Fitness Reborn with Seann

My guest this week is Brent Dowlen. Brent is a men's personal development coach, speaker, event coordinator, husband, father to two daughters, and host of the podcast, The Fallible Man. A preacher's kid and a former youth minister, Brent began The Fallible Man project out of a need for positive male role models and positive representations of masculinity.  Brent is also hosts the annual...

My guest this week is Ricardo Wilkins. Ricardo is the author of the book "Life's Biohack (The Handbook)". In our discussion, Ricardo takes us along the path that led to his spiritual and physical renewal, which ultimately led to writing his book.  Listen. Learn. Enjoy! Ricardo's book on Amazon:  https://tinyurl.com/eydbsvzu Social media for Ricardo - FB:  https://www.facebook.c...

My guest this week is Talaya Dendy. Talaya Dendy is an eleven-year cancer survivor who now provides services as a cancer doula.  Talaya was always a vibrant person, who rarely got sick. But that all changed in 2011 when she received a diagnosis of hodgkin's lymphoma. This diagnosis completely inverted her entire world. She went from being a career-focused and high achieving young woman, to no...

My guest this week is Peter Lap.  Peter Lap is a post-natal specialist, and  one of the UK's foremost experts on post-partum exercise. He is also the host of his own podcast, "The Healthy Post-Natal Body Podcast".  In our discussions, Peter and I cover a wide range of topics concerning post-partum health and fitness. We discuss: What is misunderstood about post-partum care Some of t...

My guest this week is Dr. Jeff Fisher, DC. Dr. Fisher is a chiropractor, inventor, instructor, and expert witness with over 30 years experience in the field. He has treated and cared for over 300,000 patients, has examined, and witnessed over thousands of patient evaluations. Twenty years ago, Dr. Fisher suffered a severe neck injury and herniated a disc in his neck. This injury left him with grea...

My guest this week is Lorraine Lewis. Lorraine Lewis is an author, a speaker, a CrossFit Masters and Hyrox Competitor, life coach, and a mother of seven. In this episode, we travel the length of Lorraine's amazing professional career, as well as seminal events in her personal life to discuss how both have impacted and shaped her into the woman she is today. Our conversation includes: Survivin...

My guest this week is Cheryl Ilov. Cheryl is a former physical therapist, a martial artist, a dancer, a best-selling author, and host of her own podcast, The FemiNinja Project.  Cheryl Ilov began her martial arts career in her late 40's after her acupuncturist suggested she consider it as a way to heal from the PTSD she acquired from a traumatic personal experience, as well as her chronic pai...

My guest this week is Dr. Shane Steadman. Dr. Steadman is a chiropractic neurologist with 20 years experience. He is an expert in treating and supporting concussions, migraines, vertigo, peripheral neuropathy, autoimmune conditions, as well as thyroid and hormonal disorders. On this episode, Dr. Steadman and I will discuss the importance of functional medicine, the mind-body connection, the brain-...

My guest this week is Brad Carlson. Brad is a certified health coach, personal trainer, spiritual practitioner, author and motivational speaker.  Brad remembers being 38 years old, 50 pounds overweight, going through a divorce, feeling lost and miserable, and not having one clue about what to do about it. The breaking point came when he realized his condition was so bad that his own dog would not...

My guest this week is Andrea Nicholson. Andrea is a board-certified holistic nutrition and lifestyle consultant with a specialization in gut and metabolic health.  Andrea comes to us today with a long backstory of suffering from abdominal ailments. For the longest time she followed conventional wisdom on nutrition, and as a result she continued to get sicker and sicker.  Only until she took full o...

My guest this week is Kathy White. Kathy is a dedicated yogi and yoga instructor who has developed a revolutionary practice called the Joint Renewal System. Prior to turning 50, Kathy had already been practicing yoga since her 30s. However, at this stage of her life, she found that traditional yoga wasn't providing the same benefits it once did. Her normal practice was no longer addressing th...

My guest this week is Hema Murty. Hema is an online trainer who works specifically with women 50 years and older to help relieve pain and enjoy life. In our discussion, Hema details the unique challenges women over 50 face when dealing with pains that come with the aging process. We also discuss how a background in engineering and an understanding of Eastern Indian philosophy, while both seemingly...

