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This week Mego and Caitlin dive into the topic of stress. We know, we know, this is a fitness podcast! But have you ever been so stressed out that you skip your workouts, or your meals, or overeat, or you just find yourself sick? Or have you ever channeled your stress into extreme fitness routines or dieting?
We get real about how productivity and stress culture make us sick and disrupt our relationships with food and exercise, and how we have personally struggled with stress in the past and recently (ummmm ongoing global pandemic anyone?)

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This week's episode is all about eggs, eggs, and more eggs. Or actually... less eggs? Mego made the decision to freeze some of her eggs and wants to share everything she learned about the experience with any woman who has ever had anxiety about when, if, or how they were going to make babies. Which probably means every woman ever. They talk about everything they didn't know about their own bodies, the weird pressures women face around fertility, and how this pandemic is driving a huge uptick in egg freezing in general.

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Megan Meadows and Caitlin Steitzer are back to help you work out whatever the eff you need to be working out right now! It's been a long time and a wild year and a lot has changed for Mego and Caitlin. They talk about how the pandemic has really complicated and messed up their relationship to their bodies, and what they have been doing to manage. They talk about seeing a nutritionist, tease a Peloton hack, discuss how to navigate loving gluten when your body hates it, and ask you, the listeners, what types of episodes you'd like to see in the future.

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Hey guys! We have a deeper dive into this phrase we love to throw around a lot- 'body positive' And while we have been hearing it a lot more recently, we've also been getting a lot of mixed messages- can you be body positive and pro-weight loss? How do other issues of privilege and oppression play into this? Mego and Caitlin explore all these questions and MORE.

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We have a real treat for y'all! Marie Cecile Anderson (Difficult Women Podcast, Reformed Whores) is here to tell us about her favorite church- The Church of Carl! We talk about the terrible self-esteem trap that is working in entertainment, how Marie was way sporty growing up, and how she found her fitness "church" that she is still a dedicated member of. Learn more about this delightful human at https://www.mariececileanderson.com/

It was a real joy for us, and we hope it is for you too!

Sound Editing by Diego Martinez

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Hey listeners welcome back!

Are you (like us) finding a real need to punch some things right about now? They say there are five stages of grief, and we are figuring out that we are in the ANGER stage right now. Your girls gotta go off on everything that's setting us off....

What makes YOU angry right now? (I mean, besides.... everything?)

Episode produced by Megan Meadows and Caitlin Steitzer, Edited by Diego Martinez


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What do you do with a cancer diagnosis amidst the end of a marriage? This week's guest, Chemda from Keith and The Girl, not only kept going, she discovered an entire mindfulness regimen to help others. Research and self-healing led her to develop her OMAT program (One Minute At a Time) to help break through negative habits and feelings. We tried it for a week and loved it.

Learn how to hack your brain, the power of letting go, and how to embrace the 'corny' part of getting better.

For more info on Chemda and Keith and The Girl: http://www.keithandthegirl.com/

To sign up for the OMAT Club: https://store.keithandthegirl.com/products/omat-club

Episode edited by Diego Martinez


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Well, it's week 3,426 of this global and Mego and Caitlin are still surviving it. We talk about what we're trying to stay alive right now, how messed up health insurance is in this country, and a COOL CONTEST YOU CAN STILL ENTER!

Go to our Instagram and 1. Follow us at @workitoutpodcast 2. tag a friend and you are entered to win a $25 gift card to GIRLFRIEND COLLECTIVE.

We'll be announcing the winner soon!


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We have the lovely comedian, story-teller, and stop-motion animator (!!!) Angel Yau with us today. Angel is a self-described shy person who great up in Queens, NY. We talk about her fitness journey (which includes a lot of us just being really excited that she took up fencing because of a crush), and how depression gets in the way of so many things - in this case, maybe getting on that dang Peloton Bike?

Check out some of her animation videos and other work here:
www.angelyau.com
on You Tube at Angeleristic




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Hey Workies! We have the lovely Alexandra Pinel coming at ya' in this week's episode! Ali has been hosting her 'Class For A Cause' in quarantine for over 10 weeks and Mego and Caitlin got to sit in. The format is from AKT, but the spirit of the class is all about building community and supporting progressive causes- you donate money to a black-supporting organization as your 'class fee.' We get into how to be true to yourself and your beliefs in this wild world, and what it's ACTUALLY like growing up in France.

If you wanna learn more about Ali check out her website: https://www.alexandrapinel.com/ or hit her up on Instagram (you can DM her to sign up for her class too!) @alexandrapinel

Show produced by Megan Meadows and Caitlin Steitzer; Sound editing by Diego Martinez.

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