Jennifer Van Barneveld-Pe

The Find Your STRONG Podcast

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Learn and be your best and strongest self with Elite Body Transformation Coach and President of STRONG Fitness Magazine Jennifer Van Barneveld-Pe (aka Coach JVB). Each week Jenny will give you an inspirational guest, a story or a “pep-talk” of how to build stronger bodies, stronger minds, and stronger relationships. Since becoming a personal trainer almost twenty years ago, Jenny has overcome an eating disorder, job loss, financial desperation, entrepreneurial growing pains and multiple miscarriages. Experiences that have profoundly shaped her and her path to success. Before confidently settli...

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Jennifer Van Barneveld-Pe

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Health

Latest episode

Jan 29, 2026

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Episodes

173 - My Strength Training Routine: Why Building Muscle Should Be Your Top Priority 06.02.2025

In this episode, Jenny gets into the importance of building lean muscle and why it should be your top priority before exploring biohacking methods like cold plunges, saunas, or supplements. Muscle isn’t just about aesthetics—it plays a crucial role in health, longevity, performance, and confidence as we age. She breaks down the three pillars of strength training: ✅ Learning the skill – Strength t...

172 - Strike a Pose: Celebrating Your Fitness Journey Through a Photoshoot! 30.01.2025

This week’s one on one pep talk from Jenny is here to inspire and remind you the epic reasons why celebrating your fitness journey with a photoshoot is a must!  If you’ve been thinking you can’t, or sitting on the fence wondering if you should, or feel like you’re ready - this one is for you. There are a handful of powerful and impactful reasons you should do the thing! It’s all about embracing yo...

171 - Strong Mindset, Balanced Hormones and Body Breakthroughs with Kait Ann-Michelle 23.01.2025

In this episode, Jenny sits down with Kate, an experienced online fitness coach and former Division 1 basketball player turned bodybuilder. Kate shares her inspiring journey, including overcoming a knee injury, navigating the challenges of extreme dieting during fitness competitions, and her transition to a healthier, more balanced lifestyle. Kate opens up about her struggles with hormonal imbalan...

170 -Navigating Perimenopause and Reclaiming My Health: An Honest Update 16.01.2025

In this episode, Jenny shares her transformative health journey that is now focused around navigating perimenopause. She discusses the challenges of managing stress, gut issues, and new symptoms. Reflecting on her initial reliance on workouts and clean eating, she describes a pivotal shift in her approach to health. Delving into the impact of perimenopause on her overall well-being, including horm...

169 - Raising Athletes, Lifting Ourselves with Katie Koutnik 26.12.2024

This week Jenny is joined by long time Strong girl and fitness coach Katie Koutnik. Katie shares her journey and “why” for what brought her into the Team Strong Girls community, and how her shaft of perspective and prioritization changed her life for the better! She dives into her own transformation journey from struggling with nutrition and strength training to becoming a coach and advocate for w...

168 - Losing Weight and Building Muscle in Your 40s Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated 12.12.2024

When you reach your 40’s and beyond, you may notice that all of a sudden those extreme fad diets and weight loss protocols just don’t work anymore, and more so - your body simply doesn’t respond as well as it used to. The excessive cardio, the restrictive eating, all the things we thought would shred pounds with ease just don’t cut it. After more than 20 years in fitness training and body transfor...

167 - Empowering Empty Nesters with Michele Canon 28.11.2024

We all know it’s coming one day, but how do we best prepare for it? The moment the household goes quiet, and suddenly there’s less chaos and dependencies surrounding you. Maybe it’s the kids becoming adults and setting off on their own, or maybe it’s early retirement, but we all reach that day where you look around and realize you’re in a transition and your everyday normal starts to slow down and...

166 - Your Metabolism Isn’t Broken—But Your Approach Might Be 21.11.2024

“ Your body responds to what you do consistently, not occasionally. ” Jenny is here this week to myth-bust a very common misconception about what’s actually holding you back and what’s really happening when your body isn’t responding to your training or dieting. Your metabolism is not broken - it’s adaptive! Our bodies thrive on routine and habit, which is what the Team STRONG Girls approach to fa...

165 - From Strong Girl to Coach: Sandra Sorgini’s Mission to Empower Women in Sport 07.11.2024

This week Jenny sits down with long time STRONG Girl, STRONG Formula grad and fitness coach for athletes Sandra Sorgini. A lifelong athlete herself, Sandra came into her 1:1 coaching with Jenny already understanding the fundamentals of movement, but shares how much she truly learned about body recomposition, muscle building, nutrition, fat loss and so much more when she really started diving into...

164 - The Truth About Ozempic: Breaking Down GLP-1 Agonists with Dr. Christle Guevarra 31.10.2024

This week Jenny is joined by fitness and sports medicine expert Dr. Christle Gueverra to explore and discuss the hot topic and stigma of Ozempic (GLP-1 Agonist medicine) for the inside scoop on the use, science and considerations about the drug. By now you’ve probably heard or seen a lot of publicity, good and bad, about this drug and Dr. Christle is here to get into what it is, what it does, why...

163 - Life Update and Strong Girls Lifestyle Rant 24.10.2024

This week, Jenny delivers another insightful and inspiring one on one pep talk to spread awareness about how her mission to transform figures and physiques is one that truly stays committed to flexibility based on life’s many changes and curveballs. She explains the importance of putting fitness first but not sacrificing the ways we also enjoy life, our friends, our family and our celebrations. Yo...

162 - How to Navigate the Holidays Like a Strong Girl 17.10.2024

As we enter another holiday season, Jenny is here to give us the tools to help us know how to prioritize our fitness and body composition goals without the deprivation, guilt or punishment conventional beliefs may lead us to think have to come as part of enjoying the extra meals and excess that comes along. When you’re balancing a busy life and still want to stay on track, there are only 4 simple...

