Hopeful and Wholesome: Wellness, Nutrition, Inner Healing and Self-Improvement for High Achieving Women and Entrepreneurs

<p>Tangible tips, actionable steps, and expert insights for health, wellness, mindset and self-improvement for high-achieving women, including entrepreneurs and business owners! Host Hope Pedraza, a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, Certified Holistic Nutritionist, Reiki Practitioner, Human Design Guide, and multi-certified fitness expert, brings you weekly episodes to transform your mind, body, and soul and help you navigate the life of a high-achieving woman who wants her physical energy to match with her business success and ability to share her mission with the world and achieve the impossible.</p><p><br /></p><p>Explore topics like:</p><p>•Nutrition and functional medicine for holistic health</p><p>•Energy healing, Reiki, and Human Design for alignment</p><p>•Mindset, trauma healing, and spiritual growth</p><p>•Wellness strategies for living with purpose and clarity</p><p><br /></p><p>Join Hope and inspiring guests—top wellness experts, self-development leaders, and trailblazing entrepreneurs—for transformative conversations designed to help you <em>live your best life with hope and purpose.</em></p><p><br />Learn more about hope at hopefulandwholesome.com and follow her on Instagram @thehopepedraza to learn more!</p>

Your Smartest Health Strategy? Learning Your Body’s Frequency Language with Kendra Woods

Send us a text What if your symptoms weren’t problems to fix, but messages to decode? This special series takes you inside my Frequency Recalibration Sessions, where functional wisdom meets energy frequency medicine and the Healy helps us map and harmonize the field behind your physiology. Each guest completed a session + 2-week integration and returns to share what shifted in their body, energy, and leadership. If your labs say “fine” but your intuition says “more,” this is your bridge to co...

11-07
42:08

When Healing Takes Longer Than You Planned: Holding Faith + Identity Through the In-Between with Vanessa Lopez

Send us a text What happens when your healing journey refuses to follow your timeline? When the results you expected don’t arrive… and you’re still waiting for clarity, energy, or answers? In this powerful and deeply honest conversation, Vanessa Lopez, host of the Intentionally Well podcast and wellness advocate, invites us behind the scenes of her own long, nonlinear healing season. We talk about identity, grief, hope, and what it really means to stay grounded when your body and your life do...

11-04
39:28

The Future of Functional Healing: Why Energy Frequency Medicine Changes Everything

Send us a text If you’ve ever done everything right (followed the protocol, cleaned up your diet, taken all the supplements) and still felt exhausted, anxious, or off… This episode will change the way you think about healing forever. We’ve reached the edge of functional medicine as we know it. The future of wellness isn’t about what you take, it’s about what you transmit. In this solo episode, I am sharing the new paradigm she’s pioneering: Energy Frequency Medicine. It’s w...

10-28
35:08

Why Rest Feels Unsafe (and How to Retrain Your Brain to Heal) with Grace Secker

Send us a text Have you ever wondered why your body still holds onto pain, fatigue, or chronic symptoms, despite everything you’ve tried? In this powerful episode, I sit down with Grace Secker, licensed therapist, certified yoga therapist, and nervous system coach, to uncover how trauma, stress, and emotional bypassing keep us stuck in cycles of pain and exhaustion. Grace shares her groundbreaking Mind-Body Healing Method and how retraining the brain, regulating the nervous system, and allowi...

10-21
31:11

Clean Beauty Made Simple: How to Ditch Toxins and Still Look Amazing with Jessica Rose

Send us a text What if the secret to radiant skin, vibrant hair, and ageless beauty wasn’t another expensive cream or invasive treatment, but a simpler, holistic approach? In this episode of Hopeful & Wholesome, I sit down with Jessica Rose, certified nutritionist, licensed cosmetologist, holistic beauty expert, and author of Healthier Beauty: The Ultimate Guide to Radiant Skin, Hair, and Wellness. Jessica shares powerful strategies for cultivating beauty from the inside out, without toxi...

