Girls Who Do Stuff

In today's episode, our guest star Jillian Lama comes on to talk about her podcast The Body You Crave, and she also runs a program with the same name. Jillian is a master life and weight loss coach and founder of the Body You Crave Method. She helps smart, ambitious women (like you!) end emotional eating, lose excess weight, and feel amazing in their bodies - no cheating required. 

Sarah talks about how she changed her mindset away from the whole idea of good and bad. This mentality extends to more than just food.

Weight Loss and personal development go hand in hand. If you’re struggling with emotional eating, cravings, self-sabotage, or self-doubt, your solution lies in your mindset (i.e., the way you think). 

Jillian teaches you tools based on Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy that will help you identify and overcome unhelpful ways of thinking so that you can hit your goals faster.

Jillian talks about how when you overeat. You need to stop thinking you are a failure, change your mindset, ask yourself why you overeat, and understand what triggered the behavior.

Jenny talks about how she has had to cut dairy and grain out of her diet, how that has affected her view on food, and how much she enjoys it.

Jillian talks about how we need to debunk what we normally think about food and that it's important to give ourselves grace and one bad night is not a failure.

Bodies are different, and it is not just the number on the scale.

Jillian shares her own weight story and how she started her business and podcast.

Jenny talks about how she had to change her mindset on throwing away food, and because it is leftover does not mean that you have to eat it that minute.

Everyone talks about their ideal body and what that means for them.

Find out more about Jillian Lama on her website

Our guest today is Sarah Madras. Sarah is a former mental health therapist, a certified Dare to Lead facilitator, Mindset Transformation Expert, and Leadership Development Coach. Hailing from North Carolina, Sarah answered her call to courage to help people with their relationships and mental health, communication, building self-confidence, and how to have hard conversations. She's been doing one-on-one with her clients for 20 years and she noticed a pattern among them. Most of them also wanted her help on how to communicate and deal with dysfunctions in their workplace. This was her hint to shift in teaching business owners who are having these challenges.

Her greatest piece of advice is to be master awareness and curiosity. 

Tune in and learn everything leadership and mindset transformation with Sarah Madras.

Visit Sarah's website: https://www.sarahmadras.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahmadras/

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

In this episode, the guest is Katie Brinkley from a boutique digital marketing agency based just outside Denver in Littleton, Colorado. In today’s saturated digital world, she takes a creative approach to make your brand stand out – and get results.

Katie talks about where her favorite place to buy clothes is from a local apparel store, Ohana.

Katie gives a background about her and what her background is and the things that she has done. Her expertise in social media and history as a post-game reporter for the Broncos, the Rockies, and Nuggets. She moved into marketing during the time Sirus XM came out and started to change the radio industry.

Many people feel like they are not the type of people to think to take a picture of something that is happening in their life to post on social media, but there are rising numbers of experts to help those people.

Katie talks about how the different types of services provided by social media managers, some teach people how to use social media, and others just run their social media for them. She works with a lot of realtors to help teach them to maximize their social media.

Katie talks about how she was able to get her dream job out of college and the reason that she eventually quit that job.

Sarah talks about the importance of networking and Katie adds that it is important to never say goodbye to people and to always leave the conversation open.

Katie talks about how it makes sense that she has her own business because from a young age she was always driven to work and started some of her own businesses when she was young.

Brinkley talks about how she really struggles with comparing herself to others and where they are on their social media journeys and tips she has learned to overcome that mentality.

Katie talks about how she doesn't know if this will be her job forever because when she had her first dream job she thought that was it and now she thinks that the job she has now is her dream job. But life changes and it goes through seasons.

Katie gives 3 quick tips that you listeners can use to help push your social media to the next level.

