Today I am joined by my Uncle, Jermell Brooks - a small town country boy living in a big city. My Uncle has always struck me as a highly confident person, so I wanted to get the tea on how to channel that myself. Where does it come from? Is it genetics, is it clothes, is it too late? Tune in, take notes, and remember to never give away your power.

Words to live by:

If you don't think you’re all that, never expect anyone else to think you’re all that.

What part of this is me?

What part of this is someone else?

Count yourself in

Letting you in on more sides of me, happy pride y'all.

*The Call Her Daddy interviews I reference were with Colton Underwood and Janelle Monáe.

I'm catching you all up on my half marathon journey: why I did it, how I trained, what the actual race was like, and more. I feel like running has really helped to reset my brain around fitness/exercise/how I take care of myself, getting me into a routine that is fueling, and I discuss what that currently looks like. Enjoy besties xx

For your big butt girlie summer:

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Thoughts and feelings around motherhood have made permanent residency in my mind as soon as my clock hit 29, but it's still not time to clock in... let's talk about it.

Girl Talk Friday returns post grinding on the dance floor and we leave no topic off the table: logistics of sharing a car, reality TV love, twerking spurring feminine energy, staring at yourself in the mirror, the cervix, lessons from The Warner Wright Brothers, figuring it out on the way, being a group fitness coach, bringing out the best of one another, doing your half of the bargain, how nice the tik tok girlies are, and grubnation. Food is life. Hope you giggle, hope you learn, hope you eat something soul fueling today.

Carlie reflections:

"I thought my life had to look a certain way to achieve happiness... only to get there, not be happy, and have to peel everything back and ask, well what is going to make me happy?"

"This is you, this came out of you, this is what you want to say, wouldn’t it be cool to meet someone that wants to celebrate that about you?"

"What would life be if we weren't eating?"

Iconic Liz words to live by:

"I want to be a devil, too"

"Sometimes the silence is loud... so I just turn up the music."

"Let's plan breakfast, lunch, and dinner THEN we can think about in between."

I didn't call myself an athlete until I was 26, and I've been unpacking why ever since. Being uncomfortable with my physicality and stereotypes I was fed as a child resulted in a deep dissociation. Sickness, injury, and death put me face to face with how I nurture myself and my body. At one point in time, I had all my eggs in the lifting basket, but I realized I was operating from a place of over-idolized physique and strength equaling acceptance and love for self. I can't always be my strongest or leanest, so what happens then? Join me as I discuss what I define to be a female athlete and how I've developed a more meaningful relationship to my body and to movement.

TikTok lacks originality, IG makes me feel dirty, and Pinterest is too repetitive. Why am I spending 2-5 hours a day consuming this? Do I even want this in my life? Let's take a break. Better yet, let's change my relationship to it. It's been a week and a day and I already feel more alive. Let's discuss.

no hope to hope? hopefully

TRIGGER WARNING: I discuss struggles I've had with food and diet culture in this episode

Today we sit down (in the middle of my hallway) to share raw, honest dialogue on my current relationship status to the gym and how I am nourishing myself.

I have always felt like a pawn in everyone else's game of life, but I wasn't consciously aware of it until recently. It took dismantling my life down to the bones to realize that I don't know how to be in my own life, let alone create my own life, because I wasn't holding any value to it. Hi, I'm Carlie, and I'm a 28 year old recovering people pleaser. Turns out you can make decisions for yourself, stand by them, and people will still respect you. In today's episode I journey you through how this has shown up for me, what I'm learning, and the direction I am taking to build my "living my truth" muscles. Creating my life was always going to be a "me" job, now it's time for me to finally show up to the workplace. Yippee!