161 - Beyond the Gym: Nathalia Melo’s No-Nonsense Approach to Fitness and Life 10.10.2024

Get ready for a high energy, zero-bs convo with the amazing Nathalia Melo; former Olympia Bikini champ and fitness coach with over 30 years of combined competing and coaching experience in the industry. Nathalia joins Jenny to share her insight and inspiring methodology for how to stay committed and enthusiastic about your strength building and personal wellness routine. Nathalia opens up about he...

160 - Real Coaching, Real Results: Luka Hocevar’s Playbook 03.10.2024

Jenny had the pleasure of meeting Luka at the Evolve business coaching summit in Edmonton last month and is thrilled to be joined by him to hear about how he went from playing professional sports to becoming a fitness coach for the past two decades, and how he leads and inspires so many people to achieve REAL results. Luka has become a self-taught expert and enthusiast for change psychology. He di...

159 - Community: The Missing Link to Achieving Your Goals 26.09.2024

Jenny is back after a summer pause to focus on family and reset, and is here this week to talk about the power of community. Because transformation doesn’t happen in isolation. The magic happens when you surround yourself with like-minded individuals who share your passion, who you can learn from, and who lift you up. After speaking at the Evolve Strength Business Summit recently in Edmonton, Jenn...

158 - Navigating Perimenopause My Approach and Strategies 01.08.2024

Listen up ladies! This one's for you if you are starting to feel the effects and onslaught of perimenopause. Oh that joyful time when we get to and beyond 40 when our bodies start to change and evolve; it’s inevitable but Jenny is here to provide some insight and support. This week she shares her learnings from her own experiences, as she elaborates on the symptoms and signs of perimenopause and o...

157 - Fitness Fact Check - Muscle Doesn't Become Fat 25.07.2024

Myth busting alert: Muscle does not turn into fat. If you’ve heard this - it’s simply not true. Jenny is here with us one on one this week to break down the science of what’s really going on with our muscles when they’re used or neglected. So, how can we build and maintain muscle as we age? This is the burning question for women, because biologically it becomes harder for us to keep, form and incr...

156 - Cardio may actually lead to weight gain 18.07.2024

While cardio has it’s place, it is not the be all and end all of weight loss and body transformation. Contrary to years of popular opinion and conventional beliefs, doing hours upon hours of cardio will not give you the lean and tight body you have your heart set on. Through her years coaching thousands of women, Jenny has learned that weight training far outshines cardio when it comes to building...

155 - Client Spotlight: From Criminal Lawyer to Thriving Gym Owner - A Journey of Happiness with Rebekah Logan 27.06.2024

Fitness is more than a past time for Rebekah, it is her passion. Rebekah recently left her legal career of 11 years to pursue a career as a fitness professional. Fitness has always been special to Rebekah, as it helped her during grief and past trauma - she used her workouts as a positive coping mechanism. In Spring of 2022, Rebekah took a leap and joined Team Strong Girls. That was a pivotal turn...

154 - Optimizing Fertility with PCOS with Dr. Angela Potter 13.06.2024

This week Jenny is joined by fertility expert and creator of the PCOS Fertility Protocol Dr. Angela Potter, who for over 10 years has been helping women with PCOS who are struggling with fertility work through individualized plans for successful pregnancies. The discussion centers around hormones, symptoms, cycle therapy, how to listen to our bodies, and how to take charge of restoring balance and...

153 - Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and the Perimenopausal Phase with Dr. Nadia Saleem 30.05.2024

As Coach Jenny continues to be mindful of the needs of,  surround herself with and inspire women in their 40+ journey through life, she dives into a super informative and in depth conversation about hormones and aging thoughtfully with her personal ND Dr. Nadia Saleem. Dr. Nadia Saleem is a board certified naturopathic doctor who takes a holistic approach to hormone health and has extensive experi...

152 - Fat Loss While Still Preserving Muscle 23.05.2024

If you’re a returning listener, you know that the Team STRONG Girls methodology for weight loss is a tried, tested and true one. And, if this is your first time here, you’re in the right place to learn how to properly, healthfully become your fittest and best-feeling self. Tune in as Jenny gets one-on-one with us sharing 6 ways to optimize fat loss without losing muscle mass.      Join The Team St...

151 - The NEW Way to Prep for a Photoshoot with Coach Jaclyn 16.05.2024

Tune in this week to catch a recent Facebook Live broadcast that’s all about the NEW way to prep for a fitness photoshoot, the Team STRONG Girls way. Head coach Jac joins Jenny and between the two of them they share almost 40 years of photoshoot experience so they have seen it all over the years. The evolution of healthy and sustainable prep has certainly come a long way and this conversation will...

150 - Speaking Up For Your Disability with Tiffany Storrs 09.05.2024

Tiffany Storrs is Rocky Mountain supermom, trilingual actress, author of the amazon Best Seller  ADAPTABILITY, an award-winning hearing health advocate/spokesperson, and also an avid athlete who appeared in the March issue of STRONG Fitness Magazine's Women to Watch. After going suddenly and unexpectedly deaf after the birth of her first child, Tiffany had to completely re-program and re-learn her...

149 - Harmony in Hormones: Navigating Wellness with Hormone Health with Kaely McDevitt 25.04.2024

Kaely McDevitt is the founder of KM Nutrition, a women’s health community dedicated to elevating the care for women everywhere. Kaely joins Jenny this week to talk about how to optimize your nutrition for happy and healthy hormones! Beginning her career in the health space as a registered dietician, Kaely shares how her own struggle with hormone health propelled her into deeper discovery and educa...

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