Happy Monday!
Junior had a great weekend! Both Junior's and Bernadette's NFL teams won this weekend, so they're happy! Bernadette is wondering what the Super Bowl will be like this year in the midst of a pandemic? Who knows! We have a great show coming up today! At the half, we have Cyndi O'Meara, Founder of Changing Habits talking about what ingredients we need to add to our life to have a happy holidays, so stick around! First up, we have Stephanie Toups talking about Self Care, so let's get started!
Stephanie Toups
Stephanie is a consumer advocate professional particularly focused on safety in food and personal care products. She became fascinated with the industry when she was diagnosed with a thyroid autoimmune disorder while pregnant with her second child. Stephanie has always been fascinated with education and holds both an undergraduate and Master’s degree in Accounting and Finance from Texas A&M University. She is a Certified Public Accountant and has owned and operated numerous businesses in the Dallas area.
The Importance Of Self Care
Self care at the heart of it is the relationship to self. Rather than narrowly defining self care to a strictly beauty or physical element, it’s really a much broader scope. Weaving self care into the work place and Into the work day is so important! Work self care into your day, no matter what. Especially during a pandemic, our needs for self care have changed. We can’t forget men in the self care mix! For Junior, he doesn’t think that self care is promoted as much to men as it is to women. Stephanie agrees! Take the word “should” out of the sentence “self care.” Take time in the morning to identify what you need the most during the day.

Pick a day that you designate for ultimate self care! Stephanie says to ignore the buzz words and the "buzz products" that might be in your line of sight when you are in line to check out. Be aware of the toxicity that is in self care products. Most people are aware of the toxicity of genetically modified foods, but many forget about self care sets like perfumed soaps and soaks.
Cyndi O'Meara
Cyndi is an internationally acclaimed nutritionist, author, and documentary maker. She is the founder of Changing Habits which is an educational health and nutrition business. Cyndi has authored and self-published ‘Changing Habits Changing Lives’ prior to creating the documentary What’s With Wheat? in 2016. What’s With Wheat? investigates how the modern agricultural practices of wheat growing has produced a product that is making people more susceptible to disease.
Ingredients For A Healthy Holiday
Everything on Cyndi's site using ethos! Ethics! To be the most authentic, innovative and impactful whole food company, Cyndi and Changing Habits makes sure that everything that they sell is to the utmost standards. By educating people on food choices, how to read food labels, why diets don’t work, and how drugs can affect your total well-being and vitality, Cyndi empowers them to make long lasting changes with simple and achievable steps on how to create healthier habits. Cyndi says that she can tell if a company is a "thinker" or a stinker by just looking at the ingredient list on the packaging! Changing habits only uses fair trade and non GMO ingredients in all their products.

At Changing Habits, they believe that educating people about whole food is the key to a rebellion. They believe that everyone has a right to understand what makes food healthy. Changing Habits believe that when we know better, we eat better. When we eat better, we live better. And when we live better, we create a ripple effect that impact generations to come. Cyndi knows that everyone wants to eat healthfully. Cyndi O'Meara knows that most people know that eating healthy is important.
 Thank You!
A big thank you to our guests, Stephanie Toups and Cyndi O'Meara!