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Health in Wealth® Ep 26 - The Technology of Success with Susan Ford Collins

Welcome back to Health in Wealth®, the podcast where we explore the habits, mindsets, and strategies that help us live healthier, wealthier, and more intentional lives. I am your host, Ana Ramos, and today we have a truly special guest. Joining us is Susan Ford Collins, the founder of The Technology of Success and the author of several influential books, including The Joy of Success, Success Has Gears, and Our Children Are Watching. For more than twenty years, Susan studied highly successful people to understand what they do differently. She transformed those insights into practical skills that anyone can learn. Today we are exploring what success really means in a world that is constantly changing, and how we can build it in a way that protects our health, our energy, and our sense of purpose. This is a conversation about clarity, resilience, and the kind of success that feels good on the inside, not only impressive on the outside. Susan, I am so excited to have this conversation with you today. Let us take a breath. Settle in. And begin

Health in Wealth® Ep 25 - Why Your Home Affects How You Feel | Neuroarchitecture, Stress + Nervous System Regulation

Have you ever walked into a space and felt your body instantly soften, or tense, without fully knowing why?  In this episode of Health in Wealth®, Ana Ramos speaks with Sarah Morrissey, founder of Cocoon Mode, about neuroarchitecture, the study of how our spaces shape the brain, body, nervous system, emotions, behavior, and cognition.  Together, Ana and Sarah explore how the home affects stress, sleep, focus, mood, and nervous system regulation. This is a conversation about moving beyond design trends and asking a more human question: how does this space support the person living inside it?  Sarah shares the four pillars of neuroarchitecture, why the home has become such an important part of modern well-being, and how simple routines such as creating an arrival ritual or winding down before bed can help the nervous system feel safer and more supported.  At its heart, this episode is an invitation to see the home as part of wealth being. A space that supports health, presence, recovery, clarity, and the rhythm of a more aligned life.  In This Episode  * What neuroarchitecture means and why it matters for modern well-being  * How your home affects stress, sleep, focus, mood, and nervous system regulation  * Why post-pandemic living changed the role of the home  * The difference between a beautiful home and a home that supports the body  * How lighting, clutter, sound, layout, and sensory input affect emotional regulation  * Why a calming home does not need to be perfect or expensive  * Simple nervous system practices for arriving home and winding down at night  Timestamps  00:00 Introduction: How our homes shape well-being  01:31 Welcome Sarah Morrissey to Health in Wealth®  02:42 Why the home affects sleep, mood, eating, stress, and the nervous system  04:16 What is neuroarchitecture?  05:42 From aesthetics to performance: How spaces support the body  07:19 Personal preference, minimalism, clutter, and nervous system response  08:47 Designing the home as a sanctuary  10:28 Ana’s personal story of creating a calming home  11:17 Why we should not have to leave home to feel restored  13:51 Creating one space for nervous system regulation  14:18 The four pillars of neuroarchitecture  16:46 Why your home does not need to be Instagram-ready  17:32 Structure, routine, and the organized mind  18:41 Why sanctuary is about nervous system response, not perfection  21:39 The home as the core of nervous system safety  23:17 Sarah’s story and the meaning behind Cocoon Mode  25:27 Sarah’s study of psychology, neuroscience, and design  27:04 Why neuroarchitecture belongs in everyday homes  29:11 Biohacks for calming the nervous system at home  30:12 The first 15 to 20 minutes after arriving home  30:55 Evening wind-down routines and sleep quality  34:19 Why design alone is not enough without behavior change  36:16 Final reflections with Sarah Morrissey  37:18 Closing reflection: The nervous system as the real client of design  About Health in Wealth®  Health in Wealth® is a podcast from Amida Wealth Advisors, hosted by Ana Ramos.  At Amida, we believe wealth is more than financial performance. It is the harmony of five essential pillars: health, relationships, finances, career, and personal growth.  Through thoughtful conversations with guides, practitioners, founders, and leaders, Health in Wealth® explores what it means to live with greater alignment, presence, and wealth being.  CTA  If this conversation helped you think differently about your home, your nervous system, or the spaces that support your life, we invite you to share it with someone who may need the same gentle reminder.  Subscribe to Health in Wealth® for more conversations on identity, alignment, well-being, and a more human vision of wealth.

