Fuel Your Strength

Holding tight to your values when life gets hard can help you stay calm through a storm. Today's guest, Abby Corriveau , has been through a lot over the past couple of years. Her dedication to creating community, holding tight her values, and practicing gratitude has had a tremendous impact on her life. Community, Values & Gratitude Abby is a strength and sustainable movement coach who's life was...

  Okay time for some real talks. Mentally beating yourself up, talking shit to yourself, and using negative motivation are not long-term, sustainable, kind solutions to making change in your life. Practicing self-compassion – the awareness and attempts to soothe your own pain – is so incredibly important. And yes, when you're used to using the former strategy to prompt change, self-compassion can...

Cassy Joy wants to make putting a healthy, budget-friendly meal on the table as simple as possible. With experience throwing herself into different diets that never quite seemed to work, Cassy Joy started to sift through the noise of diet culture and realized there wasn't much out there that made sense for her. Feeding Yourself With Food, Nutrition, & Happiness While pregnant with her daughter, Ca...

There's nothing worse than getting to the end of your work day feeling utterly exhausted and like your brain is a pile of mush but also feeling like you have nothing to show for it. In the wellness space, there's a lot of chat around sleep and why it's so important. Yet, rarely do I see folks talking about how what you do during the other 16 hours of your day can affect how you feel. In this episo...

After a whirlwind career in publishing and marketing, Ashleigh Van Houten managed to combine her passion and persistence into a job that she loves. A writer for Paleo Magazine , two-time podcast host and strength trainer, Ashleigh knows the power of perseverance and is here to help you develop your skills so that you can make the best out of any situation. Love Of Learning & Confidence Building As...

MOTIVATION IS CHEAP. Yep, that's right, I said it. Motivation can be so fleeting. How often have you had plans to cook dinner or get that workout in but you throw your hands up to the sky and get frustrated about why motivation seems to be eluding you? (And then you get mad and blame yourself for being weak-willed, undisciplined, or plain ol' bad. Not helpful.) In this episode, I'm dishing on five...

Jason Williams believes that nutrition and fitness should not be something that you stress about. Instead, Jason works to integrate practices like meditation and yoga into his personal training to help his clients realize the power of embracing a modality of approaches to your fitness regime. True Mind-Body Connection Getting fit is not always about lifting weights or moving at a high intensity. J...

There's a really specific reason that I decided the subtitle of my new book, The Core 4 couldn't be, "Love Your Body, Own Your Power." It has to do with how we put self-love on a pedestal as the be-all, end-all way to approach personal growth and transformation in the wellbeing space. While I think most people who encourage you to "love your body" mean well, if you're in the depths of really negat...

What do you know about tonic herbalism, medicinal mushrooms and the role herbs and naturopathy can play in your life? If the answer is not much, Mason Taylor is here to correct that and introduce you to the benefits of tonic herbs. The owner and founder of SuperFeast , an Australian based tonic herbalism company, Mason is passionate about using herbs to increase your flow of Chi and connect you wi...

It's pub week, and The Core 4 , my newest book, is out in the world! To celebrate, I'm taking you on a deep dive inside the book and walking you through a virtual tour. This book deals with health but it's not the same as other diet, weight loss, and fitness books. In fact, it's not a weight loss book at all. Rather it's about helping you find sustainable habits that work with your life in the fou...

Today is the day, The Core 4 is officially on the shelves of your local bookstore or favorite online retailer. I am so excited about the release of my new book that I have invited my husband Z to join us today to discuss the highs and lows of writing a book, examining the programs found in The Core 4 Book and have a look to the past and the future about what is coming next. Embracing What Works Wr...

Injured and faced with taking time off the gym? Have a surgery coming up and you're required to step away from your usual movement routine? Not gonna lie: it can be a massive mindfuck. Thoughts about losing all your gains and having to start from scratch are common. The desire to rush back into it before you're ready, real. And what are you supposed to do with all this extra free time? If you're l...

