Wisdom Stripes with Meg Tuohey

87. How Storytelling Heals: A Screenwriter's Journey Through Loss and Forgiveness | Simbi Hall

Episode 87 | How Storytelling Heals: A Screenwriter's Journey Through Loss and Forgiveness | Simbi Hall What if the stories we tell on screen are actually the stories we need to heal within ourselves? In this raw, layered, and quietly extraordinary episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Simbi Hall, screenwriter, director, producer, and storyteller whose work spans film, television, and live shows, including the Academy Awards red carpet. Simbi joined this conversation days after losing her father and her aunt in the same week, while her mother was in the ER. She recorded it anyway, because she had something to say. This conversation is about grief, storytelling, forgiveness, community, and the radical act of staying soft when life tries to make you hard. 🎧 Tune in and learn: * What it means to catch yourself hardening and why staying soft is the braver choice * Why storytelling is how we get to world peace and comedy is how we let it in * Sometimes your biological family is just relatives and that distinction can set you free * How directing live TV and directing grief require the same skill set * Is what I'm about to do creating peace, or the opposite? The question that changes everything. Have the coffee. Get the hug. Ask for what you need. This one will stay with you. 💚 💡 Featured Resources: Follow Simbi: @simbihall on Instagram Watch her film, Long Story Short: https://watch.afi.com/movie/long-story-short-4 [https://watch.afi.com/movie/long-story-short-4] 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com [http://yourheartprint.com/] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

86. Your Body Already Knows How to Heal. Here's the Science Behind It. | Dr. Joy Kong

EPISODE 86 | Your Body Already Knows How to Heal. Here's the Science Behind It. | Dr. Joy Kong What if your body already knows how to heal, and medicine has just been getting in the way? In this fascinating episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Dr. Joy Kong, a UCLA-trained, triple board-certified physician in psychiatry, addiction medicine, and anti-aging and regenerative medicine. Dr. Kong is the president of Chara Health in Los Angeles, founder of the American Academy of Integrative Cell Therapy, and a 73rd-generation descendant of Confucius. She has dedicated her career to one question: what would medicine look like if we actually tried to heal people? This conversation moves from stem cells and mesenchymal therapy to peptides, ozone, ketamine, and the mental health system Dr. Kong herself was caught inside, maxed out on Prozac in medical school, now off all antidepressants for years. 🎧 Tune in and learn: * What stem cell therapy actually is, and why your body already has the tools to regenerate * Why autoimmune conditions, long COVID, and chronic illness respond so well to this approach * The 9/11 responder who was told he was dying, and what happened after three sessions * What peptides actually do and why over 30 are now used in Dr. Kong's clinic * How ketamine therapy helps the brain rewire trauma, explained in plain language Your body is a gift. This episode is an invitation to start treating it like one. 💚 💡 Featured Resources: 🧬 Chara Health: charahealth.com [http://charahealth.com/] 📖 Tiger of Beijing, Dr. Kong's memoir 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com [http://yourheartprint.com/] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

85. How to Build Resilience When You Have Nothing to Start With | Rich Robledo

Episode 85 | How to Build Resilience When You Have Nothing to Start With with Rich Robledo Eyes up. Keep going. Life is going to punch you. What matters is what you do next. In this grounded, energizing episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Rich Robledo, entrepreneur, real estate broker, community leader, and founder of both the Robledo Group and Cigars and Conversation, a networking hub that has brought together business minds from across the country, including the Governor of Nevada. Rich grew up with a teenage mother and an absent alcoholic father, navigated the 2008 recession without a safety net, and built a life and a career around one simple principle: if you've done well, you have an obligation to do good. This conversation is warm, practical, and deeply human. It is about resilience, connection, mentorship, and what it really means to show up every day when showing up is hard. 🎧 Tune in and learn: * What eyes up actually means, and how to find the helpers when you feel alone * Why resilience is a muscle, not a stock, and how to build more of it * The art of the phone call, the thank you note, and why connection is a skill we have to practice * Why a non-decision is still a decision, and what avoidance is really costing you * Don't let your imagination be your limitation: how new rooms change what you think is possible Take the punch. Take your breath. Lift your eyes. Look for the helpers. 💚 💡 Featured Resources: Connect with Rich: @RichRobledo | richrobledo.com [http://richrobledo.com/] Cigars and Conversation: follow Rich online for upcoming events 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com [http://yourheartprint.com/] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

84. She Spent 20 Years Hating Herself. Here's How She Finally Broke Free | Alexis Meruelo

Episode 84 | She Spent 20 Years Hating Herself. Here's How She Finally Broke Free with Alexis Meruelo She spent 20 years trapped in a cycle of self-hatred, limiting beliefs, and an eating disorder she hid from the world. Now she helps women do in months what took her decades. In this warm and deeply honest episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Alexis Meruelo, Chief Vision and Purpose Officer of Meruelo Group, women's empowerment advocate, keynote speaker, and author of the upcoming book Rising to Lead. Alexis grew up in a Cuban-Latin culture where women were taught to stay quiet, serve, and not take up space. There is even a saying for it: "te ves mas bonita cuando te callas." You look prettier when you're quiet. For 20 years, she believed it. Then everything fell apart. And she rebuilt herself from the floor up. Now she mentors dozens of young women, speaks at conferences around the world, and is on a mission to help women identify and rewrite the limiting beliefs that are quietly keeping them from the life and career they were built for. 🎧 Tune in and learn: * How to identify where your limiting beliefs came from and why knowing the source is the first step to releasing them * What growing up in Latin machismo culture taught her about silence, worthiness, and women's power * Why your greatest purpose will always stem from your greatest pain, and how to find it when you're still in the thick of it * What real mentorship looks like for women in business (and why a woman with a mentor is 5x more likely to get promoted) * How to break generational money beliefs holding Latina women back and become the one who changes the lineage The only thing holding you back is the story you have been telling yourself. This episode is an invitation to rewrite it. 💚 💡 Featured Resources: Connect with Alexis: @alexismeruelo Website: alexismeruelo.com Women's Conference: The Business of Her, November, Sahara Las Vegas 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

83. Prevention Over Pills: What the Healthcare System Isn't Telling You | Sam Tejada

Episode 83 | Prevention Over Pills: What the Healthcare System Isn't Telling You with Sam Tejada A chronically ill patient has one wish. A healthy person has many. Which side of that coin are you on? In this grounding and eye-opening episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Sam Tejada, founder and president of LiquiVida, a multimillion-dollar wellness company revolutionizing preventative health and IV therapy across the United States. Sam's path began as a lifeguard teaching kids not to drown, evolved into 12 years as a firefighter-paramedic watching the same patients spiral into chronic illness, and transformed when he saw a cardiac surgeon quietly reversing disease by changing how people lived. This conversation is a masterclass in taking ownership of your health, before crisis forces you to. 🎧 Tune in and learn: * The three pillars of modern health: prevention, early detection, and treatment intervention * Four free things you can start today: say no, eat right, move your body, sleep better * Why toxins in food, water, and your environment are the root cause of most modern disease * What Sam witnessed watching low-income and ultra-wealthy patients in the same decade and why information is the real divide * Why, if you want to change the system, do you have to get yourself into a position of power to change it Your health is not just for you. It's for everyone who depends on you. This episode is your reminder to make it a priority. 💡 Featured Resources: 🧬 LiquiVida: liquivida.com [http://liquivida.com/] Website: www.SamTejada.com [http://www.samtejada.com/] 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com [http://yourheartprint.com/] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]