FitMama

Hey Hey FitMama, I am back! This week's episode is a solo cast with me, Jen Oliver sharing what's been going on since our last episode aired over 3 years ago. It's been quite the ride! I share some of my personal journey, what I have been going through and where I am heading. I recap The Love FitMama Way book and what it means to me to be a FitMama. FitMama is a mindset. This episode shares some o...

This week's episode features someone who I know you will love! Our guest is Dr. Michelle Peris, ND! This amazing FitMama has 2 kiddos of her own and is changing the narrative for how we approach our health.    Dr. Michelle Peris is the founder of a women's community health initiative called  The Wild Collective . This community medicine initiative involves women coming together as sisters in self-...

This episode is loaded with nuggets of wisdom for women at all stages of motherhood and for those who don't have children but still have a vagina! Join Kate Roddy and I as we chat Vaginal Self-Care and all the mind-body aspects of taking care of your own vagina. Kate Roddy is a veteran orthopedic and pelvic floor physiotherapist and creator of The Kegel Release Curve . Kate is the mama to two of h...

Hi, Fit Mama our guest on the podcast episode is Dr. Katie Thomson Aitken, ND , author of Create Calm: The Professionals Guide to Overcoming Anxiety .   For Dr. Aitken , anxiety is not a fact but a response or reaction that occurs naturally to help and protect us. It should not be a permanent state, but a transient state. There are some things that people are anxious about that don't go away which...

Jenn Sadai is a Canadian author and advocate using her talents and life experiences to inspire and empower women.   Jenn discusses her book about self-love and body image entitled the Cottage Cheese Thighs . She shared her long struggles with body weight, eating disorders, and self-esteem. For her, the scale played too much factor in how she was living her life until she finally let go obsessing w...

Let's talk about sex FitMama! Get ready for this interview with one of my faves!   Alexa Martinez is a sex, love, and relationship by design coach and sex coach business mentor on a mission to reform sex education and sexuality expression across the globe. She helps liberate people when it comes to their sexual expression and helps them discover what their sexual desires are and achieve these and...

Kim Anami, a sex and relationship coach and vaginal weightlifter, discusses the true power of sex and the benefits that come with being A Well-Fu*ked Woman.   According to Kim, there is an epidemic of sexually unfulfilled females in modern times . These women express this as feelings of anger, frustration, depression, and behaviors like overeating.   Sex is the greatest resource for rejuvenation a...

Be prepared to get excited in this episode (I did!)   Today I talk about edging yourself towards orgasms and the many benefits to doing so. Not only the orgasm itself but also all the "foreplay" that can go into it, solo or with others. In this episode, I talk a lot about body image and some new ways to look at the things we see in the mirror. Some new thought patterns and habit patterns can take...

This episode with Marni Wasserman will inspire you and encourage you to dream big for your birth experience and stay the course when things aren't going according to plan. Marni takes us through her the end of her pregnancy and shares her home childbirth experience and the unexpected ways that things panned out just as she had hoped for.   It's natural for us as moms to give our power over to the...

Dr. Jordan Robertson had 3 miscarriages before she got was able to carry her first baby to full term and it was devastating, to say the least.   She saw countless others go through similar experiences and as she started learning more about miscarriage and hormones she got clarity and started finding solutions for herself and her patients. As a Naturopathic doctor and clinician who is focused on sy...

Episode 105: What's a Doula with Christa Ardelean   This week's episode will leave you feeling empowered about birthing. Pregnant women are consistently bombarded with fear messaging about the pain and suffering they are about to embark upon through labor, delivery, and raising children.   Christa Ardelean is a birth, sibling, and postpartum Doula and a childbirth educator. She is an advocate of e...

This week's packed episode features Jenn Pike, a Functional Nutritionist and Medical Exercise Specialist who shares with us her simplicity style wisdom, sharing with us how being healthy and fit does not have to be complicated.   Jenn shares the value of knowing what week of your cycle you're in and how you can modify your lifestyle and behaviors from week to week to support performance, health, a...

This episode will have you asking some good questions about how you really feel when you eat. Before, during, and after.   Dr. Kim Bretz, ND is a Naturopathic Doctor in Canada who is a passionate international public speaker and consultant on gastrointestinal health. As someone who knows the pain of "IBS" and irritable bowels, I know the pain one can go through when it feels like anything you eat...

