Prior to reading The Expectant Father - The Ultimate Guide For Dads-To-Be I had embarrassingly limited knowledge of the entire pregnancy and labour process.  Here are my biggest take aways as well as twelve interesting facts from this gem of a book!

We've all heard the saying no pain no gain.  If a little exercise is good for you, more must be better right?  Although this is often the case there is a tipping point.  Here are 9 signs you're overtraining sandwiched by two more false beliefs of health and fitness.

Society has this false belief that being thin equals being healthy and people are weight cycling multiple times a year to look "healthy" for certain events.  This yo-yo dieting is putting a significant amount of unhealthy stress on the human body and suicide rates among young girls have doubled in recent year.  Pay less attention to the scale and more on how you feel!

The art of having a conversation with someone without being afraid of being incorrect, or judged, or recorded has been neglected in this new age of social media applications.  Which is doing ourselves a huge disservice in developing our understanding of various topics.

In this episode we get into exactly where the name Ball Screens and Baby Bumps came from and what type of content you can expect to receive from subscribing and listening to the podcast.  The incredible life lessons that can be taught from playing the game of Basketball and a feel good story about appreciating the sacrifices that a retiring basketball coach made for 35 years to teach young men how to play the game the right way.

What do I hope to get out of hosting the Ball Screens and Baby Bumps Podcast?  Stronger and more fulfilling relationships with the people I care about even the ones I haven't met yet such as my baby girl.  We often begin to cherish our parents far too late in life and anyone who's had a parent pass-away knows how much they would love to be able to hear their voice again and how big of a heartbreak it is as time passes when they begin to forget what their parents sounded like.

On Day 2 of the Solo Podcast challenge I talk about what got me into first listening to podcasts and eventually hosting my own solo podcast.  There are some significant educational benefits to both!  As an adult instructor for the past four years one of my biggest learnings was how much the act of being forced to explain a concept in my own words to a class actually helps increase my understanding of the topic and also stores it into my long term memory.

In this solo podcast I stress about how little I really know about taking care of a baby.  I have two months left until my baby girl arrives and I'll admit I had a bit of a freakout last week.  The one part of the entire process that I had a tiny bit of confidence in was the name we chose for her but as it turns out there is waay more to a name than I ever thought!