Today on Here's The Deal, I'm talking with Katy Widrick, who is an entrepreneur and founder of Make Media Over, and we are talking about burnout. We discuss what lead her to her burnout and what she's doing a year after the fact. She had to ask herself How do I better manage being #2 and not #1 and setting herself up for different expectations. We discuss what signs she had pre or during her burnout, the biggest one being that she woke up angry and losing her temper. She tells us what led her to...
Apr 26, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 3Ep. 14
Today on Here's the Deal, I'm talking with Candy Valentino, who is a Founder and Serial Entrepreneur. She started her own business at the age of 19! We are talking how she got to where she is today, business, and what fuels her. She gives some great advice on how to intentionally build a business and not just build yourself a job. She likes to say that She never did anything extraordinary, she did the ordinary and drowned out all the noise around her. We talk about delayed gratification in terms...
Apr 19, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Today on Here's the Deal, I'm talking with Stephanie Mara about Emotional vs. Physical hunger. I actually had this conversation with Stephanie and our VIP group, but asked her if I could go ahead and publish as a podcast because i believe its an empowering one. Stephanie is a Somatic Nutritional Therapist and we discuss how to 'normalize' emotional eating episodes because it's our bodies way of communicating to you that something is going on. Food is one of the things that regulates your nervous...
Apr 14, 2022•42 min•Season 3Ep. 12
I'm talking with Adrian Chavez, who is a nutritionist and a father. He wants to break through the noise of nutrition and how it's more simple then what marketers want you to believe. We talk about artificial sweeteners and how they are just getting a bad rap, which boils down to the Appeal to Nature Fallacy, which just says that natural is better, when really it's not. We talk about what really matters when it comes to nutrition and it's how much we eat and the quality and we talk about this in ...
Apr 06, 2022•53 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Today on Here's the Deal I'm chatting with my college friend Katy Lush, who is a Movement Teacher. She specializes in adapting Pilates to real life movement, with Pilates and Gyrotonic Method. We talk about teaching and its sustainability in today's world. Katy owned her own studio in Chicago for 18 years and then sold it and moved to Kansas City and now teaches in person and online. She explains the difference between Movement, which is what you need to get your life accomplished, and Exercise,...
Mar 29, 2022•57 min•Season 3Ep. 10
On Here's the Deal I'm talking with Vince Pitstick, who is a Functional Nutritionist, and we are talking about metabolism. He provides so much amazing information in such a short time. We talk functional medicine and how the scope is too small. 5 out of 10 people have lifestyle related conditions, crazy right?! For those of you who may not know all disease is metabolic. He has a method to attack complex systems, and the body is a complex system and you can't approach it with a small scope and as...
Mar 22, 2022•52 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Today on Here's the Deal, we are welcoming back Cynthia Thurlow, who's new book Intermittent Fasting Transformation comes out 3/15/22. We are discussing the book and what lead Cynthia to where she is at this point in her life. Cynthia and I talk about how she feels passion can drive purpose and her passion of food and serving women. She talks in detail about the things she wished she'd known when she was 40ish. As women its been ingrained in us that 'more is better', we need to lead with integri...
Mar 04, 2022•52 min•Season 3Ep. 8
I get asked A LOT about reverse dieting. Reverse dieting was the best thing I ever did for my physique, along with strength training. In this podcast I cover: What a reverse diet is How you do it Why you do it How long you do it The benefits Reverse dieting is your exit strategy from yo-yo dieting and the solution to fat loss forever. We touch on reverse dieting in Lift to Get Lean and it is one of the primary focal points of our VIP community. Reverse dieting can be scary at first because you a...
Feb 23, 2022•23 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Today on Here's The Deal, I'm talking to JK McLeod, who is a performance training coach, who builds training programs based on their lifestyle. This is referred to as neurotyping, which is the science of understanding ones personality and how the different neurotransmitters react to stress and then building your training program based on that. We discuss sustainability and how it pertains/fits into your life. We dive into doing the 'same things' and how that makes it trackable, which is a good t...
Feb 15, 2022•44 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Today on Here's The Deal I'm chatting with Jordan Lips, who is an online coach, personal trainer and nutrition coach and we are talking about training. We discuss the limiting factor, which is the the thing being trained, and spoiler alert you're not getting this in your group fitness class. We talk about progressive overload and the importance of it and flipping your prospective in regards to it. He mentions that he would love for people to have a goal that's "aimed at a lifestyle and a body th...
