Co-create

Tune in for an episode with Chris Skipper on navigating change, embracing the unknown, and the deep joy that comes with serving others! Chris is a personal trainer, spin instructor and wonderful human being.

 

MEET CHRIS SKIPPER ~

Chris is an ISSA certified personal trainer with Iron Will Gym. He’s currently spearheading a new spin program at Iron Will Gym and also teaches spin classes at the University of Virginia. After his own journey of fitness that transformed him from 400 lbs + addicted to substances to living a vibrant, thriving life - he’s now passionate about helping others live their own vibrant, thriving lives.

 

CONNECT WITH CHRIS

On the web: https://www.skipintofitnesscoaching.com/

On Instagram: @skipintofitnesscoaching

On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-skipper-9122a119a

On Facebook: as Chris Skipper

 

FAVORITE MOMENTS FROM THIS EPISODE ~

• Choosing not to fight your own come up
• Participating in our own dreams 🌈🥰💜
• Chris’s journey from 400 lbs + addicted to fitness professional 🥰
• Setting other-focused goals, altruism is also selfish, celebrating the wins of other people
• Passion, emotionality + deep care for your craft
• Healthy boundaries in relationships
•  

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS SHOW ~

IRON WILL GYM

LEARN ABOUT THE HAPPY PLACE CHALLENGE!

ART OF IMPOSSIBLE BY STEVEN KOTLER

 

DETAILED EPISODE BREAKDOWN ~

0:00 - 10:00 ish:

• Meet Chris! 🎉
• All about the Happy Place Challenge!
• The beauty of zig-zagging to find our unique path
• Choosing not to fight your own come up

10 - 20:00 ish:

• Closing one door helps you see aaall the other doors available
• Participating in our own dreams 🌈🥰💜
• Making the hard, uncomfortable, but true decisions
• Getting comfortable in the unknown 🛸👽

20 - 30:00 ish:

• Learning humility, self love and how to slow down from barbells
• Incredible humans in the fitness community
• Chris’s journey from 400 lbs + addicted to fitness professional 🥰
• Self vs. other-focused living
• Walking through the gym door is a milestone + accomplishment in itself

30 - 40:00 ish:

• Using shame as fuel for action [and nothing else]
• Chris’s powerlifting era
• And now the spin era 🛸
• You can do anything you want in fitness, but not everything at once

40 - 50:00 ish:

• Everyone is entitled to good health 💜
• Setting other-focused goals, altruism is also selfish, celebrating the wins of other people
• Participating in the wins and goals of others

50 - 60:00 ish:

• Passion, emotionality + deep care for your craft
• Healthy boundaries in relationships
• Adjusting our tolerance for malarkey over time through experience
• Exploring boundaries with old thought patterns in our brains
• How to connect with Chris!
•  

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

Head to iTunes and leave a review for the podcast! It really helps the podcast out and would mean the world to me 💜 Thanks for tuning in and being part of an incredible podcast community 🥹💜

Lots of love,

Caroline

Tune in for an episode with Toni Jackson on training, body image, and finding purpose and meaning through helping others 💜 Toni is an experienced powerlifter and has worked as a personal coach for the last 15 years and her perspective and insights are invaluable. Enjoy this episode and love you so much!

MEET TONI JACKSON ~

Toni is an Albermarle County native with a master's degree from UVA in Professional Counseling. In addition, she is certified as a Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP) and Behavior Technician.

Starting in 2011, she began integrating physical fitness into her client support regimes. Toni is an experienced powerlifter and has worked as a personal coach for the past 15 years.

Toni believes that by strengthening our bodies we strengthen our minds. She works with women of all ages, backgrounds and abilities in a way that opens the door to self-empowerment.

Meet Katherine - an expert in inclusive innovation and wizard of thriving with physical and neurodiversities! 🎉 In this episode, we talk about knowing thyself and building a life that supports your thrive. This episode was such a blast to record and Katherine is officially one of my new favorite people, I hope you enjoy! 🎉💜

MEET KATHERINE MCCORD ~

Katherine, a physically and neurodiverse woman herself, built her career on inclusive innovation as an entrepreneur in People Operations and HR Tech. She lives by the motto that different is not a deficit.

