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Send us a textBecky Sisco is a returning guest on our show! Be sure to check out her first appearance on episode 775 of Boundless Body Radio! Becky Sisco is a full-time momma and homeschooler of two, as well as an entrepreneur and business owner. She and her husband own a residential remodeling business, as well as a handmade natural skincare business!Becky is also the troop coordinator for one of the local American Heritage Girls troops in College Station, TX, sings in the praise band at her church and helps with cooking dinner for over two hundred people at her church every Wednesday night.However, it has been hard for her to keep up, being held back by many health issues including obesity, type-2 diabetes, Hashimoto's, acne, gastroparesis, ADHD, and depression/anxiety. Finding no help from doctors, trying every diet, and failing every time, she just kept gaining weight and feeling worse.Becky used to be very active, leading workout groups at her church and teaching Zumba at a local dance studio. She loves cycling, running, and working out with her Camp Gladiator group, and one of her biggest goals now is to do a mini-triathlon!Becky and her family have recently decided to try a carnivore diet, and she is sharing their journey on her new YouTube Channel!Find Becky at-YT- @CarnivoreFamilyJourneyFB- @Becky SiscoSisco Home Services- https://www.shsbcs.com/FB- Bee Kind Homemade CreationsFind Boundless Body at- myboundlessbody.com Book a session with us here!

Jen Sabella, the Director of Strategy and co-founder of Block Club Chicago, joins Bob Sirott to share the latest Chicago neighborhood stories. She provides details on: Millennium Park Summer Workout Schedule 2025: Free Classes Kick Off Saturday: Pilates, yoga, Zumba and other guided workout classes are back on Saturdays in Millennium Park through August. City Crews […]

Ready to rise from the ashes of betrayal and reclaim your sparkle? This summer, it's not about revenge—it's about radiance. In this empowering episode, Lora Cheadle shares how to get your groove back after infidelity through confidence, embodiment, hormone health, nutrition, and joyful self-expression. Because healing isn't just emotional—it's physical, energetic, and spiritual too. From navigating menopause and libido shifts to eating for hormone balance, moving to feel strong and sensual, and finally ditching shame for good, you'll learn how wellness is the foundation for lasting recovery. Whether you're fresh in the fallout of betrayal or simply longing to feel sexy in your own skin again, this is your invitation to glow, heal, and rise—surrounded by a sacred community of women who get it. You don't have to do this alone. Let's make this your most liberated summer yet. Want the full roadmap to your comeback? This episode is just the beginning! We can't cover it all in one show—which is exactly why I created the 90-day Hot Girl Summer program. If you're ready for deeper support around hormone health, nutrition, movement, and healing in community with other amazing women, join us at SparkleAllSeason.com. Your most radiant, confident self is waiting. Top Three Takeaways: Healing is a full-body experience – Learn how somatic movement, hormone balance, nourishing food, and mindful self-care create the foundation for physical and emotional recovery. You're not broken—you're becoming – Infidelity may crack your identity, but it also opens the door to your next, most radiant self. Community is the container for transformation – Authentic connection with other women in a safe, sacred space is one of the fastest ways to reclaim your joy, beauty, and freedom.       This Episode Is For: Women who have been betrayed by an intimate partner and are ready to reclaim their confidence, reconnect with their body, and feel sexy, strong, and spiritually alive again—on their own terms. Especially helpful for women in perimenopause or menopause who are looking to transform their pain into power, in the company of other powerful women.   Ready to create your own Hot Girl Summer? Join us at SparkleAllSeason.com for a soulful, sexy, and supportive summer of confidence, connection, and comeback. It's your time to glow—inside and out!   Subscribe, Rate & Review: If this episode spoke to you, share it with a friend and leave a review—it helps other women find the support they need!   Betrayal Recovery Tool Kit Find Relief, Reclaim Yourself, and Rewrite Your Story Download your Betrayal Recovery Roadmap & Tool Kit at www.BetrayalRecoveryGuide.com and start reclaiming yourself and your life today!   