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Sometimes your hardest battles in life are your greatest breakthroughs. Today's episode I am blessed to have my dearest friend Tamara Meyer open her heart and share her story with us. Tamara is a true representation of creating a life on her terms and pursuing whats set within her heart to create a life where she is thriving within her calling. In this episode Tam opens up about her diagnosis during her bodybuilding competition prep and how she navigated through her triggers and overwhelming emotions which took her to a new level of growth.

In this episode we will discuss the following topics:

1. Where Tamara's competitive edge all began
2. Starting a Dancing career at the age of 3 years old
3. The pressures of being a professional dancer and suffering from Depression and Anxiety 
4. Prescription medication addiction and breaking habits
5. From dancer to Bodybuilding Bikini-Fitness Diva
6. Being diagnosed with PTSD during a competition preparation
7. Asking for help when you need it
8. Understanding triggers and finding coping mechanisms to navigate through mini breakdowns  
9. Showing up authentically on social media 
10. Using social media to encourage others to speak out
11. "It's so much better to be real than pretend you're positive"
12. Why finding something to work on after a show is imperative for continuous growth and success in the fitness industry and as a competitor

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In this episode we are blessed to have Sami Rose - the @samirosefitness on Instagram! I've personally known Sami for almost 3 years now - once upon a time we shared the IFBB stage together. Sami since then has built a highly successful online coaching business She works with women all across the world not just on training and nutrition, but on mindset, relationships with food, and living their healthiest, happiest and most confident life. Sami is a representation of a balanced living advocate.

In this interview Sami shares with us her peaks and lows in the fitness industry and how she has had to navigate through rebranding herself as an influencer.

In this episode we will discuss the following topics:

1. Burn out after competing

2. Social media pressures as a "fitness influencer"

3. Developing an unhealthy relationship with food and learning how to eat like a normal person

4. Seeking help when you need it

5. The fear of showing up on social media 

6. Using positive affirmation and self-love practises to overcome a negative mindset

7. How your goal weight won't make you happy

8. How your internal self  is more important than the external 

9. Sami's advice for anyone thinking of competing in a Bodybuilding competition

10. Don't make sacrifices that tarnish your happiness and health 

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Today I have with me an absolute inspiring and extremely knowledgeable man whom refers to himself as a Relationship Alchemist-  he has spoken incredibly deep words into my life and flows his wisdom and teachings into thousands of lives which is creating waves of transformational growth, self worth and self being.

Stefanos Sifandos facilitates transformational growth through neuro-empowerment practices, an integration of spiritual praxis and western psychology to improve and enhance the quality of your relationships. Stefanos believes that intimate relationships and sacredness in union is a direct path to enlightenment and freedom.

Immersed in deep men’s empowerment work and intimate relationships, Stefanos merges the best of eastern and western methodologies and philosophies to promote balance, sacredness and joy in life. Using integrative techniques and methods, Stefanos has created programs and systems to enhance the quality of your life, your intimate relationship and in essence bring you closer to your potential.

In this episode we will discuss the following topics:

1. How stefanos came to be where he is now
2. The turning point of self-awareness
3. Tools and methods you can apply to your life for transformational growth
4. How to heal from your childhood and past experiences
5. What does it mean to be in a conscious and unconscious relationship
6. Understanding and embodying difficulty and challenges that arise from relationships which allow us to grow together
7. Attracting the right partner and how to have those tough conversations before entering into a relationship
8. What to look for in a man that is in alignment with you and how to ask the right questions that goes deeper than the superficial
9. Why people struggle to go into an intimate relationship because they fear vulnerability and rejection
10. How would an independent woman create the space for a man to grow with her
11. If your man isn't in alignment with you how do you overcome this issue
12. Get clear on what you want from man, how you want to be treated
13. Understand who you are and who you want to be in this world
14. How to get through difficult times in marriage when your becoming distant
15. How important communication is
16. Understanding your healthy boundaries and non-negotiables  

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Today we have one of Australia's leading fitness influencers with me today- Holly Vogt. She is an absolute dream chaser and life creator. Holly shares with us how she fought to reclaim her life as she suffered with rheumatoid arthritis then became who she is in the fitness industry whilst building successful businesses.

Holly is a registered pharmacist, certified personal trainer, online coach and healthy café owner. She lives and breathes all things health, fitness and wellness and her main goal is to initiate positive change in the lives of women through sustainable and evidence-based approaches to nutrition and training. Holly is extremely passionate about helping women to improve their relationship with food as well as their body image and self-confidence, while creating a balanced lifestyle.

Today we cover the following topics:

1. Run your own race
2. Taking the leap for happiness
3. Building your brand and profile as an influencer and fitness coach
4. Influencing with integrity
5. How to go about changing your life with evidence based practise
6. Optimizing health over aesthetics
7. Improving your mindset in order to overcome depression and anxiety
8. Weight training to recover and prevent rheumatoid arthritis  
9. The internal drive to achieve more
10. Do what you can with the best you have
11. Creating a space of growth and doing things that make you uncomfortable
12. If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you
13. Keeping up with social media
14. Staying authentic within in the fitness industry
15. Being a positive role model on social media

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Jenna Louise is a Multi-Sport & Performance Athlete, she likes to refer to her style of training as Hybrid due to cross over of many different disciplines & methodologies.

As a Fitness Expert, Master Trainer, Nutrition Coach, Athlete, Ambassador and Founder of The Jenna Louise brand, Jenna's aim is to help people find ways to challenge themselves daily to help boost their health, confidence, well-being, self-worth, knowledge and values.

Jenna brings a whole new level of mindset and performance training to the fitness industry that is making HUGE waves within peoples lives as she completely changes their perceptions on what health and fitness means.

In this episode we will learn about:

1. Expanding yourself in the gym and learning new types of movements & training

2. Finding your why

3. Hitting goals, self-development & progression

4. Why do something that you hate on the daily when you could be doing something that you love

5. Doing what you're passionate about to change lives

6. The "AH-HA" moment in life

7. You need to do what's in your heart

8. Breaking down peoples limiting beliefs and fear in themselves

9. You should prescribe yourself a workout that you think you can breeze through, prescribe yourself a workout that brings up challenging head talk 

10. Focusing on performance rather than aesthetics

11. Keeping up with training 

12. How to allow yourself a space of growth

13. Overcoming bulimia and loving yourself

13. Being comfortable in your own skin and how it looks different on everyone

14. The pressure we feel from social media and not letting it get to us

15. Being aware of what we allow into our lives especially on social media

16. Finding what works best for you- it looks different on every person