CONNECT WITH KATHERINE

On the web: https://www.kmccordspeaking.com

On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherine-mccord-093bb343/

On the TikToks: @KatTheHRTitan

FAVORITE MOMENTS FROM THIS EPISODE ~

some of my favorite lines of conversation that came up in this episode:

• Understanding the biology underlying neurodiversity can be a superpower

• Building the habit of paying attention to our personal rhythms

• Boundary setting! And the kind act of being clear with others

• Letting the pain of our mistakes really sink in with us 💜

• Feeling grateful for the times in our lives when we’ve made mistakes

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS SHOW ~

THE OCTOPUS MOVEMENT

TRAINING WITH CAROLINE

DETAILED EPISODE BREAKDOWN ~

0:00 - 10:00 ish:

• Meet Katherine! and a quick overview of today’s episode 💜

• How to train virtually with Caroline!

• A moment about hair 🎀

10 - 20:00 ish:

• Katherine’s childhood journey with OCD and Bipolar

• Tracking behavior and mental health to support oneself in each season

• Menopause and neurodiversity

• Understanding the biology underlying neurodiversity can be a superpower

20 - 30:00 ish:

• Knowledge as a tool to combat the spiraling stories of the brain

• Paying attention to our bodies and the signals they’re sending us

• Building the habit of paying attention to our personal rhythms

• The gift of supportive environments and supportive people

• Giving honest support to those in your life with neurodiversities

30 - 40:00 ish:

• Neurodiversity and dialed in bullsh*t radars 😂

• Boundary setting! And the kind act of being clear with others

• Katherine’s jerk theory and poop emoji scale for human jerkiness 😂

• Boundaries as a two-way opportunity for growth

• Sometimes the best choice is to walk away

• Making the hard choice of walking away from the things and people that aren’t for us

40 - 50:00 ish:

• Evolving as a jerk 😂

• Honoring our past asshole selves

• Letting the pain of our mistakes really sink in with us 💜

• Communicating through painful experiences and mistakes

• Feeling grateful for the times in our lives when we’ve made mistakes

• More boundaries! 🎉

50:00 ish and beyond:

• Feeling grateful for early challenges in Katherine’s life

• About The Octopus Movement

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

Head to iTunes and leave a review for the podcast! It really helps the podcast out and would mean the world to me 💜 Thanks for tuning in and being part of an incredible podcast community 🥹💜

Lots of love,

Caroline

Join me in talking with Hilary Truong, founder of Hilary Mae and Co! We have an AMAZING conversation about the mother-daughter relationship. How and why this critical relationship can get so sticky, what we can do about it, and how society-at-large shapes the mother-daughter relationship. All women everywhere - listen 👏🏼 to 👏🏼 this 👏🏼 episode 👏🏼 For the love of all things holy. Trust me 💜

MEET HILARY TRUONG ~

Hilary Truong is a mother-daughter relationship expert and former therapist for teen girls and a leading voice on keeping mothers and daughters in relationship through the teen years. She is on a mission to rewrite the narrative for mothers and teen daughters and shares her passion by speaking at schools and associations for girls and women, coaching mothers of girls and hosting immersive travel experiences for mothers and daughters.

CONNECT WITH HILARY

On the web: www.hilarymae.com

On Instagram: @hilarymaeco

On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/hilarymaeco

On the Facebooks: https://www.facebook.com/hilarymaeco

🫧 CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT HER FREE WORKSHOP SERIES

FAVORITE MOMENTS FROM THIS EPISODE ~

some of my favorite lines of conversation that came up in this episode:

• The incredible impact of watching our mothers model behavior patterns

• Breaking the ‘am I expecting too much of men?’ thought pattern

• Slowly breaking old patterns across generations

• Letting go of solving other peoples’ problems so we can solve the big problems that give our own lives meaning

• Mothers meeting their own emotional needs vs. projecting them onto the daughter

• Embracing the natural course of the mother-daughter relationship

• Honoring the unfulfilled dreams of our grandmothers 💜

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS SHOW ~

WORK WITH CAROLINE 1:1 THROUGH THE INTERWEBS 👽

THE WORKS OF ROSJKE HASSELDINE

DOWN GIRL BY KATE MANN

DETAILED EPISODE BREAKDOWN ~

0:00 - 10:00 ish:

• Meet Hilary! and a quick overview of today’s episode 💜

• When Hilary first realized the mother-daughter relationship needed more investigation…

• Why are the teen years so critical? What’s so unique about them?

