The Embodied Baddie Podcast

If you are trying something new but you’re paralyzed by your desire to be perfect, then this episode is for you! If you’ve ever made pancakes, you will know that the first one is never perfect. Today on the Self Love Breakfast Club, Chrystal uses this metaphor to explain that when you try anything in life for the first time, it often just does not come out right, but that shouldn’t stop you from doing it anyway. She opens up about her own first pancake story, where she had a dream to become a speaker but her first attempts went horribly wrong. Chrystal explains that if you have the desire to do something, you have to be willing to show up and look stupid. Tuning in you’ll be reminded that you can’t get better at something if you don’t keep doing it, and the fact that you’re doing it puts you leaps ahead of the people who are too afraid to even try. If you need some motivation to just do it already and get that first pancake out of the way, tune in today! 

We’ve all heard the saying, ‘You can’t love someone until you love yourself.’ Well, today on the Self Love Breakfast Club, Chrystal challenges this statement by suggesting that you absolutely can love someone else even if you don’t first love yourself, but it is so much better when you do. Chrystal opens up about her own journey with self-love and explains how her ability to love herself has affected her relationship with her husband over the past 10 years. She explains how, when we feel that we are not worthy of love, we tend to fall into unhealthy behaviors, often looking to someone else to fill the holes in ourselves with their love. She breaks down some of the unhealthy behaviors that often arise in relationships; such as abandoning our friends, hobbies, interests, and the things that bring us joy, as well as needing constant attention, compliments, or approval from the other person. She then gives us some practical advice on how to cultivate self-love when you are in a relationship. Tuning in, you’ll hear about the difference between support and dependency in a relationship, and the dangers of getting involved with narcissists. Find out how to take that love that you so freely give to other people and turn it inward, today!

We all have that one friend who takes breakups really harshly and finds themselves questioning “What is wrong with me?” when relationships don’t work out. Sometimes we are that friend. Today on the Self Love Breakfast Club, Deb McCollum joins us for another girlfriend chat as we delve into a conversation on the topics of relationships, external validation, and how to be independent in a relationship. Both Deb and Chrystal open up about the role of external validation in their own relationships, as Chrystal explains how she and her now-husband nearly broke up shortly after he moved in with her, and Deb talks about her divorce and how she’s applied the lessons she learned from it to more recent relationships. We chat about how we are often tempted to try to change ourselves or compromise to get a partner back when they’re often not the person we really want to be with anyway. Tuning in, you’ll hear about why sometimes we just have to draw a line in the sand, the value of getting support from the right people, holding friends accountable to their best selves when going through breakups, and the importance of finding validation internally. Tune in today to find out why Deb makes lists of qualities she’s not prepared to settle for in a partner and Chrystal’s new challenge to her.

If you’ve been having any doubts lately about your self-worth, or the direction your life is going, this episode is essential listening! Chrystal Rose has a message for every single person on the planet: you are worthy and loveable as you are because you are you. Life is an undulating path of ups and downs, and the most valuable thing you can do for yourself is to be grateful for whatever point you are at on this journey, and trust that where you are is where you are meant to be.

"What’s not working in the personal development world and the fitness industry? What are we missing? How can we fill in the gaps?” These are the questions Chrystal is constantly asking. As Chrystal prepares for the launch of the Self-Love Breakfast Club in July, an engaged like-minded community of people working on themselves, she discusses why this club is so desperately needed. She continues to unpack what is happening in the fitness industry and in the personal development space, and why the things we are constantly doing for self-improvement are just not working. She explains that what’s needed for real change is a shift in our belief systems but instead of doing the internal work, people find themselves stuck on a hamster wheel, constantly trying to fix the external in the hopes that it will make us happy. Tuning in today, you’ll hear why mindset work doesn’t work, why people struggle with destination addiction, and why Chrystal believes that both diet culture and anti-diet culture are toxic. Find out why your ability to truly love yourself is imperative to the quality of your life, how real change comes from doing the internal work, and why the Self-Love Breakfast Club may be the solution you have been waiting for.

