Find Your Strong Podcast

Send us Fan Mail To celebrate the release of Jenn's first book - Eat to Thrive, we are re-releasing this impactful conversation with Jenn, which remains our most popular episode to date! What an episode.  I realised about 20 minutes of chatting to Jenn that I wanted to work with her so immediately signed up to her Midlife Feast Community . Dr Jenn Salib Huber is a Canadian registered dietitia...

Send us Fan Mail This was a feisty conversation. The conversation was inspired by an article from Mikala Jamison on Substack, entitled 'The Long Con of Pilates Culture.' This is by no means a takedown of Pilates as a movement modality. I (Christine) am a Pilates teacher myself and swear by its considerable benefits, however, I would not be inclined to direct a client to Pilates if they w...

Send us Fan Mail Bethany Rutter is an author and online personal trainer. She is the author of four books for young people and two books for adults. Her next novel is Ask Me Anything, out November 2025. It was a joy to speak with Bethany - so refreshing to hear how she has come to be chill with the body she is in and how she has come from hating PE at school to enjoying movement.  We talked about...

Send us Fan Mail Christine and I had a really honest conversation about body image disruptors and how we deal with them. Disclaimer: we don't have a 'one-size-fits-all' solution for you! But we are here to validate that they happen to almost everyone, that they suck, and that they can really knock you sideways. It's so hard to avoid comparing yourself to others, to avoid absorb...

Send us Fan Mail If social media were to be believed, everyone is on a diet.  No judgement here, believe me.  We live in a dieting culture - it is the air we breathe and the sea we swim in. But we are shrinking ourselves in more ways than one, at a time, where we need to take up space and stand up to the establishment, not cower under it. Alok Venom: "I belong firmly and irrevocably to me.  O...

Send us Fan Mail Alyssa Ages* is a force to be reckoned with.  Author, freelance journalist, crossfit athlete, marathon runner, strong woman competitor, and advocate for strength training and taking up space as a woman. Alyssa talks to us about how strength training, in particular, helped her regain trust and confidence in what her body could do.  She talks candidly about her struggles with infert...

Send us Fan Mail Ela and I have been excited about this episode for quite some time. Stefanie Michele * is a binge eating recovery coach as well as host of the very popular Life After Diets podcast with former guest Sarah Dosanjh. She has recently completed her training as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and now approaches her recovery coaching through this trauma-informed lens. Through our co...

Send us Fan Mail RE-RELEASE of one of my favourite ever interviews from March 2023. Only my 6th episode of the podcast before Ela joined me.❤️ Jill Angie is a trailblazer.  She is changing the conversation for fat women over 40 and for anyone who thinks they're too old or too slow. She is making huge waves in the running game and it was an absolute joy to share an hour with her. I am currentl...

Send us Fan Mail Skinny is back.  With a vengeance.  We're furious.  Listen, we are very much speaking from a position of privilege in terms of both being in straight-sized bodies, but approaching fitness and health through an anti-oppressive and inclusive lens, this is simply not good news. Eating disorders and disordered eating are very much on the rise, as is body dissatisfaction, and the...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I sat down to chat with the incredible Dr Jenn Huber as a guest on the Midlife Feast podcast.  At 49, I received an ADHD diagnosis after years of masking. In this episode I share how perimenopause brought long-overlooked symptoms into focus. Together, we unpack how midlife hormonal shifts can amplify ADHD traits and why rigid fitness plans rarely work for neurodiv...

Send us Fan Mail We recently had Sarah Dosanjh on the pod and as part of our prep had re-listened to several recent Life After Diets podcast.  An episode about boundaries - setting and keeping - really spoke to us, so we decided to do a deep dive. We are by no means experts and in this episode, we simply try to navigate recovery from perfectionism and learning to set appropriate personal relations...

Send us Fan Mail Michael Ulloa * is well known on social media for myth busting nutri- and fitness-bollocks - he gets posts every day from concerned followers that found yet another load of nonsense in their feed.  Moving from gym bro to myth busting was a gradual process for Michael, as was changing his own relationship to movement and nutrition. We had such a good conversation and talked about h...

