Not Your Quick Fix

In today's episode, Kylie and Kara are joined by their friend, Raisa Anthony. Raisa is an online health coach and soon-to-be dietitian, as well as the Lead Assistant Coach for Metanoia Strong where she specializes in women's health / hormonal health. This episode covers many important topics relating to your menstrual health. Raisa and your hosts dive deep into understanding the phases of your per...

In today's episode, Kara and Kylie are joined by online nutrition and fitness coach, Mike Millner. Mike is the owner of Peak Optimization Performance (POP) and the founder of "Neurotyping". Mike elaborates on the concept of neurotyping, and how it helps his company's clients find success. This episode focuses heavily on understanding how to truly achieve long-term success while on a health and fit...

In today's episode, Kylie and Kara dive deep into helping you set better goals for 2022. As a new year begins, it's very common to create new goals and/or resolutions -- however, time and time again, many people fail to actually achieve the goals that they set or follow through with the habits they begin at the start of the year. To help you not fall into that trap again this year, your hosts prov...

Today, your hosts are joined by one of Kara's long-time, hometown best friends, DJ Wunder. DJ is a marine and soon-to-be personal trainer and in this episode, he covers everything from his childhood and overcoming trauma to joining the marines to finding his greater purpose.  DJ shares his background and past struggles with health and fitness with Kylie and Kara, diving into the often unaddre...

Kylie and Kara are joined in this episode by a very special guest, online coaching company owner and friend, Megan Davis. Over the last seven years, Megan has worn many hats in the health and fitness world — from gym owner and personal trainer, to online coaching as an assistant coach, to coaching on her own and eventually creating the successful company, Metanoia Strong, where herself and her sta...

In today's episode, Kylie and Kara dive into a topic that MANY of their clients have concerns about when starting a health and fitness journey....alcohol consumption. This is an especially hot topic around the holiday season as the last several weeks of the year are packed with social gatherings, so the girls wanted to provide you with plenty of education, as well as tips and tricks, for navigatin...

In this week’s episode, Kylie and Kara welcome two coaches and mentors within the functional health and fitness space that they greatly admire: William Grazione and Gllis Pellegrin. The two of them work together with The Educated Dieter to address hormonal complexities primarily in the female population. They also run Advanced Coaching Systems which is a mentorship for coaches within the industry...

Kylie and Kara are ecstatic to bring on a very special guest for this episode! The girls sit down with the “CEO of Confidence,” Ella Halikas. Ella is a Sports Illustrated model and Swim-Designer as well as an activist and social media influencer. Kylie, Kara, and Ella discuss everything from social media to body positivity / neutrality to finding true confidence at any size to the positives and ne...

Kara and Kylie are helping you navigate the holidays in today’s episode. So many people spend the year working to lose weight and get in better shape, only to gain it all back during the holiday season. It can feel difficult to stay on track with all of the parties, family gatherings, delicious food, and alcohol. So, what can you do to stay mindful and not undo the progress you have made? A good p...

Kara and Kylie are getting nostalgic in this episode by talking about fitness trends from the 2010s. Listen in as they discuss where they were during the 2010s, what the trends at the time got wrong, and what has changed. Kara and Kylie were in college in the mid 2010s, and it was around that time that they both really began to start looking at fitness….but not quite in the right way yet. They adm...

This week Kara and Kylie are joined by Cody Jandes, a full-time trainer, coach, and host of the Deeper than Dumbbells Podcast. Cody and the girls discuss the positive and negative sides of social media, as well as their own experiences and tips on how to navigate it in a healthy way.  One of the main negatives Cody, Kara, and Kylie address is comparison syndrome. It is important to remember that w...

Today, Kylie and Kara welcome Letisha Bates, soon-to-be registered dietitian passionate about helping women with PCOS, to the podcast. Letisha is well-known as “That PCOS Coach” on Instagram, and she joins the show to discuss what PCOS is, her own journey with the diagnosis, how it’s diagnosed/what some of the main drivers are, different methods of treatment, and so much more. Letisha was diagnose...

