The Healing Heroes: Holistic Wellness for Women
Welcome to The Healing Heroes: Holistic Wellness for Women where high-achieving women finally learn how to heal for real. Each week, host Chandler Stroud sits down with world-class healers—her very own “Heroes” who helped transform her life—to reveal the unexpected, science-backed, and soul-centered practices that calm anxiety, unwind stress, heal stored trauma in the body, and rebuild self-worth from the inside out.
If you’ve ever felt like you should be happier, healthier, or more at peace… you’re not alone. This show is your invitation to come home to yourself.
Episodes
84 episodes
Healing Anxiety, Depression, & Grief Through Acupuncture: Stephanie's Story | Healing Heroines
In the newest installment of our Healing Heroine series, Chandler sits down with Stephanie, a wife, mother, yoga teacher, and Reiki master. Stephanie reflects on her profound journey that began with infant loss and led her to a spiritu...
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Why Awareness Isn’t Enough: Turning Therapy Insights Into Real Change
We often expect transformation to come from big breakthroughs, but as Hero and Psychotherapist Jen Baumgold explains, lasting change usually begins with the smallest shifts in day-to-day living. In this episode, Jen and Chandler tal...
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Your Year-End Tarot Card Reading for 2025 into 2026
With 2025 coming to a close, what better time for the first-ever collective tarot reading on the show? Hero Cait DeMello, a confidence and empowerment coach, guides Chandler through the different energies rounding out the year and s...
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Meditation, Dream Visitations, & Reconnecting with Your Inner Knowing
In our first ever one-on-one Healing Heroines episode, Chandler sits down with Sarah Hardie Johnson, a transcendental meditation enthusiast, yoga instructor, and corporate professional turned spiritual healer for an intimate look ...
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KNOW-vember: Learning to Channel and Trust Your Intuition
Welcome to KNOW-vember! Throughout the month, we continue to explore what it means to know yourself more deeply. In this solo episode, Chandler maps out why curiosity (not certainty) is the pathway to trusting your intuition, how the b...
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Special Re-Release: Reframing Retrograde Seasons
Has your life been feeling off lately? As if the energy around feels a bit chaotic all of a sudden. Maybe communication with your family, friends, or colleagues might seem disjointed and misunderstood. Or perhaps your plans keep shifti...
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When Heartbreak Awakens Purpose: Sarah's Story | Healing Heroines
After the sudden loss of her father, Sarah went searching for answers and found them in a remarkable reading with Hero and Psychic Medium Lea Morgan. In this Healing Heroines episode, Sarah and Lea trace how one surprising session open...
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Inhale, Exhale: The Transformative Effects of Breathwork
What if the way back to yourself wasn’t through the mind, but through your breath? Hero, Somatic Therapist, and Certified Rolfer Moylan Ryan explains how breath can ground you in the present and become a direct pathway to regulation. Moylan tra...
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Inner Child Work for Entrepreneurs: Liz's Story | Healing Heroines
This week's Healing Heroine is none other than Liz, a long-time small-business owner. She joins Hero and Confidence Coach Cait DeMello and host Chandler to explore what happens when entrepreneurship becomes an unexpected path of self-d...
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Yoga, Sound, & Energy Healing for Cluster Headaches: Lexi's Story | Healing Heroines
Lexi, a perinatal therapist and mother of three, has lived with cluster headaches since adolescence. These headaches evoke intense, cyclical neurological pain for hours on end. In today’s Healing Heroine episode, Lexi, Hero Nicole K...
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Change Your Life with Accountability Coaching: Diedra's Story | Healing Heroines
Chandler speaks with Hero and Accountability Coach Bonnie Heim about how compassionate accountability changed our Heroine Diedra's life. Diedra is a high-achieving finance professional with an overwhelming schedule, and had lived with an undiag...
