Thrive with Cate Stillman Podcast

About this episode:
In this episode of the Thrive with Cate Stillman Podcast, Cate Stillman leads a live session from Club Thrive, sharing insights from her own recovery after hip replacement surgery while guiding participants through a gut health and fasting reset.
This conversation dives deep into the relationship between fasting, the microbiome, and adipose (fat) tissue—revealing how the body naturally detoxifies and regenerates when given the right conditions. Cate explains how practices like the fast mimicking diet, microbiome reset, and 72-hour fasting activate autophagy, improve metabolic health, and reshape cravings at their root.
Through a blend of modern science and Ayurvedic wisdom, she reframes fat tissue as an active endocrine organ and highlights how stored toxins, microbes, and inflammation influence behavior, energy, and long-term health.
Beyond the physiology, this session also explores the mental and emotional aspects of fasting—how to navigate cravings, build awareness, and use community support to move through resistance and create lasting change.
Key Takeaways:
Autophagy & Detoxification: How fasting allows the body to "upcycle" itself by breaking down and recycling damaged cells for optimal function.
Adipose Tissue as an Endocrine Organ: Why fat tissue plays a central role in hormones, cravings, and overall metabolic health.
Microbiome Reset: Understanding the "battle" between good and bad microbes—and how diet and fasting shift the balance.
Cravings Explained: How detoxing fat tissue and starving dysbiotic microbes can temporarily intensify cravings—and why that's a sign of progress.
Fasting as a Skill: Why practicing fasting regularly builds resilience, clarity, and even prepares the body for deeper states of healing and integration.
Community & Repetition: How doing this work in a group setting makes transformation easier, more sustainable, and more impactful over time.
Resources & Links:
Wellness Pro Academy: https://wellnesspro.academy Yogahealer: https://www.yogahealer.com
About the Host – Cate Stillman: Cate Stillman is an Ayurvedic practitioner, author, and founder of Yogahealer and Wellness Pro Academy. For over 25 years, she has guided wellness professionals and individuals to align their habits, health, and business with natural intelligence and sustainable practices.
Tune in and reflect: "What would shift in your body and mind if you trusted its natural ability to reset, detox, and renew?"

In this fascinating conversation, I sit down with Julie Ryan, a serial entrepreneur and inventor of surgical devices, to explore the "buffet of psychicness." Julie reveals that psychic ability isn't a rare gift for the "chosen few"—it is a physiological part of our anatomy that anyone can learn to activate.
After years in the medical supply industry, Julie pivoted to mastering medical intuition and mediumship. She now teaches students globally how to scan the human body like a "human MRI" and communicate with spirits instantly, bypassing the need for long meditations or complex rituals.
 
Together, we explore:
The Satellite Dish Brain: How to tune your frequency to communicate with any spirit—living or dead.
The "Human MRI": How medical intuitives identify energetic blocks, broken bones, and even baby spirits waiting to be conceived.
Energy Field Membranes: Understanding the "Saran Wrap" container of your spirit and how energy leaks precede medical conditions.
Ancestral Clearing: The power of rituals like Tarpanam to digest generational trauma and clear inherited patterns. 
Past Life Scripts: Why we often repeat the same basic "script" across multiple lifetimes from different perspectives.
De-conditioning the Mind: How our education system trained us to ignore our intuition in favor of being "good employees."
This episode is an invitation to move beyond doubt and fear and reclaim a lost part of your human anatomy. Whether you are a wellness professional or simply curious about the "woo-way," this conversation provides the bridge between practical science and spiritual wisdom.
Notable Quote: "Everybody has the ability. You don't need any special skills. We all come in with the hardware."
Connect with Julie Ryan:
Website: askjulieryan.com  
Free Gift (Digital & Audio Book): julieryangift.com  
Trainings: Two-day psychic ability workshops (In-person and Online)
Connect with Cate Stillman:
Website: wellnesspro.academy
Podcast: Thrive with Cate
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What if the crisis you're trying to fix is actually an invitation?
In this intimate and wide-ranging conversation, I sit down with Dr. Claudia Welch to explore near-death experiences, menopause, identity collapse, and the spiritual art of surrender.
After surviving a life-threatening case of MRSA pneumonia, Claudia found herself stripped of certainty, control, and even aspects of her professional identity. What emerged wasn't just physical healing—but a profound shift in how she relates to death, leadership, and the second half of life.
Together, we explore:
The true meaning of "sacrifice" — to make sacred

What illness can dismantle (and reveal) about identity

Why menopause is mythological—not just hormonal

The danger of over-identifying with being the expert

"Sell your knowledge, purchase bewilderment"

Death awareness as a clarifier of what truly matters

The Vanaprastha (forest dweller) stage of midlife

Leadership beyond hustle and control

This episode isn't about optimizing harder.
It's about loosening your grip.
If you're navigating midlife, health changes, burnout, or a quiet internal shift you can't quite name—this conversation will meet you there.
Notable Quote:
"Be ready to leave everyone and everything at any time."
Listen in for a deeply reflective dialogue on surrender, maturity, and what it means to lead—and live—from depth rather than dominance.
 