Feb 08, 2022•51 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Today on Here's The Deal I'm chatting with Joe Eiben, who is a Licensed Integrative Psychotherapist, Professional Coach, Public Speaker, Holistic Nutrionist and we are talking about Mental health. I think we can all agree it's been a challenging few years. We must keep in mind that the only thing we can control is how we react to it. He talks to us about how the nervous system has three settings, activation, rebound, and collapse. Often times we are moving from activation to collapse and not all...
Feb 01, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 4
I'm back with my podcast best, Ali Dameron and we're breaking down why so many people gained weight over the last two years. This conversation was inspired by an Instagram post made by Dr. John Ruskin, check in out here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CYr898ZraXm/ The graph that the shared shows the average weight gain in America since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. If you think you're alone in gaming weight, you're not. The graph shows that men averaged a 37 pound weight gain and women gained...
Jan 25, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Today on Here’s the Deal, I‘m talking with Stephanie Mara Fox. She is a Somatic Nutritional Counselor, which is a body oriented, sensation approach to eating. You learn to listen and observe your body’s eating. A lot of times what your body is missing is safety, we aren’t feeling safe and regulated in our own bodies. We talk about trauma, healing, your internal dialogue, and how to shift your energy. We talk about intuitive eating and why it may not be working for you, the internal dialogue that...
Jan 18, 2022•51 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Mike Fitch is the passionate creator of the movement modality called Animal Flow. In this episode I ask Mike about his background as a personal trainer and how he came to develop this phenomenal movement that is Animal Flow. We discuss how learning a new movement is a fantastic way to create change not only in our physical body, but also our mindset and how it will also improve your general wellness. Animal Flow is a Stand-alone modality or it can supplement what you are already doing to make yo...
Jan 13, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Today on Here's the Deal I'm talking with Kasey Orvidas who is 1/2 Psychologist and 1/2 Fitness Coach. We are talking about mindset and how important it is. In your mindset work, you have setbacks, feedbacks, and success, Kasey breaks each one of these down for us. We also discuss stress and self control and how they aren't friends and how they operate at different levels within the brain. A big one we also discuss is your social circle and how it can affect growth. Be aware and accept that you ...
Dec 28, 2021•43 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Today on Here's The Deal, I'm talking to Kim Schaper, who is a Women's Wellness Expert. She's helps women heal their hormones and master their metabolism with fitness, exercise and testing. We are discussing how she got here, after experiencing her own issues with disordered eating. We discuss the kind of tests she thinks are important for women to determine what's going on with their bodies. We talk about adrenal fatigue which is actually low cortisol. That's all I'm going to give away for now,...
Dec 15, 2021•46 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Today I'm talking with Jaime Morocco who is a body transformation mentor, she helps her clients manifest their dream body using science, mindset and energetics. This is actually the second time I've had Jaime on the podcast, we are diving into how she helps her clients and some of the common themes she sees with her clients. She and I align in the fact that it's not just about losing weight, their is a mindset shift that you need to learn or you're going to keep repeating the same habits over an...
Dec 08, 2021•41 min•Season 2Ep. 35
Today on Here's the Deal, I'm talking with Jonathan Goodman, who owns the PTDC, Personal Trainer Development Center. He started the PTDC in 2011 and has written 11 books for personal trainers. We talk about the likes and dislikes of the current fitness industry and how the global pandemic has affected it. We align in so many ways and this is a must listen you guys. Not only is he down to earth, but he's relatable, did I mention he's written 11 books?? One of which is a textbook! You can find Jon...
Nov 30, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Today I'm talking with Ashley Fillmore, who is a Certified Personal Trainer and Nutrition Coach and has her own business called Metabolic Fix. Ashley started her business after her own journey, when she noticed that her happiness was attached to how she looked on the outside. She would punish herself for eating a bowl of oatmeal. She knew what she had to do and still managed to get trapped in this cycle. She had to start with healing her metabolism, it had gotten so out of whack with all the die...
Nov 23, 2021•45 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Stacy T. Sims, Ph.D., is an applied researcher, innovator, and entrepreneur in human performance, specifically sex differences in training, nutrition, and environmental conditions. She has a TedTalk titled, Women Are Not Small Men, is the co-author of Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life and is the leading researching in women's physiology and performance. I recently completed one of her ...
