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Wild Ideas Worth Living

Whole Health with Melissa Hartwig Urban

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Melissa Hartwig Urban is the powerhouse founder of the Whole30 program which, in the last decade, has amassed a huge following and helped thousands of people reset their own health, habits, and relationship with food. The mom, author, and health and wellness advocate has also recently started spending more time in the great outdoors. Melissa is also the author the new book Whole30 Friends & Family, which helps Whole30 followers stick to the program in social settings and during the holidays.

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0:00.0

How we feed ourselves for our adventures is so important and how we feed our souls even more important.

0:10.0

Today I'm speaking with a woman who's made it her life's work to help people with their health, wellness, and overall well-being for the last decade.

0:19.0

Melissa Hartwig Urban is the founder of the Whole30 program, as well as an author, a speaker, a mom, podcaster, and fellow

0:27.2

adventurer. She's someone totally unafraid and unapologetic about being 100% herself and has helped so many people in her own journey.

0:37.0

I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas worth living.

0:45.0

The Whole 30 program is a self-experiment.

0:48.0

The goal is to help you learn more about your personal relationships to different foods

0:52.0

and what works best for your body.

0:55.2

For 30 days you eat only whole unprocessed foods and you eliminate things like gluten, alcohol,

1:01.6

and dairy, things a lot of people are often sensitive to.

1:05.8

After 30 days, you slowly reintroduce certain foods and beverages one by one, and you learn

1:11.7

what does and doesn't work for you so you can best design your own custom

1:16.8

diet.

1:18.2

The objective isn't necessarily to lose weight even though a lot of people do, but merely to feel better and learn more about your body and the choices you make to fuel it.

1:28.0

Whole 30 has amassed millions of followers and it's become a bona fide health and wellness empire with

1:35.0

books, trainings, and brand collaborations. When it comes to speaking her truth in

1:40.6

living well, its founder Melissa Hartwig Urban, she walks the talk.

1:45.2

Today we're not only diving into her journey into Whole30 and how we fuel our bodies,

1:50.6

but we also talk about how we feel our minds and our souls.

1:55.2

We get into everything from tips on parenting to sleep, the outdoors, and of course,

2:01.9

how to navigate the holiday season.

2:04.0

Maybe you could tell us a little about your background and how you focused your energy on health and

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