Be Amazing

My next guest is my friend Molly Kujawski, owner of Excel Fit with Molly, certified personal trainer, and health and fitness coach.  Her mission is to truly motivate and inspire others to be a better version of themselves.

Molly shares her story of how fitness helped her cope with a loss, her father being diagnosed with schizophrenia, and her personal battle with depression.  Learn how she found hope and is on a mission to help others live a happier and healthier life through fitness.

The Be Amazing podcast will give you the fuel you need through motivational pep talks, the fitness tips to be your healthiest self, fortitude to push through hardships, and focus you need to build the skills needed for the next level - no matter what that looks like to you. Your host, Cel Smart, is here to be your biggest cheerleader, advocate, and connector.

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Today on the Be Amazing Podcast Cel sits down to chat with Sierra, Keristen, and Erika, coaches for Girls on the Run of Greater Charlotte.  Listen in as they share their personal WHY for coaching and encourage others to join them.  What is Girls on the Run? Girls on the Run, a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is a physical activity-based positive youth development (PA-PYD) program designed to enhance girls’ social, emotional and physical skills and behaviors to successfully navigate life experiences. The program’s intentional curriculum places an emphasis on developing competence, confidence, connection, character, caring and contribution in young girls through lessons that incorporate running and other physical activities. The life skills curriculum is delivered by caring and competent coaches who are trained to teach lessons as intended.

Girls on the Run International is the parent organization to 185+ local councils, serving over 200,000 girls annually.  

The Be Amazing podcast will give you the fuel you need through motivational pep talks, the fitness tips to be your healthiest self, fortitude to push through hardships, and focus you need to build the skills needed for the next level - no matter what that looks like to you. Your host, Cel Smart, is here to be your biggest cheerleader, advocate, and connector.

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For the first time in the history of more than 50 episodes of the Be Amazing Podcast, I interviewed a man.  Of course it’s not just any man, but it is the man, the myth, the legend in fitness photography, Paul Buceta.  While Paul is the first male guest to ever be on the podcast, he is every bit the advocate for women’s empowerment that all my previous guests have been.  Paul was personally responsible for changing the way women’s fitness photography is done in a more flattering feminine manner a decade ago in his role as the chief photographer for Oxygen magazine.  Today he is the owner and chief photographer for STRONG Fitness Magazine, a women’s fitness magazine for women, and our title sponsor for this year’s Be Amazing Weekend in Charlotte this October 15-16.How does a former banker who didn’t pick up a camera professionally until his mid 30’s almost immediately become the most sought after photographer by models all around the Toronto area, and today globally in the fitness industry and beyond?  Tune in for a laugh and learn about Paul, his crazy story, and his eternal good vibes.

The Be Amazing podcast will give you the fuel you need through motivational pep talks, the fitness tips to be your healthiest self, fortitude to push through hardships, and focus you need to build the skills needed for the next level - no matter what that looks like to you. Your host, Cel Smart, is here to be your biggest cheerleader, advocate, and connector.

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On the next episode of the Be Amazing podcast I have the pleasure of interviewing Marcie Williams, President of RKW Residential.  In addition to being an award winning, leading executive in business, Marcie is a wife of 28 years and mother of two grown children.  Marcie described herself as a “one trick pony” having married her high school sweetheart and working in the same industry her entire career, but this is where we can find inspiration and real life lessons in today’s world of instant gratification.  Listen in and hear Marcie drop nuggets of wisdom about being patient in career advancement, focusing on your strengths, having cheerleaders in your corner, and building a team that thinks differently than yourself.  Listen in and prepare to let go of any current fears that you may be hung up on as Marcie inspires us to just do it scared.

Marcie Williams, President of RKW

Website: https://www.rkwresidential.com/

The Be Amazing podcast will give you the fuel you need through motivational pep talks, the fitness tips to be your healthiest self, fortitude to push through hardships, and focus you need to build the skills needed for the next level - no matter what that looks like to you. Your host, Cel Smart, is here to be your biggest cheerleader, advocate, and connector.

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Listen in to the next Be Amazing Podcast where I interview Janelle Monteiro, wife, mother, business owner and coach.  Janelle shares how her love of athletics and pageants as a young girl turned into a passion for weight training and fitness competitions as a young woman.  Her love for lifting weights and competing on stage eventually led Janelle to her career as a personal trainer, coach and gym owner after being laid off from her PR job during the recession of ’08.  The layoff turned out to be a blessing, as Janelle has found her calling in helping women along their journey of self discovery and self actualization through fitness, nutrition and mindset.  You do not want to miss this discussion as we reminisce about the early days of fitness competitions in a time before it was “cool” for women to be lifting weights.  Janelle is a perfect example of how the sport of fitness has helped so many women become ambassadors for women empowerment because they were able to find personal empowerment along their journey as a fitness competitor.  

