Your Unreasonable Bestfriend, with Travis Murrells

In this episode, Travis is joined by International Nutrition & Fat Loss Coach, Steph from @foodislife.nutrition. Together, Steph & Travis talk about weight loss, fat loss, sustainable nutrition practices, and ultimately how to get started even if you’re a complete beginner and how to stay on track. It’s a crazy world full of bullsh*t artists out there, and we hope that this podcast helps t...

If you’re someone who is sensitive to other people’s judgements, or heavily relies on tracking devices to dictate your movement and nutrition, you’ll love this podcast ep! Head Coach Laura talks about her experience with using her environment to dictate how she trains, eats, and behaves and how this impacted her performance and mindset. She speaks about the importance of being true to you, trustin...

How often are you on the right track in your life and find yourself searching for all that is or could go wrong? Travis explores where self-sabotage stems from, he delves into approval, relationships and the way we communicate our love, the way it has been communicated to us. Why does that all matter?

When we're looking for a service, a solution to a problem, an expert we look at what we will receive for the money we agree to pay. We look at an itemised list of what we should expect, a consult, perhaps a lesson, a test, whatever the service is we want to know what we're getting for our money. In this episode, Lindsay talks about the non-tangible, the not on "the-list" benefit of that transactio...

Is there a recipe for success? Perfect timing? In this episode Travis dives deep into "the perfect life" You don't need a 5 year plan, a positivity guru, or a manifestation mantra, you don't even need to know your destination. Transformation can begin at the messiest time of your life!

There are a lot of conversations around the benefits and risks of tracking Calories and whether it is constructive or destructive for you is incredibly nuanced. In this episode, Laura tells us about her experiences with tracking Macros and discusses the many ways in which it can be a great tool in your health journey and when it may not work for you. There are many different approaches to finding...

In this episode, Lindsay discusses the impact our relationship with food has on the people around us. Friends, colleagues, students, clients, patients, partners and our children are all influenced by our relationship with, behaviours around and habits with food. Sometimes our initial motivation to improve that relationship can be external and that's ok. Ultimately it can be life-changing for both...

Why do we track calories? If your answer is weight loss then you need to listen to this podcast! Travis covers why we track, the behavioural aspects of tracking and how it translates to the long term. He covers Macros and the importance of hitting certain targets and why. Continuing with his founding goal of "training you to never need us again" this knowledge builds on the amazing principles you...

Tracking hits and misses don't have to be an emotional rollercoaster! In this episode, Travis talks about one of the tools and shifts in thinking that helps our clients lose the weight of stress attached to tracking Calories. When we say you can take the advice and tools from this Podcast and achieve your goals we are not kidding around. Do yourself a favour and subscribe.

Our most recent addition to The Fitness Genie Team, Head Coach Laura, talks about the importance of curiosity, not always following the pack and paying attention to your intuition when finding solutions that work for you. Laura shares some of her own experiences searching for relief when experiencing discomfort and encourages you to stay curious and think outside the box. When you think you've tri...

Trigger warning - This podcast will discuss a specific person's experiences with suicide as a result of depression. I can't do/won't do X because of VS I'm going to do X in spite of Y Travis talks about how your perceived limits can actually be a springboard to smashing your goals with a window into his Mindset work, how it played out for him and how it can work for you.

Travis talks about the realities of tracking Calories, how to move out of the "obsessive tracking" and how to get your life back and be fully present. Holidays, family dinners, weddings, date nights...food is such a big part of building and maintaining relationships and communities. They don't need to become a stressor. So, how do you stay on track and be fully present when you're out and about so...

#73 - In this episode, Travis talks about the "all or nothing" mindset that is all too common in the weight loss world. Fast weight loss programs, 1200 Calorie diets, obsessing over numbers and tracking, he discusses the realities and the fallout and where your focus should be for long-term success.

What happens when you’re in the middle of making awesome progress on your goals, and life sucker-punches you with a depressive episode? There are many ways to describe how it feels when the darkness takes cover, but Head Coach Lindsay calls it The Pit. In this episode, Lindsay discusses her experience navigating nutrition and exercise habits while trying to climb back into the light. *If you’re se...

In this episode, Travis discusses one of the more common reasons that he hears for why people over eat: “I just love food I can’t stop!” and why that isn’t true, for the most part. You can love a shield because it protects you from danger, yet a wall does a better job minus the burden of carrying it. We love food because it acts as a shield from our emotions, whenever we feel something we like to...

In this episode, Lindsay talk about dramatic before and after pics and why you don't see a bunch of them in our socials and marketing. Sure those quick transformations can be tempting but Lindsay tell us why our clients are kicking goals months and years later...not just in the after pic.

In this episode, Travis discusses the question that was brought up during an IG story of "When it's okay to tell your partner to lose weight." We start with Travis going through a lot of the comments through IG & TikTok that gave us a different perspective on the situation and what other people had done or experienced in the past. We finish up with Travis giving his thoughts around telling som...

In this episode, Travis interviews the newest addition to Team Fitness Genie Laura Gould! It's been amazing to listen to these two chat and know that our clients are going to be in amazing hands moving forward, anyone that has a conversation with Laura ends up leaving it having a different perspective on their situation and being smartest decision they've ever made.

In this episode, Travis discusses how dealing with your preconceived notions about something could end up changing the outcome of your life, or at least your health journey. People initially come onboard with the expectation or hesitancy that it's going to be "just like the last one I did" and it takes them months to eventually reach out after hearing how much we talk about personalisation and inu...

In this episode, Head Coach Lindsay recounts the time she chose violence & fought a few internet trolls to defend a friend. Why do people think it's ok to fat-shame total strangers on the internet? Is obesity actually unhealthy, or is it more nuanced than that? Tune in to hear the latest unhinged rant from your favorite American coach!

In this episode, Travis discusses the phenomenon of how people know what the answer is when it comes to weight loss, but how almost know one knows how to explain their working out for the answer. When you don't know how to troubleshoot yourself for the correct answer, you may end up relying on your emotional responses as opposed to structured thought-out sustainable logic. Listen in on how to chan...

In this episode, Travis discusses the importance of focusing on the right things at the right time. Every single client that comes on board initially signs up to lose weight and in the beginning that's all they want to talk about as a success metric. Toward the end of the program they end up talking about how much stronger they feel, how confident they are now, less stressed, sleeping better, you...

In this episode, our head coach Lindsay discusses gym anxiety and how to overcome the fear of getting into the gym for the first time.

In Travis' first episode back from his holidays and for Season 4, he discusses the mindset behind doing what gets someone from "A to B" and then "B to C" While the purpose can remain the same, the strategy behind the purpose must always be constantly evolving and adapting. However, the adaptation will be to its environment, so it's important to discuss the importance of the environment. The first...

In our Season 4 Debut of the podcast, our Head Coach Lindsay talks about what we're really in pursuit of when we're overhauling our lifestyle and why most people fail when it comes to health and/or weight loss results. Spoiler alert: If you make the perspective shift that Lindsay talks about in this episode, everything will come much easier for you.