Our guest on this episode is Dr. Connie Wun. She is the co-founder of AAPI Women Lead, the Founder/Director of Transformative Research: An Institute for Research and Social Transformation, and a PHD researcher for the National Organization for Asian Pacific Islanders Ending Sexual Violence. She’s also been a professor and teacher. Her body of work spans all realms of social and racial justice and she has spoken on such topics on national television alongside the likes of Senator Cory Booker and former Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett. Follow Dr. Wun at @seewun on Instagram, and AAPI Women Lead at @aapiwomenlead.

We talk about "allostatic load" in today's episode - what it is biologically, how it relates to stress, and why just working out, eating well, controlling sleep, etc for basic health maintenance is actually a lot more complicated than we'd think.

Paige Hendrix Buckner is the Program Manager of Founder Gym. Founder Gym is the first online training program specifically designed to help underrepresented tech startup founders raise money to scale their startups. A Brazilian jiu-jitsu enthusiast, loving mom and partner and former startup founder herself, Paige shares her journey with our community today and the importance of creating generational wealth for the next generation of entrepreneurs and people of color. Follow Founder Gym on Instagram at @foundergym.

Society Nine is back from a somewhat long hiatus from our last podcast episode, which at this point was in 2017. We're catching you up on what this whirlwind of a 2020 has been like so far, and what kind of future we'd like to write for Society Nine - as a company, and as a community.

We chatted with and gained some wisdom from 2x former world boxing champion and owner of McConnell's Boxing Academy, Coach Molly McConnell.

We sat down with Society Nine Brand Ambassador Allison Kemon, aspiring amateur boxer, Haymakers for Hope alum and membership advisor at Equinox at Dartmouth Street in Boston. We discussed all things boxing, including how she discovered her passion for it as well as her continued desire to compete and make boxing a full fledged part of her life's journey.

We spoke with Amber Trejo, the Marketing Manager of WorkTrainFight in NYC. She's a boxing instructor, personal trainer and a nutrition specialist and she's dedicated her life and passion to helping women uncover their power. She volunteers coaching time as well to the WorkTrainFight Teen Women's program, which does boxing training classes for high school students from Harlem in order to create a positive sense of community through sport, and to empower these youth in a safe space for them to learn.

Lindsay Coke, aka The Boxing Blonde, is a multi-faceted fitness trainer and boxer based in Los Angeles. She shares her take on what the fight means for women in this day and age, and shares some of her passions including giving back to young women in her community through boxing fitness like the RUBY Project.

Jess Storch is the founder of Knockout Women's Boxing Club. She is a 2x Chicago Golden Gloves champion (2010 and 2011) and founded Knockout Women's Boxing Club in 2011. Her mission is to empower women to feel strong inside and out, and to help create a world where physical perfection isn’t the goal, but instead feeling good and doing what is true to you is the goal.

Meghan and Lynn reflect on the wins, learnings and memories behind the scenes at Society Nine in 2016.