Rita Mercer, Wellness, Mindset & Mental Health Expert
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Are you ready to feel empowered and motivated to crush your wellness goals?Welcome! I’m so glad you’re here. Your one stop for mindfulness, meditations, holistic wellness, mental health, evidence based strategies, healthy habits, and deep and meaningful conversations to help you transform your mind and relationships. Well, I’m your host, Rita Mercer. I’m a holistic wellness and mindset coach, licensed counselor, and your new virtual friend on this wild and crazy journey called life. On the Daring Well podcast, we will explore holistic wellness practices to strengthen your mind, body, and spirit. Each episode we will learn...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Rita Mercer turns wide-ranging wellness conversations into approachable questions about habits, self-awareness, faith, rest, and feeling safer in the body.
Rita Mercer builds generous guest conversations around the point where emotional life meets everyday health. She keeps pulling broad ideas toward recognizable choices: setting aside a defined time for worry, shaping sustainable habits around a person's current season, and…
Rita Mercer's sleep guest gives worry office hours; your 2 a.m. brain might welcome the boundary.
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A practical look at burnout as a body signal, with concrete tools for noticing stress before it escalates.
This conversation treats burnout as something the body often flags first, before it turns into a productivity issue. Rita Mercer and Rachel Korb center high-achieving women, leaders, and startup professionals, pointing to early signs like raised shoulders, a knot in the chest,…
A warm, pointed invitation to step out of the roles that keep you making yourself smaller.
Rita Mercer frames the caretaker, peacekeeper, and cheerleader roles as habits shaped by fear of losing connection, approval, or status. The result is personal without feeling loose, and the reminder that making yourself smaller is not the only path gives the piece its clearest…
Meditation is presented as disciplined training, with practical steps for starting the day.
Jeff Patterson treats meditation as disciplined training, not a quiet retreat, and ties it to boxing, awareness, performance, mobility, philosophy, and spiritual practice.
A practical reminder that willpower is not enough on its own; environment and structure matter more.
This episode treats technology less as a productivity boost and more as something that can quietly drive burnout, habits, and recovery. Rita Mercer introduces Colin Corby as a technologist, endurance athlete, TEDx speaker, and digital detox and mindset coach, then gives him room…
A grounded look at burnout, belonging, and leadership that moves from principle to practical action.
The episode treats burnout as an organizational problem rather than an individual failing, and it keeps its attention on how leaders can make room for authenticity, purpose, and well-being at work.
A clear look at healing, boundaries, and the slow work of reshaping self worth.
Nikki Allen treats healing as hard root work, not a quick fix. The discussion keeps circling back to the same point: childhood conditioning can shape self worth, and when that wiring goes unaddressed, it can show up in relationships, at work, and in the way someone draws…
A warm, plainspoken case for movement that meets the body where it is.
Rita Mercer hosts Joanna Stewart, known as Jo, in a conversation that stays grounded in the small ways movement can help a body feel more at ease.
Money shame loosens here, with naming it as the first real step.
Rita Mercer and AJ keep circling the same point: money shame gets lighter when it is spoken aloud. Debt, no savings, and the quiet panic around money are treated less like failings than a weight people carry until they name it.
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Three hosts and psychologist Dr Emily talk vulnerability, therapy, and imperfection with guests.
Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
Rob Rene, founder of QE Strong and Exodus Strong, discusses frequency medicine, quantum energy, and biblical wellness approaches.
This episode segment encourages listeners to embrace softness and balance in their lives as a form of strength, offering a reminder and permission to be gentle amidst life's challenges.
Sophia Tarini, certified clinical EFT practitioner, shares her journey from healthcare professional facing incurable health conditions to someone who healed herself through Emotional Freedom Techniques.
Rita welcomes therapist and emotional safety expert Diane McDowell to discuss how high achievers can move from nervous system hypervigilance to genuine calm.
Rita Mercer coaches listeners through boundary-setting by naming four unhealthy roles many people unconsciously play: Rescuer (saving others from discomfort), Fixer (solving problems instead of being present), Caretaker (prioritizing others' needs over own), and Peacekeeper (avoiding conflict at all costs).
Annadelle Alberti says 72% of the global workforce is suffering from burnout and argues that this directly affects productivity, efficiency, and focus.
AJ Schneider, founder and CEO of Beyond the Green Coaching, tells Rita Mercer that money is “emotional,” not just math, and ties spending to shame, fear, guilt, and nervous-system regulation.
Nikki Allen says her novel, screenplay, and song "Loved You, Hated You" grew out of an abusive relationship and a decision to turn pain into purpose.
Rita Mercer opens by reminding listeners to stay connected to who they really are.
Rachel Korb says she burned out three times while building a startup career in San Francisco, even after 15 years of practicing mindfulness, somatics, and nervous system regulation.
Alan Lazaros, CEO of the Next Level University podcast, traces how the death of his birth father John McCorkle at age 28, a 14-year-old family breakup, and a head-on car accident at 26 shaped his view of success.
Rita Mercer returns with a warm check-in for the Daring Well community.
Jo Stewart, author of Eight Limbs of Aerial Yoga and founder of Garden of Yoga, explains why she built a practice around gentle movement, sensory regulation, and individual choice.
Dan Hartshorn says Flow Greens was born when he was "me and burnout were best buddies," while balancing a young baby, a demanding career, and an acquisition process that stretched for about two years.
Rita Mercer opens by flagging burnout.
Rita Mercer introduces fearful-avoidant attachment—characterized by simultaneous craving for closeness and fear of it.
Rita welcomes Amy to talk about identity, self-worth, and living in alignment with your truth.
Rita Mercer welcomes Herman Petrick to discuss energetic parasites, soul ties, and energy attachments that can leave people feeling drained.
Rita Mercer opens the conversation with Dr.
Rita Mercer talks with Carly Pepin about growth, business systems, and the cost of being out of alignment.
Rita Mercer interviews Cam Corden about his transformation from suicidal ideation to healing through cold exposure, carnivore nutrition, and kettlebells.