Two things happened on Monday, May 10th. Kim's dog Vinnie turned one and Doug celebrated his 32nd birthday. In his 10th year of business - remember he founded Spurling Fitness, which was then Spurling Training systems, in 2012. In the past decade, he's grown his team from three people to 10, pivoted on the fly to move the business services completely online during a pandemic, and continues to evolve his engagement in the community. In this episode, Kim interviews him about some of the lessons he's learned and the way his thought process has grown and changed over the years.

In episode 112, Kim interviews fellow strength coach Allison Tenney, who is also a former English major turned strength coach. Allison played Division I soccer at George Mason University and later played professionally with the Washington Freedom and the Seattle Sounders. She coached college athletes for over 13 years, first at Cornell University and most recently at Seattle University where she was the assistant soccer coach and high-performance manager for the women's soccer team. In this episode, she and Kim touch on a variety of topics including issues of race and gender equality.

In this episode, Kim flies solo and reflects on her return to the practice of mindfulness, forced by issues with chronic pain. She talks about learning to be in your body, learning to practice your breathing, and other points from the current book she's reading "Full Catastrophe Living" by Jon Kabat-Zinn.

The definition of ruminating is to "chew over," and as it turns out, ruminating isn't just how cows chew their food. Ruminations are involuntary and intrusive and pop into our heads uninvited. And often, our feelings of frustration and burnout aren't just from work or relationships or parenting - but from how we think about those things. In this episode, Doug and Kim dive in to their own experience with ruminating and some strategies to stop letting these unproductive thoughts take up so much of your head space.

In episode 109, Kim and Doug are back together and this time they are diving into their own experiences with failures and times in their lives they've come up short. Doug discusses how many times he had to take chemistry before he passed, and the lessons learned in the process.

In episode 108 Kim talks all things writing with accomplished young adult author Dr. Adrienne Kisner. Kisner is the author of several books, starting with her debut "Dear Rachel Maddow," which was released in 2018. Since that time, she has authored "The Confusion of Laurel Graham," and most recently "Six Angry Girls." In this interview, Dr. Kisner discusses how following her curiosity helps her finish each book, and offers some insights to aspiring writers.

In episode 107, Kim welcomes Kennebunkport business owner Jon Ellms for a conversation about all things productivity. Jon discusses his research into the Second Brain theory, which is about organizing your ideas, organizing your learning, and dramatically expanding your creative output. He and Kim dive into their reasons for wanting a system to organize both their consumption of information and they're ideas for creative ventures.

Spring for most of us in New England means popping out of our Netflix binging prairie dog hole and poking our head's out into the sun for the first time in months. And spring feels even more important now that we're a year into the COVID pandemic. In this episode Kim and Doug talk about recognizing some of the signs of burnout, and some strategies you can use to help yourself hit the reset button for the longer, brighter days ahead.

If you've listened to this show for any length of time, you know that Doug has used a planner since he came out of the womb (kidding, since college he says though), and Kim writes her daily to do list on toilet paper (double ply of course). But both of them share a goal of wanting to get the most out of each day, week, month and year. And in order to do that, you can't just keep all of your hopes, dreams and plans in your head. Because if it's always in your head, you don't really have the space to create and produce - you only ever find yourself in management mode.

Two weeks ago the building behind Spurling Fitness opened its doors. The Infinity Center, which is currently home to Saco Bay Physical Therapy and Athlete’s Touch Massage Therapy, was built to change lives. There is also a multi-purpose room for Spurling Fitness. In this episode Kim interviews Doug about the why behind opening the center and the vision for the purpose he hopes it will serve within the community