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Indie Business Radio: Staying Healthy With Chinese Medicine

Simple Ancient Remedies For Health and Fitness

Today's Indie Business owner is stressed from all sides. In addition to having to own and manage a business, we also have to manage our lives. Because there is such a huge overlap between the two, we sometimes forget how important it is not only to create a healthy business but also to be healthy ourselves.

                 

Today's guest on Indie Business Radio was Michelle O'Shaughnessy, an esthetician, licensed Chinese herbal medicine practitioner and the author of Nourish Your Skin & Body with Traditional Chinese Medicine. You can watch and listen to the show here by clicking the arrow above. Please turn up your volume a little more than usual so you can hear the guest. (I figured out after the show that I need to tweak one of the audio feeds in order for you to hear the guest better. Sorry about that - I figure I'll make all the mistakes so you don't have to!) Once the show audio is edited, it will be loaded as always to Indie Business Radio.com in a few days. In the meantime, there are tons of other shows over there that you can enjoy!

You can reach Michelle and purchase her healthy healing soups at her website. The soups are designed by Michelle and her husband, who is a chef. If you are in the Orlando, Florida area, you can also visit Michelle's clinic at Aesthetic Acupuncture Clinic.

Fit Indie: Rhonda Hodge of Diva SpaWorks

Texas Indie Beauty Network Member Has Healthy Message For All

Lately, I am rediscovering the connection between healthy habits and a successful business. I feel fortunate that my business is successful, and I have a lot of people to thank for that. On the other hand, now that I'm increasing my fitness level, I am more curious and inspired by other Indie Business owners who incorporate fitness into their lives on a more regular basis than I have up until now. My blog is a great place to inspire myself and others to combine fitness of body with fitness of mind, spirit and business.

       

Lucky for me, there are tons of Fit Indies in the Indie Beauty Network. Last month, I profiled IBN member and Fit Indie Candace Sweeney in my weekly newsletter. Today, I'm excited to introduce you to Rhonda Hodge, a Fit Indie and the owner of Diva SpaWorks in Murphy, Texas. Here's what Rhonda is teaching me about the importance of fitness.

The Fit Indie

Fitness Is Changing My Life and My Business

In late June, I started a healthy lifestyle program. I have to admit that it really wasn't much of a program. More of a more serious desire to be a Fit Indie. At the beginning, I took a sort of relaxed approach to things. I worked out when I could, changed my eating habits a little (but not nearly enough) and began to generally be more conscious about how I was treating my body. Then, in August, my neighbor, friend and sometime walking partner underwent gastric bypass surgery. The next day, she told me she felt like she had been run over by a truck. Sometimes I felt that way and I hadn't even had surgery. And that's not good.

      

Watching my neighbor go through the gastric thing kicked me into more of a high gear. I didn't want to ever have to go that route. Not that there's anything wrong with it -- I support my friend as she finds her own path to wellness. We have the same general goals, but I felt that surgery was not for me. So earlier this month, I stepped it up. I have lost 6 pounds so far this month.