, deities, ancestors...
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126 - Shaman Sisters: Walking Together on the Ayahuasca Shamanic Path | Andrea Lee
Today I have on the show Andrea Lee. Andrea Lee, B.S.N., R.N. is the founder and CEO of Mindful Cube, a consulting company dedicated to helping individuals learn skills to live more fully in the present moment by skillfully working with difficu...
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Episode 127
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125 - Living a Courageous Life, Following Your Heart, Healing Trauma, Conscious Relationships & More!
This podcast is an update on my life and musing on Ayahuasca's teachings, following your calling/purpose, different types of relating - monogamous and non-monogamous, conscious relationships, manifestation, courage, trauma healing, interoceptio...
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Episode 125
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Medicine Song (Icaro): Sequoia
Ayahuasca forms the foundation of the indigenous plant medicine traditions of the Western Amazonian Shamanism, but the dieta plays a crucial role in building upon that foundation. It could be considered the support beams of the tradition, upon ...
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124 - Stranger Things with Mr. Clarke | Randy Havens
Today I have on the show Randy Havens! You may know him best from Stranger Things (2016) playing middle school teacher, Mr. Clarke, Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) playing Dr. Tim Mancini, and Instant Family (2018) playing Michael. I know...
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Episode 124
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123 - Manifesting Food Freedom 101
Manifesting is a big buzz word in the spiritual & self-help community. Today's podcast I discuss what manifesting is, how manifesting advice can be problematic, what keeps us from getting the food freedom we desire and how to actually manif...
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Episode 123
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Medicine Song (Icaro): Calling in the Trees for Protection
I would like to share an Icaro, (medicine song) that is sung in Ayahuasca ceremony in the Mestizo tradition. I call in 2 trees in for protection, Ayahuma (the cannonball tree), and Lupuna Blanca. Ayahuma is regarded as an immensely grounding ma...
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Short Story: The Sacred Territory of Sorrow
Hi friends! It has been a couple weeks since I have posted. Life has thrown me some challenges to work through, and I have been taking the past 2 months to sit with the pain & turn it into a big lesson. This poem describes the profound insi...
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122 - The Void of Meaninglessness | Ayahuasca & the Dark Night of the Soul
My Ayahuasca path continues and it only reveals itself to be harder and harder with each ceremony and each Shamanic Plant Dieta. In this podcast I discuss the 3 journeys I had last weekend, which were all completed in less than 48 hours. It was...
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