Rock Your Bliss

In this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview their husbands, Matt & Chris. They all talk about the birth of Rock You Bliss, how it’s evolved over time and what it’s like to be a family of four, in business and life. The husbands chat about their friendship, boundaries and what bliss means to them.

In this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Megan Monohan. After working in the stressful world of the music industry for 7 years, Megan reached a breaking point in 2009 and knew that she needed to create a change. Although she was living the life she thought she always wanted, she was unhealthy, unhappy and felt burned out from life. Megan turned to The Chopra Center for Wellbeing to learn how to create life balance and manage her stress. She immediately began studying with Deepak Chopra and Dr. David Simon , the co-founders of the Chopra Center and a year later she had quit her job in music and was invited to work at The Chopra Center. After immersing herself in the teachings of meditation, yoga and ayurveda, Megan felt an unbridled passion to begin sharing these teachings in a “real way”. She is passionate about taking the esoteric nature of meditation and translating it to people in a way that empowers them to see how the benefits of a meditation practice will show up in their day to day life. Megan brings to her clients the individual, practical, and realistic tools, techniques, and motivation needed to transform their lives.

In this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, MB interviews Jacki. They jam on what bliss currently means to Jacki and the elusive and ever-evolving pursuit of balance in the day-to-day. Jacki talks about her love of visioning and when to shift into a new vision for the future when it feels right. Oh, and we talk about goals, the hangovers that happen when you meet them and speaking to your future self.

In this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki interviews MB. They jam on what bliss currently means to MB, where bliss lives in the body, and how to craft new perspectives moment-to-moment. They explore MB’s life practices and how they help MB navigate balance in her routine. They also dive into gratitude, failure, learning and MB shares her three favorite teachers and how they inform her life, now.

In this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview MC Yogi. MC Yogi is a graffiti artist, yoga instructor, and hip hop musician on a mission to bring good energy into the world. He and his wife, Amanda, have taught yoga and performed everywhere from headlining festivals, colleges and nightclubs, to the Forbidden City in China and even at The White House. When they’re not on the road, MC YOGI and Amanda teach at their home studio, Point Reyes Yoga, in Northern California. Merging yoga, music and art, MC Yogi shows us how to discover our own true path. He has just come out with his first book, SPIRITUAL GRAFFITI: Finding My Truth Path, which we both read and loved learning all about his remarkable transformation from juvenile delinquent to an International Best-Selling Musician and Yoga Teacher.

In this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Melissa Hartwig. Melissa is a Certified Sports Nutritionist who specializes in helping people change their relationship with food and create lifelong, healthy habits. She is the co-creator of the original Whole30 program, a four-time New York Times bestselling author (It Starts With Food, The Whole30, Food Freedom Forever, and The Whole30 Cookbook). She has been featured by Dr. Oz, Good Morning America, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Details, Shape, Outside, and SELF, and ranked #27 on Greatists Top 100 Most Influential People in Health and Fitness in 2017. Melissa has presented more than 150 health and nutrition seminars worldwide, and is a prominent keynote speaker on social media and branding, health trends, and entrepreneurship. Melissa enjoys kettlebell training, yoga, hiking, solo traveling, and riding her motorcycle. She lives in Salt Lake City, UT.

Welcome to Season 3! In this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB talk about what home feels like right now, in this fall season. They explore their personal relationships with food, health and the responsibility of choice in our lives. They share what workouts they are loving right now and how those new routines have empowered and supported their physical and mental practices. And, they talk about the power of a pause.

In this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Tiffany Russo. Tiffany was born and bred in sunny Southern California, a rare breed, a total native in SoCal! She has completed her 500 SmartFLOW teacher training certification under the guide of her teacher and mentor, Annie Carpenter and is now a Senior SmartFLOW teacher. She credits yoga for supplying the yin in her life to counter Los Angeles' yang-like energy. As a student and teacher, Tiffany continues to be inspired and explores the journey of the practice of yoga on and off the mat. Slowing down and staying curious is the practice of paying attention. Paying attention and connecting to our truest self, that is Yoga.

In this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Jordan Younger, AKA The Balanced Blonde. Jordan is the blogger behind the #realness-based wellness and lifestyle blog, The Balanced Blonde. She is the author of the finding-balance memoir Breaking Vegan and Soul On Fire Yoga ebook. She’s also the creator of The Balanced Blonde Soul on Fire podcast which just celebrated 1.5 million downloads. (Holy what?!) Jordan has emerged as a leading voice in the wellness space due to her authenticity, unique voice, passion for all things wellness, and her relatability. When she isn’t caught up in writer-blogger-land, you can find Jordan on the yoga mat, snuggling with her kitten, sipping on green smoothies in Brentwood, laughing way too hard at her own jokes, and training for marathons because she’s crazy.

In this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB dive deep into the stickiness of personal and business boundaries. They unravel how we define boundaries at Rock Your Bliss, why boundaries are so hard to create (and uphold), and navigate how to honor our wholeness through our "hell yes" and our "hell no”. They also lovingly explore body image and the importance of finding the pause in the everyday, to get quiet, listen in, and heal ourselves.

In this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Health Coach, Founder and CEO of Raw Beauty Talks and Founding Partners of Free to Be Talks, Erin Trealor. In 2014, Jacki met Erin in LA while she was doing an interview series of 200 women sans makeup, no photo editing, all real for Raw Beauty Talks. She was the most passionate powerhouse Canadian woman with a message to share with the World empowering women to explore a healthy body image, trust in themselves and courageous confidence. Jacki cried on camera, it got that raw. Erin is a public speaker on these topics all over the globe, coaches women and youth to be healthy and happy and is a Mama of 2!

In this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview girl crush, Mama, entrepreneur, beautiful human, writer, and good friend, Jess Davis. They ironically first found Jess through the interwebs. Ironic because Jess’ lovechild of a company, Folk Rebellion, is a movement that brings attention to offline living in the new screened-in world. She has taught them life hacks in batched inboxes, digital detoxes and real time conversation. They did a collaboration with her at a Rock Your Bliss retreat and she literally confiscated all cell phones and put them in her hotel safe and then passed out disposable cameras. It was magic. Get ready, her passion for real connection is going to rock you and she is most likely wearing glasses right now so you know she is really, really smart and good looking. She totally paid them to say that.

In this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB welcome you to Season 2 and the themes (boundaries, social media, comparison, etc.) that recur with our radical guests throughout this season. Jacki and MB also jam on exploring daily rituals (for 7 days) and how a small shift in how they end/start their days informed their moods, relationships and experience of available joy and peace moment-to-moment throughout their week.

In this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Jenny Lynn Newell, our own Community Cultivator here at RYB. She is a radiant human with a smile for days, a fiance, resident of LA and Denver, and total plant lover. We dig into how she found Rock Your Bliss, the power of creating community and how in the hell the number 20,000 showed up on her FitBit.

In this episode of the Rock Your Bliss podcast, Jacki and MB interview Lindsay Jean Thomson of Women Catalysts. Lindsay, who was diagnosed with Stage 3C breast cancer almost a year ago, shares about her journey and what she’s learned along the way. Get ready to be really inspired by this inspiring superwoman.