In this soulful and thought-provoking episode of The YAM Podcast, I sit down with registered dietitian Raz Grammer to explore the nuanced intersections of food, identity, emotional health, and motherhood.

While Raz’s formal training centers around nutrition science (her thesis explored the effects of apples and plums on bone density), her real-life relationship with food is anything but clinical. It’s intuitive, cultural, tender — and deeply human. In this conversation, she invites us into the heart of her kitchen, her motherhood, and her healing.

We talk about the emotional layers that live in our relationship with food — especially as mothers. How grief and control can show up on our plates. How children have a deep wisdom when it comes to food, and how we as parents can create a supportive environment that honours both body and soul.

Raz also opens up about her personal evolution — from being the kind of person who needed a plan, to becoming someone who could lean into flow, trust, and deep listening. It’s a shift many of us are craving… and she models it with such grace.

💬 This episode is less about food rules, and more about food wisdom. Less about doing it “right,” and more about doing it real.

In this tender and honest episode of The YAM Podcast, I sit down once again with Carly El Kassaby to explore the next chapter in her motherhood journey — one shaped by empowered birth, deep loss, and the quiet creation of a movement rooted in real, unfiltered connection.

Carly’s second birth took place in the U.S., in a hospital, supported by compassionate professionals — but the power didn’t come from the setting. It came from within. After a traumatic first experience (shared in Episode 22), Carly stepped into this birth with a quiet knowing: she was the one doing it. This time, she felt supported and sovereign. It was a birth story written in her own voice — and it became a powerful reclaiming of trust, strength, and self.

But life had more to unfold. What followed was a miscarriage — quiet, painful, and held mostly in silence. As she moved through grief while parenting two young children, Carly began to notice how few spaces truly existed for mothers to be raw, imperfect, and emotionally honest.

And so, she birthed something new: @supersolidmomfriend — a space where moms can show up as they are, be held in their mess, and find comfort in the company of others who get it.

This episode is not just about birth or loss — it’s about the in-between. The invisible transitions. The strength found in softness. And the reminder that motherhood doesn’t always ask for perfection — it asks for presence.

In this eye-opening episode of The YAM Podcast, I sit down once again with Chirag Davi, a storyteller and truth-seeker, to explore the deeper wisdom of Ekadashi fasting—a bi-monthly, moon-aligned spiritual practice that invites ongoing clarity, energy renewal, and deeper connection to the body.

While many of us approach fasting as a seasonal or religious ritual—like the Baha’i Fast or Ramadan—this episode explores what it means to live the fast, to carry the benefits beyond the 19 or 30 days, and to align ourselves with the moon’s natural rhythm.

Fasting is often misunderstood as extreme or unsustainable—but what if it was the most gentle, intelligent thing you could do for your body?

In This Episode, We Explore:

🔹 What happens inside the body after 8.1 hours of fasting (when the magic begins)
🔹 How the body shifts from glucose to fat-burning—and unlocks the “treasure box”
🔹 Why the 16–24 hour fasting window is key for deep healing and immune regeneration
🔹 How T-cells and B-cells are produced in starvation mode—and why this matters for long-term health and disease prevention
🔹 Why Ekadashi—fasting on the 11th day after each new and full moon—offers a sacred, accessible rhythm to fast all year
🔹 The deeper why of fasting: presence, clarity, devotion, and embodied awareness
🔹 What most people get wrong about the Baha’i Fast—and how to bring intention to your fast, no matter your faith
🔹 How to make fasting livable, especially for women and modern rhythms