Relevant Links
- Rachel Beck Wellness
- Thriving Together Audio Course | Rachel Beck Wellness
- Sacred Rest Audio Course | Rachel Beck Wellness
- Expert Ownership
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Greg McKeown
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, Cal Newport
- Simplicity Parenting
- NadaMoo Dairy-free Ice Cream
- Siete Chips
- OliPop
- Thrive Market
- Butcherbox
- Vital Choice
- Hillsdale College
- Community Supported Agriculture | USDA
Recommended Episodes
- Connecting Deeper with Your Spouse | Beauty in Battle Podcast
- Building Bulletproof Businesses through Christian Values with David Benham | Life on Target Podcast
- Elite Mental Performance for Every Day Life | Life on Target Podcast
- Brain Health: Sleep, Exercise, and Being of Sound Mind | Life on Target Podcast
Show Summary
- Introduction and background on Nathan hearing Rachel speak at an Expert Ownership event. [0:00]
- Greeting and thank you for being on the show. [0:04:53]
- Raising 6 sons over 25 years of marriage. [0:05:07]
- Rachel’s passion for helping women maintain their spirit and have balance in life. [0:05:42]
- Her focus on how women can integrate all of their roles and not only survive but thrive [0:06:07]
- Speaking engagements with entrepreneurs, women’s groups, and church groups. [0:06:36]
- What to expect in one-on-one meetings. Emphasis on aging well from the inside out. [0:06:41]
- Why Rachel has a passion for helping people develop good habits. [0:07:09]
- Specialty in creating space for women to implement gradual changes that grow wellness in every aspect of life. [0:07:27]
- Focusing on the key relationships in your life will make the biggest difference for your health. [0:07:49]
- While in high school, was scouted and signed with the most prestigious modeling agency in the world at that time. [0:10:39]
- Always felt the sense of an Esther calling—even at a young age. [0:10:50]
- Growing up always knowing God. [0:11:23]
- Going to high school and college part-time while modeling. [0:11:50]
- Escaping a shark filled world (modeling) relatively unscathed. [0:12:16]
- Leaving modeling to pursue a degree in European studies with an art minor at Hillsdale College. [0:12:41]
- The gift of studying under a woman who passionately loved the Lord and was a “Berean-level” student of the Bible. [0:13:09]
- Learning about the effects of sin on the human body. [0:13:25]
- Coming to realize that all creation bears witness to God. [0:15:25]
- The church has separated itself from an understanding of the natural world and gave up that understanding to people who did observe it. [0:15:48]
- “God is honored when we learn how His creation works and partner with Him.” [0:16:01]
- Building a practice of studying two hours a day for 35 years. [0:17:01]
- When God heals us, we are healed body, soul, and spirit. [0:19:12]
- God’s incredible gift of seeing what choices your kids make when they leave the house. [0:23:34]
- “What we do and who we are is the greatest teacher to our children.” [0:23:58]
- How Rachel learned that she could have been easier on herself along the parenting journey [0:24:45]
- Through God’s grace, becoming clear on the understanding that parenting, self-care, investment in marriage, and career were not separate. [0:25:04]
- Having four kids under 10, two of which were 15 months apart [0:26:04]
- When you have no time, money or energy, you can still do three extremely important things. [0:26:31]
- 95% of people’s thoughts, are the same thoughts they had yesterday, and 85% are negative. [0:26:56]
- The most important can do for our physical health is to fix our eyes on our Creator and the hope in front of us. [0:27:24]
- Even if you can’t work out, you can have amazing posture. [0:27:37]
- Focusing on breathing enables us to get into the parasympathetic nervous system and access our full capacity. [0:28:25]
- Self-care is not selfish it is strategic. [0:29:15]
- Your kids are constantly showing you where you are not yet mature. [0:34:13]
- Marriage and kids are the biggest teachers. [0:35:21]
- It is important for your kids to feel like they are heard and valued, and that their desires matter at each stage in life—regardless of age. [0:37:10]
- “We are going to have more years relating to our kids as adults as we did with them in our household.” [0:37:53]
- “You can’t teach your child what to do in every situation—you have to teach them how to make decisions.” [0:39:24]
- Create a space or your kids know that they can discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly with you. [0:39:54]
- 80% of how we look is what we eat and only 20% is how we move. [0:44:40]
- Get through the transition time of acquiring a new taste for better foods. [0:45:07]
- Many common oils used in food production are toxic and can cause systemic inflammation. [0:49:06]
- Your choice of animal protein matters because they are at the top of the food chain and can have the highest concentration of toxic chemicals. [0:50:19]
- It takes about nine times to be introduced to the food and decide if you like it. [0:51:03]
- Just taking a bite of something can help you learn to like it in the future. [0:52:02]
- Feeding yourself for how you will feel at 80 and 100, versus what tastes good right now [0:52:43]
- Practical steps for implementing healthy eating habits. [0:53:57]
- What is one thing that you could do today to move you in the right direction? [0:54:14]
- In an ideal world, you grow your produce and hunt your meat. [0:55:52]
- Online options for ordering clean foods (Thrivemarket.com, Butcherbox, Vital Choice). [0:57:00]
- When you start your day with a win, you tend to make better choices for lunch and dinner. [0:58:18]
- Take the thing you know you should do and stop or upgrade it. [0:59:34]
- Practical for entrepreneurs to take care of their wives and tend their garden well. [1:02:34]
- Giving mom one complete night off each week. [1:02:52]
- What it means to be co-regents of your household. [1:04:36]
- Strategies for staying in sync as a couple. [1:07:14]
- Finding the best channels for communication in your relationship. [1:09:01]
- Get long-term goals and make small steps toward them all the time. [1:14:31]
- Have a growth mindset and be teachable. [1:19:37]
- Parting thoughts. [1:20:33]
