Wellness Unfiltered Pod
WELCOME to Wellness Unfiltered! 🎙️ Lee Holmes and Irene Falcone bring you real, raw, and refreshingly honest chats about wellness, minus the woo-woo. We’re here to keep wellness human, hilarious, and totally unfiltered. wellnessunfilteredpod.substack.com
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Episode 21: Old-School Wisdom, Starting Again and the Business You Can’t Buy with Anthia Koullouros (opens the original)
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In this episode, we speak with Anthia Koullouros , clinical naturopath, herbalist and founder of Apotheca in Surrey Hills. With more than 30 years in practice, Anthia has watched natural medicine move from fringe whisper to supermarket staple. She also spent 16 years building Ovvio into one of Australia’s most respected organic tea brands, before losing control of the business and walking away. This is a conversation about herbal wisdom, food audits, nervous-system health, women in business and
Episode 20: Long COVID, POTS, MCAS and hEDS - When One Virus Triggers Three Connected Conditions (opens the original)
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She had one virus but ended up with three separate diagnoses: POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome), MCAS (Mast Cell Activation Syndrome), and discovered she had underlying hEDS (Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome). But here’s what most doctors miss: these aren’t three separate problems. They’re three expressions of one integrated system dysfunction. This is not the neat, three-step fix that wellness typically offers. This is the messy middle. The vulnerability. The moment when a clin
Episode 19: Manifestation, Alignment, and the Science of Getting What You Want. (opens the original)
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This week Lee and Irene dive deep into manifestation through two very different lenses. Irene’s approach is emotional resonance and alignment, feeling as if you already have what you want and acting as if it’s already on its way. Lee’s is grounded in the science of how your brain filters reality through the reticular activating system and creates the conditions for things to move toward you. Together, they explore how manifestation works, why writing a number on a piece of paper doesn’t cut it,
Episode 18: Naked and Afraid, How Trauma Shaped Alexa Into an Athlete, and Why Strength Starts in Your Mind. (opens the original)
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She’s also raced 1000 kilometres across Mongolia on semi-wild horses, survived the South African wilderness multiple times for the Discovery Channel’s Naked and Afraid Global Showdown, and turned childhood bullying and family trauma into a life mission to help women find their strength. This week Alexa joins Lee and Irene to talk about how physical strength becomes mental fortitude, why the gym became her sanctuary, what survival taught her about the human capacity to endure, and why strength tr
Episode 17: Lyme Disease, Being Gaslit, and Getting Your Mojo Back, We Hear Amy Down's Four-Year Fight for Truth 🩺 (opens the original)
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Episode 17: Lyme Disease, Being Gaslit, and Getting Your Mojo Back - Amy Down's Four-Year Fight to Be Believed 🩺 Amy Down spent four years being told there was nothing wrong with her. Exhausted, foggy, gut in revolt, running on adrenaline while raising two small children and working full time in wellness. Test after test came back normal. Doctor after doctor suggested it was probably just stress. This week Amy joins Lee and Irene in the cabin to tell the story of what it actually was, and what f
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