About Lora: Lora Cheadle is a betrayal recovery coach, attorney, and TEDx speaker who helps women heal from betrayal on an energetic, emotional, and ancestral level—while also providing legal guidance to help them navigate the practical complexities of infidelity and relationship transitions. She empowers women to rise from the ashes, reclaim their identity and self-worth, break free from repeating patterns, and step into their power with confidence, clarity, and grace. After being shattered by her husband's fifteen years of infidelity, Lora knows firsthand what it takes to transform devastation into an invitation for healing, freedom, and joy. Her unique approach blends deep emotional healing with tangible legal and life strategies, guiding women beyond betrayal into lives of unapologetic confidence and purpose. As the founder of Life Choreography Coaching & Advocacy, Lora provides comprehensive legal, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual support on demand. She believes that infidelity doesn't have to be the end of the dream you poured your heart and soul into—it can be the beginning of a life filled with sovereignty, connection, and joy. Licensed to practice law in California and Colorado, Lora is also a trauma-aware coach, clinical hypnotherapist, somatic attachment therapist, and advanced integrated energy practitioner. She is certified in yoga, mindfulness, group fitness, and personal training, bringing a holistic perspective to healing. She is the author of FLAUNT! Drop Your Cover and Reveal Your Smart, Sexy, & Spiritual Self (an International Book Awards Finalist and Tattered Cover Bestseller) and It's Not Burnout, It's Betrayal: 5 Tools to FUEL UP & Thrive. She also hosts the podcast FLAUNT! Create a Life You Love After Infidelity and Betrayal. Based in Colorado, Lora is an adventure-seeker who loves travel, a great book, and saying yes to life's magic. Let's connect! Share your thoughts or questions from this episode with Lora at loracheadle.com. New episodes every week. Subscribe, like, share, and join Lora Cheadle on your journey to reclaim your sparkle and create a life you love.   Special Offers from Our Sponsors! Thank you to BetterHelp for sponsoring this podcast! Take charge of your mental health and get 10% off your first month of therapy at https://BetterHelp.com/FLAUNT   Are you ready to Rise, Reclaim, and Reign as the Queen of Your Life? Infidelity may have shaken your world, but it does not define you. You are powerful. You are worthy. And you are more than capable of creating a future filled with confidence, clarity, and joy. I'm here to walk beside you, giving you the perspective, permission, and proven tools to transform betrayal into your greatest awakening. Whether through one-on-one coaching or my on-demand Affair Recovery Programs, you'll gain the guidance and support to untangle yourself from the past, reclaim your power, and step boldly into your next chapter. Your transformation starts now! Learn more at www.AffairRecoveryForWomen.com and visit www.LoraCheadle.com for even more resources and inspiration.   READY TO START A BETTER CHAPTER? Step into the future you've always dreamed of with the power of transformative rituals with the Mindful Subscription Box. Get a monthly box full of crystals, aromatherapy, and other spiritual tools worth $120. You deserve high-quality gems, crystals, oils, and mindfulness tools for self-care that truly work. It's a monthly dose of self-love delivered right to your door!  Go to www.Mindfulsouls.com  and use Discount Code LORA30 for 30% off your order!   International Book Award, Finalist Motivational Self-Help, 2021 Tattered Cover Bestseller, 2019 Have you spent your life playing by the rules, only to realize those rules weren't made for you? What if you could break free—from expectations, from betrayal, from the roles you were taught to play—and reclaim your true self? FLAUNT! is your guide to stripping away societal conditioning, healing from the heartbreak of betrayal, and rediscovering the fierce, confident woman you were born to be. With humor, wisdom, and powerful, actionable steps, Lora Cheadle empowers you to rise above the narratives that have confined you and boldly choreograph a life that is smart, sexy, spiritual, and uniquely your own. It's time to stop living for others and start living for you. Buy Now on Amazon, or wherever books are sold.   