The Gabby Reece Show

What's actually in your food, and who's protecting the companies that put it there?

I sit down with Johanna Hellrigl, chef, restaurateur, board member of the Environmental Working Group, and founder of Ama, the mission-driven Northern Italian restaurant four blocks from the US Capitol, to talk about what's really happening in our food system, why your cookware matters as much as your ingredients, and how a woman who grew up in a Michelin-quality kitchen ended up fighting pesticide immunity bills and plastic migration in the same breath.

This conversation goes deeper than clean eating. Johanna walks through the specific decisions she makes every day, from the containers in her kitchen to the farms that grow her tomatoes, and explains why the real model for healthy eating has been sitting in Italian kitchens for centuries. She is building a case study that nourishing food, done with integrity, can also be a viable business. If you have ever felt overwhelmed by the food system or paralyzed by conflicting information, this episode gives you a clear-headed, practical place to start.

What we explore:

- How heat, fat, acid, and time create the conditions for plastic and chemicals to migrate directly into your food.
- Why 99% of food chemicals enter the US supply through a regulatory loophole that bypasses proper safety review.
- What rebuilding your gut microbiome actually requires, and why what happens in your gut controls far more than most people realize.
- How Johanna runs a restaurant rooted in love without sacrificing standards, consistency, or accountability.
- Why voting with your dollars and contacting your representatives are two of the most direct actions you can take right now.

About Johanna Hellrigl:
Johanna Hellrigl is a chef, restaurateur, and culinary advocate redefining what restaurants can stand for. She is the chef-owner of Ama, an award-winning Northern Italian restaurant in Washington, DC, named a James Beard Foundation semifinalist for Best Chef Mid-Atlantic in 2026 and recognized by Gambero Rosso for authenticity. Before opening Ama, she spent years in international democracy-building work across 61 countries, an experience that deepened her belief that food is one of the most powerful tools for connection and change. She sits on the board of the Environmental Working Group and works with the Plastic Pollution Coalition, bringing the same rigor she applies in her kitchen to the fight for a safer, more transparent food system.

Connect with Johanna Hellrigl:
Instagram (Chef Johanna): https://www.instagram.com/chefjohannahellrigl/
Instagram (Ama Restaurant): https://www.instagram.com/amarestaurant.bar/
Website: https://amarestaurant.bar

Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:00 Growing Up in a Michelin Kitchen
05:08 How 61 Countries Brought Her Back to Food
08:00 Reclaiming the Family Meal
13:17 Pesticide Loopholes and Who Pays the Price
20:12 Finding Common Ground on Food Policy
29:00 Plastic, Cookware, and Cutting Board Basics
37:40 Meal Prep That Actually Works
43:40 Why She Opened Ama
56:23 Love, Standards, and Consistency in the Kitchen
01:01:06 What's Really Inside a Plate of Pasta
01:08:33 Healing the Gut After Antibiotic Overload
01:15:39 EWG, Plastic Pollution Coalition, and How to Get Loud

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The Gabby Reece Show

This is where I have real conversations with the people I find most worth listening to: scientists, athletes, coaches, parents, and thinkers who are doing the hard work of building a life that holds up over time. No hacks. No quick fixes. Just honest, practical conversations about performance, longevity, relationships, and what it actually takes to show up well at every age.

If you are here, you probably already know that health is not a destination. It is how you live. I am glad you are along for it.

Connect with Gabby Reece:

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Most people spend their whole lives solving problems that aren't the actual problem.

I sat down with Danny Morel, transformational coach, speaker, and author of Awaken, to talk about what it really takes to stop outsourcing your power and start doing the inner work that changes everything. Not the kind of change that looks good on paper. The kind that actually holds.

What we explore:

- Why grief can crack open the questions you've been avoiding for decades, and why that's actually the beginning of something good.
- How overachieving quietly becomes its own form of hiding, and why society keeps handing out rewards for it.
- What re-parenting actually means, and why the real healing work happens inside you, not in a conversation with your mom or dad.
- How to shift from victim consciousness to creator consciousness so every person in your life becomes a teacher instead of a problem.
- What the masculine and feminine actually are beneath the culture war noise, and why integrating both is the foundation for everything else.