Jummee Park, a spiritual feeder and medicine woman, shares the basics of what a chakra is and explains which colors are associated with each chakra. Root Chakra – Red Sacral Chakra – Orange Solar Plexus Chakra – Yellow Heart Chakra – Green Throat Chakra – Blue Third Eye Chakra – Purple Crown Chakra – Neutral   We dive deeply into this episode into the Root Chakra, the foundation, the all-important...

Our purpose, motivation, clarity, and direction in life are being confronted more than ever before during these unprecedented pandemic times. This week's guest, one of the women I admire most on this planet, Dr. Meghan Walker, talks to us about her personal motivations, how she's keeping her family healthy and ready for anything, her checklist of self-care behaviors that keep her grounded, as well...

Welcome to our 100th Episode!   In this episode, I invited my husband Chris on to have some open chats about the evolution of myself as Jen, wife, mother, and FitMama, particularly the last 15 years we've been together.   I thanked him publicly for his strength, support, and for always creating such safety and love in my life such that I could blossom and fulfill my purpose.   Chris is straightfor...

FitMama, this episode is steamy and eye-popping! Tune in to hear my shares from tantra and my suggestions for ways you can connect more deeply with yourself and your "person."   Safety is the key to pleasure IMO and I share all the details about why and how in this episode. My man has made me feel so safe and I am so grateful for him! We are wired as women to open up ONLY when we feel safe, let me...

This week's episode is interrupting normal content with THE focus of the times, the coronavirus and all things related. Lisa, a TCM practitioner shares her experience thinking she had the virus and was quarantined for 9 days. She has worked with thousands of patients over the last two decades and shares with us what she did when she thought she had it and what we can all do to prevent contracting...

What I learned at our Tantra Yoga Retreat Part 1of 2   Tantra is the art of conscious loving.   My husband and I recently went on a retreat weekend to learn this art in more detail and it was very sexy.   Being present was definitely one of the biggest takeaways and it seems so simple...yet is profound.   Today I dive right into howTantra really is about bringing a deeper, more present connection...

I am so grateful this week's guest, Chana Ross is joining me. She is a pelvic health physiotherapist, owner of Vital Physiotherapy. She is an inspiration when it comes to helping women with everything related to their pelvic health.   As we dive into the discussion about pain, incontinence, prolapse and other core happenings around pregnancy and postpartum, we will learn more what a Pelvic health...

This week I go really deep into a place I haven't been before with this intimate episode of what being a FitMama means to me right now.   Courage. Clarity. Confrontation.   And then diving in even deeper to see what's really going on.   What is the FEELING behind what your daily actions are about? What motivates you to skip the gym or go? What motivates you to say yes or no? What motivates you to...

This episode will give you a peek into the life and experience of Marni Wasserman with her current pregnancy, how she got to where she is now as a co-host to one of the most downloaded podcasts in the health space.   Marni is a Real Food and Real Life Nutritionist and Podcast Co-Host of The Ultimate Health Podcast . Her life is rooted in healthy eating and healthy living. She is also the author of...

  In this week's episode, I tackle common questions I get when it comes to fasting.     Who is it for and who isn't it for?     How do you do it?     What is intermittent fasting?   I talk about this and more around self-experimentation and practicing the practice of fasting that our bodies as humans were designed for.     Find it hard to fast even 12 hours overnight?   It might mean something abo...

This episode will have you feeling excited to live more courageously FitMama!   I Interview Maggie and we get into the details of living a courageous life.   Maggie is the mother of two boys and she shares her story with us in this episode. Maggie helps people live courageously through her Empowerment Sessions as well as her Personal Wellness Journal .   We talk about how her son was tested for AS...

Daily Routines for the 2020 WIN   Hey FitMama as we embark on a new decade we can look back and see that the last one flew by and so much happened! I jump into all these clichés and New Year's Resolution talk in this episode and give you a focus around ROUTINES. My TWO Day Goal Getting sheet sets you up for success and I recommend creating a DAILY ROUTINE that you are excited about. I talk about w...