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Rediscovering Yourself with Human Design: Lauren's Story | Healing Heroines
This week's Healing Heroine is all about how to stop going through the motions, living your life on autopilot. We hear from Hero and Human Design Coach Zach Carlsen's client, Lauren. They unpack Lauren's series of life-changing moments...
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Gaining Tools and Hope for Undiagnosed Dizziness with Myofascial Release: Sam's Story | Healing Heroines
We're back with another Healing Heroine conversation, this time with Sam, a longtime client of Hero and Myofascial Release Therapist Karen. For over 15 years, Sam suffered from severe undiagnosed dizziness with symptoms comparabl...
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Healing After Child Loss with Mindset Coaching: Jodi's Story | Healing Heroines
Our Healing Heroine series continues with Jodi, joined by Hero and Mindset Coach Katie Wee. Jodi opens up about her son, Pao, and her experience helping him navigate his mental health struggles. In this heartfelt conversation we discus...
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Healing Grief with Psychic Mediumship: Candace’s Story | Healing Heroines
Welcome to the first installment of our new series, Healing Heroines! You'll hear from remarkable women who've endured some of life's most challenging hardships and how they've navigated the road toward healing. Each conversation will ...
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Stillness & Somatic Practices for Avoiding Burnout
Are you craving calmness but struggling to slow down? Hero and Yoga Instructor Nicole Kim explores how stillness, movement, and rest work together to restore our bodies and nervous systems. With compassion and lived wisdom, Nicole shares the wa...
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The 3 Things Your Inner Child Needs and Why They Matter
Hero and Confidence Coach Cait DeMello joins Chandler to explore what she calls the “Hidden Three” unmet childhood needs: security, approval, and control. These ever-present necessities drive so many of our choices in adultho...
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Reclaiming Your Innate Joy by Understanding Qi
What if joy wasn’t something you had to earn — but something you innately possess? Hero and Acupuncturist Jacques Depardieu helps us understand the meaning of Qi, the vital life force energy at the heart of East Asian Medicine and philosophy. J...
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Posture of Protection: How Trauma Impacts the Way We Carry Ourselves
In this powerful conversation, Hero, Somatic Therapist, and Rolfing Practitioner, Moylan Ryan, explores how our bodies carry the imprints of past pain — and how movement, breath, and presence can help us release those old stories. Moylan explai...
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43:56
Practicing Self-Compassion While Holding Yourself Accountable
Healing can be a frustrating, difficult, and discouraging process at times. When you're trying to progress one day but feel like you're regressing the next, self-compassion is often the first thing to slip through the cracks. In this raw and ho...
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Best of Hero & Psychic Medium Lea Morgan
We're wrapping up our Hero Highlight series with none other than psychic medium Lea Morgan. Lea shares powerful insights about intuition, grief, and spiritual communication. She also explains the difference between psychic and mediumship abilit...
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Celebrating 1 Year of The Healing Heroes: Lessons, Milestones, & What’s Next
Happy 1st Birthday to The Healing Heroes Podcast!!In this heartfelt solo episode, Host Chandler Stroud reflects on the show's first anniversary by sharing the top five lessons she’s learned from a year of Hero conversations and ...
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Special Re-Release: Spirituality, Religion, & the Rhythm of our Lives
In light of the heartbreaking devastation unfolding in Kerr County and surrounding areas of Texas due to the catastrophic flash floods on July 4, 2025, we are re-releasing a deeply meaningful conversation with Hero and Texas-resident, Revere...
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Best of Hero Nicole Kim: Yoga, Sound, & Thai Bodywork Healer
Yoga instructor, sound healer, and Thai bodywork practitioner Nicole Kim understands that life's just messy sometimes, and that messiness affects someone's ability to think clearly, embrace emotions, and stay present. If you’ve been...
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Best of Hero & Confidence Coach Cait DeMello
For this week's Hero Highlight, we take a look back at confidence and empowerment coach Cait DeMello's best moments on the show. From what it means to stay in touch with yourself through breathwork to exploring modalities like parts work and ot...
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