In today’s episode of the Self Love Breakfast Club, we are joined by Beth Battaglino, a practicing nurse, and CEO of the non-profit HealthyWomen. We speak with Beth about her healthcare career and how she came to be CEO of HealthyWomen. Tuning in listeners will hear about the history of the company, which started as the National Women’s Health Resource Center. It was established in the 1980s by a female OBGYN who wanted women to have easy access to healthcare information at a time when women’s health was not a priority. During this time she was able to obtain a toll-free number, providing women with crucial access to reliable information prior to the internet age. Beth has carried on this legacy with her work at HealthyWomen, continually adapting to the rapid changes that have taken place in media, information, and consumer expectations. On a tight budget, Beth was able to leverage creative marketing and form relationships with high-profile magazines in the 1990s, providing them with quick and accurate sources on women’s health and healthcare. She has continued this successful adaptation for the company by fostering a culture that embraces change. Later we hear about Beth’s passion for preventative healthcare, why she believes in a holistic approach to medicine, and why a functional doctor or practicing nurse is an excellent healthcare resource. Our conversation with Beth was informative and inspiring and we loved having her on the show. Join us today for all this and more!

Do you or does someone you know exhibit hyper-independence? Kate Kelly suggested in an Instagram post that if you don’t need anyone and must do everything yourself, this is an indication that your ability to trust has been injured by people letting you down and failing you. Chrystal has taken this quote one step further by suggesting that this belief that someone has to do everything on their own is a trauma response that is usually the result of ‘father wounding’. Today on the Self Love Breakfast Club, Chrystal delves deep into the issue of father wounding and opens up about her own relationship with her father, how it negatively impacted her to crave anything that resembled love, and how she eventually overcame this. Chrystal suggests that highly-driven women feel they have to do everything on their own, not just in work, but also in their healing, which is actually counterproductive. Tuning in, you’ll hear a breakdown of some of the symptoms exhibited by women with a father wound, how it relates to worthiness, and why growing and healing is so much more effective with support. To hear some helpful advice on where to begin healing your own father wound, tune in today!

In this Solo Session today, Chrystal delves deep into her fitness journey, her path to self-love, and, in line with the new direction of the Self Love Breakfast Club, she opens up about where she wants ‘more’. Chrystal starts by explaining how messed up she was before she found fitness, how her life changed when she found ‘real fitness’ and started weightlifting, and how this led her to focus on nutrition. Through this process, she started to cultivate self-love, but she found that any level of self-love or self-care in the fitness industry was very ‘surfacey’. Despite the shortcomings of the industry, Chrystal explains how her desire to feel good internally without changing her external body led her to develop a strong sense of self. In this episode, she opens up about her struggles with crippling anxiety and depression, and how, instead of running from it, she had to face her pain in order to overcome it. Tuning in today, she points out some of the current shortcomings of the fitness industry and the very popular mindset work that actually doesn’t work. Find out how she is using this podcast to equip people with the right tools to go deeper and to change deep-rooted beliefs in order to achieve a real, permanent, self-love transformation. For another great episode of the podcast, Chrystal wishes she could have listened to years ago, tune in today!

When we go through times of transition we’re often left feeling inadequate and reaching outside of ourselves for validation instead of looking within. Today on the Self Love Breakfast Club, Deb from the Connectable Podcast joins us for a girlfriend chat on being enough. Deb shares the story of a friend of hers who is going through a tough time and is struggling with the uncertainty she faces. We discuss the six main needs people have, how the need for certainty varies from one person to the next, and why our tendency is always to grasp for external validation when going through difficult times. Deb opens up on how her mother’s death shifted her views on certainty. Tuning in, you’ll hear about how failure can actually be a gift, how helping someone through their troubles can be helpful to ourselves, and how through owning our own shit a true sense of sisterhood is possible. Later we chat about why we give love so freely to others but struggle to love ourselves, why we often feel behind in life when there is no timeline, and how if we just looked internally and realized what magical brilliant love-filled vessels we are, we would realize that we are all way more than just enough. For all this and more, tune in today!

Today, in the first episode of season three, Chrystal shares some insight into what you can expect from the Self Love Breakfast Club going forward. As we move from four episodes a month to 12, Chrystal explains that this is a new beginning for the podcast. Tuning in, you’ll find out why she started the podcast in the first place and why she wants it to be a space of not just inspiration and motivation, but so much more! She shares her thoughts on spending time looking back and missing the person you used to be or thinking you’ll be happy when you reach certain goals instead of loving yourself internally in the moment and enjoying the ride. Find out how the podcast aims to fill the gap in the fitness and diet space by providing the tools to make internal change, move forward, and continually step into the best version of yourself, while also cultivating a safe, supportive community. To hear about how the Self Love Breakfast Club can help you on your mission to love yourself, pursue your goals while being okay with the way things are, and find your place in an awesome and supportive sisterhood of incredible women, make sure not to miss this episode!