Send us Fan Mail Oh wow - we had Sarah Dosanjh on the pod!!! And how lovely is she?  Sarah is a qualified and BACP-accredited psychotherapist specialising in binge eating — not just through training, but lived experience too. After over a decade of struggling with binge eating and bulimia, it was deep inner work that finally transformed her relationship with food. That journey now informs how she...

Send us Fan Mail (That's not how we actually feel by the way!) This is another solo/ duo episode where we shoot the sh*t and talk about all things body image, diet culture and embracing our 'here and now' bodies. Christine's husband asked her to join him on his 'HELL' run this Saturday and it got us thinking about how so many of us see exercise as a form of punishment...

Send us Fan Mail Have you heard of mindful eating? Maybe you struggle with the idea of eating a piece of chocolate 'mindfully' and perhaps it is even reminiscent of your dieting or disordered eating days, where you savoured each mouthful and ate as slowly as you could to try and convince yourself you were having 'enough' food. But as Ela tells us, mindfulness, mindful eating an...

Send us Fan Mail It's that time of year again... As the sun comes out, we are expected to neatly deal with the transition from winter to summer clothes - and our bodies are even more scrutinised than usual and critically assessed as to their suitability to wear bikinis as well as our skin-exposing summer wardrobes.  We had a very personal conversation about straight-size privilege, the issue...

Send us Fan Mail Creating an inclusive and safe space for everyone to explore movement and work out can be challenging - Trey Joseph took on that challenge and through his own experience of living in a marginalised body as a transgender man and learning how to coach from a trauma informed lens he is DOING JUST THAT! We had such a great conversation with Trey and chatted with him about - how he cam...

Send us Fan Mail You may have heard the term 'trauma-informed' and been drawn to it, but maybe aren't entirely sure what it means.  Maybe you struggle with group exercise as you just find the environment triggering or feel uncomfortable saying no to hands on assists.  Maybe you'd like to try more in-person classes but just don't feel safe. Maybe you're done with fitne...

Send us Fan Mail Ela was flying solo for this episode, speaking with the wonderful Milda Zolubaite, who is a Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and Disordered Eating Specialist. Having struggled with disordered eating and binge eating herself, Milda is passionate about helping people find a way to break the binge-restrict cycle.  In this episode we talked about  - Milda's story and h...

Send us Fan Mail Now there's a question!  Do you like yourself?  Ela and I would say we're both working on it and that's ok.  For me, leading with self-compassion has been the game changer.   So many of us engage in negative self talk and thankfully now we know about neural plasticity and the more we challenge these negative thoughts, the more resilience we build up against them. As...

Send us Fan Mail It's always humbling to speak to our amazing experts and our conversation with Dr Kamila Irvine was no exception! Whilst she is a very senior researcher and serious advocate for weight-inclusivity, she is also incredibly good fun to chat to and we could have gone on for much longer! We talked about: - how body image is susceptible to many influences - what are precipitating,...

Send us Fan Mail As Christine so aptly put it: What a powerhouse! Our conversation with Damali Fraiser was vulnerable, open and incredibly interesting.  We talked about: - how to navigate body changes as we age and as we adapt to hormonal changes and injury - Damali's journey of recovering from her hysterectomy - how to coach with a trauma informed and inclusive ethos - the importance of dism...

Send us Fan Mail Today we had the pleasure of welcoming Priya Tew* to the pod.  If you are in recovery from an eating disorder, have ever experienced disordered eating or just struggle to know what you should be eating, this episode is for you. Ela and I are confirmed anti-dieters but this chat reinforced for us the need for nuanced conversations. conversations that explore the messy middle. We le...

Send us Fan Mail This one was tough but I'm not one to shy away from hard topics of conversation. Ela and I spend our lives swimming upstream, and going against the grain in terms of our work with clients and the content we share with you. This is a raw one.  As soon as mum passed away, body image dissatisfaction peaked in me.  Although it seemed so frivolous given everything we as a family h...

Send us Fan Mail Ela was a guest on this fabulous podcast, hosted by Alex Pett. Alex kindly allowed us to share the episode with our listeners, as we think it might be relevant and interesting for you! Her details are below, check out her resilience coaching and the brilliant podcast! Here is some information about the episode: So many women gain weight around their middle during menopause and per...