Chapters
00:00 Why Danny Morel Started Asking Hard Questions
02:39 3 Questions After His Mom Passed
04:43 Sitting Still as the Most Powerful Healing Tool
09:17 Being You Requires No Effort
14:14 How Your Mother's Wounds Became Yours
17:12 When Logic Fails: Plant Medicine and Ceremony
21:02 You Learned Pain So You Can Unlearn It
24:55 Re-Parenting Yourself From Within
30:58 From Victim to Creator Consciousness
36:35 What Ceremony Revealed About Divorce and Kids
39:02 How Danny Avoids Becoming a Guru
40:10 The Ladder of Consciousness Explained Simply
48:27 Breathwork, Cannabis, Mushrooms, and Ayahuasca
56:08 Why Religion Taught You to Outsource Your Power
57:29 Why Alcoholics Are Sensitive People in Pain
01:04:16 The Truth About Masculine and Feminine Energy
01:06:36 The Infinity Symbol and How Energy Really Works
01:10:54 Adam, Eve, and What the Bible Got Wrong
01:13:51 Healing Yourself Heals Your Whole Family

About Danny Morel:
Danny Morel is a transformational coach, speaker, and the author of Awaken, a book born from his own radical personal reckoning after the death of his mother, a marriage that fell apart, and years of building external success on an internal void. He hosts live immersive events that combine breathwork, somatic release, plant medicine ceremonies, and deep emotional excavation to help people break generational patterns and return to who they actually are. His work draws men and women who are done with surface-level solutions and ready to do something real.

Connect with Danny Morel:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dannymorel/
Website: https://www.dannymorel.com/

Book: Awaken Your Highest Self: The Limiting Beliefs That Keep You Stuck--And the Heart Work That Sets You Free
Get Awaken here: https://www.awakenbook.com/

Attend the Awaken Event
Find dates and register here: https://www.dannymorel.com/awaken

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The Gabby Reece Show

This is where I have real conversations with the people I find most worth listening to: scientists, athletes, coaches, parents, and thinkers who are doing the hard work of building a life that holds up over time. No hacks. No quick fixes. Just honest, practical conversations about performance, longevity, relationships, and what it actually takes to show up well at every age.

If you are here, you probably already know that health is not a destination. It is how you live. I am glad you are along for it.

Connect with Gabby Reece:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gabbyreece/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gabbyreeceofficial
Website: https://gabriellereece.com

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Sensitivity gets a bad reputation. We treat it like a liability, something to manage, suppress, or grow out of. Oliver Nino thinks that's exactly backwards. I sit down with Oliver Nino, energy healer, entrepreneur, and founder of Authentic Living, to talk about what it actually means to be energetically sensitive, how that sensitivity becomes a liability when you don't have the tools to manage it, and what it looks like to work with your energy instead of against it.

This isn't a conversation about crystals or magic thinking. Oliver is 70-80% logical by his own admission. He ran businesses before he ran healing workshops. What he brings is a grounded, pattern-recognition approach to a topic most people either dismiss or over-mystify. Whether you're a high-output entrepreneur running on empty, a parent who absorbs everything your kids feel, or someone stuck in a loop you can't seem to break out of, this episode gives you a framework for understanding what's yours, what isn't, and how to stop carrying both.

What we explore:

- How growing up as an empath with no guardrails leads to adrenal fatigue, brain fog, and emotional depletion, and what to do about it.
- Why your intuition processes information 30 times faster than your logical mind, and how to learn to trust it without abandoning analytical thinking.
- What energy healing actually looks like in practice, from clearing generational blocks to group sessions of thousands, and why you don't need to know the source of a wound to heal it.
- How to build an energetic shield using intention, color, and sacred geometry: a simple 5-to-10-minute practice that has helped people with debilitating anxiety finally function in public.
- Why removing interference matters more than adding mindset hacks, and how signal-to-noise ratio is the real reason most people can't hear their own instincts.

