Being Fuerte. It’s Time to Speak!

Listen to a great conversation with a fitness veteran in the Seattle Health and Fitness Industry with over 20+ years of experience training body builders, including yours truly (me), 17 years owning, running a business, and providing a gym for the community in the Capital Hill area. Also provides a space for trainers to run their own business. He is an entrepretur, gym owner, father, and cancer su...

Are you ready to be inspired? Shanti Garmin is a  mother of two, and now after changing careers,  an engineering PhD student who loves science and math! She has been a part of our community since 2015. She has gone from size 12 to a size 2 and is not only healthy but fit and strong. I’m excited to share this episode with you! She is such an inspiration to me and the Fuerte Community and I know you...

Have you ever felt like there is more to life than what we normally see and do? What is consciousness? Join me as I share about what I am learning in the chakra course I’m taking. Meet Sacred Soul Evolution founders, Candice Box and Nikyla Maria. Get information about our healing school here: https://soulevolution.kartra.com/page/sacredsoulembodiment Here are replay of both of our live open houses...

Listen to a great conversation amongst trainer friends. Manny “The Ak-47” Dunham is Seattles professional boxer. Specializing in metabolic training and outdoor bootcamps in the Fremont area.  And follow him @knockemoutfitness https://www.instagram.com/knockemoutfitness/ https://www.knockoutseattle.com also coaches at titleboxing.com and classes at seattle central college. Let us know if you have a...

Listen to the conversation about how some of us in the industry got started..Bert Sims and Sandy Grant and I have been in the industry for over 20 yrs. It was great to reconnect and reminisce on how we got our foot in the Health and Fitness industry. Both  have great knowledge and experience to share. Bert Sims, LMT, Functional Range Release Practioner and Functional Range Conditioning Mobility Sp...

Enjoy a conversation amongst friends from Boise State University. We speak about how being the first in our family to go to college, and the people that helped us navigate school. We all grow up as farmer workers, were children of farm workers and yet we managed a different world in higher education and we share lessons learned. We talk about why it is so important for us to serve, be advocate, an...

Today our topic is f ailure, mistakes, or learning experiences that either propel us forward or hold us back. If you had a hard time growing up in trauma or tough circumstances, this one is for you! I talk about my failures and lessons learned, some of the negative thinking I experienced young, and how I got help to move through it. I mention Pinkson Book again Shamanic Wisdom of the Huichol.  (I...

Listen to a conversation between Lina and me while we talk about setting new intentions for the year! Get inspired by hearing about situations we’ve been through where we learned from what worked for us in the past. Both challenges and wins of the past have helped us setting new goals, strive for better ways of being and continue to help us be better humans listening to our intuition.  Through tim...

Enjoy our conversation with my guests today while we talk about motivation, in higher education and higher Fitness Levels .  Both of my guests are inspiring- wives , mothers, entrepreneurs and educators . Lina Mendez is an Associate Director of ChicanX & Latinx Retention Initiatives at UC Davis . She holds a BA degree in education from New Mexico State, Masters from Harvard, and PhD from UC Da...

I’m so excited have you all listen to this conversation discussing our first right of passage amongst two friends, a childhood friend Lina and a member of my fitness family, Mishele. Our last episodes describes rites of passage in more detail. In t his episode WE Speak about the challenge and skills we developed in finding our own path! You’ll hear about our upbringing and how WE honed into our re...

Book reference is The shamanic wisdom of Huichol. Tom Soloway Pinkson PHD. Rite of passage is a ceremony or an event that mark an important stages of our life such as birth marriage and death. They are an event that is physically emotionally and mentally taxing that change our life. Life’s continual stages. Examples: leaving the house for first time, illnesses such as cancer and losing a parent a...

“ Fuerte ” means ‘strong’ in Spanish. Welcome to “Being Fuerte. It’s time to Speak” the Podcast. This a platform to talk about different topics and issues that affect our health and fitness. We will discuss upbringing, culture, beliefs, motivation, specifics on working out and many other topics. As well as, What gets in your way??  Health and well being doesn’t solely pertain to the physical body....

“ Fuerte ” means ‘strong’ in Spanish. Being Fuerte doesn’t solely pertain to the physical body. It’s about being strong in the mind, spirit, and soul. Hence we are going to exercise them all here. This is a platform is to t alk about the different topics and issues that affect our health and fitness . We will discuss upbringing, culture, beliefs, motivation, specifics on exercising and discussions...