Healthy Living in 2025

How's it going for you?

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Jaclyn Kirby
August 14, 2025

For an update on how are views on health have changed since the start of the podcast, listen to the newest episode of Cheers to Growth.

It’s been 6 months since we launched Cheers to Growth, and even longer since we recorded the first few episodes on dieting and wellness practices we love.

So this week’s episode is a little refresh and revisiting of all the health topics we’ve discussed on the show and where we are with them now. Including:

  • Qualitarian diet update: going beyond reading food labels and now moved to no labels. (Including the biggest change and unpacking my bold statement: “I don’t believe you can get high quality food at the grocery store.”)

  • Fasting — a powerful tool available when you need a major shift physically or spiritually and emotionally 

  • Supplements and doctors visits don’t lead to health (The supplement industry does not exist without the medical industrial complex and that path does not lead to health) 

  • Living in nature still feels the most life-changing 

  • Meditative movement VS weight training 

Some things have changed, and a lot has stayed the same.

I know a lot of people feel overwhelmed by the wellness space but for me, the more I learn, the more simple it all becomes.

I think it’s important to feel free to change our minds and address past beliefs that no longer resonate. It’s all about growth anyways!

With so much information on every micronutrient and individual cell in our bodies… What is genuinely essential for our body to thrive?

I promise you it’s not going to be that one little supplement boost of magnesium or creatine or whatever else is supposed to be the single magical unlock to health.

It’s much more beautiful than that quick fix fixation.

Enjoy a meal and a chat with us

My favorite time to listen to podcasts is while cooking (And doing the dishes after. It makes that task wayyyyy more enjoyable and easy.)

And with this podcast, my hope is that through conversations that I think are most important, you receive sparks of inspiration or ideas that lead to improved overall wellbeing.

While most things in life are situational and I’m not often going to say that everyone should be doing one specific thing… Where I will go against that is when it comes to cooking.

I think every household, everywhere, should be cooking and eating meals at home more often than eating out.

Cooking from scratch creates a completely different relationship with food and health and can dissolve addictions and reliance on fake food.

In sharing what I’m cooking each week, I hope you take the recipes and make them your own. If you’re lacking motivation to cook, put on the podcast and I’ll be there hanging out with you 🫶

Steak and sheet pan veggies

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This is the most classic dinner for healthy living — a high quality protein on a mountain of veggies from the garden.

That’s it. That’s all.

So simple, yet so perfect.

What you’ll need:

- Top sirloin (Did you know this is like the cheapest cut of meat? I didn’t. It’s just Levi’s favorite so we’ve always gone for it. A very low-fat cut which is still amazing even though we’re living in a fat-obsessed health space right now. Don’t get jaded, a lean meat is still full of incredible nutrients.)

- In season produce — This week I used potatoes, zucchini, yellow summer squash, purple bell pepper, onion, garlic

- Season veggies with tallow, red pepper flakes, salt, and pepper

- Season steaks with EVOO, salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, paprika

Directions:

1. Place raw steaks in a glass container to season. Drizzle with EVOO and massage in all the seasonings on both sides.

2. Set seasoned steaks in the fridge.

3. Chop up all your veggies. Put potatoes onto a sheet pan first since they take the longest to cook. Spoon a few globs of grass fed tallow and throw into the top rack of the oven at 400 degrees.

4. After about 5 minutes the tallow should be melted so pull the pan out, add seasoning, and mix everything together so the potatoes are coated. Put back in the oven.

5. When you notice the potatoes look to be about halfway cooked, add the rest of the veggies to the pan and mix in to season everything. Finish cooking in the oven.

6. Cook your steaks in a cast iron pan either on a grill or stove top.

7. When everything is done, fix your plate, and enjoy!

Episode Resources:

  • Optimal window for women to fast is the last day or two of your period / early follicular phase (so not during the first day or two of bleeding but within a few days after)

  • Vitamin C packed hibiscus lemonade recipe in the enthusiasm section of this post

🤍🤍 Jaclyn

P.S. I always link to Spotify, but Cheers to Growth is also on Apple Podcasts and YouTube. Listen where you like to!