PHIT Society

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are discussing bodily autonomy and body liberation. In light of the US Supreme Court's decision to strike down Roe v Wade, we discuss how this influences our work towards body liberation and what we can do to honor bodily autonomy for all people.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week we are celebrating the summer solstice! We talk about things we love about summertime, how to experience the summer from a liberatory place, and how to find balance and grounding in this busy season.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week we are talking about bodies and attraction. We discuss how beauty standards are influenced by systems of power, how this affects our personal attraction, and how we can engage with beauty and attraction from a liberatory standpoint.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking with Megan Balsdon, a fitness professional and friend of the podcast. We talk about her journey as a student at University of Texas in Nutrition and Dietetics, what the fitness industry and dietetics industries are getting right, what they are getting wrong, and why this time of transformation is full of hope.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week we are talking about body liberation for the summertime. As we approach the start of summer in the USA with Memorial Day weekend, we chat through how to enjoy the warmer months with body liberation at the forefront.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness.  This week, we are talking with Dr. Jennifer L. Gaudiani, one of the only outpatient internists in the United States who carries the credential Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Supervisor and Fellow in the Academy for Eating Disorders. Dr G is passionate about the medical care of adolescents and adults who have a complicated relationship with food and their body. We talk about her work to infuse social justice into medical practice, her book Sick Enough, and her advice for fitness professionals to practice from a liberatory and supportive place.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are discussing Inclusive Fitness Spaces. This was a blog post by Ilya Parker, owner of Decolonizing Fitness. We chat through their points and offer our own experience on how to take on these awesome ideas.  https://decolonizingfitness.com/blogs/decolonizing-fitness/10-essentials-of-inclusive-fitness 

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are discussing supporting people with eating disorders and disordered eating. We talk about resources, how to show support, and how our own journeys to liberation are all intertwined.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are discussing intuitive Eating tips. We discuss the framework of intuitive eating and chat through some tips and tricks we use to bring this approach to eating to life.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking with Dave Kyle, a fitness professional and leadership coach from Scotland, living in New Zealand. We talk about his career in fitness, his coaching philosophy, and how we should all be more like Brodie, his 2 year old son. You can find Dave on instagram @scottishtrainer and at coachdavekyle.com.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are discussing our language. We talk about ways to shift our language to be liberation focused, shifting away from diet culture talk, and share practical ideas to bring this to life.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are celebrating 100 episodes of PHIT Society!! We review some of our favorite episodes and themes and discuss some of our biggest learnings, celebrating this awesome milestone with our PHIT Society community.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness.  This week, we are talking about NEDA week. This awareness week just wrapped so we share information about NEDA to keep the awareness going, how eating disorders are more prevalent in the pandemic, and share resources for support. This is part 1 of a 2 part conversation.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness.  This week, we are talking about NEDA week. This awareness week just wrapped so we share information about NEDA to keep the awareness going, how eating disorders are more prevalent in the pandemic, and share resources for support. This is part 1 of a 2 part conversation.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking with Sandra Khalil, a marriage and family therapist with experience as a group fitness instructor. We talk about how trauma impacts our bodies, how movement and fitness can help us process, and how rejecting diet culture empowers our healing and liberation. You can find Sandra at sandra@ihopecounselingllc.com and her website ihopecounselingtx.com

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking about the research and science behind HAES. We discuss correlation vs causation, the science of diets vs the science of HAES, and how we can use different tools to understand and know things.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are discussing a new fad from diet culture - anti diet diets! We talk about how this marketing tool tries to trick us, how it is just diet culture with a new outfit on, and how we can cut through the noise to engage with our bodies in liberation.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking with willi farrales, who is a brown-skinned, mixed-race, queer, cis-male(ish) being, with a master's degree in somatic counseling psychology, is currently working toward licensure as a psychotherapist, is employed at ucsf in the center of aids prevention studies, a training facilitator for mndfl's mindfulness intensive training, a Les Mills Trainer, and beautiful human being. We talk about connecting with our bodies through somatic practice, finding space for our own liberation journey, and learning to find compassion in complexity. You can find will at facebook.com/willi.farrales or earthcoeurage@gmail.com 

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking about fitness! As we continue to navigate the new year, we discuss how movement plays a part. We chat through toxic fitness culture and goal setting, how to avoid this negativity, and how to engage with movement in an empowering way.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness.  This week, we are talking about rejecting diets. The new year brings new pressure to engage with diet culture, so we talk about how diets don't work, how we can navigate the new year avoiding them, and how we can still engage with goals and growth through Intuitive Eating.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness.  Welcome to season 3, PHIT Society community! We are kicking off 2022 with some body liberation for the New Year. We talk about how to combat New Years Resolution diet culture talk, how to walk through this season with body liberation focus, and how to embrace yourself as we kick off 2022.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking about gratitude and wrapping up season 2 of the PHIT Society Podcast. We talk about how gratitude benefits us, what we are grateful for, and look back on the 2021 season of PHIT Society.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking about surviving the diet culture of the holidays, and thriving in celebration rooted in body liberation! We talk about how diet culture shows up to the party, how we can reject it, and how we can enjoy feasts from a body liberation perspective.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are busting myths around Fatness. This is a two parter - this week is part two. We discuss different myths and where they come from, why they are incorrect, and what we can do to embrace truths rooted in body liberation for all.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are busting myths around Fatness. This is a two parter - this week is part one. We discuss different myths and where they come from, why they are incorrect, and what we can do to embrace truths rooted in body liberation for all.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking about navigating injuries and body changes. We discuss how to unpack our reactions to changing abilities, how to challenge systems that harm us, and how to make peace with our bodies at any ability.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking with Kia Williams, a fitness professional, writer, presenter, and Health and Wellness Chair for the NAACP Fort Worth-Tarrant County. We talk about her journey in finding her place in the fitness industry, how she is working to make fitness expansive, and how we can work to provide food to our communities and take better care of each other. You can find Kia at kiawilliams.fitness@gmail.com or  instagram.com/kiawilliams.fitness/

