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Erin Lingle is here this week to teach us how to manage our stress better. I don't know about you, but I always laugh at the suggestion of lowering my stress levels. Ummm hello! I am the mom of a 4 year old. I live in America! What I appreciate most about Erin is her incredible sense of humor and her very realistic approach to handling the inevitable stress that's gonna come our way.

Erin Lingle, founder of Find Your Strength, is a personal trainer on a mission to equip women with the tools they need to not just survive, but thrive, no matter how messy life gets. Through her integrated approach of strength and conditioning and stress resilience training, she empowers women to build inner and outer strength. Her compassion extends to her three rescued pups, "team R," highlighting her belief in resilience and love.

On this episode we talk about:

• Erin's origin story and what managing grief and anxiety helped her learn about how to handle stress better.
• What it means to "stress better".
• Stress resilience training and the parallels between that and strength training.
• Simple ways to manage your stress differently in those moments when it's simply unavoidable.
• The duality of working out/strength training as stressor on the body AND stress relief.
• How to approach your workouts differently in high stress vs. lower stress times.
• What to add more of and/ortake away from your workouts when life get's stressful or you're experiencing specific mental health challenges.
• The most underrated things we can do to support our minds and bodies.
• The joy of coffee naps, improvisation, and generally doing weird shit.

• So many other good things!



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Ashantis Jones is back this week and we're talking all about the relationship between healthism and the rise of fascism. I know, fun right? But as we often discover, it's all different flavors of the same shit sandwich. And if we really wanna be healthy, we need to talk about the hard stuff too! Turns out it's not all just organic hemp seeds and kale chips.

Ashantis Jones (she/they) is a weight-inclusive Licensed Therapist, Mental Health Coach, NASM Certified Personal Trainer, Group Fitness Instructor, and Educator. She supports individuals seeking mental health + fitness support and businesses seeking to create more efficient and equitable practices. Specialties include Body Image/Eating Disorder Recovery, Executive Functioning, and Navigating Systems of Oppression.The Wellness Financial Fund provides full or partial financial assistance for individuals seeking personal training and/or wellness consultations (coffee chats) from Ashantis. The fund prioritizes financial support for Black women, but anyone is eligible to request sponsorship.

On this episode we talk about:

• The problem with the new potential surgeon general.
• Why many wellness influencers say things that seem to make sense on a surface level but don't actually work in practice or have evidence to back them up.
• How many of the ways we think about health can be rooted in bad things like eugenics, and how it's a slippery slope.
• Why we need to embrace nuance and let go of black and white thinking when it comes to wellness and public health policy.
• Why it's important to dig a little deeper and look at the root cause of our health problems as Americans (which is more systemic than we realize.
• Why we think Americans rely so heavily on processed foods and what our solutions would look like.
• Why we need to look at the wellness media we're consuming with a more critical eye.

• So many other good things!

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I finally decided to stop rolling my eyes and record an episode about what it takes to get toned arms. Because while I had hoped we were all past this, the amount of questions I've gotten about this over the years, plus the amount of garbage information still being fed to you on the internet made me cave.

If you don't need to hear this, I am certain that there is someone in your life who does. Please share this episode with your mom, your best friend, or your client.

This episode shares info that might be considered "triggering" to some in the anti-diet community. I'm sharing it anyway, because it feels like the same thing as why offering sex education to teenagers is better than preaching abstinence. Knowledge is power!

On this episode we talk about:

• The surprising amount of times I am told "I don't want to get too muscular, I just wanna get toned."
• Why there are no "3 best exercises for toned arms".
• Why you literally have to build muscle if you want to look "toned".
• The actual exercise science behind what it takes to change your body composition.
• Why I don't typically recommend obsessing over this for most clients.
• How much control we actual have over our body composition (some, but not as much as we think.)
• My take on "calories in/calories out".
• So many other important things!

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This episode with Toni Rudd blew my mind and filled in all sorts gaps in my understanding of intuitive eating, and I can't wait to share it with you! Turns out that lack of willpower and food restriction might not be the only reasons you can't seem to stop overeating, and Toni is here to shine a light on it today.

Toni Rudd is a UK-registered dietitian and binge eating specialist. She works with people who feel stuck in the cycle of dieting and bingeing, helping them heal their relationship with food and body. Through a compassionate, non-diet approach, Toni supports her clients to let go of food guilt, eat with more ease, and stop obsessing over food. Her work focuses on building consistent, satisfying eating habits and shifting the focus away from control towards self-trust and care.

On this episode we talk about:

• Toni's origin story and how she came to be doing the work she does today.

• Why dieting and bingeing are two sides of the same coin.
• Why willpower and discipline might not be the solutions you're looking for.
• Secret eating, nighttime eating, food shame, falling off the wagon, and other flavors of eating issues that aren't quite binge eating.
• Some of the surprising things that could lead to binge eating beyond just dieting.

• Why so many of us know so much about food and nutrition but can't seem to apply it. 
• How content around intuitive eating can trick us into thinking we're doing it, except we're not.
• What's missing in the current intuitive eating space, and how can we fill those gaps for ourselves and/or our clients.
• So many other good things!

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This week I have not one but TWO of my clients on the podcast! Miranda and Steph are here to talk about all things fitness trackers. Specifically how we've been using our Apple watches to enhance our experience of our workouts, daily movement, working towards performance goals, recovery, and more. We've been working on these things together in our 1:1 sessions and now we're ready to share our insights with you.

