In this episode of Health Confidential, host Simone Gisondi explores financial stress through a powerful and often overlooked lens—its direct impact on human health. Rather than viewing money challenges as purely external or practical issues, Simone reframes financial pressure as a chronic stressor that affects the nervous system, sleep, mood, inflammation, relationships, and even the body’s ability to heal. Through a deeply personal story of her parents’ divorce and the sudden loss of financial security, she illustrates how quickly money-related stress can push individuals into survival mode, shaping every decision from a place of fear rather than clarity.

Joining Simone is Mika Altidor, entrepreneur, vegan café owner, and co-host of Get Obsessed, who shares her perspective on financial stress behind the scenes of entrepreneurship and success. Together, they explore how inherited money beliefs, lack of financial literacy, and predatory systems keep people stuck in cycles of stress and poor decision-making. This conversation bridges financial health and physical well-being, offering a new perspective on how true healing requires both inner work and greater awareness of the systems we navigate daily.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Financial stress is a health issue that directly impacts the nervous system and overall well-being.
• The body records money-related pressure, even when we try to ignore or downplay it.
• Inherited money beliefs and past experiences shape current financial behaviors.
• Avoidance or reactive decision-making can deepen both financial and health challenges.
• Financial literacy is essential to avoid predatory systems and create long-term stability.

BEST MOMENTS

• “This is not just a money issue. It’s a human issue—and very often, a health issue.”
• “The body records that pressure, and you cannot separate healing from the conditions a person is living under.”
• “A person living under financial fear is living in chronic survival—and that affects everything.”
• “We live our entire lives through our nervous system… including how we make and experience money.”
• “Stress is stress. The body just knows it’s in survival mode.”

GUEST INFORMATION

Mika Altidor

Entrepreneur, vegan café owner, podcaster, and creator of manifestation-based tools. Mika is passionate about conscious living, food as healing, and aligning success with self-respect.

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Website: https://www.getobsessedpodcast.com/

Instagram: getobsessedpodcast

HOST BIO

Simone Gisondi is a seasoned coach, published author, and host of Health Confidential. She is dedicated to exploring root-cause healing, empowering individuals to transform their health through awareness, education, and lifestyle change.

#FinancialStress #MoneyAndHealth #NervousSystemHealing #MoneyMindset #FinancialLiteracy #EntrepreneurLife #StressManagement #HolisticHealth #MentalHealthAwareness #PersonalFinance #HealingJourney #WellnessPodcast #HealthPodcast #PersonalGrowth

Simone is a Holistic Health Practitioner and researcher exploring the deeper biological, emotional, and environmental roots of disease.

On this podcast, she examines how health, trauma, consciousness, lifestyle, and biology interesect and how the instructions we give the body through food, environment, belief, and emotional regulation shape our health outcomes.

Her work focuses on helping individuals understand the real drivers of illness and reclaim their health through customized lifestyle, nutritional, and mindset changes.

If you’re navigating a health challenge and would like personalized guidance, Simone offers a limited number of private consultations. By appointment only.

Inquire about working with her here: https://www.simonegisondi.com/book-online

Visit her website: https://www.simonegisondi.com/

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In this episode of Health Confidential, host Simone Gisondi explores type 2 diabetes through a deeply unconventional lens—challenging the belief that chronic illness is purely genetic or permanent. Instead, this conversation invites listeners to consider the powerful role of identity, belief, and the mind–body connection in shaping health outcomes. Framed as an educational discussion, this episode encourages self-inquiry, personal responsibility, and working alongside trusted practitioners while exploring holistic approaches to healing.

Joining Simone is Amber Hayes, who shares her powerful journey from a type 2 diabetes diagnosis in 2019—with an A1C as high as 12.9 despite medication—to restoring her health through inner transformation. After years of fatigue, weight gain, and believing she was “genetically destined” for illness, Amber began to question her identity and adopted new practices including meditation, affirmations, self-love, and fasting. Within months, her A1C dropped to a normal 5.5. Together, Simone and Amber explore the role of belief, the nervous system, and energetic inputs—such as thoughts, words, and environment—in influencing the body’s ability to heal.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Belief and identity can directly influence physical health and disease outcomes.

• The body responds to the stories, diagnoses, and expectations we accept as true.

• Self-love and emotional healing are essential components of physical recovery.

• Fasting can support both physical reset and deeper emotional processing.

• Thoughts, words, and environmental inputs act as signals that the body responds to.

BEST MOMENTS

• “I decided one day that it was enough. Diabetes does not exist in my body.”

• “You don’t have a soul. You are a soul that has a body temporarily to experience this place.”

• “When you don’t love yourself, you tear down your own cells.”

• “Our spoken word is the will of the soul… the body has no choice but to respond.”

• “Your body is waiting for instruction… it will move toward that blueprint.”

GUEST INFORMATION

Amber Hayes - Speaker and advocate for mind-body healing, sharing her journey of reversing type 2 diabetes through identity work, self-love, and holistic practices.

HOST BIO

Simone Gisondi is a seasoned coach, published author, and host of Health Confidential. She is dedicated to exploring root-cause healing, empowering individuals to transform their health through awareness, nutrition, and lifestyle change.

#Type2Diabetes #DiabetesRecovery #ReverseDiabetes #HolisticHealth #MindBodyConnection #SelfHealing #Fasting #IntermittentFasting #EmotionalHealing #IdentityShift #NervousSystemHealing #WellnessPodcast #HealthPodcast #HealingJourney #PersonalGrowth #SelfLoveHealing

Simone is a Holistic Health Practitioner and researcher exploring the deeper biological, emotional, and environmental roots of disease.

On this podcast, she examines how health, trauma, consciousness, lifestyle, and biology interesect and how the instructions we give the body through food, environment, belief, and emotional regulation shape our health outcomes.

Her work focuses on helping individuals understand the real drivers of illness and reclaim their health through customized lifestyle, nutritional, and mindset changes.

If you’re navigating a health challenge and would like personalized guidance, Simone offers a limited number of private consultations. By appointment only.

Inquire about working with her here: https://www.simonegisondi.com/book-online

Visit her website: https://www.simonegisondi.com/

Follow Simone: https://www.instagram.com/simone.gisondi/

Subscribe and leave a review.

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