Oct 26, 2021•49 min•Season 2Ep. 32
Today on Here's the Deal, I'm talking with one of my coaches, Lisa DeLuca about tackling perimenopause. Here's the deal (pun intended) we have premenopause, perimenopause, menopause and post menopause, we are going to break down what each stage means and dive a little deeper into perimenopause. This is so important, because most women don't even know about it and it's their body. This is also why we decided to create a lift to get lean program designed especially for women who are currently in p...
Sep 29, 2021•44 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Today on Here's the Deal, I'm chatting with Jordan Pendleton, leadership and mindset coach and we are discussing Limiting Beliefs. A little background on Jordan, she started as a Financial Planner and she felt she got sucked into chasing all the things, money, happiness, success and she didn't feel she was being her authentic self. She switched gears and became a leadership and mindset coach, but first doing her own work in order to get here. Limiting beliefs are the things that can get in your ...
Sep 20, 2021•54 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Today on the podcast I'm chatting with Ali Damron, who's an expert in woman's health. I've had Ali on the podcast before, Today we are talking about why you may not being seeing results. There are a few things you're either doing or not doing that are leading you to this point. We are talking about a few of those. Limiting beliefs, eating off your kids plates, consistency, and lifestyle factors. I think the biggest take away is that we've heard them all and we can relate. As women we really need...
Sep 07, 2021•46 min•Season 2Ep. 29
You asked, so I'm telling you. This is a solo-sode with just me telling you about my journey to where I am right now. From college graduation, to first job, to moving to Colorado and changing careers to going from a group exercise instructor to an entrepreneur with a thriving business. I decided to make a separate episode on my history with food and exercise. This one is all about becoming the business woman that I am today. If you have any follow up questions, reach out to me on Instagram @thek...
Aug 31, 2021•42 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Today we are talking to my bestie and fellow coach Leanne Lang about coming back from an injury. Leanne has suffered not one, but two ACL surgeries on each knee. She didn't want to favor one, so she did it to both, just kidding. For those of you who may not know, ACL stands for the Anterior Cruciate Ligament, its literally part of a trio of ligaments holding your knee together. When there is a complete tear of the ACL, surgery is the best possible answer in order to regain full movement of the k...
Aug 25, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Today I'm chatting with Toni Marinucci, who is a Registered Dietitian, Tedx Speaker, author and business owner. We are talking about the differences between a Dietitian and a nutrition coach, protein, emotional eating, intermittent fasting and her new book. Toni's business (Tips with Toni) focuses on helping people with emotional eating and disordered eating. Emotional eating, to put it simply, is to eat when you're not physically hungry! In order to get to the bottom of this you have to simplif...
Aug 17, 2021•44 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Jade is a personal trainer mixed with science nerd, mixed with natural medicine geek, along with part philosopher and a little bit of hip hop. He is also an expert in female metabolism. For his full bio check out https://www.jadeteta.com/jade-teta-about. He's got quit the impressive background! I could have talked to Jade for HOURS. We start by diving into the four jobs that we have as humans: To earn a living To care for our bodies with health and fitness Personal relationships Personal develop...
Aug 11, 2021•46 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Talking with Natalie Newhart, owner of FitAddicted Nutrition and former professional CrossFit Athlete. I first heard Natalie on a Mike Milner podcast and she was talking about her disordered eating and I just felt this instant connection with her. A little bit about Natalie, is/was a professional athlete, she did cross training and then moved on to body building. She was training 5-6 hours a day and once she stopped competing that's when the binging began, she legit couldn't NOT do it. One day s...
Aug 04, 2021•53 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Today we are talking with Krista Day-Gloe, who is a licensed clinical social worker. She started working with children and realized the nutritional component, they would come in all over the place and it was because they weren't nourished and they were essentially hangry. That's when she realized that there is this mind body connection and she began researching how to become a dietitian. She ended up discovering a residential treatment center for eating disorders, where she worked with mostly wo...
Jul 27, 2021•53 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Today I'm talking with David Mathas, who is an online strength and Physique Coach. He has his Masters In Exercise Science. David talks to us about eating disorders and reverse diets! David, himself had an eating disorder and almost died in the ICU, while he was in the army. David is the first to tell you that most eating disorders aren't about food or exercise. They usually stem from something deeper rooted then just your body image and can be due to past issues that may have arose while you wer...
Jul 20, 2021•51 min•Season 2Ep. 22