• The importance of moms feeling supported so they can be truly supportive for their daughters

• Moms and daughters seeing each other through softer eyes 🌈

10 - 20:00 ish:

• The ‘female experience’ as a bond between mother + daughter

• How living inside the patriarchy sets this relationship up for conflict

• The culture of ‘female service’ and expectations placed on women to serve and give

• Women’s right to express our needs and ask for what we need

• The incredible impact of watching our mothers model behavior patterns

• Men learning to take on their share of the emotional labor

• The ‘am I expecting too much of men?’ thinking pattern

20 - 30:00 ish:

• Reflecting on the growing appreciation of emotional labor with each generation

• Changing the patterns we pass on through family

• Slowly breaking old patterns across generations

• Learning about our mother lines 💜 Our mothers, grandmothers and great grandmothers

• The sacrifice that’s made by our female predecessors

• Letting go of solving other peoples’ problems so we can solve the big problems that give our own lives meaning

• What happens when a mom’s emotional needs aren’t met

30 - 40:00 ish:

• Mothers meeting their own emotional needs vs. projecting them onto the daughter

• Letting go of the expectations that mothers + daughters should be best friends

• Embracing the natural course of the mother-daughter relationship

• The importance of finding satisfaction outside of being a mother

• Wrangling with cultural echos from the 50’s about what it means to be a woman

• Human Giver Syndrome

• Honoring the unfulfilled dreams of our grandmothers 💜

40 - 50:00 ish:

• Hilary’s personal definition of what it means to her to be a mother

• Letting motherhood be messy, real and honest

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

Head to iTunes and leave a review for the podcast! It really helps the podcast out and would mean the world to me 💜 Thanks for tuning in and being part of an incredible podcast community 🥹💜

Lots of love,

Caroline

Join me in talking with Honie Ann Peacock of Hon’s Healthy Kitchen! We talk about the interconnectedness of food, soil, microbes, and everything else 🥰 It’s the perfect conversation to help us all celebrate Earth Day and I hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed recording 🌱

 MEET HONIE ANN PEACOCK

Honie Ann Peacock is an award-winning leader and social entrepreneur whose extensive career includes founding four companies and bridging two connected but parallel tracks: the organic food, health and fitness industries; and economic development and community development for women and minority-owned businesses and community-based non-profits in the culinary arts, education, fine arts and human services.

Honie Ann is a former corporate Human Resources executive and MSW social worker. Her new webinar series ‘Are We Really What We Eat?...Food for Thought’ brings together the common thread in the highway of her life: to enable individuals and organizations to get the information and tools they need to live healthier, more productive lives. 🌱

CONNECT WITH HON

 

On the web: https://www.honshealthykitchen.com

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/honshealthykitchen

On YouTube: https://youtu.be/cZJFKdXkPAo

To learn more about her webinar series “Are We Really What We Eat?…Food For Thought”, 🫧 click here 🫧

To learn more about becoming a sponsor for her work, 🫧 click here 🫧

FAVORITE MOMENTS FROM THIS EPISODE:

 

• ‘the recipe means nothing’ if the sourcing is problematic

• reflecting on health food stores in the 90s

• disconnecting from the busy of our culture to remember our interconnectedness

• growing up as a species and choosing to take care of each other and our planet home

• Hon’s tips on making small do-able changes instead of getting overwhelmed

• using Hon’s incredible series to get ideas for small and meaningful changes 🫧

• approaching change intuitively and finding what speaks to you

• finding meaning in life by working on big problems

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS SHOW ~

ARE WE REALLY WHAT WE EAT?… FOOD FOR THOUGHT VIDEO SERIES

ELDERBERRY HERBALS

DETAILED EPISODE BREAKDOWN ~

0:00 - 10:00 ish:

