Battling back from addiction and a Federal sentence for drug smuggling to building a booming social enterprise, Comeback Snacks (@comebacksnacks), Emily O’Brien’s (@emz.obrien) evolution from convict to entrepreneur is a story about lessons learned, resilience, determination, forgiveness and how to take a bad situation and turn it into endless positive opportunities.⁠

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On Today's episode, we got to unpack Emily's story, and we talked about:⁠

⚡️ How she turned such a negative time in her life into something positive⁠

⚡️Her process of starting a biz behind bars⁠

⚡️Her mental health and attitude towards fighting setbacks⁠

⚡️Overcoming eating disorders and how she uses activity and good food to help her thrive⁠

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This one is a great episode! So get your steps in and get listening!⁠

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The FGB Continuum is a perfect way to showcase a similar scale to determine how easily we can fall into burnout, if we're not careful. ⁠ ⁠ As busy women, we're always striving for balance. We think that if we can create some balance, we'll never get burnt out. However - as a scale works - the slightest amount of time gone neglecting ourselves tips us closer towards burnout. ⁠ ⁠ But what if we didn't see "well balanced" as the gold standard for busy women? What if we started pushing "FIT & SUCCESSFUL" (being a FGB) as the goal? We'd then have a much larger hedge against ever being burnt out. ⁠

Being a FGB gives us constant growth in our health, fitness, mental health, relationships, business and professional lives without ever getting close to a point of burnout.

Remember, fitness and nutrition isn't separate from your career. It's a part of it. It is your responsibility. It isn't just something else on your plate. It's allowing you to work smarter, more efficient, and more sustainably.

- What an FGB is

READ THE ARTICLE HERE - https://www.bodzii.com/post/the-fit-girl-boss-continuum-health-fitness-and-your-career

Here's what we talk about in this episode (on top of us yammering on about the Olympics and working out for 20 minutes):⁠

- The attitude to bring towards building habits⁠

- How to create a realistic plan of action to build habits⁠

- How to manage your boss and coworkers if you're working in an office job while trying to prioritize your heath (this is what we're talking about in this clip!)⁠

- MUCH MORE⁠⁠

Creating any lasting change starts with habits. Creating new ones, breaking old ones. We've all seen the challenges, studies and literature on habit building.⁠

If you've read the book 'Atomic Habits', you're off to a great start. James Clear says "on average, it takes more than 2 months before a new behavior becomes automatic — 66 days to be exact"⁠

⁠Now, if it's 66 days into your journey and you're still having trouble sticking to something, don't worry about it!⁠

Since this podcast is meant for the busy woman who's working 40+ hours a week, the reality is that it's probably going to take you even longer to make a habit turn into something you can do for the rest of your life.⁠⁠

But that's okay. More than okay.⁠

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When's the last time you did a goal setting session with yourself?

When's the last time you did a goal setting session with a coach?

If you answered "never" to the latter, then you might be doing yourself a disservice by not fully understanding if you're setting realistic goals for yourself.

If you set yourself a goal and then a plan of action, it's not your fault if your action items don't line up to your goal - it might just be that you don't have all the information you need yet in order to make a proper plan.

So, let me try and help out a little bit to clarify the three big general goals people usually have when it comes to fitness and nutrition:

Cutting, Maintaining, and Bulking.

What's the difference? What's required? And as a busy girl, what phase should you choose so that you can get the most results without becoming burnt out and overwhelmed?

Today we're talking with the owner of Yummmmbar. We're excited to talk with someone who's left the corporate world and found her passion in a space that brings her complete joy. And other's a full belly! Of course we're all about sustainable nutrition. And so this episode is the perfect match up where we talk good food, and busy women.

Without a lot of experience in the kitchen, she experimented with different healthy ingredients that could potentially keep her fuller longer and finally came up with a creation of her own. As the first taste tester of this new creation, she was delighted to see this bar made a great impression on her younger sister. Shortly after, she brought a bar to work and let one of her colleague taste-tested it. That’s when he planted a seed in her head to start selling the bars.

Read the full article on our blog!

You don't need us to tell you that losing weight can be frustrating. Let's just make sure you're not making any of these mistakes so we can get you closer to your goals.

In this episode I've compiled 8 mistakes that I see the MOST when working with our group of women in our 1:1 coaching program. I've asked our coaches to pitch in on writing this article so I could get their views, options, insight and some different angles as well. 

These are mistakes that we all are going to make. And the reality is that our health and weight loss journey is a big trial and error process a lot of the time. However, we can build some awareness around when we're making these mistakes which will allow us to reframe our mindset, and pivot a bit quicker into the right direction.

The 8 mistakes are:

LET'S TALK WORKOUTS, TRAINING, AND ALL THINGS ACTIVITY. ⁠

This is a classic Michelle & Robyn shoot the shit episode. But I promise we also dive loads into:⁠

💥Our history of working out and how our training has progressed⁠

💥How we've tackled and managed injuries⁠

💥Training for performance vs. Training for weight loss/aesthetics ⁠

💥CrossFit classes and how to prevent burn out⁠

💥The BODZii Core Program - how it's designed⁠

💥How to workout for weight loss and sustainability, and happiness!!⁠

⁠Michelle being an ex-hockey player, CrossFitter, and now working out as a Mom and Coach, and myself being an ex-swimmer, CrossFitter, CrossFit coach, and now prioritizing functional body building, we have TONS to talk about. ⁠

This one is jam packed, and a bit of a longer one. Which I'm stoked about. So get your steps in and get it in your ears!⁠

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If doing this podcast has taught me anything, it's that there is no shortage of incredible women doing incredible things. 

This week we have @shannoncundell. Shannon's specific role within her and her husband's company is the Marketing and Account Manager. She loves supporting clients' goals and inspiring connection through custom apparel and branded merch. She was an elementary teacher for almost ten years prior and is passionate about advocating for women and girls.

This past year has been no easy feat for any small business owner. Shannon shares her unique experiences within her business as she and her husband manage to navigate the e-commerce world. 

Pop this episode in your ear buds, take a walk and get inspired!

A solo FGB Short with Coach Robyn.

I remember the first time I was told to watch Simon Sinek's "How Great Leaders Inspire Action" video. You might know it better as the "Why" video. You might not have any idea what I'm talking about in which case, do yourself a solid and put this book down for 20 minutes to catch up.

"The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe" was a line that stuck with me when I first watched it. And it's definitely stayed with me ever since.

If we think about ourselves as consumers, we assimilate ourselves with brands because we believe what they believe. Or, we want people to perceive us as someone who is aligned with a certain brand. The best brands make us act. In this particular case, in the form of buying.

Having a solid "why" acts as a foundation that we can fall back on. As a brand, all actions, systems, messaging, marketing etc. are surrounding that "why". If the "why" is solid enough, all actions will be aligned, messaging is clear, people are responding positively, and the business is successful.

In this episode I talk about the every so close ties between business development/entrepreneurship and weight loss or a health and fitness journey.

In 30 seconds we can turn the entire year into 12 reasons why we should never get it shape, focus on our health or dial in our nutrition. One for each month.⁠⁠

Your excuses are getting tired. And so are you. And no matter what day of the year it is - we can always find a reason not to.⁠

On today's episode, we talk about how we can stay on track this month - whatever "on track" looks like for you. Whether it's finding balance with cottage weekends, keeping it dialled in or just continue hitting your protein goal. ⁠

It's something a lot of our members are getting anxious about, and so I hope this one helps you too.⁠