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"I think of all the women

I longed to become

Yet when I did, I never fully let myself be there, before I turned my focus on the next thing.

All I was yet to do

All I was yet to become.

And I think maybe, just maybe, I need to stand here right now, turn around, and see the woman I have built so far. And see how hard I’ve worked to be here, to be me. And maybe that’s all that needs to be done right now."

In this episode Caitlin Creeper talks about how often we are doing a lot better than we think. She talks about the importance of looking back and seeing all the small milestones we've achieved along the way and taking the time to really integrate and celebrate ourselves for what we've done.

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We're taught to want it all. We see representations of women over and over, juggling it all, all at the same time. Great love life, great group of friends, health and fitness on point, a rich world of study and inquiry and self development, community, career and ambitions and family. We have many needs, many streams through which we can be fulfilled and happy- but is trying to have it all, all at once, causing more pressure than peace? What if life can't happen all at once? What if its better to accept our cyclical nature, the inevitable seasonal nature of life, where some things will prioritised each season, and other things are for "not right now?"

What if we released ourselves of the pressure to have it all, all at once?

Caitlin Creeper riffs on this idea in this 22 minute podcast.

If you're feeling overwhelmed, over-stretched, tired, feeling put-upon and not really sure how you're going to make all the pieces of your life work today, I hope that this small solocast can help.

Max Powers is a creative thinker, movement and martial artist and health and wellness student. In this interview Caitlin Creeper and Max discuss what Max believes to be true strength and toxic masculinity.

Maybe the pandemic shut down your plans, maybe you’re watching others seemingly pivot and reset their business sails as though without a hitch. Maybe you’re back living with your parents. Maybe you’re nowhere where you feel like you should be by now, or you feel like you keep putting in the work to little results.

But these seasons of laying the seeds beneath the earth are just as important as the seasons where we see the results of our work. The seasons of staying still are just as important to the seasons that feel like they have momentum, progress. There is medicine here, wisdom here, if we allow ourselves to get curious enough to find it.

Todays guest is Max Powers. Max's mission is to help you achieve your goals by bridging the gaps between what you know and what you need to know in order to reach the person you envision to become.

Max has been on the move, participating in a variety of sports since an early age. At the age of 16, Max decided to focus on football. Determined to become a pro, he went on to play 3 years for the University of Montreal. Unfortunately, a knee injury prevented Max from achieving his goal of playing football at the professional level.

In 2010, during a year off from school, Max went on a trip to Brazil and discovered Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. This martial art completely changed Max's perspective on physical training and re-defined his understanding of fitness. As a result, mobility and functional movement have become the pillars of his fitness philosophy.

Today I speak to Max about:

• The connection between movement and mindset

• How the ‘no pain no gain’ mentality is a lie

• Why rest and recovery is a key ingredient for ‘gains’

• Why we should all have a fundamental idea of how proteins, fats and carbohydrates work

• The difference between training and movement, and why everyone needs to move, but not everyone needs to train

• Why every good trainer will ask a woman when her period is

• Why idolising insta-fitness babes is setting ourselves up for failure

• Why sleep is the first medicine

And many other things. This is one Podcast where you’ll want to have a notepad handy to get all that information.

Trigger Warning: We do briefly touch on suicide.

You can find Max at:

Instagram: @Max5Powers

Website: http://maxpowersfitness.com/

Email: [email protected]

Work with Max in-person (Montreal) https://centrereplay.com/

Erika Drolet created her own lifestyle by following her dreams and objectives... Born & raised here in Canada, she spent the last 10 years living around the world. She is an avid traveller and a wellness, fitness and life-optimization advocate. Erika is also the co-founder of the Salty Souls Experience & of the Salty Club. Also a certified yoga teacher & Ginastica natural trainer, she is an inspiration to create a routine and a lifestyle that you don't need a holiday from!

I’ve known Erika for a long time, she’s a friend and also a fellow CoFounder of The Salty Club and she’s always been someone who is passionate about training an fitness. She’s someone who always pushes herself and challenges herself to go to the next level. As I am not this kind of person when it comes to training, and I tend to give up pretty easy, I wanted to really understand the tools and tricks that people like this use to develop a strong mind and go beyond their discomfort.

In this interview we discuss:

- The connection between movement and mindset

- What we can gain by challenging ourselves to push beyond our limits

- Why some people are able to push themselves to their limit and others aren’t

- How to train a weak mind

- How to consistently show up to your training. How do to not cancel on yourself

- What Erika wishes more people knew about movement and mindset

Enjoy!

Have you ever had the thought “I can’t because I am a mother” or “I need to wait until the children are older”?

Meet Rebecca Freeman. Rebecca is the vision keeper for a New Paradigm for Motherhood. She activates women to create a New Paradigm for Motherhood that is based on a strong foundation of unlearning old programming and conditioning that is ready to be transformed into freedom and empowerment through authenticity and truth.

Currently Rebecca is back living in Australia with her children after six months working and training with powerful healers overseas. She spends her days activating mamas all over the globe, empowering them to embody the true mother energy that this world is craving.

In this interview Caitlin and Rebecca discuss such ideas as:

What if becoming a mother is the gateway to being more of you, not less?

What if motherhood can actually be the catalyst for women to rebirth themselves, to harness more personal power, to have bigger dreams and greater goals?

How can a mother reclaim her sexual energy after birth?

What if motherhood isn’t about sacrifice after all?

You can find Rebecca on Instagram at @rebeccafreemancoaching

Website: https://rebeccafreemancoaching.com/

And find her exclusive Motherhood as your Gateway to Expansion Workshop in The Salty Club Here: https://thesalty.club/ (free 7 day trial if you're not a member)

BIZ TALK ~ LIVE Q&A How did @thesaltysouls and @thesalty.club start? What are the different fields of expertise the girls of the Salty Empire have? Legal aspects of having an international business? What’s our edge in this crowded market? When did we become profitable? How do we keep business partner relationships healthy?.These are the most frequently asked questions we get!!! Hear @erika_drolet and co-founder @marieamyot discuss all of these and mucho more.

“That I need to go to work from Monday to Friday to have two days off. And then drink on Friday to shake off the stress, then feel like shit Saturday, then be in Sunday and then do it all again.I realized I didn’t need to be in that ‘normal life’ that I really don’t relate to"

For as long as she can remember, Montreal born Marie-Christine Amyot has always had a deep love for the ocean.

After finishing her bachelor degree in communications and public relations, she got a destination representative job in Mexico. She wanted to step out of her comfort zone, improve her English, learn Spanish and most of all, she wanted to try surfing, a sport she’d been craving for so long. Soon enough, she realized that surfing was way harder than she thought… but it was also more amazing than she had even imagined. Totally hooked, she decided she would do whatever she could to be able to travel and maximise her time in the ocean.

Now, she is the Cofounder and Surf Coach at Salty Souls Experience and co-founder and surf inspired trainer at The Salty Club. She works and surfs year-round throughout South America, Central America and Indonesia, but the journey to get there wasn’t easy, or comfortable, or risk free. It took guts. It took courage. Now, she wants to share her story with you.

In this interview Caitlin and MC talk about.

– How she first made the break out of the city life to starting working in Mexico at 22 years old

– All the tried-and-tested methods she has used over the years to keep travelling, surfing, and working long-term, what worked / what didn’t / advice for people wanting to do the same

– How she built a successful womens surf, yoga and empowerment camp based in El Salvador and Ecuador.

– What the process of learning to surf is really like

The journey to get there wasn’t easy, or comfortable, or risk free. It took guts. It took courage. Now, she wants to share her story with you.