“If you always take the stairs and you take them two at a time for the rest of your life, you’ll always be in shape.” – Ted Rubin via his HS wrestling, and lifelong mentor, Coach Ira Gibel

Devon Moretti wants you to eat, lift, live, and love yourself. She is a personal trainer who teaches her students female empowerment and confidence in their body even before they reach their fitness goals. She advocates feeling comfortable in your own skin or weight - regardless of how it currently looks. She provides personalized programs for clients who want to work with her as well as those who want to work on their own. When she’s not helping women get stronger and fitter, she also works as a model for hire.

Today, Devon shares her story and how she struggled with her health and fitness growing up. She cites her own life story as an example of how any woman can change themselves for the better as well as the steps necessary to enact change. She explains the importance of self-love outside the realms of fitness and why it’s important not to force yourself to be something you know you’re not. She also shares her insight with regards to the current body-acceptance trend and how we can still improve on it as a society.

 

“"Self-love and self-acceptance are constant practices that don't happen overnight." - Devon Moretti

 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How her parents raised her and how she got into fitness.
• The moment that made her realize she needed to change.
• How she felt every day when she still had an eating disorder.
• Why being too strict about your fitness is mentally damaging.
• Her binge-triggers and how she recovered from it.
• Why she stopped doing cardio.
• Her thoughts on body type trends and acceptance.

 

Key Takeaways:

• When you find what makes you happy, it's a million times easier to stick to it.
• Stressing over your health and fitness is still stress.
• We're relying too much on other people's external validations.

 

Connect with Devon Moretti:

• Devon Day Moretti official website
• Instagram

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Leanne Vogel is a passionate nutrition and food blogger who found happiness with the ketogenic diet and writing programs, recipes, and books around it. She is also a nutrition educator who offers a friendly approach to the often misunderstood fat-fueled lifestyle. Before this, Leanne was a person who always searched for the right kind of diet. She was a vegan then she switched to Paleo until she settled with the ketogenic diet. She also credits her issue with amenorrhea as to why she decided to not just try the ketogenic diet, but stay with it.

Today, Leanne talks about how she transitioned and settled with the ketogenic lifestyle, her book, and her opinion on diet and lifestyle elitism in the fitness world.

 

"If what you're doing isn't working, change it.” Leanne Vogel

 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Her life before she found the ketogenic diet.
• How amenorrhea affected her health and fitness routines.
• How the ketogenic diet helped treat her ADHD.
• Her opinion on being elitist around a specific lifestyle today versus a few year ago.
• How would she describe the ketogenic diet to someone new to the concept?
• The amazing first time experience of feeding your brain ketones.
• Her experience on going rogue and eating something that wasn't keto.
• Why the ketogenic diet is not just a 90-day diet.
• Examples of food you can eat from Leanne's book.

 

Key Takeaways:

• Understanding what you ate and how it affects your thoughts and feelings is mind-blowing.
• The Ketogenic diet is actually a lifestyle and not a quick weight loss program.

 

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Keto Diet book by Leanne Vogel
• Keto Clarity book by Jimmy Moore

 

Connect with Leanne:

• Healthful Pursuit
• Instagram

 

 

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Marissa Vicario is a best-selling author, nutrition health coach, speaker, and the founder of Marissa’s Wellbeing and Health (MWAH). MWAH is a company geared towards women looking for solutions to their health problems that go beyond fad diets, juice cleanses, and trendy workouts. She offers health and nutrition coaching as well as fitness programs to help her clients become holistically hot.

In this episode, Marissa describes her journey towards wellness. She shares the story of how she got started, what drove her to chase fitness, and the various sports and activities she joined when she was still in school. She also shares the motivation behind founding MWAH and the challenges she faced when she was just getting started.

 

“Bar workouts are one of those exercises you have to try and it becomes very addictive.” Marissa Vicario

 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• When did she become interested in leading a fit lifestyle?
• The workouts she is fond of doing.
• What are the challenges of starting her own wellness business?
• What she would have done differently if she had the opportunity.
• How long she has been in business and how different is it today than when it started.

 

Key Takeaways:

• More than fitness, exercise makes you feel good and reduces stress
• Love for fitness can come at any age.
• You don't have to get everything in line to get started in business.

 

Connect with Marissa Vicario:

• Marissa Vicario official website

 

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Lyn Genet is the author of The Metabolism Plan, a book described by fans as a “health bible” and a “personalized anti-diet book.” You can say this book embodies Lyn’s holistic mindset and extensive background in nutrition. Because of her mindset on health and wellness, Lyn has garnered the attention of prominent names from Dr. Oz and Women’s Running to Huffington Post and CBS.

Today, Lyn is here to talk about her book, why she says it’s different from other “diet” books, and gives us a taste of what we’ll find out when we read it.

 

"Chronic low grade inflammation is the basis for obesity, premature aging, and literally every single disease.” Lyn Genet

 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• The reason behind writing The Metabolism Plan.
• Why healthy foods and exercise can sometimes cause problems.
• What happens to your body when it doesn't like the healthy food you just ate?
• How much is "too much" exercise?
• Why does it get harder for our body to respond to exercise the more we do it?
• What happens to our enzymes by the time we reach 35?

 

Key Takeaways:

• Understand what works for you allows you to create the optimal program for your body.
• There's always a reason why and you need the tools to decipher what your body is telling you.