Chapters:

00:00 Intro
01:29 How Empaths Absorb Other People's Pain Without Knowing It
06:12 Why Caretakers Have Nobody to Turn To
10:40 Why Entrepreneurship Requires Serious Internal Fuel
19:03 How Intuition Saved His Life and Built His Business
26:00 Why Red Flags Feel Like Green Flags Before You Heal
28:32 How Shared Purpose Built His Marriage
31:23 From the Philippines to Healing 100,000 People Online
37:17 Generational Trauma: You Don't Need to Know the Source to Clear It
42:20 How to Build an Energy Shield in 5 Minutes
49:01 Why Empaths and Addicts Are Drawn to Each Other
59:41 Why Stacking Spiritual Practices Multiplies Your Results
01:07:39 Your Light Is Your Best Protection Against Negative Energy
01:16:19 Stop Adding Hacks and Start Removing the Interference
01:19:44 Why Manifestation Fails Without Massive Action
01:24:53 How to Parent From Love Instead of Generational Programming

About Oliver Nino:
Oliver Nino is an energy healer, entrepreneur, and the creator of Authentic Living. Known online as the Spiritual Activator, Oliver has conducted over 10,000 individual healing sessions and now works with groups of thousands at a time, including events that have drawn 100,000 people online. His approach blends energetic clearing with practical, action-oriented principles, making his work accessible to skeptics and believers alike.

Connect with Oliver Nino:
Website: https://www.authenticliving.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spiritualactivator
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@spiritualactivator

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The Gabby Reece Show

This is where I have real conversations with the people I find most worth listening to: scientists, athletes, coaches, parents, and thinkers who are doing the hard work of building a life that holds up over time. No hacks. No quick fixes. Just honest, practical conversations about performance, longevity, relationships, and what it actually takes to show up well at every age.

If you are here, you probably already know that health is not a destination. It is how you live. I am glad you are along for it.

Connect with Gabby Reece:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gabbyreece/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gabbyreeceofficial
Website: https://gabriellereece.com

Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode.

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Most people assume the treatment is the problem when it doesn't work.Dr. Vassily Eliopoulos, MD, a Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer of Longevity Health Clinic, says it's almost never the treatment. It's the body that wasn't ready for it.

In this episode we get into stem cells, hormone panels, lab testing your doctor isn't running, and why so many people never actually feel good, not because the tools don't exist, but because the foundation was never built.

What we explore:

- Why tissue readiness determines whether stem cells and hormone therapy actually work.
- How optimizing your physiology before any treatment is the step most people skip entirely.
- Why the full hormone panel looks almost the same for men and women, and what most doctors get wrong about ordering it.
- How sleep deprivation accumulates over a lifetime and why it is one of the most underestimated drivers of aging.
- How chronic low-grade stress quietly erodes your hormones, your recovery, and your ability to think clearly.
- Why training the parasympathetic nervous system is a skill, not a personality trait, and how to actually build it.
- What morning sunlight and grounding do to your hormones, your circadian rhythm, and your energy for the rest of the day.
- Why most athletes are underfueled, underrecovered, and headed for early injury despite doing everything their sport demands.
- How early sport specialization is creating a generation of athletes whose bodies break down before they peak.
- How physical healing opens the door to deeper personal change, even when people are not looking for it.
- What microdosing psychedelics is showing in clinical practice and why it matters for people who feel stuck despite doing the work.

Chapters

00:00 Intro
05:20 How Stem Cells Actually Work
10:08 Optimizing Your Body Before Any Treatment
15:00 Pleasure vs. Joy and Self-Love
19:22 How to Find Your Real Purpose
29:42 What Really Happens When You Sleep
35:27 His Personal Health Wake-Up Call
41:40 The Lab Tests Your Doctor Skips
53:44 Morning Sunlight and Grounding Basics
58:22 Stress, Cortisol, and Your Nervous System
01:04:22 Hormone Disruptors in Athletes
01:12:39 Psychedelics and Physical Healing
01:18:28 Stem Cells for Skin Regeneration

About Dr. Vass, MD:

Dr. Vassily Eliopoulos, or simply known as Dr. Vass, spent years as an ER physician before walking away from a system he felt was treating symptoms, not people. Today he is the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Longevity Health, where he combines functional, regenerative, and traditional medicine into one integrated approach. His work sits at the intersection of stem cell therapy, hormone optimization, and full-panel diagnostics, built around a simple premise: if the body isn't primed to heal, no treatment will perform the way it should.

