Welcome to Living Simpler — the podcast for high-achieving women who are doing all the "right" things but still feel tired, bloated, burned out, and wondering, "What the heck happened to me?" Hosted by Amy Mewborn, former finance executive turned wellness entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, bestselling author, and certified Integrative Health Practitioner, this show is your weekly invitation to step out of survival mode and into the life and health you actually want. Each episode breaks down the…
What if the stroke, the cough that would not quit, the mold exposure, and the autoimmune diagnosis were never separate stories at all? That is the question at the center of this episode, and it is the question that built the entire foundation of Living Simpler. Amy Mewborn takes you inside her own health story, from a stroke at age twenty nine to nine months of an unexplained cough, to mold…
You wake up before your feet even hit the floor, and your chest is already tight. That is not a personality trait. That is your nervous system, and it might be running your entire day without you even knowing it. In this episode, Amy Mewborn breaks down one of the most overlooked pieces of the wellness puzzle, the state of your nervous system, and why it may be affecting your digestion, your…
SHOW NOTES There is a moment almost every woman hits somewhere in her 40s. You look at your energy, your sleep, your jeans, and your mood, and think, who authorized this. Because something changed, and it did not ask permission. In this episode, Amy Mewborn breaks down why the strategies that used to work, cutting back for a couple weeks, skipping dessert, adding a few workouts, stop producing…
Your brain is not designed to make you happy. It is designed to keep you predictable, and that is probably the real reason you keep starting over. In this episode, Amy Mewborn breaks down why two people can hear the exact same opportunity and walk away with two completely different futures. One says this could change everything. The other says that would never work for me. Same information. Same…
If you have been doing everything right and still feel exhausted, wired at night, foggy, puffy, or like your own body has become unpredictable, this episode is going to explain why, and what to do about it. Host Amy Mewborn opens this episode with an honest look at the high achieving woman who is holding everything together on the outside while quietly falling apart on the inside. She is managing…
If your wellness routine feels like one more job you are failing at, this episode is for you. Amy Mewborn unpacks the hidden pattern behind wellness burnout. High achieving women collect rule after rule trying to feel better. Drink more water. Cut sugar. Walk more. Track everything. Take the supplements. Get to bed early. And somehow, the more rules you follow, the more behind you feel. In this…
You keep everyone else's world running smoothly while your own body quietly falls apart. If that sentence made your stomach drop a little, this episode was recorded for you. In this episode of Living Simpler, Amy Mewborn talks directly to the woman who looks like she has it all together on the outside while feeling tired, puffy, anxious, and off on the inside. She is the woman everyone counts on.…
Your body keeps the score of everything you push through, even when your mind has already moved on. That tight jaw, that shoulder tension that never fully releases, that wired but exhausted feeling at the end of the day, none of it is random. In this episode, Amy Mewborn breaks down somatic healing in the simplest terms possible. Somatic simply means body based, and somatic healing is the practice…
Your body has been in emergency mode, and nobody told you. If you wake up already running through everything you need to do, if you can't turn your brain off at night, if you feel tired but wired, or if stress has just become your normal, this episode is the permission slip your body has been waiting for. Amy Mewborn breaks down one of the most misunderstood pieces of women's health in one of the…
Fifty years in, and the most powerful thing I can tell you is this: coming home to yourself might be the greatest work of your life. This is Part Two of a milestone series. Amy Mewborn shares lessons 26 through 50, built from five decades of living, building, breaking, healing, and becoming. From two careers and two marriages to a stroke, an ICU birthday, an autoimmune diagnosis, and the creation…
You have probably tried a detox before and felt worse by day three. That is not a personal failure. That is a sign that the detox you were sold was not designed for how your body actually works. This episode is one of the most practical, grounded conversations Amy has ever recorded on detox. Not a juice cleanse. Not a five-day program. Not a chalky powder that promises to fix everything. This is…