It's Not Burnout, It's Betrayal: 5 Tools to FUEL UP & Thrive  Burnout isn't just exhaustion—it's a betrayal of your time, energy, and trust. This essential guide redefines burnout, exposing its hidden roots and equipping individuals, teams, and leaders with five powerful tools to reclaim their passion, purpose, and well-being. If you're ready to break free from burnout and step into a life of clarity, confidence, and fulfillment, this book is your roadmap. Available now on Amazon. Download your free guide, BURNOUT UNCOVERED: Fostering Candid Conversations for Teams at www.ItsNotBurnoutItsBetrayal.com.         Transcript Lora Cheadle [00:00:01]: You're listening to Flaunt, find your sparkle and create a life you love after infidelity or betrayal, a podcast for women who've been betrayed by their intimate partner and want to turn their devastation into an invitation to reclaim them selves and their worth. Tune in weekly so you can start making sense of it all and learn how to be okay on the inside no matter what goes on on the outside. Download your free betrayal recovery toolkit at betrayalrecoveryguide.com. Lora Cheadle [00:00:35]: Who wants to get their groove back? Who wants to feel really good and sexy and strong and powerful and happy again after infidelity or betrayal. Who here was totally rocked by their partner's infidelity? And not only by their partner's infidelity and all that meant, but who here also feels old, feels ugly, feels like aging is really hard? Who here is going through perimenopause or menopause and is struggling to put it all together again because suddenly their body is changing? Yes. All of the above. And that's what this show is about. We are going to address all of that. We are going to address all the ways we feel bad. And let me just be clear. Infidelity is a huge emotional impact, but I also wanna talk about the it's not really the physical impact, but the psychological impact, which is different than emotional. Lora Cheadle [00:01:39]: The psychological impact of not feeling pretty enough or sexy enough or hot enough, it's really devastating. And I talk to all of you during our one on one sessions or in the Facebook group, and everybody talks about comparing themselves to the affair partner. And either way, if the affair partner is younger, thinner, hotter, it's devastating. And if the affair partner is older, heavier, frumpy, or uglier, it's devastating. It's devastating no matter what because of that psychological impact of it disrupts how we see ourselves and our belief of if we're the pretty one or we're the chosen one or we're the loved one. And it impacts our confidence in ways that are not superficial. And I think that's what I really wanna communicate to you in this show is wanting to feel pretty is not superficial. Wanting to age well is not superficial. Lora Cheadle [00:02:44]: Wanting to feel sexy is not trivial. We all want that. We want to look good. It feels good when you look in the mirror and you like what you see. It feels good when somebody smiles at you and says, hey, great shoes. I love that hair color. It feels good. That's this human connection thing, and that's something that we all want. Lora Cheadle [00:03:09]: And quite frankly, that's something that we deserve too. And that's what I really want to lean into in this episode. I wanna talk about health. I wanna talk about hormones. Perimenopause, menopause, the trauma that infidelity puts you through. I'll share my story a little bit later in the show, but it put this trauma put me into early menopause. Not sleeping messes with your hormones. Not being able to eat messes with your hormones. Lora Cheadle [00:03:40]: When your hormones are out of whack, your thinking is out of whack. You feel crazy because it's normal to feel crazy, but also you feel crazy probably because your body is not running in optimal condition because you are incredibly stressed. And when the body is in the state of incredible stress, it's not being vibrant and healthy and joyful. So many of you that I talk to talk about feeling old and ugly. And I know that after this happened, I was like, there's trauma in my face. I didn't used to have this droopy face. And now I have jowls, and now I have wrinkles and bags around my eyes because it was like I cried too much for too long, and then the the puffiness never went away. And then I was aging, and I was getting belly fat, and I was getting all these things that I never had before. Lora Cheadle [00:04:37]: And it just exacerbated everything that I was already feeling, and it just made everything so much worse. So that's what we're gonna talk about today. I wanna get