Follow Janelle on IG: @janellemonteiro @bodyambitionfitness

On this week’s episode of the Be Amazing Podcast I interview Lindsey Bushnell.  When Lindsay was approaching the age of 30 she decided she wanted to get into better shape, and she literally jumped all in.  Not having worked out much outside playing softball her entire life, Lindsey got introduced to fitness classes at Burn Boot Camp.  She loved the experience so much that three months later she purchased a Burn Boot Camp Franchise.  Now the owner of two locations, with three new ones opening up soon, Lindsey is sharing her passion for fitness and helping women become their greatest selves.  Once realizing and unlocking her own potential in life, she has dedicated the rest of hers to helping other women do the same.  Listen in and get introduced to this amazing wife, mother, trainer and entrepreneur.  You can also meet Lindsay in person at the Be Amazing events in Charlotte October 15th & 16th, as we’re honored to have Burn Boot Camp as one of our sponsors that weekend.

The Be Amazing podcast will give you the fuel you need through motivational pep talks, the fitness tips to be your healthiest self, fortitude to push through hardships, and focus you need to build the skills needed for the next level - no matter what that looks like to you. Your host, Cel Smart, is here to be your biggest cheerleader, advocate, and connector.

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My next guest on the Be Amazing Podcast is Tysha Pressley, a mother of two young children, a licensed mental health counselor, and a personal convert from an emotional eater that didn’t exercise much to a true lover of all things fitness. 

Listen in to Ty get very real with us about her personal realization that she was an emotional eater once she surpassed the 300 lb mark on the scale.  Learn how she not only transformed her own life, but also how it inspired yet another way for her to help others transform theirs.  As a mental health counselor that spends her days rehabilitating the lives of young people that have experienced dysfunctional upbringings, some might be surprised to hear Ty share that therapists have personal issues too.

Listen how Ty has persevered through her struggles of yo yo dieting and issues with body image, and how she is now using this experience to lift up others with a journal that she authored entitled “Hello Body, Do You Hear Me Now?”  This episode is sure to teach  you some invaluable tips for preparing yourself with a “mental toolbelt”, and it’s impossible not to be inspired by Ty’s mission to take women on a journey to “bodacious body love.”

Tysha Pressley, MSEd, LCMHC, CRC

Owner/Lead Therapist

Legacy Empowerment Services, PLLC

Have you purchased your copy of my first journal yet? Bit.ly/HelloBodyJournal  or the digital version Bit.ly/HelloBodyDigital

On this week’s episode of the Be Amazing podcast listen in to my conversation with Jenny Fisher, a busy mom with a career in medical sales who also has a very large online presence motivating others to live life to the fullest through moderation, balance and women’s empowerment.  Jenny has always had a love for fitness, so much so that many of her dates with her college boyfriend, now husband, were spent in the gym together.  Tune in to learn from Jenny the benefits of training rather than working out, incorporating Olympic lifts plus HIIT and low impact mobility each training session, and offering yourself patience, grace and self love as you continue to strive for maximum self optimization.

The Be Amazing podcast will give you the fuel you need through motivational pep talks, the fitness tips to be your healthiest self, fortitude to push through hardships, and focus you need to build the skills needed for the next level - no matter what that looks like to you. Your host, Cel Smart, is here to be your biggest cheerleader, advocate, and connector.

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On this episode of the Be Amazing Podcast I interview my long time friend Jen DiCandia.  Jen is a gym owner and online coach that breathes all things fitness.  One of her greatest joys in life is witnessing and supporting others who are “crushing life.”   With her belief that endorphins are magical, she’s created a recovery through fitness give back offering free gym memberships at her gym to recovering addicts.  Having lost her younger brother to an overdose and just in the last year her father to a lifelong addiction, Jen wants to share with other gyms how they can offer similar programs so that more people in recovery can find the remarkable benefits of fitness.  Listen in to hear an inspirational story of a passion for fitness becoming a purpose greater than ever imagined.

The Be Amazing podcast will give you the fuel you need through motivational pep talks, the fitness tips to be your healthiest self, fortitude to push through hardships, and focus you need to build the skills needed for the next level - no matter what that looks like to you. Your host, Cel Smart, is here to be your biggest cheerleader, advocate, and connector.

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On the next episode of the Be Amazing podcast I interview Nesha Pai, a Charlotte based CPA that employs stay at home moms to assist her in offering outsourced accounting services to small businesses. Last year Nesha authored an award winning book entitled “Overcoming Ordinary Obstacles” that exemplifies her belief that humans all share in and can relate through the experience of pain. Listen in to learn about Nesha’s experience growing up a first generation Indian woman in the south, and get motivated hearing about her continuous pursuits to be amazing in whatever she’s doing.

Follow Nesha on IG: @neshapai

The Be Amazing podcast will give you the fuel you need through motivational pep talks, the fitness tips to be your healthiest self, fortitude to push through hardships, and focus you need to build the skills needed for the next level - no matter what that looks like to you. Your host, Cel Smart, is here to be your biggest cheerleader, advocate, and connector.

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