Kickass Life Project

What percentage of women in first world countries consider themselves beautiful? 4% What percentage of girls aged 7-10 think they should be thinner and are dieting? 50% Over the course of her entire life, what percentage of years does the average women spend obsessing about changing her life by changing her body? 31 freaking years

Body confidence seems to be this elusive thing women are spending a third of their lives looking for... and I'm not sure how many of them actually ever find it. This episode will give you some awesome 30 second steps for building your body confidence and some mind blowing stats and facts that will help you clear some space for self-compassion... instead of self-judgement. 

Resources mentioned:

Little Black Book of Kickass Life Secrets (free)

20 non-appearance based compliments (free)

Comparison Trap Flow Chart (free)

Body Confidence Journey

Beauty Redefined

Fearing the Black Body by Dr. Sabrina Strings

Strong Women Lift Each Other Up by Molly Galbraith

We are going on a metaphorical journey to meet FUTURE YOU! Does that sound crazy? I promise it’s not. This would probably make an excellent walking pep talk, btw.

Whatever has happened up until now, whatever tools you’ve been working with and whatever skill level you’ve had, all these things have shaped and created present day you, and while present day you is NOT broken, chances are you are not operating at the highest possible version of yourself that you can imagine. Most of us operate at the lowest possible version of ourselves that we will accept. FUTURE YOU serves two functions - 1) it gives you the option of raising your own standards and 2) it lightens your load so that actually achieving those standards becomes possible.

If you've experienced trauma or abuse, counsellors will often suggest the use of a 'container' to hold thoughts, beliefs, memories, that you don't feel equipped or ready to deal with on your own. It is meant to be a temporary holding space so your brain doesn't feel constantly hijacked. FUTURE YOU is my version of 'container'. 

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This is your self-intimacy pleasure plan. We’re doing discovery questions, exploration ideas, and comfort zone busting (including my own comfort zone). You already know the most important relationship you'll ever have is with yourself but most of us think about the mental or physical health side of that. I believe the love we have for our body is equally as important … and in this episode, I mean that literally!

Now I want to be clear that pleasure can be found everywhere in many different contexts, but this episode may not be appropriate for all listening audiences. This episode is unabashedly all about women’s sexual pleasure.

PS –  TMI will happen and this will get explicit, but the point of this episode is to normalize talking about women’s sexual pleasure. 

Links mentioned in the episode:

Your Pleasure Plan Guide (free KLP network access inside)

The Cliterati (a funny clip from the mash report)

OMGYES (no affiliate)

DIPSEA (no affiliate)

An intro to trauma informed fitness. This is part two where I'll give you the remaining tips for using fitness to promote healing from trauma or abuse. Please listen to part one before diving into this episode.

I've experienced sexual, physical, verbal, and emotional abuse. I'm kind of invested in helping other women recognize it, get out of it, and love themselves despite it.

Listening to my body helped me survive and taught me how to get stronger and FUK reminds me of how far I've come.

There will be trauma informed tidbits that may be truly enlightening for understanding your body and I hope to be able to guide you with some insights for how to manage what you are learning about.

And I am beyond thrilled to say that there is actual official research being conducted right now on the effects of strength training to help heal trauma. There is something about building up your body, feeling it physically get stronger, that allows our brains to become stronger as well and I am going to share what I do know with you right here.

Stuff mentioned in the podcast

KLP Mighty Network (free)

Little Black Book of Kickass Life Secrets and the Sassy Sexy Strong journey (free)

3D Breathing

Organic Fitness (free)

Coping Mantras (free)

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I'm not really sure I want to put my name to this episode, but I tried an experiment and I'm willing to embarrass myself in the name of encouraging you to keep experimenting in your own life; to try new things and be willing to suck at them - like trumpets (I know that makes no sense now but if you listen to this episode, you'll get the joke)

I felt this was a needed light break between the FUK It episodes which deal with heavy topics. Mental breaks are necessary and important for overall mental health. Arguably the jokes inside this episode are so bad that you will feel worse after listening, but at least, your brain will be able to take a heavy thinking break. 

Designed as a walking pep talk of mood boosting fun with a listen at your own risk warning.

Links I mentioned:

Happiness Blog Post

Kickass Life Project mighty network

Ways to connect with and let me know IF you laugh out loud, when your last giggle fit was, and IF you use the "no but I'll wrestle you for it" joke the next time you go to a restaurant.

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An intro to trauma informed fitness. F.U.K. - You’ll hear me say this a fair bit - you’ll see it on my website. F.U.K. is my way of giving the finger to abuse.

I've experienced sexual, physical, verbal, and emotional abuse. I'm kind of invested in helping other women recognize it, get out of it, and love themselves despite it.

Listening to my body helped me survive and taught me how to get stronger and FUK reminds me of how far I've come.

There will be trauma informed tidbits that may be truly enlightening for understanding your body and I hope to be able to guide you with some insights for how to manage what you are learning about.

And I am beyond thrilled to say that there is actual official research being conducted right now on the effects of strength training to help heal trauma. There is something about building up your body, feeling it physically get stronger, that allows our brains to become stronger as well and I am going to share what I do know with you right here.