Katie's socials are:
Instagram: iamkatiebrinkley
LinkedIn: Katie brinkley
Website: Nextstepsocialcommunications.com 

In This Episode:  

• Sarah is a big fan of reality dating shows, she is a fan of relationships, that's why she spent so much time as a couples therapist. So she was very intrigued when she saw Christian Lee Cones on the show "The Courtship" which is like Bridgerton meets the Bachelor. 
• The Courtships' IMBD description is "Bringing true romance back, this Regency-style series will enable a group of eligible suitors to win the heart of the Heroine. Carriage rides, handwritten letters, this is a time-traveling game for love."
• Christian Lee Cones talks about the origin story of his journey of self discovery. He had a bit of an awakening during the pandemic, when there was nothing else to do than just sit with his demons. He started educating himself and working on himself wondering when happiness would become a permanent thing instead of just moments of happiness.
• When asked what was his proudest moment from being on The Courtship, Christian said that although the toxic masculine side of him wants to say winning the festival of strengths (he said jokingly), but it would probably when he came out as sexually fluid on the show.
• He received a lot for encouragement from people on social media for his bravery and even got messages of how his actions inspired others.
• We talk about how love is a choice and not just a feeling. So committed relationships continue to choose each other.
• Christian feels like he is very old fashioned and born at the wrong time.
• Christian talks about how he was perceived on the show, some people even called him a himbo. 
• We ask if a lot of people have been sliding into his DMs since the show.

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In This Episode:  

• Brandon's approach is sustainable, he believes your diet should be the way you eat and not a fad diet filled with restrictions. 
• With so much conflicting information about what to eat, it isn’t easy to find reliable science-based strategies that work for a lifetime.
• Learn the sustainable way to approach food, nutrition, and lifestyle changes. The yo-yo diets stop here.
• In the new Fire Within App, now available on Apple and Android, there are six weeks weight training, body weight, and abs program.
• We break down some of the most common fad diets with the pros and cons of each.
• We talk about counting macros on apps like my fitness pal, and Sarah's experience where she tracked it for a year, and this is why Brandon doesn't coach macros, it is possible that for some it leads to a constant measurement of everything that for some can lead to eating disorders.
• Brandon talks through his approach and how he trains his clients.
• Jenny talks about her evaluation with Brandon and what she learned.
• With so much information about diet and exercise, where do you start? We talk about that. Everybody is different and the goals should be personalized and based on their goals.
• A critical aspect to a successful and sustainable approach to fitness is start by understanding your why. One tip is to just keep asking why at least 7 times to uncover the intrinsic answer to why you want to work out and then use that as your motivation to keep going.

You can find out more about Brandon on Instagram | Facebook | His website: firewithinnf.com | Or his app on Apple and Android

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If you like The Girls Who Do Stuff, visit our website to subscribe for free, and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like The Girls Who Do Stuff, we'd appreciate you telling a friend (maybe even two). 

In This Episode:  

• We talked about the Hillsong documentary (Hillsong Exposed), which explained the manipulations of the church, and how the trauma of being in a manipulated church can impact a persons life.
• We talk with Drew Barker who is currently serving in a church in Garner, North Carolina and spent his entire life in ministry in one way or another. Now he has over a decade of ministry experience, stretching from campus pastor to lead pastor to worship minister, guest, experience all across the area. 
• "Leadership is someone that's willing to empathize with you and serve you and is willing to help you discover something new on your own."
• "We've got to stop teaching that either you're a good leader or a bad leader, or that a leader is a title or where you're positioned in the organization."
• We talk about how leadership is something that can be learned, it is a skill not a gifting.
• We discuss how do we get to the lack of accountability?
• We go into how we are taught that confidence equates arrogance and we are taught these things way early on. And so instead of looking as a confidence, as a strength, as a culture, we're told that we can't be bragging. We can't be proud of our accomplishments. We can't be celebrating because we might have somebody else.
• The only thing that tips over into arrogance and a lack of humility is the lack of gratitude.
• We explain how we don't talk about strengths early enough with young people.
• Accountability is part of the skillset of leadership. 
• When you hear or bear witness to what gives you one? How have you reacted? I'm assuming that you have walked the walk and are like speaking up and then how do you have the courage to hold people accountable and make it not so secret anymore?
• We talk a lot about the doing what's best for the organization. And what unfortunately happens is you shield the person from the consequences, so nobody who was offended gets to heal. The person who did the offense doesn't get to heal.
• The goal of us learning from these leaders is this is what was done wrong. Why is this wrong now? How can we learn from this and get better so that we don't do that.

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