Transform Your Life Podcast

Carolyn is a mother of 3 children, a 12 year old daughter and 9 year old boy/girl twins.  She’s been passionate about training since her senior year of high school but level of participation and motivation suffered in the early years of motherhood.  Working full time and having 3 young kids, she admits that she did not make time for herself a priority. After a few crazy years and suffering health as a result, Carolyn decided to reclaim this part of her life that she greatly missed.  She got back into the swing of things slowly in 2011 and finally achieved one of her life goals of competing in 2014.

Since then she has never looked back and continued training hard and competing every 2 years.  Carolyn now has 3 seasons under her belt and has grown in so many ways from the sport of bodybuilding.  She continues to do the best she can to juggle being a mother, wife, school based therapist and amateur bodybuilder.

Today's episode covers:

• Tips for juggling being a working mom

You can connect with Carolyn on INSTAGRAM @cdudek_

Vince Pitstick has been in the health and wellness field for over 15 years. Beginning in personal training, competition dieting, and nutrition programs in Chicago. He began a functional medicine journey ten years ago working under various Functional Medicine physicians learning how to take nutrition and lifestyle change and use it as a treatment for disease. Working as a Functional Medicine Consultant for Metagenics INC., he helps hundreds of Physicians in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana bring natural based programs to their office with the latest in natural technology and coaching to help their patients.

In an endeavor to create a place where client centered care was the priority of the care center he

Ange has been working with Vince over the past few months to help balance her hormones & improve digestion. 

Today's episode is from one of their recent coaching calls where we talk about how Ange has been feeling after removing the Mirena IUD. We also discuss improving insulin sensitivity.

Connect with Vince https://www.nutritiondynamic.com/

Today's episode is a raw and open round table discussion with Dominique & Erik Myers and my husband, Jamie Zadow. We discuss how relationships are affected during contest prep when your partner doesn’t compete

In today's episode: 

• The positives

CONNECT with us on INSTAGRAM: 

Today's episode is a raw and open round table discussion with Dominique & Erik Myers and my husband, Jamie Zadow. We discuss how relationships are affected during contest prep when your partner doesn’t compete

In today's episode: 

• The positives

CONNECT with us on INSTAGRAM: 
DOMINIQUE - @thefitfoodielife
ERIK - @erikmyers4
JAMIE - @jamiezadow
ANGE - @angehauck_ufepro

Sean Everingham began his career in the fitness industry over 15 years ago as a personal trainer. Since that time, he has trained countless competitors for the stage in many different organizations & across 3 countries. To this day, he still loves working with contest prep clients & trains people in Mississauga, Hamilton & online through Elite Physique Coach. 

His passion for the fitness industry led him to create Ultimate Fitness Events (the UFE) in 2007. What began as a single local fitness event in Hamilton, Ontario has grown to become one of the largest natural fitness & bodybuilding organizations in the world with events in Canada, USA, UK, India and Australia. Each year, the UFE brings together the very best natural competitors from around the world for the UFE World Championships in Toronto. 

Find out more about the UFE at www.UFEshows.com Www.elitephysiquecoach.com

Alicia Bell is a Kinesiologist, Certified Personal Trainer, Online Coach, Figure Athlete, Track & Field Coach, YouTuber, Fitness Model and is based in Toronto. She has cultivated a strong social media presence, and does work as a public speaker. She is also has a goal of becoming an IFBB Figure Pro. 

Alicia may have always been an athlete, but she’s had her own share of challenges along the way that seemed to be trying to prevent her from reaching her fitness goals. She never let it get the best of her and always picked herself up each and every time and kept going. First, she had a full ACL tear and ruptured her meniscus while fracturing the tibia at its plateau. She had multiple surgeries to repair, restore function and remove scar tissue. To this day she still don’t have full range of motion of her knee. The following spring she was on my way to coach her track team and was hit by a car while on her motorcycle, sending her flying off her bike, re-injuring the knee plus sustaining whiplash, back strain, road rash and sliced her hand which was caught in the street car tracks. Finally, as she was still going through physio for the motorcycle accident, she found out she had a migrating tumor that required 7 rounds of chemotherapy to resolve. Through all this, nothing stopped her and she even started a competition prep during the chemotherapy treatments! Alicia is proof that sometimes the journey can be challenging. There may be obstacles in your way but persevere, follow the plan, find a support system and be honest! Good things will happen and your consistency will pay off! Don’t give up and don’t let anyone or any circumstance bring you down. 

