Goalfriend Forever

Do you love your body?

As creator of Love Your Body Love Yourself, Marla Mervis-Hartmann assists women in finding a “YES!” to that question.

Marla and Kate originally met in New York City when they were both pursuing their professional acting careers, now they reunite on the Goalfriend Forever Podcast to talk about how to break free of body and food obsession.

More about Marla: After years of struggling with her own dysfunctional body-relationship Marla has transformed her experiences into services to help women discover honor and find appreciation for their bodies.

As a professional Marla, has been featured at TEDx Salinas. She was the leading body image expert and Reiki Master at Journey Malibu, a Drug/Alcohol rehabilitation center. Marla has followed her passion for women’s health down many paths of study including women’s sexual wellness; postpartum care; Restore Your Core educator; Tantra teacher certification; Yoga teacher training, and massage therapy. This collected body of knowledge shines through in her offerings of Love Your Body Love Yourself. In all of her work, Marla is devoted to empowering women to feel good about themselves and to live the life they desire.

She lives in LA with her husband and son where she works full-time as a professional coach, speaker, facilitator and Living Light Reiki Master and Teacher.

www.loveyourbodyloveyourself.com

Body Compassion Collective-https://thepleasureplan.org/bcc

With the holidays approaching, there can be an increased focus on food, eating and drinking. A season of increased stress during the holiday season can also be a reality for many people. Eating with mindfulness is not about deprivation or rules around food, however instead we focus on how to increase our presence and relax our energy around food.

In this one hour workshop, health and life coach, Kate Wiliams Stone will share information on how to reduce stress, eat with mindfulness and enjoy food. This workshop will be a fun and informative experience.

Before you start setting goals for the future, sometimes you need to clear some space to create something new. It’s like creating a blank slate. In this episode, Amy and Kate explore different ways to clear space to create new goals. They dive into the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual ways to clear space. This is an episode not to be missed!

In this week’s episode, Amy interviews her sister-in-law, Paula Rosen, who lost her husband to an aggressive brain cancer in 2007 when her step-daughter was 17 and her boys were 10 and 8. This conversation is soulful, funny, and vulnerable as Paula shares her story about her goals and dreams when she was a little girl, meeting her husband, Michael, marriage, caregiving for someone who is terminally ill, death and the aftermath. Paula has walked through her grief with a grace and resiliency that is inspirational.

Kate and Amy share their very different personal experiences of this first year of motherhood. It's really hard, really joyful and everything in between. We want to offer all the new moms out there love, support, wisdom. Nobody is doing it perfectly. We got your back!

Join Kate and Amy as they talk about pregnancy, natural childbirth, C sections, hormones and all the things that people don’t talk about. Gain encouragement, support and insight as you navigate your pregnancy, birth planning and all the changes inherent in this experience! Also an amazing episode for any mother or parent! Let's talk about how having a child can shift your goals and dreams.

Do you crave sugar constantly?

Do you find when you start eating sugar you can’t stop?

Are you always craving more?

What about sweet and salty foods?

If you said yes, this is YOUR episode, you gotta listen!

Based on her experience and knowledge as a health coach, Kate Williams Stone shares the three main challenges she sees people experience with sugar cravings, along with three tips to curb your sugar cravings. These are simple actionable tips that you can put into practice right away. You will leave with a solution to your sugar cravings.

Something new for Goalfriend Forever!

In this episode Amy has a real and vulnerable conversation with her dear friend Karen about their long term friendship and their recent mutual experiences of dropping their eldest daughters off at college.

Amy and Karen met when their daughters went to kindergarten and they have remained friends through high school.

Amy and Karen do a deep dive into the tension between career and raising our kids. Everyone is thinking that everyone else is doing it right and is always happy. But who is REALLY doing it “right”?

It’s about finding YOUR right path and that can evolve as your children grown up.

Amy and Karen have approached their personal goals in very different ways over the years. They share fun stories about this difference. Karen has also used the support of an executive coach recently and they discuss her decision to use a coach vs a therapist at this time in her life.

Here’s the deal- If you are a mom of a preschooler, a 10 year old or a recent high school graduate, listening to this episode will give you great perspective on your goals and how they are intertwined with family dynamics.

This is an episode you cannot miss!

Ever wonder why you set a goal that sounds great on Sunday afternoon, only to find you have given up by Monday? This is the episode for you!

Kate and Amy discuss the reasons for self sabotage by explaining the concept of Critter Brain. They share stories of Critter Brain in action and share tips in combatting this, so you can more effectively move forward in the direction of your Goals and Dreams! Did you know your brain is trying to escape change? You can’t afford to miss this!

In this episode, Kate and Amy share their 20 year friendship journey: how they met, supported each other through different chapters, and took some breaks along the way. They explore deep elements of friendships: highs and lows, lessons learned and how friendships can endure.