Pursuit of Wellness

I’ve been listening to your podcast for a while now, and it’s been such a valuable resource for my wellness journey. The insights you share are not only practical but also deeply empowering, and I always come away feeling more informed and motivated to prioritize my health. Thank you for the thoughtful and inspiring content you create! I’d love to hear a session focused on postpartum health. It’s such a transformative time, and navigating the physical and emotional changes can feel overwhelming. Topics like managing the hormonal shifts during nursing and after weaning, addressing postpartum belly changes (like the infamous “mom pooch” or cortisol belly), and strategies for reconnecting with and strengthening your body after birth would be so helpful. This is such a huge part of many people’s wellness journeys, and I know so many listeners would appreciate you having a guest on that can speak to this topic with expertise and guidance. Thank you for all that you do, and I’m excited to keep learning from your podcast!

I love this podcast, I listen to many health/fitness and wellness podcasts and I feel like Mari is one of the most honest, intelligent and relatable hosts out there and I also feel like she hosts this show with lots of integrity and brings on guests that have a wide variety of view points in the wellness universe and they share information that is relevant and honest, and in a fun way! I also enjoy the personal podcasts I think Mari shares so much of her personal life to make herself very relatable.

I love her podcast but the Kendall Toole episode was one of the best! Thank you for sharing your story about your mental health struggles. You have no idea how impactful that is to others who have and are currently struggling w mental health! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I truly look forward to every single episode, it helps my commute to work. I’ve learned so much for myself & my family. I tried to get into other podcast to piggy back off this & I just can’t.

I enjoy this podcast for the most part but am suspicious of fake podcast reviews recently. Normally with podcast reviews (even those who have a huge platform), you may see a new review or two here and there, every couple of days - if that. Genuine reviews have mixed perspectives and don’t share the same “voice,” if you will. POW podcast reviews follow this general pattern and then boom - on August 5th, there are approximately 70 similarly written glowing reviews, all at once (highly unlikely). Unfortunately, paid reviews are a thing in the podcasting industry - it’s fairly easy to spot and will diminish your credibility. It’s interesting that this batch of reviews comes directly after other users (longtime followers) stated that they were blocked on social media for asking simple questions (e.g., the use of sucralose in the new energy drink). Apparently there’s a history of the Bloom team being completely unreceptive to any feedback or constructive criticism from their fans. Fake podcast reviews in order to artificially inflate ratings would fall in line with that notion, which is really disappointing.

I’ve followed Mari since 2017 and have listened to nearly every podcast episode. I had such high hopes for it and really enjoyed some earlier interviews, but unfortunately Mari’s idea of what an “expert” is has led her to include more wellness influencers that call themselves experts than actual evidenced based experts. Thus the value of the “advice” given by these people is so low quality, it’s not even worth listening to. She also doesn’t have the background knowledge or interviewing experience to realize when people are just making stuff up or spewing pseudoscience and challenge them on it. So I started skipping a lot of her interviews, and just listened to the solo/Fi episodes for brain candy. Unfortunately now even these have become painful as her distrust for evidence based treatments and nutrition are causing issues in her personal life (and seriously, coffee enemas?), and once the conspiracy theory comments about physicians receiving kickbacks for pushing unnecessary treatments started I had to check out. Mari, most healthcare systems (especially academic medical centers) have extremely strict restrictions on physicians receiving any kind of compensation (or anything that could be perceived as compensation) from any drug or device company. As a medical student, we couldn’t even use pens that were branded with a drug company name. As a physician who has dedicated my life to improving the health and wellness of all my patients I find this insinuation insulting, and it perpetuates totally false narratives that have exploded post-COVID. I encourage you to start including more board certified physicians in your lineup so you can learn a bit more about the realities of evidence based medicine and not just what the LA naturopaths are telling you. Good luck with everything!