Alicia has over 10 years of practical and educational experience as a trainer and is a  published fitness content creator and model for various health and fitness products and magazines. She has also been featured in multiple health and fitness commercials.

In today's episode: 

- How Alicia has overcome incredible obstacles on her rise to the top

Connect with ALICIA: http://www.trainitright.com/

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Kelly Good studied at both the University of Michigan and Oakland University graduating in 2008 with a Bachelor’s Degree of Integrated Studies in Music, Dance and Theatre with an emphasis on Health and Wellness.  In 2009 Kelly moved from her hometown outside of Flint, Michigan to the windy city of Chicago, Illinois in pursuit of a career in the performing arts. After appearing in several local Chicago area theatre productions including Phantom of the Opera, Kelly shifted her focus to continue to teach performing arts as she did while attending college.  

She then decided to try her hand at natural fitness competitions while also earning NASM & AFAA group fitness and personal training instruction certifications.  Kelly quickly became a top performing instructor for popular a local Chicago gym for women, Flirty Girl Fitness, and simultaneously worked her way up the ranks to become a World Champion Pro Fitness Model.  In June 2017, Kelly required a bilateral foot surgery to correct genetic issues which were exacerbated by overuse in ballet and a fitness career. With both of her feet being surgically broken and corrected, Kelly was left with a painful restrictive 2 month recovery just to get back on her feet and walking again.  Despite this major setback she would still go on to be crowned the 2017 World Champion Pro Fitness Model with Ultimate Fitness Events (UFE) while competing against the top natural fitness competitors from around the world and was also awarded the first Miss Congeniality title by a popular vote among her fellow female athletes.

Kelly now also conducts private performing arts lessons for voice, acting and dance in addition to coaching clients in fitness, nutrition, posing, and stage presence.  Kelly strives to help other athletes who enjoy the competitive fitness sport develop their strategies and has already assisted several others on their journey to achieving their pro status as well.  She has found that there is a need within the competitive fitness sport to develop the performing arts aspect which involves helping competitors pose in ways that display and compliment the hard work they have put into sculpting their individual physiques.

Kelly has had numerous success stories in each area of her studies. Kelly’s lyrical opera student, Laura Bretan, was a Golden buzzer winner on America’s Got Talent in 2016. Laura started training with Kelly at the age of 8 years old, and worked with Kelly for two years prior to attending the show. Laura first won Romania’s Got Talent and then finished as a runner up for the grand prize on America’s Got Talent against Grace VanderWaal.  Kelly has overcome many personal struggles to which she feels has helped her overall success including an eating disorder, depression and a self-harm illness. She now works with other young women struggling through similar disorders, helping them better understand how to cope with these conditions, working on their relationship with food and improving their self-image. Kelly aims to continually educate herself and is an avid self-improvement buff.  She enjoys being able to actively teach others how to enjoy living in their own skin while working towards their goals in all areas of life all the while learning to love themselves unconditionally along the way!

In this week's episode...

• How to pull yourself out of challenging situations

CONNECT WITH KELLY:

INSTAGRAM: @kelly_s_good

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/kelly.s.good.9

https://www.kellygoodstudio.com/

Kristy Elizabeth, also known as tattooed_fitgirl on social media outlets, is a 37 year old Canadian police officier as well as a fitness professional holding 3 pro cards with Ultimate Fitness Events. She's the co-owner of Team Starr where she assists with training and posing clients. 

Kristy became passionate about fitness and nutrition in 2013 and it has now become a big part of her daily lifestyle. 

In today's episode:

• Managing the struggles of shift work

Connect with KRISTY on 

Ben “The Pak Man” Pakluski is an IFBB professional bodybuilder and champion from Toronto, Canada. He’s known by many as the most   successful bodybuilder to ever come out of Canada.

Growing up, Ben was very passionate about playing sports and being generally active. At 15 years old he started lifting weights and eventually became a gym rat – finding a professional trainer with the help of his father.After starting a degree in Kinesiology, Ben embarked on a bodybuilding career which would see him rapidly enter the professional ranks. He appeared at the Mr Olympia and won a number of IFBB competitions.

• Biggest mistakes people make when it comes to TRAINING

Connect with BEN: https://www.benpakulski.com/