Stuff mentioned in the podcast

KLP Mighty Network (free)

Little Black Book of Kickass Life Secrets and the Sassy Sexy Strong journey (free)

3D Breathing

Organic Fitness (free)

Coping Mantras (free)

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Life is messy, fitness is hard, and cupcakes taste better than kale. FUK it! Let’s have fun anyway. This is the Kickass Life Project and my mission is to help women everywhere feel sassy sexy and strong. 

Hi I’m Kate, a candy loving personal trainer, abuse survivor counsellor, proud OMGYES participant, and your kickass life enabler.  

I provide trauma/abuse informed fitness practices for women who want to go from feeling F*'ed UP to feeling F* YA! when it comes to loving their body AND their life (at the same time). 

I am a certified personal trainer and counsellor on a mission to help women understand how hormones, the socialized norms of a female lived life, the gender data gap, and their nervous system influence what their body is capable of doing. 

This is for every woman who thinks she is supposed to be more assertive, more confident, more empowered, fitter and stronger, less concerned about other people's opinions, a better role model, a healthier eater, a less offensive feminist, more comfortable in her own skin, independent but not jaded, a 1% 'better than yesterday' version of herself while still staying true to herself and not losing herself in motherhood, marriage, career, ... but listening to a good podcast will do for now.

Learn how living in a female body changes fitness. Learn how to live more than a 'nothing to complain about' life. Learn how to embrace pleasure without shame. You can feel sassy, sexy, and strong and you can do it with 30 seconds and 30 minutes habits - So hit like or follow to add these 30 minute podcasts episodes into your life each week and let’s make friends with fitness and unsuck our lives.

'Cause maybe life is unpredictable, maybe fitness is challenging, maybe cupcakes and kale can exist together in harmony, and definitely you are more kickass than you know. Don’t believe me yet? That’s ok. You’ve got this.

See, my mental health on four legs is a horse called Whinney the Pooh, and she reminds me all the time ,that if you’re still on, keep riding

The gender data gap and your fitness. This is where we explore how the gender data gap (and a knowledge gap) affect your body in terms of fitness, nutrition, and even overall health. 

Imagine a world where we said to teenage boys and men... “We will switch off your testosterone, and replace it with a synthetic pseudo-testosterone. It’s going to cause weight gain, depression, and loss of libido—but don’t worry! All the other boys take it.” 

Ridiculous, right? Yet, this is exactly what happens when teenage girls and women take a hormonal birth control pill. And it affects your body's ability to build bone density... a huge benefit of strength training.

From micro-annoyances to more serious impacts, the absence of data on female bodies means there is an extremely high probability that every fitness article you’ve ever read, every meal plan you’ve ever followed, and every workout program you’ve ever pushed through, was based on research gathered from male bodies and designed based on what we know about how male bodies adapt to exercise and respond to nutrients.

This is an incredibly condensed look at some specific ways this affects you and what you can do about it (on a personal level). On a global level... let me know your ideas!!

Some things I mentioned in the podcast:

The Kickass Life Project Intuitive/Organic Fitness method

Dr. Lara Briden - The Period Revolutionary

A song I love - S.L.U.T. by Bea Miller

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Everything we still don't know about women because it has never been studied! One way to describe it is the gap between what research would have you believe you know about a female body and the actual data that has been collected. The gender data gap is an absence of data.

Does using a male body as a representative of all humankind when testing things and designing equipment sound be silly? Who would do that when more than half of the world’s population is NOT in a male body? Have we literally assumed male bodies are the default of human existence and if it works for a male body that’s a good standard for safety and usefulness for everyone?

Ummm yes. Yes, that is what has been done. Does this affect you? Well, I don’t know… you tell me…

In part one we're gonna look at the ways this gender data gap has affected everything from shelf height and office temperature to actual life threatening things like seatbelt safety and line ups at the washrooms. 

In part two, we'll dive deeper into the fitness and nutrition world that pushes weight loss on women with programs and meal plans tested on... male bodies. 

Ready to be stunned by what you didn't know you didn't know? Let's go!

Links that might interest you:

Little Black Book of Kickass Life Secrets (my top three secrets for living a kickass life)

A song I love that I hope helps make your day kickass - Pretty Girl by Maggie Lindemann

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Much of this info is taken from, Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, by Caroline Criado Perez

The quote I mentioned about being grateful but demanding what you deserve is from a book called Wolfpack by Abby Wambach

This is a walking pep talk where I reveal the story behind "you're still on; keep riding", PLUS send you copious amounts of belief and love to infuse your day with some goodness. A podcast episode designed for you to listen to while walking. A podcast episode of feel good reminders that you are a kickass force to be reckoned with; that you are deserving and fabulous and fierce AF and anything else that you know you have trouble believing about yourself. That's OK!! You don't have to believe yet because I am doing that for you in this episode. 

I'll give you tips and tricks for adding self-compassion into your life and how you can become a cheerleader pep talker for yourself. This is about self-celebration, self-confidence, and a few other self-somethings that can only enhance your life. Get Sassy. Get Sexy. Get Strong. If you're not feeling those things, that's why I created this episode. Listen now :)

Links to suff I mentioned:

Starter list of pep talk phrases to send yourself

(no opt-in required)

FUK Fitness Health and Happiness Club

(home of the 30 second life changing habits)

Join the KLP insider network (free)

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