During Episode 5, Avery's long-time friend, former teammate, and current roommate, Suhayla, gives insight into her experience as a female athlete of color and shares her take on current fitness influencing. Come along on this journey of calling out underrepresentation and saying goodbye to toxic comparison!

This episode welcomes one of Avery's really great friends, Milani! They discuss Milani's experience with stereotypes in sports growing up and how her identity shapes how she feels about athletics. Milani is a talented runner and kind person; she was a natural speaker on this episode!

This episode welcomes Avery's sister, Kayla, as they discuss Kayla's experience with body image during quarantine. She dissects everything from navigating running high school track on her own to the kind of fitness content she wishes she saw more of. Tune into this thought-provoking episode!

In this episode, I dive into the profound impact of the pandemic on body image, exploring its influence on perceptions of self-image. I share some personal feelings regarding the COVID-19 pandemic regarding body image, as well as reference a really thought-provoking article about how Beachbody Instagram Influencers worked to sell their product as personal solutions during "times of uncertainty."

This episode defines what a fitness influencer is and discusses some general positives and negatives of this area of the internet. The episode closes by discussing a recent research study on the objectification in female fitness influencer posts!