My guest this week is Dawn Cuckow. Dawn is a nutritional therapist who specializes in getting to the root cause of cravings and obesity. She is also a best-selling author on Amazon. In our discussion, Dawn and I talk about just why cravings occur and how it is a combination of imbalances in chemical, hormonal, and emotional energy. We also cover why traditional dieting goes wrong for the majority...

My guest this week is Scott McDermott. Scott is an author, speaker, coach, trainer, and ultra endurance athlete. In 2002, Scott left behind a successful career as an architect to open his own 15,000 square foot gym and pursue his passion for fitness. Since the COVID-19 lockdown, he pivoted his business from brick-and-mortar gym to online Warrior Code Training. In this episode, we will hear Scott t...

My guest this week is Austin Wheeler.  Austin is a personal trainer who began his fitness career working in youth sports, but now specializes in working with parents and in particularly career-orientated fathers. To get the very results, Austin employs what he calls The Three Pillar Method: Schedule Fan Food Activity Integration  Through this methodology, each client is outfitted a fitness regime...

My guest this week is Danielle Matthews. Danielle is a traumatic brain injury survivor and an expert in Redox Signaling. When Danielle was 23 years old, she suffered a horrendous traumatic brain injury  when she was struck by drunk driver. This event left Danielle with significant physical and neurological impairments. So much so, after about a year of rehabilitation, doctor's advised her to...

My guest this week is Dai Manuel. Dai brings an infectious level of personality and good-humored fun to his mission of educating and inspiring people around the world. In our discussion, Dai goes over what he calls "The Whole Life Fitness Manifesto". This is to be a doctrine of becoming your very best self in mind, body, and spirit through a 28-day program. In doing so, we embrace the 2...

My guest this week is Heather Murray. Heather Murray comes to Fitness Reborn with an incredible personal story. It's a story of going from a place of being completely shattered - physically, psychologically, and emotionally - to becoming stronger than she ever thought possible. Heather survived years and years of terrible abuse under a tyrannical husband, fought back against morbid obesity, w...

My guest this week is Lesley Logan. Lesley is a certified Pilates instructor and host of the podcast Be It Till You See It. In our discussion, Lesley talks to us about  how she for the longest time struggled to feel a sense of belonging anywhere, and how Pilates (after initially being dismissive of it) allowed her to find her community. Lesley now teaches Pilates all over the world, and runs an on...

This week's guest on Fitness Reborn is Dr. Annie White, author of the book "The Calm Code". In this episode, Dr. Annie and I discuss how to go from "Stressville" to "Calmtown". That is, how to better recognize and manage the stress of our modern lives.  In her book "The Calm Code",  Dr. Annie presents a groundbreaking step-by-step method to help us rewi...

My guest this week is author, blogger, and recovering depressive, Cathy Jean-Francois.  In our discussion, Cathy and I dive into what it is like to live with diagnosed depression while sharing our separate experiences. Cathy refers to her depression as "the intruder". We will hear how this unwanted invader has loomed large over much of Cathy's life since childhood, and what she does...

This week's guest on the Fitness Reborn podcast is Yogi Aaron. Aaron joins me in our conservation from his retreat location in Costa Rica. He's helping to blaze a new trail in the yoga and neuromuscular movement space with an emphasis on muscle activation, and a DE-emphasis on stretching. Brandishing a revolutionary approach to yoga he calls AYAMA (Applied Yoga Anatomy + Muscle Activatio...

My guest this week on Fitness Reborn is James McCambridge. James is an athlete and trainer working from Rewire Neuro-Performance Therapy based in the United Kingdom. In this episode, James and I discuss largely how neurology and physical conditioning work hand-in-hand with each other. We also learn how James' own background as an athlete and struggles with neurological and sensory issues led...

This week's guest on Fitness Reborn is Ben Reuter, Ph. D. Ben is an exercise physiologist, athlete, and personal trainer. He currently teaches exercise physiology and nutrition at Pennsylvania Western University. In this episode, Ben and I discuss the importance of movement as an essential element of human health. We discuss the difference between movements over workouts (a distinction I also...

This week's Fitness Reborn podcast guest is Marc Paisant.  Marc is an athlete, father, husband, mental health advocate, and host to his own podcast, Relatively Normal.  In this episode, Marc and I discuss his long struggle with mental health that began during his years as a collegiate athlete, his trials and errors in working with therapists, his family background, how close he once came to c...