10-14
20:53

Stop Trying So Hard to Heal: Why "fixing yourself" is not the same thing as healing

Send us a text Are you performing your healing instead of living it? In this episode of Magnetic Minute of Hope, I'm exploring the subtle but sneaky way high-achieving women (especially those on a personal growth journey) can unknowingly turn their healing into another performance. When our quest to “fix” ourselves becomes obsessive, controlling, and urgent... we miss the actual medicine. I'm sharing my personal revelations on when healing becomes just another form of control and how tr...

10-10
07:39

Is Gluten Really Bad? What Ayurveda & Modern Science Reveal About Longevity with Dr. John Douillard

Send us a text What if the key to longevity, energy, and true health has been here for thousands of years, hidden in plain sight? Ayurveda, the world’s oldest system of natural medicine, offers a blueprint for living in alignment with nature’s rhythms and it just might hold the answers your body has been craving. In this powerful conversation, I sit down with Dr. John Douillard, DC, CAP, a globally recognized Ayurvedic and sports medicine educator, bestselling author, and host of the Ayurveda...

10-07
39:40

Is It Fear or Intuition? How to Tell What Your Body Is Really Saying

Send us a text How do you know if it’s fear keeping you stuck, or your intuition telling you no? In this episode of Magnetic Minute of Hope, we’re getting intimate with the subtle, sacred difference between your nervous system's protective patterns and your body’s intuitive wisdom. I'm unpacking the somatic signatures of fear versus intuition, how trauma can distort your gut instincts, and why surface-level “intuitive no’s” are often masked by subconscious safety programming. You'll lea...

10-03
10:56

Transforming Unseen Patterns for Highly Sensitive Women in Business with Sally Reid

Send us a text Are you a highly sensitive, high-achieving woman who’s done all the work—therapy, journaling, yoga, spiritual retreats, yet still feel like something deeper is blocking your joy? In this episode, I’m joined by Sally Reid, creator of the BLISS system, who brings a rare gift: the ability to see exactly where you’re stuck and shift the energetic patterns that no one else has touched. After two near-death experiences, Sally developed an unshakable understanding of human potential a...

09-30
34:28

The Surprising Link Between Freedom and Responsibility | How Owning Your Gifts Unlocks Your Freedom

Send us a text Responsibility often gets a bad rap. For so many of us, it carries the weight of pressure, perfectionism, and performance. But what if responsibility was never meant to feel heavy? What if it was actually the very thing that unlocks your deepest freedom? In this episode of Magnetic Minute of Hope, I’m sharing my personal transformation around the concept of responsibility, and how I moved from seeing it as control and restriction to embodying it as a sacred act of ownership.&nb...

09-26
06:01

Redefining Success and Building a Business Rooted in Energy and Ease with Kendra Woods

Send us a text What if success wasn’t about hustle, but about harmony? In this powerful conversation, I sit down with Kendra Woods, Soul-Led Breakthrough Mentor and founder of Soulful Success by Design, to explore how visionary women can build businesses rooted in soul, embodiment, and truth. Kendra shares how she walked away from corporate hustle to create a business aligned with energy and ease, and how you can do the same. Together, we dive into the identity shifts, mindset traps, and cond...

09-23
26:51

The Healing Power of Curiosity: Releasing Control, Judgment & Shame in Your Body and Business

Send us a text Are you constantly overanalyzing your symptoms, second-guessing your decisions, or trying to “fix” your feelings before fully understanding them? In this Magnetic Minute of Hope, I share how curiosity, not control, is the frequency that brings true healing. You’ll learn how to shift from judging your symptoms, emotions, and business results… to meeting them with compassionate inquiry. We explore the power of asking better questions, detaching from shame-driven thought loo...