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking about how to challenge diet culture conversations. We discuss ways to push back against diet culture talk, tips and tricks to handle different conversations, and how to shut down unwanted diet culture talk about your own body and choices.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking about talking about bodies! We discuss why we avoid complimenting weight loss, how we can talk about bodies without diet culture, and how we can talk about our own bodies from a liberatory place.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking about concern trolling and health. We talk about what concern trolling is, how it shows up, and how we can show care for all bodies.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness.  This week, we are talking with Erin Nitschke, an exercise science Faculty at Laramie County Community College, personal trainer and health coach, and writer for ACE, NFPT and IDEA. We talk about the body image problem in the fitness industry, how to increase our exercise science literacy, and how to have meaningful conversations that drive change. You can find Erin at: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/belivestaywell/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/BeLiveStayWell1 Linkedin - http://www.linkedin.com/in/belivestaywell Instagram – nitschkeerin

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking about finding worthiness in our today bodies. We discuss how diet culture challenges our inherent worthiness, how we can work to reject diet culture to find worthiness in our today bodies, and how we can embrace our worth every day.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking about how to interact with fitness from a body liberation mindset. We talk about what to avoid, what fitness and body liberation can look like, and how we maintain this positive relationship.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking with Kyla Lupo, a USA triathlon coach and athlete who runs a triathlon team actively advocating for a radical level of body acceptance in sport and society. We discuss her experience as a body inclusive coach, how USA Triathlon is creating change for trans athletes, and how we can engage with sports from a body liberation framework. You can find her at www.gobig.life

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking about what it means to be an athlete. We discuss how athletes are not a specific body type, how we can claim that term for ourselves, and how we can make space for every body to explore fitness and athletics.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking about how fitness professionals and enthusiasts can use a weight neutral, health at every size approach in their practice. We talk about examples of what this can look like in our own fitness practice, how we can use this in our professional practice, and how we can bring body liberation to life.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking about the relationship between weight and health. We discuss the science behind this relationship, how weight stigma and weight cycling influence our health, and how we can approach health from a weight neutral standpoint.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking about the word health! We discuss what the words health and healthy mean through diet culture, what health looks like through the health at every size paradigm, and how we can engage with health on our own terms.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking with Katrina Pilkington, a wellness professional with a focus on diversity and inclusion. We talk about her approach to intuitive based health, how to connect to our inner knowing and motivations, and why she supports a plant focused approach to nutrition.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking about how to keep body liberation at the forefront of our lives. We talk about resources we find helpful, ways to reframe, and tools to implement to keep body liberation alive and well in our day to day.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness.  This week, we are talking about how to manage bad body image days. We talk about why this is an important toolbox to build, how to acknowledge and reframe negative thoughts, and things we can do to practice kindness and self compassion.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking about different philosophies of body freedom: body positivity, body  neutrality, and body liberation. We discuss a bit of the history of each of the philosophies, the differences between them, and how we can embrace them to create a beautiful relationship with ourselves.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking with Dan Maroun, a fitness professional and research professor at the University of Illinois. We talk about his journey with fitness and embracing his authentic self, how to create more intrinsic motivation through body neutrality, and how coming out of the closet is just the beginning.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking about using inclusive language in the fitness space. We cover why this is important and beneficial, how we can consider all aspects of identity, and discuss examples of how to shift our language to make fitness spaces welcoming to all people.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking about Food Politics through the lens of HAES. We discuss how economics influences the food we eat, how the food industry influences health, and what we can do to cut through the muck and noise.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking about weight stigma. We talk through a few examples of how weight stigma has been manufactured, how it impacts people, and what we can do about it. You can grab the book What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon to learn more.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking about hot girl summer! Or hot them summer, or hot boy summer, whatever your flavor! Let’s talk about reentering the world in late phase pandemic and how to avoid diet culture and step into our happy place with body liberation.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are interviewing Sacha Coburn, a Leadership Development consultant, motivational speaker, founder at The Company You Keep and the Director and COO of Coffee Culture. We talk about how she has built a relationship with her body and fitness that is based in gratitude, her strategies to build resiliency in diet culture, and how she lives for the future and finds happiness in the now. You can find Sacha on her podcast @thenotsobreakfastshow and get more of her greatness!

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking about Health at Every Size, in particular how our bodies resist weight loss. We discuss why diets backfire, why exercise isn’t a magic pill, and other factors that make weight loss difficult. The good news is we can reject diet culture and make peace with our bodies, so let’s do this!

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. This week, we are talking about a key idea in the Health at Every Size Philosophy - set point weight! We discuss what a set point is, the science behind it, and how honoring your personal set point will bring freedom and liberation to your relationship with your body.

Welcome to the PHIT Society Podcast, a place where we all phit. Each week we record an impactful conversation exploring a more human side of fitness, health, and wellness. May is Fat Liberation month and this week, we are talking about the Health At Every Size movement. We discuss a bit of history and dig into some myths about this movement and how we can embrace health at any and every size. This conversation was inspired by this great blog post by Vincci Tsui.