 

Connect with Lyn:

• Lyn Genet official
• Instagram
• Facebook

 

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Metabolism Plan
• Lessons From a Real Rockstar – Fitting in Fitness On The Road with Lindsay Manfredi

 

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Cathe Friedrich is a recognized name in the world of workout videos. She has been at the top of this business for over 30 years and has at least 200 DVDs under her belt. She’s known to create the type of workouts even veterans in the field would find advanced but the results are always uncanny.

Bryan Falchuk is a bestselling author, speaker, and life coach. He has been featured in several major publications including Inc. Magazine, The L.A. Times, and the Chicago Tribune. His life is an example of what people are truly capable of once they set their minds to it. Bryan has faced health problems, career struggles, and has experienced the feeling of helplessness when a loved one fell ill. Yet, he always found a way to never lose hope and find the path back to positivity. His current book Do a Day is about what it means to look at today from the viewpoint of yesterday and tomorrow.

Today, Bryan shares the challenges he has faced and how changing his mindset helped him overcome them while reclaiming his health. He shares what it was like growing up with weight challenges and the mentor who helped him find fitness. He also briefly discusses what his book is about and how it can positively affect your point of view in life.

 

“We make all of our choices today based on the pain of yesterday and the anxiety of tomorrow.” - Bryan Falchuk

 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• When did he get into fitness?
• The simple, healthy techniques he adapted as a kid.
• Why cardio is not the only option for beginners.
• What inspired him to write his book?
• Why perspective changes everything.
• His "Aha!" moment and when it happened.
• The four key ingredients to changing your behavior for the better.  

 

Key Takeaways:

• If you don't believe you deserve better, then nothing else will have an effect.
• Food is not a treatment for anxiety. As soon as you're done eating, the reason why you ate is still there, so you're still hungry.
• Screaming at someone who's anxious actually doesn't help them with anxiety.

Resources Mentioned:

• Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast EP217 Leading Full Out with Kelly Olexa of Fitfluential

 

Connect with Bryan Falchuk:

• Official Website
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Do A Day Enter the code “FFPodcast” when buying Bryan’s signed Do a Day book for a great discount!

 

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Kelly Gregorakis is a senior Yoga and Meditation teacher. She has a certification on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction from the Jon Kabat-Zinn program in the University of Massachusetts. She believes 90% of diseases is caused by too much stress and because of that, she teaches people how to convert stress to empowerment, calm, and centeredness.

In today’s episode, Kelly talks about her amazing life transformation when she found out about Yoga. She’ll tell us what her life was before Yoga, her inspirations, her thoughts on the importance of meditation in having a quality life, and how her life has since been afterwards.

 

“Yoga is not unlike baking lasagna, it's layer after layer after layer. Sometimes that's how life is; you're not just adding but also removing layers.” Kelly Gregorakis

 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Yoga is not just about sitting and chanting for an hour a day. It’s about priorities and self-care.
• How Kelly struggled incorporating yoga into her life at first due to many life priorities and how she’s able to balance it all now.
• Yoga isn’t just about having a flexible body but also possessing a flexible mentality.
• Yoga is a way to encourage the ourselves to explore our mind, something our world does not openly encourage.
• A simple change such as negative self-talk to positive self-talk is a way of transformation
• What yoga is really about vs what most people think it’s about.
• Likeminded individuals, such as a yoga community, will encourage you to do what you feel is good for you.

 

Key Takeaways:

• We’re under no obligation to make sense with what we choose. It is important to stop thinking what others feel about your choices and simply think if your choices are what makes you at peace with yourself.
• Yoga and meditation can turn you into a higher version of yourself.

 

Connect with Kelly Gregorakis:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram

 

Mentioned in this episode:

• Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Jordan Bloom
• Douglas Brooks
• Charly Om
• Om Movement studio
• Skanda Yoga
• Dharma Yoga
• TRIO – Mind Body Spirit Studio

 

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Dutch DeGay used to be a soldier for the U.S. Army until he had a career-ending injury due to a misdiagnosed broken ankle. Being a soldier made him “tough it out”, thinking it was just a sprain. He eventually succumbed to the kind of lifestyle that’s the exact opposite of what he had in the army: He had access to the comforts of home and had lots of food around. It wasn’t until he ended up putting on an extra 90 lbs. of weight (totaling to 255 lbs. overall) that he realized something had to change.

Julie Bevel knows the power of touch when it comes to using massage as a therapeutic treatment. She is the owner of Fox River Spa & Salon, specializing in Sports and Thai Massage, and is licensed to perform lymphatic drainage, myofascial, and prenatal massage. Her techniques are all geared to help clients increase their range of motion and flexibility in a soothing and relaxing manner. Her experience with over 10,000 massages makes her one of the most sought out massage therapists in the United States.

In this episode, Julie redefines the meaning of what a massage really is. She explains its many benefits for stress, muscle groups, recovery, and mobility. She also shares her wisdom with regards to which body parts people need to look into as well as some tips for those who are thinking of trying massage therapy for the first time.

 

“A professional body worker needs to not only have good hands, but they need to be a good communicator.” Julie Bevel

 

 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why knowing your body's history is a mark of a true professional massage therapist?
• How she got into the salon and spa business.
• The kind of clients she works with.
• What does mobility mean in the context of fitness?
• The science behind massage therapy.
• Why glutes need a lot of work.
• The effects of massage therapy on the libido.

 

Key Takeaways:

• Too many people view massages as a treat instead of a treatment.
• Glute work is great, and everybody needs it. Let your therapist massage your butt.
• The theory of no pain, no gain doesn't really apply in massage therapy.
• Massage therapy is an effective way to rid yourself of stress.

 

Connect with Julie:

• Fox River Spa & Salon

 

 

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