Give 'Em The Bird

Breanne Failor is the founder of Anti-Diet Yoga. She has her 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification and is currently working on her Lay Facilitator Intuitive Eating Certification.

Breanne's goal is to create yoga classes accessible to all bodies—giving you time and space to quiet your mind and connect to your body through movement and breath. Building a community where diet culture is left at the door, and you are perfect the way you are right now!

She incorporates Intuitive Eating, body acceptance, and body-positive themes into her classes.  All of her classes are for all levels of yoga practitioners; beginners are welcome and encouraged.

Breanne is the mom of three boys (Elliot (9), Joshua (7) & Jacob (4)). She lives in North West Indiana, just outside of Chicago. She has stayed home with her kids for the last nine years and before that worked in sales and marketing.

Find Breanne on Instagram at: @AntiDietYoga

Website: www.AntiDietYoga.com

Free Intro to Intuitive Eating Video Series: https://www.antidietyoga.com/pages/intuitive-eating

Join me this week as I give a life update and details about what's to come on Season 2 of GTB! I talk briefly about wedding planning, becoming a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, joining a gym, and finding the grey area in health and fitness again and then dive into all things season 2! Get ready to hear from a wide variety of guests this season - from Pelvic Floor PT's to Intimacy Coaches to Financial Coaches and more! 

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Mark Breedon is an Online Strength Coach For Women who uses strength training to build their confidence and make them feel like a Badass Lifter. Mark uses what is known as a weight-neutral approach to training.  He wants to change the focus on why we exercise, moving away from training for the weight on the scale and instead, using exercise for health, self-confidence, and feeling strong!

In this episode Mark shares his definition of what it means to be healthy and fit and how this definition has changed over the years. He explains what weight-neutral training means and why he works exclusively with women. Mark gives us incite into what success means for his clients and how they measure progress without using weight or body composition. We discuss common concerns new lifters might have and how new lifters can get started with strength training. 

Keep up with all Mark is doing on Instagram @training.strong.women

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Erin Boggs is a style and body image coach devoted to helping women embrace their bodies and find authentic ways to express themselves through style. She aims to help women reject the damaging messages of the diet industry and recognize the problems with societal beauty standards. She wants her clients to feel good about getting dressed every day. Erin is married to her sweet and loving spouse. She is a very happy dog mom to a big lab and a little dachshund.

In this episode we talk about all things body image and style and finding comfort in the clothes you put on your body. Erin shares how her definition of healthy and fit has changed over time - from associating being healthy to being morally good to now viewing Health At Every Size and Intuitive Eating as integral parts of her life. We also briefly discuss how there is much more to health than just movement, food, and going to the doctor. 

Erin shares how she became a style and body image coach, ideas on ways to fid your own personal style, how you can use clothes to get creative, and so much more. 

You can learn more from Erin and her 4 week Style Worthy Course on Instagram @best.dressed.self.  

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In this episode, I reflect on various projects and health habits that I feel I haven't been following through with and how that's causing me to feel some overwhelm. I explain a potential down side of setting expectations for ourselves and pose a helpful question to consider before or after letting something go. 

If you've been struggling to let something go lately or feeling like you've been letting too much go, this episode hopefully will validate those feelings and help you in taking the next step forward. 

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Laura Khoudari is passionate about giving people the tools they need to heal from trauma and cultivate mental health and wellness. Her approach to strength training restores nervous system health, fosters a sense of safety in the body, and provides adjunctive support to people processing trauma so they may move beyond surviving and begin thriving. Her work has been widely recognized by the trauma and fitness community, and she has been featured on Buzzfeed, Upworthy, Outside Online, Medium, Tonic, and Girls Gone Strong.

She is a trauma practitioner, certified personal trainer, and corrective exercise specialist. Her holistic educational programs draw from body-based trauma healing modalities, neuropsychological models, psychodynamic theory, mindfulness practices, and exercise science. Laura’s practice grew out of her own experience healing from trauma, not just in therapy, but on the gym floor too. She works with clients around the world and lives in New York City with her family and two cats.

In this episode Laura covers all things trauma and strength training - what "counts" as trauma, what a trauma response might look like, the importance of having and respecting others boundaries and so much more. 

We take a deep dive into how movement can be used to work with trauma, which is what her book, Lifting Heavy Things, Healing Trauma One Rep at a Time is all about. 

Find Laura on Instagram @laurakhoudari and check out her website at https://www.laurakhoudari.com/. 

Kelsey Ellis (she/her) is a Body Positive Health and Fitness Expert and the owner of the personal wellness brand 'Healthy With Kelsey'. She operates from her home-based business in Vancouver British Columbia with a mission to help people take the shame out of their wellness game through joyful movement, making peace with food and stepping into their personal power so they can live whole-hearted and fulfilling lives.

In this episode, Kelsey tells us how she got started with a career in health and fitness and how her perspective on what it means to be healthy and fit has drastically shifted over time. She also shares how being introduced to dieting and weight loss as a child impacted her. 

We then  dive into all things body positive fitness. Kelsey tells us more about what that means for her and her work and how it's different than conventional ideas of fitness. Then Kelsey leaves us with some super helpful tips on what we can do to start cultivating more body acceptance and a body positive fitness practice. 

Find Kelsey on Instagram @healthy_with_kelsey

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TW: Eating Disorders

Barb Puzanovova, aka The Non-Diet Trainer (@nondiet_trainer) is a Health at Every Size, weight-neutral, and inclusive ACE-certified Group Fitness Instructor, Personal Trainer, Behavior Change Specialist, and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. Due to her own story of recovering from an eating disorder, she empowers people to step off the scale and into their life so they can move their body with less rules and more joy.

Barb and I kick off the episode by talking about common perceptions or ideas of what it means to be a trainer - we talk about how often people think trainers have to look a certain way to do their jobs and that leads us into talking about how Barb's work has changed since the pandemic. 

Barb shares how her definition of healthy and fit has changed over the years and in this she shares how dance and other forms of movement helped her learn to regulate and cope with her emotions, which is super cool. 

We talk a little bit about identity, specifically, identifying with a form of movement or as an athlete or exerciser and how some of the expectations we often hold with being or doing that thing can impact us if our ability to be or do that thing is at stake for example if we get injured or are sick or something. Barb also shares also how identifying so strongly with exercise might lead into disordered habits or eating disorders like Barb experienced. 

We also chat about red flags and green flags when it comes to finding a non-diet or HAES trainer, the important of creating agency and autonomy with clients, and Joyful movement - what it is and what are some steps you can take to move from conventional ideas of exercise to joyful movement.

Find Barb on Instagram @nondiet_trainer

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