Explore Dr. Shaqula Smithbey’s collection of podcasts, health education, holistic wellness insights, and faith-based conversations designed to help you navigate your health journey and live your best life.
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Meet Dr. Shaqula Smithbey, a family medicine physician and founder of Tree of Life Integrative Family Medicine. Discover her holistic approach to nutrition, supplements, herbs, sleep health, fitness, spiritual wellness, and natural living—and learn how she helps patients navigate confusing health information and make informed choices for a healthier life.
What does it truly mean to age gracefully? In this inspiring conversation, Dr. Shaqula Smith Bay speaks with Geneva Ndour about retirement, chronic pain, staying active, family, faith, resilience, and embracing every stage of life with purpose and gratitude.
Burnout, compassion fatigue, shame, and feeling stuck can make it difficult to move forward. In this powerful conversation, Dr. Shaqula Smith Bay sits down with integrative health and mental fitness coach Raquel Barnes to explore how health coaching, mindset shifts, intentional habits, forgiveness, faith, and small steps can help you move from burnout to balance and create a more purposeful life.
What happens when preventive care falls behind and a health concern becomes a hospital emergency? Dr. Shakila Smith Bay speaks with hospitalist Dr. Carika Rogers about preventive medicine, chronic disease management, patient advocacy, healthcare barriers, and the importance of recognizing symptoms before they become life-threatening.
Discover practical self-care tips for busy moms, from therapy and faith to exercise, meal prep, rest, and setting healthy boundaries. Mrs. Noel-Lee Brown shares her powerful journey of healing from childhood trauma, overcoming burnout, finding purpose, and learning to protect her peace while raising a family.
Your financial health and physical well-being are more connected than you may realize. This episode explores the relationship between money, stress, health, and wellness, with practical strategies for managing debt, building an emergency fund, saving automatically, planning for healthcare expenses, and creating greater financial peace for yourself and your family.
College life can bring academic pressure, social expectations, unhealthy habits, and the challenge of balancing mental, physical, and spiritual health. In this episode, Dr. Smith Bay and recent college graduate Patricia Cherice discuss practical ways students can manage stress, prioritize wellness, seek support, build healthy habits, and stay grounded in faith.
Discover the connection between hair growth, scalp health, nutrition, hydration, stress, and overall wellness in this insightful conversation with hairstylist and beauty entrepreneur Teneal Bradshaw. Learn common causes of hair damage, protective styling tips, hair care myths, and simple habits for healthier, stronger hair.
Discover the powerful connection between gut health, stress, nutrition, sleep, and the gut-brain axis in this insightful conversation with holistic gastroenterologist Dr. Leybelis Padilla. Learn practical ways to support digestion, manage IBS symptoms, improve your diet, and build healthier daily habits.
Dr. Leybelis Padilla shares practical insights on elimination diets, gluten-free eating, microbiome testing, herbal remedies, bowel health, and the lifestyle habits that support better digestion. She also explains why sustainable, diverse eating matters more than following the latest diet trend.
Dr. Adekunle Kiladejo discusses heart attack risk factors, coronary artery disease, stents, preventative cardiology, and the importance of informed medical decisions. He also explores cardiovascular health disparities, social determinants of health, and why early education and prevention are essential, particularly in underserved communities.
Interventional cardiologist Dr. Adekunle Kiladejo explains what interventional cardiology is, when procedures such as stents are needed, warning signs of a heart attack, and why early prevention and recognizing unusual symptoms can save lives.
Instead of being afraid of perimenopause or menopause, we're here to really educate ourselves and learn what we need to know so that we can be prepared.
Discover what’s really hiding in your skincare and personal care products. In this episode, Dr. Shaquila Smith Bay talks with biochemist and clean beauty entrepreneur Katrina Price about toxic ingredients, clean beauty, natural vs. organic skincare, product certifications, sensitive skin, eczema, and how to read confusing ingredient labels. Learn practical tips for becoming a more informed consumer and choosing personal care products that better fit your individual needs.
In Part 2 of The Midlife Reset, Dr. Shaquila Smith Bay and Dr. Dionne Castillo continue their conversation about navigating perimenopause and menopause with practical, evidence-informed wellness strategies. They discuss strength training, protein, sleep, meditation, supplements, hormone replacement therapy, weight changes, sexual health, and the importance of finding a healthcare provider who listens and understands menopause.