 
Connect with Dr. Claudia Welch:
Website: https://drclaudiawelch.com
Menopause Chronicles: https://drclaudiawelch.com
Book: Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life
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About this episode:
In this episode of the Thrive with Cate Podcast, Cate Stillman is joined by spiritual author, intuitive guide, and former lawyer Patrick Paul Garlinger for a rich, multidimensional conversation on bending time, identity, depth work, and awakening within modern professional life.
Patrick shares his unconventional journey from Spanish literature professor to New York City lawyer—and ultimately into a life devoted to spiritual inquiry, intuition, and channeled wisdom. Together, Cate and Patrick explore how deeply ingrained identities, cultural conditioning, and productivity-driven mindsets shape our experience of time, growth, and selfhood.
At the heart of the conversation is Patrick's concept of "Bending Time" not as a productivity hack, but as a spiritual and relational practice of seeing the present without projecting the past onto it. They unpack how we unconsciously relate to people, work, and ourselves through old filters, and how true transformation requires slowing down, entering vulnerability, and allowing depth to emerge organically.
Cate weaves in reflections from her work with Club Thrive, including the distinction between growth paths and depth paths, somatic healing, leadership, and the necessity of safe containers for professionals undergoing identity shifts. Patrick speaks candidly about depression, childhood trauma, intuition, channeling, and why not all healing is fast or meant to be.
Rather than offering surface-level self-improvement, this episode invites listeners into a more honest relationship with time, becoming, and the unknown where awakening unfolds one step at a time.
Key Takeaways:
What "bending time" really means in daily life and relationships
Why we often relate to people through past versions of them—and how to stop
Growth path vs. depth path: why both are essential
Identity, professionalism, and the cost of predictability
Vulnerability and intimacy as gateways to transformation
Channeling, writing, and capturing insight before it disappears
Why healing often requires slowing down not fixing faster
Reference links:
Official Website and Endless Awakening: www.endlessawakening.com

About the Host – Cate Stillman:
Cate Stillman is an Ayurvedic practitioner, author, and founder of Yogahealer and Club Thrive. For over two decades, she has guided individuals and wellness professionals to reconnect with body intelligence, ancestral wisdom, and aligned leadership rooted in biological reality.
🌿 Yogahealer → https://www.yogahealer.com 🌿 Club Thrive → https://clubthrive.global
Tune in and reflect:
Where are you living from an old version of yourself and what might become possible if you allowed the present to meet you fresh?

About this episode:
In this episode of the Thrive with Cate Podcast, Cate Stillman is joined by spiritual teacher, Ayurvedic lineage holder, and author Maya Tiwari for a deep and necessary conversation on Shakti, ancestral healing, and embodied feminine wisdom.
Together, Cate and Maya explore what modern wellness culture often avoids: the role of darkness, descent, illness, and loss as initiatory forces in true healing. Maya shares how **Shakti—the primal feminine intelligence—**is not something to be optimized or bypassed, but something remembered through presence, surrender, and devotion to biological and spiritual truth.
Drawing from her lived experience, classical Ayurveda, and decades of spiritual practice, Maya reframes healing as remembrance—of ancestral memory, cellular intelligence, and the cyclical nature of creation and dissolution. Cate weaves in reflections on leadership, motherhood, illness, and navigating spiritual truth within modern systems.
Rather than offering surface-level self-improvement, this conversation invites a deeper reckoning with what it means to live in alignment with body intelligence, feminine sovereignty, and sacred rhythm in a world shaped by extraction and control.
Key Takeaways:
Shakti as a biological, ancestral, and cosmic intelligence

Why darkness and descent are essential to regeneration

Ancestral memory, vasanas, and embodied healing

The loss of feminine rites and womb-based wisdom

Surrender as a radical act of sovereignty

Living spiritual truth inside modern culture

This episode is especially meaningful for women and seekers navigating identity shifts, illness, grief, or a deeper call to embodied leadership and remembrance.
Connect with Maya Tiwari:
🌿 Website → https://www.mayatiwari.com 📘 Featured Book: NEW – I Am Shakti 📘 I Am Shakti → https://www.mayatiwari.com/i-am-shakti
🔹 Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/mayatiwari 🔹 Wise Earth Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/wiseearth 🔹 YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/mayatiwari
Cate's books:
🌿 Yogahealer → https://www.yogahealer.com 🌿 Club Thrive → https://clubthrive.global
📘 Body Thrive → https://www.yogahealer.com/body-thrive 📘 Primal Habits → https://www.yogahealer.com/primal-habits
About the Host – Cate Stillman:
Cate Stillman is an Ayurvedic practitioner, author, and founder of Yogahealer and Club Thrive. For over two decades, she has guided individuals and wellness professionals to reconnect with body intelligence, ancestral wisdom, and aligned leadership rooted in biological reality.
Tune in and reflect:
What part of your power is asking to be remembered—not fixed?