• Welcome Hon! learn about who she is and what she’s passionate about

• reflecting on Hon’s childhood, growing up with whole food

• how our childhood experience of food shapes us

• the experiences that led to Hon’s first business

10 - 20:00 ish:

• Hon’s journey into learning about soil health

• ‘the recipe means nothing’ if the sourcing is problematic

• going far beyond ‘we are what we eat’

• the savvy marketing behind ‘natural foods’

• Hon’s second business, Hon’s Buns as a response to the ‘fat free muffin’ of the 90s

• reflecting on health food stores in the 90s

20 - 30:00 ish:

• sourcing of ingredients is as important [if not more important] than anything else

• taking a holistic view of all that we consume and absorb from our environment

• bringing together positive change makers to serve as role models

• disconnecting from the busy of the world to remember our interconnectedness

• taking time to slow down and act only on the things that we really value

• forest bathing as a way to down regulate the nervous system

• how change truly happens 🌱

30 - 40:00 ish:

• growing up as a species and choosing to take care of each other and our planet home

• Hon’s tips on making small do-able changes instead of getting overwhelmed

• tips to eat for well being [instead of convenience] year round 🥰

• using Hon’s incredible series to get ideas for small and meaningful changes 🫧

• seeds as heritage and one of the foundational blocks of life

40 - 50:00 ish:

• miso, making foods kids love, forest bathing and more of the amazing thing inside season one of Hon’s series

• the importance of the energetic body, not just the physical body

• foraging, growing your own herbs, all the things!

• approaching change intuitively and finding what speaks to you

50 - 60:00 ish:

• Season two topics!

• biophilic design, living walls, fungi and the mycelial network, how other species communicate!

• what are keystone species and why are they important?

• finding meaning in life by working on big problems

• ‘what we eat’ is not just what we put in our mouths, it’s everything that we take in

• shoutout to Hon’s amazing sponsors! 🎉

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

Head to iTunes and leave a review for the podcast! It really helps the podcast out and would mean the world to me 💜 Thanks for tuning in and being part of an incredible podcast community 🥹💜

Lots of love,

Caroline

 

WELCOME TO A NEW SERIES ON THE POD!! 🎉🎉🎉

I'm STOKED to introduce the 'Shooting the Sh!t' series with my internet bestie, Sami Burgos!!! 🥰🥰

Twice a month, Sam and I will sit down and... well, shoot the sh!t 😂 Sam's an amazing human, she's been on the pod before and I'm HYPED for y'all to get to know her through this series 🥰

CONNECT WITH SAM

Sami Burgos is a self love & microdosing coach based in Miami, FL 👽

She’s the host of The Bare Haus podcast & founder of The Bare Haus brand, a modern day herbal apothecary for self care & self love ritual supplies. She’s a baddie in real life and on the internet and I’m excited for you to meet her 🥰

On the web: thebarehaus.com

On Instagram: @sami_burgos

The Bare Haus Podcast!

FAVORITE MOMENTS FROM THIS EPISODE ~

some of my favorite lines of conversation that came up in this episode:

• how Sam & Caroline became internet frands 🥰

• we’re done with the word healing altogether 😂

• reflecting on the things that alter our whole fcking lives

• entrepreneurship and how it changes relationships

• living our own random lives

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS SHOW ~

APPSHEET

SAM’S OG CO-CREATE EPISODE: SELF HONORING RITUAL & ROUTINE

MY EPISODE ON THE BARE HAUS PODCAST

HUMAN DESIGN

EDEN ENERGY MEDICINE

DETAILED EPISODE BREAKDOWN ~

0:00 - 10:00 ish:

• building apps to visualizing progress

• how Sam & Caroline became internet frands 🥰

• comparing our natal charts 😍

10 - 20:00 ish:

• loving a good cry

• reflecting on our Saturn return chapters

• geeking out on astrology

• people be dying

• Sam’s Saturn return 🪐

20 - 30:00 ish:

• Caroline shares one of her most challenging moments

• toxic manifestation and ‘trust falling’

• themes that continue to show up in our lives

• reflecting on the idea of reincarnation

• Sam reflects on giving fewer fucks about how she’s perceived

30 - 40:00 ish:

• Caroline reflects on workaholism and listening to the body

• geeking out on human design

• Eden Energy Medicine

• defined root center in human design and feeling enough

• toxic healing vs. just continued growth from a place of self love 🥰

• we’re done with the word healing altogether 😂

40 - 50:00 ish:

• reflecting on the things that alter our whole fcking lives

• life slowing down during the pandemic and creating space

• the ‘need to heal X to manifest Y’ trap

• the simple, scary tasks that actually make the biggest difference

• entrepreneurship as a catalyst for getting over your shit 😂

50 - 60:00 ish:

• entrepreneurship and how it changes relationships

• living our own random lives

• the struggle of ‘healing’ making our own random lives so valuable

• perspective is everythiiiinnnggg

• Sam and Caroline share how they see their part time jobs

• learning from toxic situations

• reflecting on the first times we walked into the unknown!

• Caroline reflects on her research during her science life

60ish and beyond:

• how Sam approaches growth now

• how Caroline approaches growth now

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

Head to iTunes and leave a review for the podcast! It really helps the podcast out and would mean the world to me 💜 Thanks for tuning in and being part of an incredible podcast community 🥹💜

Lots of love,

Caroline

Madison Morrigan is a 5x international award winning life coach, host of the award winning Everything Belongs Podcast, a speaker and writer. Centered on sovereignty, sacred self-responsibility and full expression, Madison coaches visionary humans as they shed layers of old programming keeping them small and finally come home to power, worth and wholeness. Madison has her degree in interpersonal communication with an emphasis in psychology from Missouri State University, has a certificate in conflict resolution, meditation and legal mediation, practices using NLP, hypnosis and is proudly Certified BYCA Coach.

CONNECT WITH MADISON

On the web: madisonmorrigan.com

On Instagram: @madisonmorrigan

 

FAVORITE MOMENTS FROM THIS EPISODE ~

some of my favorite lines of conversation that came up in this episode:

• a regulated nervous system is sometimes a ‘boring' nervous system

• simple pleasures in life as a sustainable source of feel good chemicals

• getting joy from our food

• living our liberation, not someone else’s

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS SHOW ~

LAUREN PHILLIPS - ARTIST AND BADASS

THE MIDNIGHT GOSPEL

DUNCAN TRUSSELL FAMILY HOUR

ALL ABOUT LOVE BY BELL HOOKS

DETAILED EPISODE BREAKDOWN ~

0:00 - 10:00 ish:

• welcome back to co-create! and meeting Madison

• the phenomenon of hustling for our wholeness

• what it means to Madison to live our liberation

• orienting our lives to the beautiful parts of being human

10 - 20:00 ish:

• the value of the full emotional spectrum

• walking beside shame rather than being driven by it

• a regulated nervous system is sometimes a ‘boring' nervous system

• media’s dramatization of success vs. the reality of it

20 - 30:00 ish:

• ‘boring’ relationships might just be sustainable relationships :)

• getting our dopamine from meaningful things in our lives

• simple pleasures in life as a sustainable source of feel good chemicals

• getting joy from food

30 - 40:00 ish:

• having a meaningful relationship with our food

• understanding what drives us and lights us up and using it to create meaning

• listening to our bodies and giving our body the things they love

• tea culture, coffee and psilocybin microdosing

40 - 50:00 ish:

• Caroline’s favorite podcast and Netflix show 😍 (links in resources section)

• living our liberation, not someone else’s

• stepping away from social media

• business pivots and Madison’s business journey

50 - 60:00 ish:

• astrology talk 😍

• the work of bell hooks (book link in resources section)