On this episode we talk about:

• Our early (obsessive) fitness tracking experience.
• How it evolved as we started giving up diet culture.
• What made us come back around to it and where we are in our relationship to it now.
• What helped us get to that place.
• Things that still annoy us about our Apple watches vs. things we think are cool/neutral data. 
• Advice for someone on the fence about tracking fitness data.
• Avoiding triggers vs. curiosity.
• So many other good things!

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I am back from my podcasting hiatus because things in Chicago and across the country are getting pretty bad pretty fast and I wanna run my mouth while I'm still allowed.

We are here because when I found myself feeling hopeless a few weeks ago, I got involved with my local Indivisible chapter and it gave me a sense of purpose and community in a world that often feels irreparably fucked. I met Ishaan there and immediately knew we needed to come together to spread the word about No Kings and building a peaceful resistance.

Ishaan Srivastava is a GenZ progressive activist, and has been very active in Illinois politics. He has also been the host of The Ishaan S. Show, his political news podcast, since 2021. Ishaan is an advocate for GenZ involvement in politics, and informing people about ways to get involved!

On this episode we talk about:

• How Ishaan got into the work he's doing as a GenZ political activist.
• Why I came out of podcasting hiatus to talk to him about it.
• How so many people (especially GenZ!) got pulled to the right in the last election cycle and what we on the left need to do differently.
• All the different ways to participate in peaceful resistance when things feel hopeless.
• What to do if you want to protest but are concerned about your safety.
• Why we continue to gather to push back against the current administration and how you can build community of your own (or join ours!)
• What No Kings is and why you should come to one of our events on October 18th.

• So many other good things!

**Please know that this conversation represents the views of myself and Ishaan and may or may not reflect the diverse views of Indivisible as an organization or its members.

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⁠⁠Another shorty episode coming at you today. I'm sharing a topic that comes up a lot for my clients and a concept that I came up with called the "fitness hierarchy of needs". Many of us obsess over small details that don't really matter when it comes to our fitness. On this episode we talk about what you wanna have in place first to build a strong fitness foundation, so that you can keep things moving even when life kicks you in the ass.

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Forget training for your bikini body. Ali Kreider is here today to talk about training for our old lady bodies and I couldn't be more excited to share this episode!

Ali Kreider is a certified personal trainer & group fitness coach, empowering women to develop a self-compassionate approach to movement. She helps clients build strength & resilience that allows them to handle life outside of the gym with more confidence & ease. 

On this episode we talk about:

• How Ali got interested in her training niche.

• Ways the fitness industry has failed previous generations.
• What we both hope to do differently to influence our clients for the better.
• Things to focus on & keep in mind when training clients and yourself to be a strong old lady.
• Our concerns with "heroin chic" body trends coming back around and how this harms our chances of staying strong and independent as we age.
• Myths she'd like to bust about strength training as we get older.
• So many other good things!

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Julie Duffy Dillon is here today for an episode that feels very full circle to me. I originally heard her on several other anti-diet podcasts when I was very new to this work, and I am so excited to be able to share her on mine. Her new book, "Find Your Food Voice" just came out, and it's filling such an important void in the intuitive eating space. If you've ever felt like intuitive eating didn't work for you, or that you have a hard time connecting with what your body is asking for, this episode is for you!

Julie Duffy Dillon is a seasoned dietitian trained as a mental health counselor and podcast host of Find Your Food Voice®, a Top 100 Nutrition Podcast on Apple Podcasts. Featured on TLC's My Big Fat Fabulous Life, Julie helps people with a complicated relationship with food better access non diet tools like Intuitive Eating and strategize how to remove the shame and blame dumped on them from diet culture. She teaches dietitians, counselors, doctors, and other health professionals to do the same through clinical supervision, writing, media, and speaking engagements. Julie holds a MS degree in Community Counseling, is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, and a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and Supervisor.

On this episode we talk about:

• Julie's origin story and what led her to doing the work she's doing today.
• The client work that led her to write her book Find Your Food Voice.
• The very important gaps her books is filling in the current anti-diet/intuitive eating space.
• Food noise. What it is, how it shows up, and how we can start to quiet it.
• Our opinions on GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic.
• Diet trauma and how it may have affected us without us even realizing it.
• How our diet trauma affects our ability to hear what our bodies are saying.
• Why some people feel like intuitive eating doesn't work for them.
• Food addiction. Is it real?
• So many other mind blowing things!

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Emily Decker is here to talk about something that I know has been on a LOT of our minds lately:

How do we stay informed and get involved in activism in a way that makes a difference without burning ourselves out?

Today we are talking about that and so much more!

Emily Decker is a somatic-based, trauma-informed, body-neutral personal trainer with a master’s degree in social work from the University of Southern California. She works with people in person in Los Angeles and virtually across the country to shift how they conceptualize exercise and find empowerment and fulfillment in movement.

On this episode we talk about:

• How Emily became the brilliant somatic trainer that she is and how she started integrating activism into her business.
• How to get involved with activism without while still protecting your peace and supporting your mental health.
• Examples of the little (and big!) ways we can take action as individuals and as communities depending on our capacity.
• What somatic resourcing for activism is and how it can help us prevent burnout.
• How we can set boundaries and be strategic about the information we consume.
• How our voices really DO matter and how all the little things count.
• How all of this relates to the way we approach fitness.
• So many other good and important things!

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