AboutJanet Podleski
For almost 30 years, Janet has been a wellness trailblazer, inspiring millions to improve their eating habits...and their lives!
4-time #1 Nat'l Bestselling Author
Award-Winning Entrepreneur
BodyIntuitive Mind-Body Medicine Master Practitioner
Registered Nutritional Consulting Practitioner (RNCP, RHN)
B.A. Psychology​
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Background
Janet is the co-author—along with her sister Greta—of four blockbuster #1 national bestselling cookbooks: Looneyspoons; Crazy Plates; Eat, Shrink & Be Merry; and The Looneyspoons Collection. She also co-hosted the popular Food Network Canada TV show, Eat, Shrink & Be Merry, and created an award-winning line of healthy prepared foods sold in grocery stores across Canada.
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With over 2 million books sold, Janet and her sister are among Canada’s all-time bestselling authors. Their first cookbook, Looneyspoons, became one of the fastest-selling books in Canadian publishing history, with an astonishing 900,000 copies sold. It spent an incredible 85 weeks on the national bestseller list and 8 months at the #1 spot. Not bad for a couple of Polish sisters who self-published out of their basement after being rejected by all publishers. From cellar to bestseller!
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The sisters and their inspirational success story have been featured on hundreds of media outlets across North America, and their entrepreneurial venture is even studied in university marketing textbooks!
Inspiring others to transform their lives is what I love to do. It's what I'm meant to do. It's who I am. And yes, I'm still the same quirky cookbook sister whose smiling face sits next to your toaster!
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Looneyspoons was just the appetizer... this is the main course.
Turning the page to my next, exciting chapter!
You know, I've had a pretty celebrated career teaching people what to eat, but navigating my personal health "adventure" taught me something I never expected: that creating true, lasting healing isn't always just about food.
Don't get me wrong—what we eat matters. HUGE! But sometimes, the difference between wellness and illness isn't about what you're eating. It's about what's eating you!
I'm talking about buried emotions. Toxic thoughts and limiting beliefs. Chronic stress. Unprocessed trauma. Loneliness. Even "stuff" our ancestors lived through that's been passed down to us. Sure, sometimes we need a diet makeover. But more often, we need to dive deeper to discover what's really holding our health hostage. That's what I did. I dove in head first. And it led me to the kind of healing no supplement or smoothie ever could.
Mission: Possible!
I've been a competitive athlete since childhood (soccer, tennis, basketball, bowling, hide & seek—you name it!). That passion sparked an early interest in anatomy and how food fuels performance.
But it was chronic digestion problems resulting from a childhood appendectomy—and a string of sports injuries and surgeries in my teens—that lit the fire for deeper learning.
What I discovered was illuminating! Against all odds—and my orthopaedic surgeon's grim prognosis—I overcame six knee operations and went on to play competitive varsity soccer and basketball. In fact, I became the first female athlete at Carleton University ever named to a Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union (CIAU) All-Canadian Team—and was inducted into their Sports Hall of Fame in 2000.
My first taste of energy medicine came in 2005, when I was diagnosed with Graves’ disease, a serious autoimmune disorder with frightening consequences and no traditional medical cure. Remarkably, I reversed the condition naturally through nutrition and supplements, acupuncture, herbal medicine, advanced energy medicine—and most importantly, the powerful effect of intention, thoughts and words.
From Student to Master Practitioner
That experience changed everything—and opened the door to an entirely new dimension of healing possibilities.
In 2009, I dove heart- and head-first into studying the BodyTalk System of advanced energy medicine. Those transformative years led me to pursue a PhD in Natural Medicine at the International Quantum University for Integrative Medicine in Honolulu (still in progress!), and eventually to something that felt like "home."
At a winter getaway to California in 2018 , I was introduced to BodyIntuitive—a pioneering mind-body energy medicine system that merges modern science with ancient wisdom in a way that's never been done before. I was seriously blown away! The results were jaw-dropping—especially its ability to pinpoint the emotional root causes of complex, chronic conditions. It was love at first session!
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Soon after, I became editor of the first-ever BodyIntuitive course manual—helping the founders bring this revolutionary system to life.
Today, I'm thrilled to be a certified BodyIntuitive Master Practitioner, weaving together decades of education, research and real-life experience to help my clients heal for real — and turn the page to their own exciting, next chapter!