For Episode 31, Kara and Kylie welcome Dr. Kasey Jo Orvidas to the podcast. Kasey has a Ph. D. in psychology and is also an online health and fitness coach. Kasey’s background brings a unique and important component to the industry, and today she dives into how growth and fixed mindsets can influence our fitness and health journeys.  A growth mindset, in short, is when you experience a setback, yo...

In today’s episode, Kara and Kylie are talking to Joey Gast, a registered dietitian, and online nutrition/training coach. Joey is joining your hosts for a conversation around what it means to be an athlete, why you may be one without realizing it, and how to fuel yourself as one.  When it comes to pre and post workout meals, Joey would rather people focus on their entire day of nutrition as a firs...

In today’s episode, Kara and Kylie are talking about the importance of knowing WHY your goals TRULY matter to you.  Last week, the girls were in Las Vegas with their business mentor Jason Phillips and the first question he asked at their event was, “why are you doing this?” [referring to their businesses]. They each answered with surface-level cliche responses at first: making your own schedule, f...

This week, Kylie and Kara dive into a current hot topic within the health and fitness industry: gut health. One of the most common issues for those who experience gut issues is bloating, so in this episode, the girls address what true bloating is, when it is a problem, what can cause it, and provide some simple steps for combatting it.  It is important to understand the difference between fullness...

In today’s episode, Kara and Kylie are talking to Macey McIntosh. She is a fellow Nashville native and has been a coach for over 6 years. Macey dives deep into her journey with fitness, her body image, and whether or not you need to track macros forever. Macey went through her own journey of transitioning away from tracking and into Intuitive Eating, which she now just calls “eating”, as her compa...

In today’s episode, Kylie and Kara dive into what it means to be “adaptable” and why this is so important in your fitness journey.  People often struggle to be adaptable when situations in life throw them off of their plan and/or protocol. This is when the all or nothing mindset tends to take over meaning that if it isn’t perfect, then it isn’t worth doing at all. As Kara and Kylie have covered in...

In this week’s episode, Kara and Kylie discuss women’s health, birth control, PCOS, and so much more with special guest, Joelle Cavagnaro. Joelle is the Head Coach and CEO of Level Ten Coaching, co-owner of Fit Coach Pro, and soon to be new mother.  After about 10 years of birth control use, Joelle made the decision to come off in the summer of 2018. She had heard stories about women not getting t...

Kara and Kylie are joined by “metabolism master” Caleb Fong in this week’s episode. Their friend and fellow coach, Caleb, shares his path into coaching, metabolism myths, and where to start regaining metabolic control. Caleb has been running his own coaching business for around four years and has been a trainer for seven. He works predominantly with individuals recovering from chronic dieting to h...

Today Kylie and Kara are discussing the biofeedback they use to measure the progress and success of their clients. Many people don’t understand that working with a coach to reach your health and fitness goals goes beyond photos, weight, and measurements -- there are a lot of different factors that a good coach will assess to make decisions regarding protocols. In this episode, your hosts dive into...

Today, Kara and Kylie get vulnerable with you and discuss where they are in their own health journeys, along with how they deal with the mental strain of showing up as authority figures for others while dealing with their own issues. In January, Kara began a hormonal re-balancing journey as she left birth control behind. Seven months later, she is still on that path. Although Kara has spent a lot...

Today, Kara and Kylie address one of the most important, and often most misunderstood, topics on the podcast so far: reverse dieting. What is it? Who is it for? Why is it beneficial? Why would you want to diet in reverse? For someone that has experienced metabolic decline, down regulation of crucial hormones, or other effects of dieting or under eating, reverse dieting is the process of gradually...

This week, Kara and Kylie address three things that they see being overcomplicated in the pursuit of a health and/or fitness goal. The first and most commonly overcomplicated thing is food. What foods do I eat to meet my macros? What recipes should I be cooking? These are questions that pop up time and time again.  The second overcomplicated thing is workout plans. The basics do work; you don’t ne...

Today, Kara and Kylie dive deep into trying versus doing. People underestimate the power of words and just how often the phrase “I’m trying” pops up in their vocabulary. It’s easy to become comfortable “trying” over actually taking the messy action and doing the things that need done to make advancements. Many people may not even realize that the “trying” mindset is holding them back – trying is g...