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Wellness Reality Check

Jess and Ashley are two health practitioners, moms and best friends trying to navigate the world of holistic health in a balanced productive way that brings health to our lives instead of dogmatic extremes. We'll be breaking down health trends, interviewing your favorite health influencers and always keeping it real. We hope this podcast brings listeners back down to earth, providing a dose of reality in the often idealized world of health and wellness.

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March 16, 2026

63 - Living in a Hypermobile Body: What Most Doctors Miss with Dr Taylor Goldberg

In this week's episode of Wellness Reality Check, we’re joined by Dr Taylor Goldberg, known online as The Hypermobile Chiropractor. Taylor is a Doctor of Chiropractic who specializes in helping people understand and navigate life in hypermobile bodies especially those who have spent years being told they’re simply “flexible” or “double jointed” without realizing there may be a deeper connective tissue pattern at play.

In this conversation, we unpack what hypermobility actually means in the body
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March 9, 2026

62 - The Chronic Illness Overlap No One is Explaining with Dr Zac Spiritos

In this week's episode of Wellness Reality Check, we’re joined by Dr. Zac Spiritos, board-certified neurogastroenterologist and co-founder of EverBetter Medicine, to unpack the complex overlap of chronic conditions that often leave patients feeling dismissed or misunderstood.

We dive deep into the gut-brain-immune connection, exploring how MCAS (mast cell activation syndrome), POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), hypermobility, and gut dysmotility intersect and why these overlappin
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March 3, 2026

61 - Breaking the Cycle of Disconnection in Marriage with Somatic Marriage Coach Becky Aste

Ashley and Jess talk with trauma-informed somatic relationship coach Becky Aste about how the nervous system shapes our relationships far more than insight or communication skills alone.

Becky shares the breaking point in her own marriage at year ten, when she and her husband, with two young kids and a long history of a “chase and run” conflict pattern, chose separation and began discussing divorce. Despite years of therapy and self-development, they felt hopeless until Becky discovered somatic
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Feb. 23, 2026

60 - The Myths That Keep Us Stuck with Jason Gandzjuk

In this week's episode Ash and Jess interview Jason Gandzjuk, a mental health and mindset coach whose work centers on nervous system regulation, core childhood wounds, and embodiment rather than quick-fix protocols.

Jason traces his story back to losing his mother at 13, a trauma that split his psyche and set him on a decades-long journey through illness, professional motocross and cycling, and over $2 million spent on doctors, therapies, and protocols that never truly resolved his symptoms. He
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Feb. 17, 2026

59 - Trimester Zero: The Foundation that Shapes Pregnancy, Birth & Baby with Vida Delrahim of WeNatal

Ashley and Jess are joined by Vida Delrahim, co-founder of We Natal, to explore why fertility must be treated as a team sport and why the often-overlooked “trimester zero” is so critical.

Vida shares her personal journey of two heartbreaking pregnancy losses, the lack of meaningful guidance from conventional care, and how her best friend and co-founder Ronit—immersed in functional medicine—helped uncover root causes like Hashimoto’s and lifestyle-driven depletion. Their experiences led them to