In this episode I talk with Katie Filer about why she decided to switch from crossfit and instead compete in bodybuilding. She saw a chance in challenging her mind and mind and body in another way, that would make her come out of her comfort zone. Whatever you put yourself throught, you will be able to do it, it just comes down to dedication and your WHY behind it.
We also talk about work and relationship. How did it challenget the relationsship when competing? (They also posted a video about that on their youtube channel. Search for Jaime and Katie Filer on youtube, and you'll find it).
She tells about being a part of her wife business, and help people make a change for themself. Katie and her wife also restarted their youtube togehter about a year ago, when Katie prepared for competing, Katie opens up and tell avout the experince in doing content for youtube, and the skill in that, as well as how much effort it takes compared to sharing you life on Instagram and Tiktok. But being able to share longer videos from traveling and behind the scenes is worth it, and why it makes its so fun to keep on with.
Katie also tells her story on telling her parents when she meet her first girlfriend. Katies mother was togehter with a man, but found and remarried a women, she now identify as lesbian.
Because Katie was raised in a home that was modelled: love whoever you want to love, she believes that this gave her space for experiencing her sexuality. Ans this is the circumstances that everybody need growing up. When Katie was in middleschool she would kiss girls, and at freshmen year of College, she meet her first girlfriend on Tinder, and introduced her to her mother, who were fully accepting about it. But since Katies parents where divorced, she didn't tell her father until her second relationship with a girl, which was in Junior in College. It didnt went well telling her father, though her stepmom was accepting, but it took some time before her dad got his head wrapped around it. Today her dad loves Katies wife just as much as Katie. Though there are still a lot of people that aren't allowed to love who they love, this is heartbreaking. Having conversations like this and talking openly about sexuality creates a space for people to feel connected, and hopefully get the courage to be themself.