The Embodied Baddie Podcast

The success, flaws, and gifts of other women can trigger uncomfortable feelings in many of us, like jealousy, resentment, or even pity. In today’s episode, Chrystal dives deep into a solo session on our relationships with women: what shapes them, how to navigate them, and how we can change them. Chrystal shares how her early experiences of not having her needs met and competing with her sister for love, influenced her to distance herself from female friendships and instead surround herself with male friends. She delves into her early experiences in the corporate working space and how a scarcity mindset drove women to be competitive instead of treating one another as friends and allies. Later Chrystal discusses how society is set up to create divisions among women, especially considering how much stronger women are as a group with tight bonds. She reflects on how her experience of meeting with a group of self-aware women for the first time, after having only interacted in a virtual space, changed her perception of what is possible for female relationships. Join us for a heartfelt meditation on the difficulties and abundant potential amongst women, and realize that we are all reflected in one another!

Today’s guest is a Brantley Belk, a model for Rebellia and store manager for Project LeanNation, where she lives her dream and impacts lives. Brantley finds herself happiest connecting with people through nutrition and fitness at work and during her free time. Today, on the Self Love Breakfast Club, we discuss Brantley’s job at Project LeanNation, a rapidly growing company that helps people live a sustainable life through prepared healthy meal plans. We talk about the importance of having a sustainable eating plan and the very common issue of undereating in the fitness community. Brantley explains how lifting is her love language and we discuss CrossFit, Peloton, and, of course, our favorite Peloton instructors. With wisdom far beyond her years, Brantley shares her thoughts on work, the satisfaction that comes from having an impact on people, and the encouragement to keep searching for that job you love. Her goal in life is to spread sunshine everywhere she goes, and she manages to do it even in this show, so tune in today!

From an outsider’s perspective, it’s hard to tell just how challenging starting and running a business can be. Today on the Self Love Breakfast Club, Chrystal shares with us the personal story of why she almost walked away from her own boutique business, Rebellia in spite of its success. She goes way back to the beginning and describes that first dressing room moment where she left in tears because her fitness journey had led her to the point where she finally loved her body, but nothing fit. From that moment in 2015, Chrystal has been on a mission to help make women with muscles and curves feel good in their clothes. In today’s episode, hear about the ups and downs of the journey and how Chrystal’s passion for life coaching changed her perspective on her clothing business. She explains her reasons for why she eventually decided to close it down and how a suggestion from her husband, just six days before pulling the plug, changed everything. This episode offers encouragement to any business owners out there who may feel alone, but it is also full of valuable self-love advice for any listener on the importance of self-care in business, and how to overcome the limitations we put on ourselves. Tune in today!

Today on the Self Love Breakfast Club we broach the difficult but important topic of trauma, especially in light of the collective trauma of the global pandemic. We are joined by Stephanie German, a Trauma-Informed Life Coach and Somatic Practitioner who is passionate about helping women learn how to cope with their own adverse experiences to find freedom and discover their purposes. She has personally experienced several healing modalities to cope with and heal from her own childhood trauma, anxiety, and disordered eating, and now dedicates her time serving others’ healing journeys and living her best life. While we handle the topic of trauma with a great deal of sensitivity if the subject makes you uncomfortable, feel free to give this one a skip! If not, tune in to hear how trauma is defined, how it can result from a single incident or multiple incidents over time, and how it is different from stress, chronic stress, and anxiety. Stephanie explains how trauma is different for everyone, it affects people differently, and your healing should be nurtured in your own way and at your own pace. Hear about the importance of self-care and self-love and tips to alleviate our stress so that our nervous systems don’t get overloaded. Tune in for all this and more!

People who devote their lives to caring for others often do it at the expense of caring for themselves, but it doesn’t have to be this way! Todays’ guest is Veronica Southerland, better known as ‘Vee the NP’. She is a CEO, speaker, mentor, author, and renowned healthcare practitioner who has dedicated her career to raising the next generation of healthcare entrepreneurs. She shares her story of how she lost everything when the multimillion dollar company she built went broke and her marriage fell apart in the process. As someone who has successfully built herself back up from scratch, both psychologically and financially, she overflows with wisdom and inspiration. She talks about why she no longer lives her life according to a plan but just lets life flow through her. Hear about how to manifest the life you want, why you shouldn’t live your life according to someone else’s schedule, and the importance of mentoring and empowering others. In today’s episode, discover how, like Veronica, you too can discover your unique gifts, develop them, monetize them, and create a legacy from them! 

Today on the Self Love Breakfast Club, we continue with the second half of the interview conducted by Deb McCollum of the Connectable Podcast. Hear about how to break psychological eating patterns, how our emotions can sabotage our nutrition and the importance of dealing with our feelings in order to attain good physical health. Deb opens up about her divorce-related weight loss and weight gain, and Chrystal talks about her botched CoolSculpting job and how she learned to love herself through that. Find out why fad diets never work, learn about the benefits of macro-counting, and discover how to alter your eating habits in a healthy, sustainable way. We also hear about Chrystal’s Pendulum coaching program. For all this, and some encouragement on your own personal self-love journey, tune in today! 

Today’s episode of the Self Love Breakfast Club is a little different. Instead of speaking to another inspiring expert on the subject of self-love, Chrystal turns the mic on herself instead. We bring you the first half of an interview conducted by Deb McCollum of the Connectable Podcast and find out more about Chrystal’s Self Love journey. In this episode, we delve into Chrystal’s past and find out about her journey into the world of self-love and self-empowerment. We hear about her childhood struggles with her body and how that led her to become a food and body life coach. We gain more insight into the life of our host and delve deep into the issues of body image, body dysmorphia, coping mechanisms, and affirmations. We also discuss the importance of getting to the root of our issues and “feeling our feelings”.  For all this and more, tune in today!

It's a busy month and Chrystal has decided to take a break from these bonus episodes, but don't worry-- the full length ones aren't going anywhere!

Self-Love Sunday is a short episode bonus series where Chrystal shares her personal self-love journey and lessons learned along the way.

Like many of us, today’s guest once struggled from extreme anxiety that led to an eating disorder. She tried many unhealthy methods to try to fix herself but without success. In a heartfelt but funny story, she tells us how she was inspired by Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love to go to Bali and, through a strange turn of events, she accidentally ended up at a breathwork class that changed her life. Today, I couldn’t be more excited to speak to the inspiring Samantha Skelly, Entrepreneur, International Speaker, Best-Selling Author, Wellness Coach, and my very own Mentor! She is also the Founder of Hungry for Happiness and Pause Breathwork. Apart from telling us about her own journey into personal development, we also discuss her book Hungry for Happiness, her Breathwork training course, and even her Country music album (in the making). We discuss some of the problems with meditation, mindset-related affirmations, and cognitive forms of therapy, and how breathwork is an incredibly effective way for anybody to be able to unlock self-healing through embodiment. Today’s episode could literally change your life, so don’t miss it! 

We all need a break sometimes! Chrystal discusses the "No Days Off" mentality.

Self-Love Sunday is a short episode bonus series where Chrystal shares her personal self-love journey and lessons learned along the way.