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What Am I Modeling with Dr. Tricia Pingel NMD
Here's the uncomfortable truth: You're modeling something through your behavior every single day, whether you realize it or not. The question that will change everything: What am I modeling?
I'm Dr. Tricia Pingel NMD, a naturopathic physician with an unusual background - I started working as a professional fashion model when I was 9 months old. Between modeling and medicine, I learned to look perfect while completely losing myself in the process.
When my mom died after a 9-month cancer battle, I realized my boys had been watching me their entire lives, learning that pushing through no matter what was the only way to live. That's when I found my way back to myself through hip hop dance and discovered the power of authentic living.
This show is for anyone tired of looking successful on the outside while barely holding it together on the inside.You'll hear my messy transformation stories, raw conversations with people who've stopped performing and started actually living, medical insights on stress and why your body keeps the score, real talk about surviving high-pressure work environments, and permission-giving moments that make you feel less alone.
This is your permission slip to stop modeling burnout and start curating joy.
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About Dr. Tricia: Naturopathic physician, bestselling author of "Total Health Turnaround" (60,000+ copies), and featured expert in Prevention Magazine, Good Housekeeping, and Women's Health. Connect at drpingel.com.
What Am I Modeling with Dr. Tricia Pingel NMD
Rebuilding Your Life with Dr. Tricia Pingel and Tracey Yarad
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In this episode of 'What Am I Modeling? Tricia Pingel interviews Tracy Yarad, an Australian-born singer-songwriter who moved to New York City in her late 50s after a painful divorce. Tracy shares her journey of rebuilding her life and how she transformed her experiences into a one-woman show titled 'All These Pretty Things'. The conversation highlights themes of resilience, personal growth, and the power of storytelling through music.
BIO
Australia-born, New York-based Tracey Yarad is a pianist and singer-songwriter with jazz sensibilities. Her career has taken her from touring Australia with her original music and having a Top 40 single in the ’90s, to a seven-year residency singing in 5-star hotels in Japan, to running her own music school for 18 years in the Blue Mountains of Australia, to New York.
Blessed with a soulful, incredibly beautiful instrument and a talent for composing heartfelt and evocative songs, Tracey has produced multiple projects since relocating to New York City, performing at the 55 Bar, Soapbox Gallery, the Bitter End, Birdland, among others. She has collaborated with Grammy-nominated Chilean vocal star Claudia Acuna, Grammy-winning Jon Cowherd and avant garde saxophonist Dave Binney. Her duo performance with pianist Jim Ridl, ‘Lost in Translation’ (featuring stories and songs from her seven years as a hotel singer in Japan) was flagged by the New Yorker’s award-winning journalist Steve Futterman, who wrote, “If demanding experience leads to hard-won wisdom, Yarad and Ridl will have much to impart.”
In 2024 she took her her one-woman-show All These Pretty Things to the Edinburgh Fringe, a musical memoir based on her own experience of her 23 year marriage and it's shocking demise. The show has received rave reviews and is touring extensively in Australia and the UK in 2025. "Breathtakingly honest and gorgeously sung songs on the themes of loss and abandonment, and the restorative power of music and love.” - Broadway World
As part of her re-invention in her new life in NYC she has added jazz photographer to her list of professional accomplishments, and is photographer of choice for many of New York’s leading jazz musicians. Her work has appeared in Downbeat, Guitar Player, and Drum Scene magazines.
Keywords
Tracy Yarad, singer-songwriter, New York City, personal journey, betrayal, resilience, one-woman show, All These Pretty Things, musical memoir, life transformation
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