Connect with Dr. Vass:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.vassily/
Website: https://longevityhealth.clinic/

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The Gabby Reece Show

This is where I have real conversations with the people I find most worth listening to: scientists, athletes, coaches, parents, and thinkers who are doing the hard work of building a life that holds up over time. No hacks. No quick fixes. Just honest, practical conversations about performance, longevity, relationships, and what it actually takes to show up well at every age.

If you are here, you probably already know that health is not a destination. It is how you live. I am glad you are along for it.

Connect with Gabby Reece:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gabbyreece/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gabbyreeceofficial
Website: https://gabriellereece.com

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Reinvention is a word that gets thrown around a lot. Dominique Sachse would call it a misread. I sit down with Dominique, Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist, YouTube creator, author of Life Makeover, and host of Over 50 & Flourishing, to talk about what it actually takes to rebuild your identity in midlife, why letting go of control is not weakness, and how curiosity might be the most underrated tool any of us have.

After 28 years anchoring the news in Houston, Dominique walked away from a pension, a 401k, and a career identity she built from scratch, all while navigating a divorce and building an entrepreneurial brand from the ground up. This conversation goes deep on the psychological cost of high achievement, why driven women often end up lonely in their relationships, and what it looks like to build a life that holds up over time.

What We Explore:

- Why "reinvention" is the wrong frame, and how thinking of life as an unfolding rather than a reset changes everything about how you make hard decisions.
- How the same traits that make you exceptional at work will slowly hollow out your relationships, and what it looks like to finally course-correct without losing your edge.
- Why curiosity is the skill that keeps midlife from becoming a holding pattern, in love, in identity, and in every conversation you are scared to start.
- What the need for control actually costs you, and why the highest-performing women are often the ones who feel most invisible inside their own homes.
- How to approach aging, appearance, and the "how much is too much" question without losing yourself in the process.

Chapter:
00:00 Intro
03:00 Why Female Broadcasters Get Judged on Appearance First
09:05 Leaving Security Behind: Career, Divorce, and Starting Over
13:46 Midlife Women Are Craving Simplicity. Here Is Why.
18:38 Curiosity: The Skill That Keeps Midlife Moving Forward
25:00 Why High-Achieving Women Struggle in Relationships
29:40 Building a Faith-First Marriage That Actually Works
34:32 Why Too Much Polish Becomes Its Own Prison
39:43 How to Heal After Divorce: Journaling, Therapy, Patterns
46:09 What Minimum Wage Jobs Teach Kids About Life
49:09 Using Beauty and Style to Break Identity Attachments
52:42 Why Other People React When You Dare to Change
57:00 Aging Honestly: Lifestyle First, Then Decide What Else

About Dominique Sachse:

Dominique Sachse spent nearly three decades as an Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist and anchor at KPRC in Houston, Texas. She launched her YouTube beauty and lifestyle channel in 2014 and built a community of nearly one million women who trust her to show up honestly about the real texture of midlife. She is the author of Life Makeover: Embrace the Bold, Beautiful and Blessed You and the host of the podcast Over 50 & Flourishing. Her work sits at the intersection of faith, identity, beauty, and honest self-examination, and she is one of the more grounded voices doing it at scale.

Connect with Dominique Sachse:

Website: https://dominiquesachse.tv/who-i-am/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dominiquesachse/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dominiquesachsetv
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dominiquesachse

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The Gabby Reece Show

This is where I have real conversations with the people I find most worth listening to: scientists, athletes, coaches, parents, and thinkers who are doing the hard work of building a life that holds up over time. No hacks. No quick fixes. Just honest, practical conversations about performance, longevity, relationships, and what it actually takes to show up well at every age.

If you are here, you probably already know that health is not a destination. It is how you live. I am glad you are along for it.

Connect with Gabby Reece:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gabbyreece/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gabbyreeceofficial
Website: https://gabriellereece.com

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