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Jill Angie is a trailblazer.  She is changing the conversation for fat women over 40 and for anyone who thinks they're too old or too slow.

She is making huge waves in the running game and it was an absolute joy to share an hour with her.

I am currently training for a marathon and Jill's own podcasts have inspired me and have been my constant companion on my long solo training runs.

When Jill started running over 20 years ago, all she wanted to do was burn calories and lose weight but she hated every minute of it.  It felt punishing and she was always frustrated and disappointed.  So in 2009 she decided to stop thinking about running as a means to an end and started using it as a tool to build up her strength and confidence.

She has built a running community around her and  helps women become consistent exercisers and silence their inner bullies and find out what their bodies are truly capable of. *

We chatted easily about our running challenges, how to overcome the mental battles and be ok with not achieving a PB and not running the fastest race.
We talk about the definition of success when it comes to running and why we feel we have to push ourselves so hard.

Jill reminds us all that if you have a body and you run, you have a runner's body.

I hope this episode blows you away and helps you challenge your inner critic and stop shoulding all over yourself.

You can find Jill on Instagram or via her website.

*(Find out more about Jill's 'Run Your Best Life' program here.)

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In an effort to be the best at what we do, we end up exhausted, demotivated, and burned out.

Madi is a stress ownership coach and is wildly passionate about helping you understand the physiology of your stress and how your mindset can help you feel less of it.

Rather than managing our stress, can we own it?  Can we understand it as part of us, as a way our bodies have evolved to protect us?

How can we find moments in our everyday to be still, to be in nature, to find ease, peace and not spend our lives living for the weekend or our next trip away.

I worked with Madi myself for 8 weeks and this episode served as the perfect refresher!

If you struggle with the juggle and often reach a point of overwhelm with everything that you HAVE to do, this episode is an absolute must!

You can work with Madi one to one, or through her group workshops

Find her on Instagram
on her Podcast or via her website.

Your support means the world to me and will enable me to keep making these episodes and helping women take up space and focus less on the calorie burn and more on feeling strong and confident in their own skin.

So please subscribe and review and I'll catch you next time.

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What an episode.

Katherine is an anti-diet culture dietitian and Founder and CEO of Brave Space Nutrition.  Her areas of focus are perfectionists, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, perimenopause and menopause, eating disorders, disordered eating, body image and women's health! WOW!

She is also a TikTok and Youtube sensation and wholeheartedly believes NOOM is a diet.  (Sorry, not sorry NOOM).

We chat about navigating our bodies changing as we age, especially after an eating disorder.  We chat about ways to heal our body image and the importance of self-compassion when it comes to how we feel about our bodies and how we eat and move.  Should we also embrace our rage?  Should we get angry about being made to feel less than or that our bodies need fixing?

(Katherine references the book 'Rage Becomes Her' by Soraya Chemaly.
Available to buy here.)

Katherine speaks to the origin of diet culture, with its roots in rascism, misogyny, ableism and with its prevalence in today's society.
Can we really make a difference or are we just destined to be swimming upstream for the rest of our lives?

Tune in.  It's a fantastic episode.

You can contact Katherine via:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bravespacenutrition/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@KatherineMetzelaar

Website: https://www.bravespacenutrition.com/

 

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Today I'm interviewing one of my favs,  Becky Scott.  *
She is the Creator and Instructor at @missfitsworkout, an award winning dance based exercise for those who don't feel at home in the gym.

She offers classes that are intentionally different from the mainstream and is breaking stereotypes left, right and centre and promoting joy in movement.
She is also studying for her masters in Exercise Psychology so that she can contribute to the research which is currently sparse around weight bias and being "fit while fat" and is a director at @FPAWS - Fitness Professionals Against Weight Stigma. Phew!

Becky says“I'm fat, I'm anti diet culture and pro fat acceptance. I feel very strongly that it's time the fitness industry separated itself from the diet industry in order to better serve us all.

We talk about weight stigma in the fitness industry, the true meaning of a healthy relationship with food and exercise, intuitive eating, movement and more.
We try and talk about Becky's "journey" without using the word "journey"; and get into the sometimes sticky topics of thin privilege when it comes to fit pros in the non-diet space.

Becky has been making waves for quite some time and I'm so excited to follow her as she continues to gain momentum and take up more space in this often toxic fitness space.

You can find out more about Becky's classes here.

Or find her on Instagram or Facebook.

(*Becky and I both teach classes on Kim Stacey's Body Image Fitness platform so check it out if you'd like to know more.)

Thank you for listening.  Your support means the world and if this episode spoke to you please follow and share and leave me a review if you're got the time.  (I appreciated you!) xxxxxx

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This week I am joined by Personal Trainer, Tik Tok Sensation, Strength Foundations Course Creator and all round amazing human Laura Ghiacy.

We chatted (for what seemed like 5 minutes) about evolving through toxic fitness culture, adopting a non-diet approach and addressing our own fatphobia and thin privilege as trainers.

Laura is very generous with her time, really wants to make a difference and has done a lot of work on building resilience, ditching diet culture and addressing long held beliefs about being small and what that meant to and for her.

She is an inspiration and this episode is a game changer.

ENJOY.

Find Laura on TikTok: @lauraghiacy
Follow Laura on Instagram: @laura_ghiacy

......and see you next time.

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