really honest. I want you to reach out to me. I want you to share your story. I want you to just be like, amen, sister. You hear me? But I really want to talk about how it feels to be a woman, how it feels to be an aging woman, how it feels to be a menopausal woman, how it feels to be a betrayed woman, and how it feels to have your identity ruptured as well. My identity, I was always one of the pretty girls. Lora Cheadle [00:05:25]: That was my identity. I was always one of the chosen ones. I owned that as a piece of my identity for good or for bad, for right or for wrong. So when I found out that my husband cheated, it rocked my identity. Wait. I'm not one of the pretty girls? Wait. I wasn't one of the ones who was chosen? He chose somebody else and not me. What does that say about me? If if I'm not the vivacious one, if I'm not that then who am I? Because how could my own love, my own partner not choose me? And that's a lot. Lora Cheadle [00:06:08]: And I know that who ever you feel like you were as a piece of your identity, your partner's betrayal ruptured that as well. And for that, I am so sorry. I am so sorry. But I also want to say that this truly is a great opportunity to rebuild, to rebuild that identity. Yes. Maybe you can go back to the being the chosen one, being the pretty one, being the smart one, being whatever it is. But the way you're rebuilding yourself is with such authenticity because it's not reliant upon external validation. You're rebuilding yourself from the inside out. Lora Cheadle [00:06:48]: You are owning and claiming yourself and your identity. And if you wanna switch, if you wanna suddenly because become the wise one, you can do that too. But, again, you're rebuilding yourself from the inside out. As part of this I mean, this episode is gonna be powerful, but we can't change the world in fifty minutes, unfortunately. But as part of that, I have created a summer program for all of us. It's just a ninety day program. It's gonna be a lot of group work. I'm lovingly calling it, like, hot girl summer just because that's the silly, fun, fresh vibe I want us to move into. Lora Cheadle [00:07:30]: You know, at first, I thought about, like, I'm gonna do betrayal recovery, and I thought, no. There's such heaviness to that. This is hot girl summer, man. We're getting our groove back. I know we're not girls. I know we're women, but it's this is hot girl summer. We're gonna play. We're gonna put on our self tanner. Lora Cheadle [00:07:49]: We're gonna get a new haircut maybe. We're gonna find an outfit that feels good. We're gonna go socialize and connect and learn new things. We're gonna get into our bodies. We're gonna dance. Oh, are we gonna dance this summer, ladies? We are gonna dance, dance, dance. We're gonna take care of our spirits. We are going to heal the collective feminine. Lora Cheadle [00:08:15]: We are going to create such a strong, powerful, sacred sisterhood that whatever happens in your future, in your daughter's future, in your aunt's future, in your mother's future, in your grandmother's future, in your sister's futures cannot be denied. Because the strength of our shared bond, the strength of our joy, the strength of our power in reclaiming our joy, our fun, our vivacious energy is just gonna send ripples to the world, and that is my intention. I'm working on the details now, but it's ninety days, And you'll be able to sign up at sparkleallseason.com. So you can reach out to me if you have any questions, but otherwise, sparkleallseason.com, and we are gonna get our groove back. We're gonna be hot, sexy, fun, loving girls this summer, and we're gonna slip right into our joy. Now I am not talking about bypassing. I am talking about doing the work. I'm talking about staying connected to our heart, staying presence. Lora Cheadle [00:09:23]: If we need to grieve, grieve. But I'm also talking about allowing ourselves to come back online, taking care of ourselves, nurturing our wellness, our health, figuring it out so we can figure it out. And isn't that funny? In order to figure out this whole trauma infidelity, in order to figure it out, we have to figure ourselves out. Because the truth of the matter is we need to feel optimal. We need to be in an optimal state in order to have the resources, the capacity to do the deep soul work to heal the wound of betrayal. And that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna hold the work on both sides, the high joy and the deep pain, and we're gonna go there. We're gonna go there on both ends, merge them in the