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This week I'm chatting with Rachelle Robinett, plant-based wellness practitioner and owner of Supernatural - an herbal cafe and shop in NYC.  Rachelle has studied the relationship between plants and people with healers and shaman in North, Central, and South America and is Certified in Complementary and Integrative Health. Her work combines holistic & natural medicine with practical habit-building to help her clients find balanced, lasting health. She also has developed a product line of plant-based remedies, frequently gives workshops around NYC & Brooklyn, and is available for private health coaching (in NYC or remote). Rachelle is my personal go-to gal for when I need a health tune-up.

This week I'm chatting with Body Positive Activist, Melissa Gibson (Melly). Melly seeks to engage with and cultivate conversations in the Body Positive Community addressing issues of body oppression and marginalization. She's a Juris doctorate candidate, holds an Masters degree in Women and Gender Studies and her research has focused primarily on Body Positivity, Body Politics, and Fat Studies. Melly uses her social media presence to foster conversations about marginalized bodies that hopefully get people questioning assumptions made about their own bodies and well as the bodies of others.

In this episode we talk about how finding the Body Positive movement changed her life, about being the person you want to be and not the person others want you to be, the true origin of the body positive movement (and how the movement has been co-opted), her fascinating Masters Thesis research, and our responsibility to hold ourselves to a higher standard if we say we're an ally to marginalized people.

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This week I'm chatting with uber talented and successful artist, Caris Reid (she's my favorite artist!). Caris paints women in poses of disquieting power. Her female figures often make eye contact with the viewer, and there is confidence, directness — even confrontation — in this gaze. The figures are surrounded by and overlaid with an array of repeating symbols that further reinforce their strength. It's POWERFUL. Her work hits viewers on both a conscious and subconscious level and the inclusion of symbols and sigils, both common and esoteric, adds layers of meaning and mystery to the work. Caris is interested in creating images of women whose power is communicated through a body language and symbology that connotes their emotional and spiritual depth. Her work aims to make visible the internal worlds of the female figures she depicts.

In this episode we talk about what it's like to be an artist-entrepreneur, the feminine archetypes in her paintings, the practicality of buying art, being a woman in the male-dominated art world, the meditative aspects behind her painting practice and giving one's self permission to do art and fully expressing yourself however you choose. It's a delicious convo you don't want to miss.

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“Grace and Grit” mural in Downtown L.A. On W. 6th between Hope and Flower Street

Photo of Caris by Graham Walzer

This week I'm chatting with Molly Galbraith. Molly Galbraith is a certified strength & conditioning coach and co-founder/owner of Girls Gone Strong - a community that has grown to over half a million women from 70 countries. Girl Gone Strong preaches the gospel of strength training to women and developed the world’s FIRST evidence-based, body-positive, interdisciplinary, women-specific certifications for health & fitness pros. After years of personal struggle with her own body image and self-worth, Molly has committed to helping women embrace their bodies and fall in love with themselves.

In this episode we talk about self-care while living a location independent lifestyle, breaking the internet with a bikini pic and how she learned to detach herself from good or bad comments, the growth of the Girls Gone Strong community and evidence-based coaching academy, as well as GGS's mission to empower every woman to feel safe, comfortable and strong in her body. We go DEEP. So, get comfy friends!

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Molly on IG

GGS Coaching & Training Women Academy

Girls Gone Strong

GGS on Facebook

This week we're talking to Chrissy King. 

Chrissy King is strength and nutrition coach, powerlifter, self-proclaimed truth teller, and writer with a passion for intersectional fitness. She empowers women to stop shrinking, start taking up space, and use their energy to create their specific magic in the world. When she’s not serving her clients by empowering them to create stress-free and sustainable lifestyles and feel confident and empowered in their skin, she spends her time reading, traveling, and hanging with friends and family.

In this episode we talk about our mutual love for doughnuts, defying traditional standards of beauty, why fitness/wellness professional's role goes far beyond exercise & nutrition and her passion for helping women take up space in the world and let go of narratives that no longer serve them. It gets JUICY!

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Chrissy King

Chrissy's FREE Fat-loss toolkit

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Smart Fit Girls  

This week we're talking to Jessica Murnane. Jessica is the creator of the One Part Plant movement & author of the One Part Cookbook (an initiative to get everyone on this planet to start eating one plant-based meal each day), host of the One Part Podcast (where she brings tough questions to inspiring people), and founder of Know Your Endo (an endometriosis education and awareness platform).
Jessica has contributed to and appeared in magazines and websites that include Bon Appétit, Goop, Shape Magazine, The Kitchn, Mind Body Green, The Coveteur, Food52, and PopSugar. And has spoken at Apple, Taste Talks, Seed Food + Wine, Good Fest, and Wanderlust.

In this episode we talk about getting in at least one plant-based meal a day, advocating for your health and Jess's new platform - Know Your Endo (KYE). 1 in 10 women have endometriosis. Many don't know they have it and most are misdiagnosed or given the wrong info. KYE provides education, awareness, and support for those living with endometriosis.

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Jessica Murnane

One Part Plant Cookbook

One Part Podcast

Know Your Endo

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