Not Your Quick Fix

In this week's episode, your hosts share what they've got planned for the holidays, what's been going on in their personal and professional lives, what some of their goals for 2024 are, and what they want to leave behind in 2023. It's been a transformative year for Kara, Kylie, and the Not Your Quick Fix Podcast, and it felt important to take the time to recap everything they'v...

This week, your hosts welcome Katlyn Adams to the podcast! Katlyn is a soon-to-be Registered Dietitian with a degree in Biochemistry, and a former dietetic intern of Kara's for the Functional Fat Loss Academy. Katlyn joins Kylie and Kara to deep dive into one of the terms most commonly thrown around in the health and fitness world: inflammation. They share what the most common inflammatory dis...

This week, your hosts welcome Kara's friend and Registered Dietitian, Gianna Beasley, to the show. Gianna is not only an RD, but also an online health and fitness coach, Certified Personal Trainer, and has a big functional health background. We're having a very nuanced conversation surrounding GLP-1 medications and Gianna's one-year journey with taking Mounjaro. With her diagnosis of P...

This week, your hosts welcome Kylie's friend from the Austin comedy scene, Allison Wojtowecz. Alli is not only a talented comedian, but a health junkie with a degree in Kineseology and a copywriter / social media strategist. As a woman of many talents and interest, Alli stays incredibly busy and in this episode, Kylie and Kara chat with her about her diverse background, balancing health and fi...

This week's episode is a re-release from last holiday season (episode 75) that your hosts thought may be a good refresher as you head into all of the upcoming Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's festivities! Kylie and Kara break down everything you should AND shouldn't focus on throughout the holiday season when it comes to your health and fitness goals. November and December tend...

In this episode, Kylie and Kara chat about the data you SHOULD be focused on in your fitness and health journey as opposed to what so many individuals choose to focus on...which only ends up holding them back. It's tempting to want to zero in on trends and data (such as the scale), but it's much more important to step back and look at your averages (as well as other non-scale/data-driven w...

This week, your hosts welcome their good friend and nutrition mastermind, Kelly Igo, to the podcast. Kelly is an online fitness and health coach, and a soon-to-be registered dietitian. Kylie, Kara, and Kelly have a not-so-basic discussion on the basics of macronutrients. Together, they break down the importance of looking at macros versus just caloric intake, and why macro tracking is such an impo...

In this week’s episode, your hosts discuss the importance of trusting yourself, being your own authority, and how a foundation of self-trust will allow you to overcome indecision more confidently. Kara and Kylie open up about times in their own lives where they’ve struggled with indecision for many reasons ranging from anxiety, worrying what others think, not taking time to truly check in with you...

This week, your hosts welcome Kelsey Thomas to the podcast! Kelsey is a Registered Dietitian and online coach, specializing in fertility, prenatal, and gut health. With her wide knowledge of fertility health, Kelsey joins Kara and Kylie to discuss some of the most common fertility issues and disorders, what needs to happen in the female body for women to be fertile / to ovulate regularly, top life...

In this week's episode, your hosts welcome back Courtney Kutzer to the podcast! Courtney is an online health and fitness coach who works closely with Kara as an assistant coach for the Functional Fat Loss Academy. Courtney joins the podcast again this time to chat with Kylie and Kara about her recent mindset coaching certification and the ways it has impacted her coaching practices and client...

In this week’s episode, your hosts return with an important conversation about how much their mindsets have changed surrounding travel / vacations and also how much growth they've seen in their relationship with food and themselves. With Kara being in the midst of a month-long travel period and Kylie having multiple trips and events as well, they reflect on how they either used to self-sabotag...

In this week’s episode, your hosts return with an update on Kara’s personal hormonal health journey. Kara opens up about the struggles she’s been having with keeping a regular menstrual cycle after over 2.5 years of "doing the work", what her current lab work is showing, and both the mental and physical frustrations she’s had throughout this journey to optimize hormone health.  Under her...

