Confessions of a Bikini Pro

Today I speak with Australian IFBB Pro Stephanie Hing. She recently spent 7 years living and working in Los Angeles, but is now back at home in Sydney, Australia. She competed in 2 regional and 3 National shows before getting her pro card in 2020. She works full time as a Senior Product designer. Stephanie talks about the mental barriers she experienced during her first and only national season wh...

Today I speak with IFBB Pro Lynsie Hice who turned Pro in July 2021 after competing in 7 Regional shows and 3 National shows. She lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas and is a currently the lead expeditor for all NPC Oklahoma bodybuilding shows. Alongside her partner, she coaches other women and men to reach their goals of stepping on the bodybuilding stage. She is full time fitness professional and he...

Today I speak with Adam Bonilla of Team Elite Physique. Today we are talking about a VERY special event! We are hosting an event at the Contest Prep Center during the Olympia! We discuss the week-long calendar of events planned at the Contest Prep Center for the Olympia and the Build More than Just a Body event! Adam talks about how he has tried to make the Contest Prep Center an open and welcomin...

Today I speak with IFBB Pro Taryn Flanagan, a 27-year-old from Canada who won her Pro card in 2020 at the Amateur Olympia. She has been competing since 2018 and is the posing coach for Team Elite Physique and her company, Pose with a Pro. Taryn tells us about turning Pro and the changes she wants to make to her physique to compete in the Pro League. We talk about how food affects how you feel and...

Today I speak with IFBB Pro Karen Wall. She's 42 years old and currently live in Victoria, BC, Canada with her partner in everything,   Andrew Kersten. Who is also a bodybuilder, coach and business owner! She started competing in 2019 and turned Pro in 2021 at the Natural Canada Pro Qualifier. She then placed 4th in her Pro debut at the Toronto Pro Supershow in December 2021 and has since won two...

Today I speak with IFBB Pro Jordan Brannon. She graduated from University of South Florida in 2014 with her Bachelors degree in Exercise Science. There she met her husband Drew. After graduation, they opened up their own gym called Pinellas Ultimate Strength House in Largo, Florida. Drew and Jordan were introduced to the bodybuilding world through a mutual friend. Jordan prepped for her first show...

CONFESSIONS OF A BIKINI PRO PODCAST MILESTONE! 1 MILLION DOWNLOADS THANK YOU! To celebrate… there will be a LIVE party/ meet & greet next February in AZ where I hope to have guests from the show come to set up a meet n greet table, host panels & discussions, live podcasts, & lots of connecting & fun This podcast has brought so many of us in the community together & shows us how deep this journey r...

Today I speak with IFBB Pro Huong Mai, a dental hygienist and a single mom of two young kids. She recently developed an interest in bikini competition after being under Team Atlas' guidance for lifestyle coaching. She's always used exercise as an outlet since her husband passed away 7 years ago. This is her first year as a competitor and she's been loving this journey so far! Although, she recentl...

Today I speak with IFBB Pro Jackie Cheney,   AKA "Jackie Legs". She has competed for about 7 years total, but started really pushing it the last 2 years. She did 5 national shows and placed top 2 three times before she got my pro card at Universe in 2021. She went on to her pro debut and got 6th place, and but then went to Mile High and got last callouts, which now fuels her to bring her very best...

Today I speak with IFBB Pro Meg DGinto, a 24-year-old online lifestyle coach who also competes for fun! She has always been active and in sports growing up so having fitness as a huge aspect of her life. She thrives on helping people find that balance between enjoying life and still reaching their goals. She credits bodybuilding for helping her build a positive relationship with fitness and food i...

Today I speak with IFBB Pro Nicole Tan, who is from Australia but was born in Singapore. She works as a personal trainer and online coach. She competed in 11 shows before turning pro at the Arnold classic in 2019. She was set to do her pro debut in 2020 but it was cancelled a week out. After that, she tried many times to prep and compete but shows kept getting cancelled and the Australian borders...

Today I speak with IFBB Pro Jessica Miller. Born and raised in Palm Harbor, Florida, she is a fit mom of 2 little princesses. She started competing in 2016 and earned her Pro card at the 2021 Jr. USA Championships. She loves helping people reach their health & fitness goals and aims to get to the Olympia stage one day. Jessica talks about her childhood and how her father passed away from cancer, w...

