Be Well Cartel: the wellness girl gang podcast

We are BACK with episode 3! In this episode, we get to know Olivia and learn about her background- she is currently a badass performance and health coach based out of South Korea.

In this episode, you'll hear how Olivia's experience with fitness, body image, body building, CrossFit and more. As a young woman, her negative body image drove her to quit dancing- and it wasn't until years later that she restarted her fitness journey during a year abroad in South Korea.

Olivia loves to read, listen to music, and dance.. but as she dug deeper into the world of bodybuilding and CrossFit as an adult, she found that training, food and the drive to always be doing MORE took over her life. She tells us about what led her to realizing that the bodybuilding needed to stop, and what has now led her to re ignite her love for activities outside of the gym.

You'll hear about her 'breaking point', and how she realized that her obsession with training was taking away from so many other aspects in her life- including hormone issues that lasted for years. We talk about how common hormone issues are in the fitness industry, and how scary it can be to ask for help from a professional when the answer might be 'just stop what you're doing.

STAY TUNED for a future episode in which the Be Well Cartel girl gang digs into our experiences with hypothalamic amenorrhea, and their journeys to recover their hormones.

Olivia is dedicated to helping other women find balance in training and health, and currently lived and works in Seoul, South Korea.

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Find Olivia @oliviaparkcoach 

TIMESTAMPS FOR THIS EPISODE: 

02:30 - How Olivia got started in movement & the origins of body image

09:30  - Restarting her fitness journey as an adult

13:00 - Making the switch into fitness as a career

16:00 - When Olivia reached her "breaking point" & how she knew

25:00 - The big shift in Olivia's mindset around training and health

28:00 - The problem with not having a regular period & how rife this is in fitness

36:00 - Going "all in" for hormone health

48:00 - Olivia’s coaching practice

55:00 - The spectrum of health & fitness and how a coach helps you navigate this

In Episode 2 of the Be Well Cartel podcast, we get to know Holly a bit better. British by origin, Holly spent years living in China, and started out with no fitness background at all! In this episode, you'll hear about her journey from working at art galleries in Beijing to opening and managing one of the biggest CrossFit gyms in China.

Holly's story is fascinating- she suffered from social anxiety when she was younger and never imagined speaking in public, let alone coaching classes in TWO different languages. You'll hear more about how she got her start in the basement of a gym in Beijing, unable to lift a barbell over her head, to becoming a CrossFit coach, nutrition coach and Spartan race devotee.

She shares with us stories of how she got started with Olympic weightlifting, why she had to put her lifting shoes in the oven, and the path that led her back to the UK after years of living in Asia.

We also talk about how important it is as coaches to truly understand where your coachees are coming from, the benefits and disadvantages of working with athletes, and how fear is such a powerful reason to NOT change.

Stay tuned for the next episode, where we round out the 'get to know you' episodes with Olivia's background and story!

If you enjoyed this episode please make sure to: Subscribe to the podcast, share with your loved ones, and leave us a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts!

Follow us on Instagram: @bewellcartel

Find Gillian @bitesizenutri

Find Holly @hollypriestland

Find Olivia @oliviaparkcoach

Welcome to episode 1 of The Be Well Cartel podcast with Gillian, Holly and Olivia. We want to give you a chance to get to know us a bit better, so for the first 3 episodes of the podcast we are introducing ourselves to you. 

In this episode we get to know Gillian, our favorite Cali girl. We start by diving into how we all know each other- Gillian actually slept in Holly's bed in Shanghai before they even met in person. We chat about how the three of us connected, and you'll hear the funny story of how we came to find each other.

Then we go into how Gillian made her way to Barcelona (where she currently resides) from California.. and why she left a high paying sales job in San Francisco with basically NO clue what to do next. You'll hear about Gillian’s extensive history with CrossFit (as a coach, competitor and participating in a seminar staff internship), why she became a nutrition coach and how she got into Olympic weightlifting. 

We also talk about the 'dark side' of nutrition, including macro templates and tracking, which turned from a way to cut weight for weightlifting into an obsession- for all of us! Gillian has since made her way to a more mindful, gentle way of nourishing her body, and implements the tools she has learned with her clients as well.

Gillian shares with us about her own coaching protocols and beliefs and something that is at the centre of the Be Well Cartel as a collective: human-centred coaching vs numbers-based coaching. Towards the end of the episode we riff on the importance of self trust and self compassion as the basis for success in any pursuit of change. Gillan rounds things off with her top 3 resources for getting started with intuitive eating.

Stay tuned for the next episodes, where we dig into Holly and Olivia's background and story!

If you enjoyed this episode please make sure to: Subscribe to the podcast, share with your loved ones, and leave us a 5-star rating and review.

Follow us on Instagram: @bewellcartel

Find Gillian @bitesizenutri

Find Holly @hollypriestland

Find Olivia @oliviaparkcoach

We are Holly, Olivia and Gillian, three coaches from across the globe. Holly hails from the UK and spent the majority of the last decade in China. Olivia was born and raised in New Zealand, and is currently living and working in South Korea. Gillian's roots are from California- though she currently lives and runs her online business out of Barcelona, Spain.

This podcast is for women who want to learn more about what their body needs, transform their relationship with food, and workout in a way that makes sense for their personal wellbeing.

We’re here to sift through all the garbage out there in the fitness world that tells you to eat 1200 calories a day, do hours of cardio, and ignore the signs your body is constantly giving you....so that you can trust yourself to make informed decisions about what works for your body.

In the podcast you can expect no-BS banter, real talk , anecdotes and the facts so you can finally quit your own BS and BE WELL on your terms.

Make sure to hit SUBSCRIBE or FOLLOW on this podcast episode so you never miss a chat with your wellness girl gang. Here you'll find answers to your questions about your body, nutrition and exercise habits, interviews and conversations with industry experts, and a community to support and guide you on your own journey to be as well as YOU want to be.

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