As adults, we often pick and nag at the things we don't like about our bodies. This can translate into your child's vocabulary of how they talk about their own body and can create issues around food and body confidence.  Tools To Battle Body Negativity After early traumatic messages and social media sent Dana Suchow into an unhealthy lifestyle filled with eating disorders and unhealthy habits, Dan...

If you're thinking about nutrition or fitness (or both), it's usually a given that you're thinking about goals. You've probably heard that you won't achieve anything without having goals, so you make up something vague like and plow forward. Inevitably, you get frustrated by not reaching the goal fast enough and quit. Sound familiar? If so, this chat is for you. In this episode, I'm digging into t...

After striving to become perfect, Pat Flynn realized that it is okay to be average. More than that, he realized the potential of becoming good to great, or at least fairly competent, at many different things could have a positive effect on your life. With his new book, How to be Better at Almost Everything , Pat is taking his principles of Generalism to the masses and is here today to help you app...

In theory, you'll spend about 1/3 of your life asleep. It's how humans recharge physically and psychologically. Yet in busy, modern life, sleep is often treated like a negotiable, something put last on the agenda, and as having less value than exercise when it comes to improving how you feel. Tricky indeed and full of nuance.  In this episode, I'm diving into sleep a bit more from the "here's what...

After working herself to the bone in the fitness space, Jill Coleman started creating content for the internet in 2010. Since then her online persona has exploded and she is one of the leaders creating fitness programs and health information for people through her website. Now Jill works to empower clients as well as health and fitness entrepreneurs to lead with purpose and find positivity in the...

Community. Connection. Me to we. Taking time to center ourselves. I just got back from a beautiful long weekend at mindbodygreen's revitalize weekend in the Arizona desert where I learned from teachers, speakers, and healers committed to conscious connection and leadership. I consider myself quite lucky to have had this experience, and it comes at a time in my business and life when I feel very mu...

After falling captive to the scale and macro-nutrient counting, Shanique Allen said enough is enough and decided to change her lifestyle for one that was healthy, but not restrictive. Through this change in mindset and nutrition, Shanique has stopped letting food control her and now works with her clients to promote being kind to your body while still fueling yourself with healthy decisions. Live...

All-or-nothing thinking is not helpful when it comes to how you approach eating. Talk of "falling off the wagon" is extremely common and serves to keep you stuck in a loop of white-knuckle "compliance" (yuck) followed by periods of fuck-it-all eating, guilt, and shame. If you keep coming back to this way of thinking, start by asking yourself if it's actually helping you find better health and more...

I invite you to welcome back my real life friends Kristin Kaschak and Taylor Gage as we dive into a thought-provoking, curse-filled discussion about everything fitness. Fellow business owners, Kristin and Taylor are here to share strong opinions about everything from CrossFit to diet and nutrition and the ever ominous scale. Value Sustainable Health If you are looking for an episode that makes you...

I've dabbled with this topic before in other podcast episodes about the scale and diet culture, but I haven't taken on BMI as a separate topic until now. A recent routine doctor's appointment had me reeling from an offhand BMI comment. It brought up a lot for me, and had I not been mentally stronger, it could have pushed me back into disordered eating and exercise behaviors. In this episode, I'm r...

Instead of focusing on the latest diet or exercise fad, Laura Schoenfeld wants you to figure out what works best for your body. A registered dietitian and placeholder of the most downloaded Harder To Kill episode to date , Laura is back for round two to take her nutrition expertise in a new and exciting direction. Food, Fitness, & Faith Believe it or not, but being malnourished in the fitness spac...

  Whatever you call it, exercise/fitness/movement has so many proven benefits for your body and mind that it can be hard to accept that sometimes, more is definitely not more. If you're like many people I work with, you're afraid that taking it down a notch means you're lazy, you're a failure, and you'll automatically gain 20 pounds. And that's total BS you've been lead to believe. In this episode...

At 40 years of age, Jennifer Schreckengost left behind her stable career, health insurance and the guarantee of many things to start living a life that she loved instead. Jennifer started a food blog, Wanderlust and Wellness , focused around promoting nut-free and paleo options, eventually switching to a more well-rounded version of nut-free, dairy-free and gluten-free. Since taking the leap Jenni...