Today I speak with IFBB Pro Erin Dennis, who was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio and went to Ohio State for Mechanical Engineering. She then moved to North Carolina to work for Goodyear, where she design tires. She started competing in 2018 and turned Pro at the 2019 National Championships. She has since competed in 7 IFBB Pro shows. Erin openly talks about her experiences changes coaches and...

Today I speak with IFBB Pro Ashley Duncan. She is a nurse, adjunct college nursing instructor, online competition/lifestyle coach, in-person personal trainer. She has worked with high school athletics and had 5 daughters between her and her husband. She is currently an athlete under Team Atlas. She talks about having daughters and maintaining their self-image while competing while showing them str...

Today I speak with IFBB Pro Janean Priest, a 60 years old who was introduced to bodybuilding 3 1/2 years ago! She is a RN, BSN and had 3 beautiful and amazing children, 2 of them are twins. She has been married for 35 years. Before she found bodybuilding, she was a long distance runner and never stepped foot into a gym. She met her coach's wife and owner of the gym she trains at a health fair who...

Today I speak with IFBB Pro Alecia Verrone, who started competing in 2018 and turned Pro in 2020 while being a single mom and working a hectic job in the cardiac Cath lab. She ran track and played basketball in high school but was always intimidated by lifting weights at the gym because she felt like she didn't know what she was doing. When she started to put on muscle and get leaner, she eventual...

Today I speak with IFBB Pro Milene Lingiardi, a full time civil engineer who works with renewable energy and recently had her pro debut at Golden State Pro in Sacramento, CA. Originally from Brazil, she started lifting in her first year of college in 2009, and went into her first bodybuilding competition in the end of 2019. She started following a plant-based diet in January of 2021 after watching...

Today I speak with Isamar Hansen, an IFBB Pro originally from Venezuela. Since she was a little, she always liked to strive for bringing her best at everything she committed to do, big or small. Two days after getting her Green Card, she enlisted in the US Army and is now working towards becoming a second lieutenant. She has a Bachelor degree in petroleum engineering and is working towards her MBA...

Today I speak with Brooke Petry, an IFBB Pro Bikini athlete, wife, and mom of 3 daughters, who currently lives northwest of Chicago. She earned her B.S. in Retail/Fashion Merchandising from Bradley University, and worked in the world of corporate buying for 5 years before she decided to be a stay home mom. She started bodybuilding in 2017, at age 36. Body building has given Brooke the tools and mo...

Today I speak with Karen Yuen, one of the 6 IFBB bikini pros from Hong Kong. She turned pro in 2019 at her 5th NPC show. Due to covid travel restrictions i did not compete in 2020. In 2021, she had her Pro Debut in USA , despite 21 days hotel quarantine after she returned home. She placed 5th among Olympians at both shows - San Antonio Pro & Minneapolis Pro. Outside of competition, She is a gym ow...

Today I speak with IFBB Pro Mignon Williams, who is a native of New Orleans, LA and currently lives in Atlanta, GA. Mignon is a finance professional and entrepreneur as the owner of Untaxed Confidential, a full service tax and accounting firm where she educates clients on ways to save money in taxes and make smart financial decisions for the future. She is a FitBody Fusion Athlete coached by Jamie...

Today I speak with IFBB Pro Laura Tarbell who did her first prep in the spring of 2007 for seven short weeks and won my bikini pro card with the WNSO. Six weeks later, she placed third at the Pro World Championships. She immediately loved competing because it felt like the perfect combination of the two things she loved most growing up, sports and stage performance. She played basketball and studi...

Today, I speak with Lithuanian IFBB Pro Laura Stalinkeviciute, a fitness coach who works with women online, design training programs, meal plans. She shares her own journey, workouts, and tips on Instagram in hopes to inspire and help more girls along the way. She used to compete in IFBB Elite, but in 2021 switched to NPC and won her pro card at her first show! She has her own Fitness Clothing bra...

Today, I speak with IFBB Pro Louisa Burke. She was born and raised in Munich, Germany where she received a degree in Interaction design. She moved to the US 5 years ago to be with her now husband. She started her fitness Instagram to share her journey and inspire others while she was waiting on her work permit. She now works full time as Product designer for LinkedIn and works on her fitness on th...

Today, I speak with IFBB Pro Elenoa McCabe who goes by Noa. By day she is a data steward for a large agricultural company, but her true passion lies in competing and being part of the fitness industry! She currently lives in Colorado where she loves to hike, ski, and go on road trips with her boyfriend and their puppers. She also has a fitness podcast called The Gym-ish Pod and she is an online co...