• the work Madison does with clients

• curating our spaces and lives 💜

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

Head to iTunes and leave a review for the podcast! It really helps the podcast out and would mean the world to me 💜 Thanks for tuning in and being part of an incredible podcast community 🥹💜

Lots of love,

Caroline

Honestly the thing I hear from EVERY single new client in our first session is that the gym doesn’t feel like their happy place. It can be an intimidating place full of sweaty humans grunting and making pain faces. But something magical thing happens once you’re able to build confidence in the gym - it becomes one of your favorite places to be. And THAT is the key to a sustainable, joyful, fun-filled fitness habit 🎉 Because when we love going to the gym, staying consistent is easy 🫧🌈🛸

This episode is meant to give you some science, tips + tricks that explain how you can turn the gym into your personal happy place 🥰

FAVORITE MOMENTS FROM THIS EPISODE ~

some of my favorite moments from this episode:

• busting the myth that we need to rely on discipline and willpower to get to the gym

• a bit about dopamine and the feel good states we can induce in the gym

• how we can rewire our brains to see the gym as a tool to help us on hard days

• why it might actually be better to go to the gym less often to start

• how our brains react to visualizing progress

• cycling between being in the zone + chilling out

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS SHOW ~

WIZARD WITH A DUMP TRUCK - OPEN NOW! 🛸

ART OF IMPOSSIBLE BY STEVEN KOTLER

FREE NOTION WORKOUT TRACKING TEMPLATE

HUBERMAN LAB PODCAST: THE SCIENCE OF SETTING + ACHIEVING GOALS

CO-CREATE PODCAST: HOW TO OPTIMIZE STRESS AND CULTIVATE RESILIENCE THROUGH MOVEMENT

DETAILED EPISODE BREAKDOWN ~

0:00 - 10:00 ish:

• overview of today’s episode

• how you can easily implement on these concepts inside Wizard With a Dump Truck

• busting the myth that we need to rely on discipline and willpower to get to the gym

10 - 20:00 ish:

• a bit about dopamine and the feel good states we can induce in the gym

• the importance of having a winnable gym strategy

• how tracking the right things makes our brains light up with joy

20 - 30:00 ish:

• the challenge-skills sweet spot and why we care about it

• using the post-exercise endorphins to amplify your happy

• how we can rewire our brains to see the gym as a tool to help us on hard days

30 - 40:00 ish:

• tip #1: start with a winnable strategy

• why it might actually be better to go to the gym less often to start

• how to set yourself up so you get a dopamine hit just for walking through the gym door

40 - 50:00 ish:

• tip #2: track the right things

• how our brains react to visualizing progress

• examples of what it looks like to track the wrong things

• simple tools to track your workouts for free ninety nine

• access the free Notion workout tracker here

• join Wizard With a Dump Truck here

50 - 60:00 ish:

• tip #3: find your sweet spot

• how to find your challenge-skills sweet spot

• creating your bubble and why having a bubble matters

• recap of tips 1-3 before we move to tip 4 :)

• tip #4: use your endorphin super powers

• cycling between being in the zone + chilling out

60-70:00 ish and beyond:

• the importance of a cool down after workouts, mentally + physically

• when you do want to cultivate your willpower

• how to get support walking this magical journey 💜

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

If you’re feeling love-y dove-y today and want to pass forward some good juju, I have an idea on how you can do that!

Head to iTunes and leave a review for the podcast! It really helps the podcast out and would mean the world to me 💜 Love you so much and hope you have a beautiful day! Thanks for tuning in and being an incredible podcast community 🥹💜

- xoxo Caroline

Dear God - maybe my most favorite conversation ever 🫧💜 It’s like a hug from the Universe and like rolling around in a warm bed of moss and like fresh baked cinnamon rolls. Join me in basking in the glow of amazing conversation with Gabriel Durham!

For full show notes, links + resources, go to carolineaddington.com/blog

Why reckoning with our own mortality can lead to a wonderful life, the incredible power of living with intention, navigating change and SO much more 💜 Tune in to a wide-ranging episode full of gems and takeaways on living a full and beautiful life with Benoit Kim.

For full show notes, links and resources head to carolineaddington.com/blog