You want to eat freely but you're not willing to torch your health goals to do it. Good. 

You don't have to choose. 

In this episode, Shanon shares how she went from a meticulous, food-tracking competitive athlete to eating with total freedom (vacations included), and walks you through her FREED framework for ending the war between food freedom and your goals:

Face the false binary

Rebuild trust with your body

Ease off the rules

Eat with intention (not restriction)

Devotion over discipline.

If you're an ambitious individual who's tired of the guilt-and-restriction cycle, this one's for you, Fire Fam. 🔥

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You can do all the affirmations, follow the perfect meal plan, and read every book — and still feel stuck. 

In this first guest episode of 2026, Shanon sits down with confidence and embodiment coach Natalie Griffie to talk about what actually creates lasting change: getting out of your head and into your body.

They dive into embodiment work, why "feeling is healing," how to create a safe space to feel your emotions (including the anger women are trained to suppress), inner child work, and the truth that self-acceptance and ambition can absolutely coexist. 🔥

Natalie's Free Morning Embodiment Routine: Click Here

Connect with Natalie on social media: Instagram

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Even as a registered dietitian, Shanon still has to catch herself falling for health misinformation online — so this week she's setting the record straight on the 8 things she hears from clients most. 

From "carb sensitivity" and low-fat myths to the protein obsession, the fiber nobody talks about, the 20% error hiding on your nutrition labels, and the truth about "getting bulky" — plus why real self-care lives in your nervous system, not your shopping cart. 

Science-backed, no diet-culture nonsense. 🔥

Ready to actually live this out? Book a free consultation for Body and Soul Freedom, or start with the $27 Food Freedom Reset. Links below.

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Getting derailed from your goals isn't a discipline problem — it's a congruence problem.

 In this episode, Shanon breaks down her 5-step ALIGN framework (Anchor, Listen, Intention, Ground, Navigate) to help you uncover the subconscious blocks and nervous system patterns that keep knocking you off track — and how to get back on faster every time. 

Plus a simple homework practice to start this week. 🔥

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Slowing down used to feel unsafe to me. 

In this episode, I'm breaking down how to balance your masculine and feminine energy without losing your edge. 

We talk about what these energies actually are (hint: it's not about gender), the pendulum swing between them, how being stuck in your masculine wrecks your digestion, the art of receiving, and simple breath-based tools to come back to center. 

If you're a high-achieving individual navigating burnout, this one's for you, Fire Fam. 💛

Ready to find your balance? Book a free consultation for Body and Soul Freedom, or start with the $27 Food Freedom Reset — links below.

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What if the reason generic nutrition advice never quite worked for you… is that it was never designed for your body in the first place?

In this episode, I'm exploring something I rarely see talked about in the dietitian space — the connection between your Human Design and the way you're wired to digest. Your chart, generated from your exact birth time, holds a personalized blueprint for how you eat best. And once you understand that language, "what should I eat?" gets so much clearer.

In this episode, we cover:

• What Human Design is and why it's so specific to you
• How to find your digestion type on your chart (look to that top-left arrow)
• Active vs. Passive digestion — what your arrow direction reveals about your ideal eating rhythm
• All 12 digestion archetypes broken into 6 simple pairs
• The personal story behind this episode — how my acid reflux pointed me straight to what my body actually needed (stillness, quiet, and presence)
• Why real nourishment is always inside-out: your nutrition and your nervous system

A gentle reminder: you don't have to have this all figured out. Your body has been talking to you this whole time — this episode is about learning to listen.

Human Design Chart: https://www.thedesignofyou.com/get-your-chart

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This week, I'm getting really deep and personal. I'm sharing my entire journey with fitness and my body over the last 10+ years — the story behind my most popular blog post ever.

From dreaming of the WNBA in my fifth grade yearbook, to the ACL tears that shattered my athlete identity, to bodybuilding extremes (chewing and spitting food, tilapia and asparagus for weeks), powerlifting, CrossFit, secret binge eating, and the burnout that led me to close my business and step away from the gym for two whole years.

And then — the healing. How I detangled my worth from my appearance, made peace with food, and rebuilt my relationship with movement from a place of love instead of punishment.

If you've ever tied your self-worth to how your body looks or performs, this episode is for you.

In this episode:

• Why my athlete identity was both my superpower and my prison
• The disordered eating patterns I didn't recognize because they were "normal" in fitness culture
• How under-eating fueled my binge eating cycle (even as a dietitian!)
• The two-year reset that changed everything
• What true food and body freedom actually looks like

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Everyone's talking about "high protein" — but what does that actually mean for YOUR body?

In this episode, Shanon breaks down the real science of protein as a registered dietitian and board-certified specialist in sports dietetics. She debunks the "1 gram per pound" gym myth, explains why those viral 75-gram protein bowls aren't helping you build muscle, and shares exactly how much protein you need per meal (spoiler: it's probably less than you think — but timed better than you're doing it).

You'll learn: 

✨ The actual RDA for protein (and the athlete maximum) 

✨ Why more protein isn't better — and the leucine science behind it 

✨ The 4 components of a balanced meal 

✨ Protein guidance if you're on a GLP-1 (this one's important) 

✨ Fun, realistic ways to add protein to every meal

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You're the strong one. The reliable one. The one everyone counts on — but who holds you?

In this episode, Shanon gets real about the identity of "having it all together" and why it makes rest feel impossible. As an eldest daughter in a first-generation household, she knows firsthand how worth gets tangled up with output — and how your nervous system starts treating stillness like a threat.

You'll learn why you feel antsy the moment you sit down, the sneaky signs you're numbing instead of resting (hi, doom-scrolling), how guilt cancels out self-care, and the exact reframes and nervous system practices that retrain your body to feel safe relaxing.

Rest is not a reward. It's mandatory. Let this episode show you how to actually receive it.

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Are you afraid that healing will cost you your drive? That if you let go of the hustle, you'll lose the edge that made you successful?

I've been there. In this episode, I'm pulling back the curtain on my own journey — from building a million-dollar business fueled by rage and something to prove, to closing it all down, going through a complete identity crumble, and rebuilding from a place of actual joy. 

It was messy. 

It was painful. 

And it was the best thing that ever happened to me.

If you're a high-achiever who's afraid to slow down because you think healing and ambition can't coexist — this episode is the one I wish I'd had.

What we cover:

• Why I closed a thriving business at the height of my success
• The difference between relentlessness and perseverance (this one's a game-changer)
• How my food rules and my hustle culture were rooted in the same wound
• Why your body settles when you stop fighting it
• How to rebuild your ambition from joy instead of fear

4-Day mind-body reset designed to change your relationship with food:

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