Health in Wealth® Ep 24 - The Structure of Freedom with Patricia Ramirez

Hello, and welcome back to Health in Wealth®. I am Ana Ramos, and I am really glad you are here. Today’s conversation is for anyone who has felt the pull toward freedom and then found themselves standing in the unfamiliar space that follows. We talk a lot about leaving environments that no longer fit. Leaving the corporate path. Leaving predictability. Leaving identities that once made sense. What we talk about less is what happens afterward. The moment when freedom feels expansive and unsettling at the same time. When certainty falls away before anything new has taken its place. My guest today, Patricia Ramirez, is living inside that moment. She spent years building a successful career inside large institutions — law, finance, and global corporations — and then made the decision to step away. Not because she failed. But because the framework she was living inside no longer aligned. What followed was not clarity or relief. It was uncertainty. Financial questions. A shift in relationships. A loss of external validation. And the necessity of rebuilding rhythm, confidence, and identity in real time. What makes this conversation honest is that Patricia does not speak from resolution. She speaks from experience. From the middle. From a place where freedom still requires courage, structure, and daily choice. This episode is about what it means to leave the box, and what it actually takes to build a life that can hold that freedom. So take a breath. Settle in. And let us talk about the structure of freedom.

Health in Wealth® Ep 23 - The Architecture of Success with Nelly Pineda

Hello, and welcome back to Health in Wealth®. I am Ana Ramos… and I am really glad you are here. Today, I want to begin with a question we rarely slow down enough to ask. What does success actually require over time? Not the day you arrive. Not the moment something goes right. But the years in between. So much of what we are taught about success today focuses on the outcome. Visualize it. Manifest it. Push harder. But what is often missing from that conversation is the structure that has to exist underneath: The mindset that sustains effort. The discipline that does not come from punishment. And the relationship with the body that makes long-term success possible at all. That is why I find myself returning, again and again, to athletes. Not because they win But because they understand process. Athletes understand something deeply human: That growth involves discomfort. That failure is information. And that success is something you build... patiently, deliberately, and in partnership with your body. My guest today, Nelly Pineda, has spent decades working with athletes at the highest levels. And what emerged in our conversation is that the qualities athletes develop — mindset, intentional goals, and disciplined consistency — are not exclusive to sport. They are a universal life blueprint. They shape how we lead… How we work… How we relate to money… How we care for our health… And how we define success without abandoning ourselves along the way. This conversation is not about becoming an athlete. It is about learning what athletes can teach us about building a life that is strong enough to hold us. So… take a breath. Settle in. And let us explore the architecture of success together

Health in Wealth® Ep 22 - Reconnection in a Disconnected World | Nature, Play, and Finding Your Way Back with Mickey Tennis

Hello, and welcome back to Health in Wealth®. I’m Ana Ramos. Have you ever felt like life is moving so fast… that you don’t quite feel like yourself inside of it anymore? Not because anything is necessarily wrong. But because everything feels constant. The noise. The pace. The pressure to keep going. Today’s conversation is about that feeling and where it may actually be coming from. Today we explore what it means to live in a world that is always “on”… and what happens to us, both mentally and physically, when we lose connection to something much more natural, much more grounding. Because many of us don’t realize that the way we feel - overwhelmed, anxious, disconnected - is not just about how much we’re doing. It’s about what we’re no longer connected to. We explore how that connection begins early in life. How our experiences as children - our exposure to nature, to play, to curiosity - shape not only how we see the world, but how we regulate ourselves within it. And we also explore something deeply important… how to find your way back. Back to presence. Back to simplicity. Back to the small moments that bring you into yourself again. Because sometimes, what we call burnout… is actually disconnection. And the path forward may not be about doing more, but about reconnecting to what we’ve quietly moved away from. So, take a breath. Settle in. Let us begin.