Simple Healthy Life is a health and wellness podcast where hosts Registered Dietitian Ryan and Mindfulness Expert MJ share real, insightful conversations on nutrition, mindfulness, intuitive eating, fitness, and mental health. Each episode explores how to build sustainable healthy habits, reduce stress, Build Confidence, improve focus, and create balance. From myth-busting diet culture to evidence-based strategies for mindful eating, and lasting well-being, this podcast helps you live healthier with clarity and intention.
SHL Podcast is unaffiliated with Nurtured Nutrition PLLC
The Strange Contradiction of Compassion - When Being a Good Person Becomes a Performance
How compassionate are you, really?
Most of us would like to think of ourselves as kind, understanding, and compassionate people. We make an effort to support others, forgive their mistakes, and recognize the struggles they face. Yet many of us have a remarkably difficult time extending that same compassion toward ourselves.
In this episode of The Simple Healthy Life Podcast, we explore the relationship between compassion, self-compassion, and the deeper motivations behind our behavior. Can we truly embody a virtue that we struggle to extend to ourselves? What happens when our outward actions don't reflect our internal experience? And can being overly compassionate sometimes serve our own needs more than those of the people we're trying to help?
We discuss the psychology of kindness, people-pleasing, self-criticism, emotional awareness, and the subtle ways our desire to be good can influence how we treat others. Along the way, we examine the difference between practicing compassion and developing it as a genuine part of our character.
Ultimately, this conversation invites us to look more closely at the relationship between who we are internally and how we show up in the world. Because understanding the full human experience means being willing to recognize our flaws, contradictions, and struggles—including our own.
10 Oct 2026
The Finish Line Was Never the Point
What does it take to prepare for an Ironman—and what do you learn about yourself along the way?
Dylan Kaplinger joins us for the second time on The Simple Healthy Life Podcast to talk about completing an Ironman, the training that got him there, and the challenges that inevitably showed up along the way.
We talk about motivation, discipline, overcoming barriers, and what happens when the excitement of pursuing a big goal wears off and you're left with the work itself. Dylan shares his experience pushing through difficult moments, navigating setbacks, and continuing to move forward when things don't go according to plan.
But the conversation goes beyond endurance sports. We explore what pursuing something genuinely difficult can teach us about growth, resilience, self-belief, and becoming better in everyday life. Whether you're training for an Ironman, working toward a personal goal, or simply trying to improve some part of yourself, there will always be barriers between where you are and where you want to go.
The question is what you do when you meet them.
24 Sept 2026
The Gap Between Who You Are and Who You Want to Be
There is always some distance between where we are today and where we want to be. We call that space “the gap.”
In this episode of The Simple Healthy Life Podcast, we talk about what actually fills that gap: the barriers, habits, circumstances, fears, expectations, and everyday realities that make change more complicated than simply deciding what you want and going after it.
We break down practical ways to identify the barriers standing in your way, understand why they keep showing up, and build strategies that work with your actual life. Because barriers are inevitable. Motivation changes, schedules fall apart, unexpected problems arise, and even well-designed plans eventually meet resistance.
Whether you’re trying to improve your health, build better habits, change your career, strengthen a relationship, or become a different version of yourself, learning how to navigate the gap is part of the process. We discuss goal setting, behavior change, motivation, self-awareness, problem solving, and actionable strategies for meeting yourself where you are while continuing to move toward where you want to be.
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