09-19
07:47

Decode Your Numerology Blueprint: Business, Energy, and Spiritual Wealth with AnnMarie McKenzie

Send us a text What if you could decode your unique energetic blueprint and use it as a compass for both your business and your life? In this episode, I’m joined by AnnMarie McKenzie, a Soulful Business Strategist, Certified Numerologist, Speaker, and Psychic Spiritual Teacher who helps purpose-driven entrepreneurs align with their highest potential. AnnMarie blends the mystical with the practical—using numerology, energetics, and strategy—to help creatives, healers, and sensitives attract so...

09-16
38:39

Stop Absorbing, Start Observing: Emotional Freedom for Sensitive Leaders

Send us a text If you’ve ever walked into a room and felt the tension before anyone said a word… If you find yourself overwhelmed after being around certain people, even though nothing “happened”… If your mood shifts with your environment and you don’t know why… You may be carrying emotions that were never yours to begin with. In this episode, we explore the subtle but powerful energy of emotional absorption, especially for those with an undefined emotional center in Human Design or hi...

09-12
10:52

Food, Freedom & Self-Love: Redefining Health Beyond Diets with Justin Nault

Send us a text Are you ready to finally break free from diet culture and reclaim your energy, health, and joy? In this episode, I sit down with Justin Nault, founder of Clovis, who is leading a revolution against toxic diet trends, the broken medical system, and the lies we’ve been fed about food and fitness. We go deep into: ✨ Escaping toxic diet culture and the devastating effects it has on women, fertility, hormones, and overall health. ✨ Why you can’t hate your body into healing an...

09-09
31:02

How to Trust Change When You Don’t Know What’s Next | Break the addiction to "doing" and to the thought loops

Send us a text This eclipse portal is stirring ancient energy, and I want to share what is coming up for me. Even if you have no interest in astrology, this episode has lessons for all of us (because it's actually not a lesson in astrology at all!). In this week’s Magnetic Minute, I’m sharing what’s moving through me during these powerful celestial transits, through the lens of two Gene Keys that hold deep resonance in my design: Gate 3 and Gate 24. These energies are inviting me into a new r...

09-05
09:52

Grief, Growth and Health: How Trauma Shapes Health and How to Heal It with Miriam Jacobson

Send us a text What if the very experiences that broke you open were actually the keys to your deepest healing? In this episode of Hopeful & Wholesome, I’m joined by Miriam Jacobson, a triple board-certified Functional Medicine Dietitian and the founder of Every Body Bliss. With over 15 years of experience, Miriam has helped countless people resolve “mystery symptoms” like poor digestion, chronic fatigue, and mood imbalances by looking beyond surface-level solutions and diving into the in...

09-02
37:57

Why the Future of Leadership Is Feminine and How to Lead from Soul, Not Striving with Sarah Poet

Send us a text In this powerful episode, I'm joined by Sarah Poet, truth seeker, feminine leadership guide, and host of The Sacred Remembering Podcast, for a deep and rich conversation about reclaiming the divine feminine, healing wounded feminine patterns, and leading from soul instead of hustle. We explore the rise of brave feminine leadership, how to integrate feminine and masculine energy in business, and what it looks like to do entrepreneurship as a powerful woman with softness, soverei...

08-27
43:16

The Frequency Lab: How embodying your future self impacts your energy and hormones

Send us a text You can’t create a vibrant, energized life from the frequency of burnout. Your body responds to who you believe you are. In this episode, I’ll guide you through a 60-second embodiment practice to borrow from your future self and start shifting your frequency now. You’ll learn: Why your frequency shapes your biologyA simple daily embodiment tool to align with your future selfHow frequency calibration makes success feel safe in your body✨ Inside The Frequency Lab of T...

08-26
13:20

The Energy Lab: Stop Energy Leaks with Human Design | Tying your Human Design to your health

Send us a text Your body isn’t the only source of energy...your Human Design is an energetic blueprint that shows you exactly where you’re leaking power. In this part 3 of the Energy Experiment Series, I walk you through one simple experiment with your type and strategy so you can feel what it’s like to work with your energy, not against it. You’ll learn: The #1 energy leak for each Human Design typeHow following your strategy conserves energy instantlyWhy deconditioning patterns ...

08-25
16:55

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