This week, Kara and Kylie welcome a former guest, Letisha Bates, back to the podcast! Letisha is an acclaimed PCOS coach, licensed nurse, and future dietitian. Letisha joins your hosts to share her recent Endocrine Collective rebrand, and dive further into common misconceptions and frequently asked questions surrounding PCOS. They give advice on how to approach doctor's appointments and how to...

This week, your hosts are diving into a very important topic when it comes to period health: vitamins and minerals. You're probably aware that micronutrients (and also macronutrients) play a huge role in PMS symptoms, regular periods, and overall endocrine function. But which ones are the most crucial to your menstrual health and what foods can you eat to get them in? Kara and Kylie are breaki...

This week, your hosts welcome special guest, Nick Riell. Nick is a friend of Kylie and Kara's, and an online health and fitness coach who specializes in maximizing sleep quality. In this episode, Kylie and Kara chat with Nick about the integral role sleep quality and quantity plays in your health and fitness journey. They chat about how Nick got into his passion for helping others improve thei...

Been dieting, and not getting the results you want? In this week's episode, Kylie and Kara are here to help you figure out why. Every individual journey is different, but there are a lot of commonalities among the clients your hosts have worked with when it comes to dieting struggles. Kylie and Kara break down the top five reasons they see individuals struggling to reach their goals (and how t...

This week, your hosts welcome online fitness coach, and good friend, Justine Benzinger to the podcast. Justine specializes in helping women get their dream bodies, and their dream lives, by embracing vulnerability, discovering inner confidence, and finding their power. Justine joins Kara and Kylie for a conversation about the journey to finding true balance in a fitness or functional health journe...

In this episode, Kylie and Kara are doing a deep dive on one of their *favorite* vitamins -- Vitamin D! Your hosts wanted to deep dive on this topic because many people are Vitamin D deficient, and they hope that through this episode you gain a better understanding of not only what Vitamin D actually is, but all of its many benefits and why it is so important for you to get enough. They cover ever...

This week, your hosts are here to celebrate a huge personal milestone -- the 100th episode of Not Your Quick Fix Podcast! And they're celebrating with an in-person listener Q+A! Kara and Kylie, of course, recap finally getting to go to Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour together, and dive into questions about everything from starting a fitness and nutrition podcast / business to craziest friends...

This week, we are excited to welcome Dasha Agoulnik to the podcast! Dasha is the owner of CorePerform, a Registered Dietitian, and an online health and fitness coach who has a heavy background in nutrition research. Dasha specializes in gut health, hormones, and metabolism optimization, and is an absolute wealth of knowledge! Dasha discusses some of the most common issues she sees in her practice...

In this week's episode, Kylie and Kara answer the question "are summer bodies really built in the winter?" Spoiler alert: They are. If you find yourself scrambling every spring/start of summer to try to lose those few extra pounds for your "bikini" body...first, your hosts want you to remember that EVERY body is a bikini body if you want it to be. But they also want to be r...

This week, Kylie and Kara are focusing more on the mindset side of personal development. With Kylie's recent comedy journey as a catalyst, your hosts discuss working through fears of failure and judgment in pursuit of your goals. Both Kylie and Kara share the feelings they went through taking the road less traveled as young entrepreneurs and the anxieties that occur when you step outside of yo...

This week, your hosts are excited to welcome a very special guest, their friend Dr. Hannah Brandt, to the podcast. Hannah is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, an Integrative and Functional Nutrition Practitioner, and online health and fitness coach! Hannah always brings the truth bombs when it comes to health, hormones, and fat loss -- and that holds true in today's episode! Together, the girls di...

This week, your hosts are excited to welcome a very special guest, their friend Raisa, back to the podcast. Raisa is a Registered Dietitian, online health and fitness coach, and works as an assistant coach for DLD Nation. She is also an absolute wealth of knowledge regarding hormonal and women's health. Kara and Kylie are not only hyped to chat all things Eras Tour with Raisa (the three of the...

In this week's episode, your hosts dive deep into all things low stomach acid. Many people struggle with GI symptoms such as acid reflux, heartburn, bloating, and more. While the majority of the population is often told they have too much stomach acid and are then prescribed an acid-blocking medication, Kara and Kylie are here to help you understand why that actually may not be the case or bes...