center, which is the heart, with each other, and bring it forward, birth it into the world. Lora Cheadle [00:10:31]: So enough about that sparkleallseason.com. You're going to love it, and let's get on with the show for the day. Okay. I'm gonna start by telling you a little story. When I found out about my husband's betrayal, life, I thought, was really on the precipice of being really good. My youngest was about to go away to college. I was dancing some burlesque. I was feeling so good. Lora Cheadle [00:11:04]: It was like, I finally have time to get in shape, to cook meals that I want to cook, to sleep in and not always have to be rushed, you know, to get my kids up and worry about things like that. I can start traveling with my husband. I'm gonna do all these wonderful things. I'm gonna start taking care of me. And then I found out. And this trauma was so severe that it sent me into early menopause, which I didn't really know was a thing. But here's how that happened. Trauma puts us in a state of fight, flight, or freeze. Lora Cheadle [00:11:51]: It hijacks our nervous system. We start pumping out cortisol. I was not feeling good, as I'm sure you know. It does not feel good at all. I couldn't sleep. I absolutely could not sleep to save my life. So many of you tell me the exact same thing too. Like, you just can't sleep, which also wreaks havoc on your body, on your hormones. Lora Cheadle [00:12:21]: Eating was awful. I I couldn't digest. I wasn't hungry, but then I would just start eating, and nothing tasted good. I got no joy out of the food. And sometimes I would just overeat because I was sitting there eating, and then sometimes I would forget to eat. And then sometimes I would try to eat, and I was nauseous. And I couldn't eat. I did not drink my water. Lora Cheadle [00:12:52]: During the struggle with my husband for his phone, when I found out all the texts and everything, my toe broke. So I couldn't even walk. So the normal working out and dancing that I had done, I could no longer do. And the combination of all of that stress, all of that trauma, no sleeping, inadequate nutrition, no working out, all of that, sent my body into early menopause. I mean, my periods just stopped. And And it was one of those things that sometimes you don't know that you don't know. It just stopped. And I wasn't really too much aware of it. Lora Cheadle [00:13:40]: It just stopped and other things I was thinking about. So it's not like I went to my doctor. I'm not sure if my doctor would have said or known what to do anyway, and I just moved on. But here's the thing. When you're going through perimenopause, your emotion your emotions, your hormones are up and down, and your emotions are up and down, and the the level of brain fog is up and down. And it's normal. Perimenopause is a roller coaster ride, and there's no medical test for perimenopause because the hormones peak and valley. So it would depend on where you test. Lora Cheadle [00:14:26]: You would need to, like, test every single day to find out where your hormones are. Oh, estrogen's up today. Oh, progesterone's down today. Oh, there's no test for perimenopause. The test for perimenopause is do you feel a little bit scattered and chaotic and out of control? Are your periods sporadic? That is something that happens to some people, but not everybody. So how much of what you're feeling is anxiety due to the affair, and how much of what you're feeling might be perimenopause or menopause? How much of it is your hormones? And it's really hard to differentiate and to tell. And to some degree, it doesn't really matter. You just know it feels awful, but to some degree, it does matter because you can be supported for your hormones. Lora Cheadle [00:15:20]: And if you're going to a psychiatrist and you're having problems with your mental health and sleeping, they might be giving you medication and rightfully so because if you're having some psychotic breaks if you can't sleep, having medication, having that support in the short term is definitely helpful. But what about hormonal support too? What would it be like also to maybe have an estrogen patch or to take progesterone? What might it be like to have your hormones balanced? Last week, I went to Chalene Johnson's camp b more, and it was amazing. It was a ton of fun. It was in Vegas. And the founder of MidiHealth was there as well as many other physicians who specialize in menopause. And it was shocking to me how simple and how accessible hormone replacement is and what a big impact it can have on the way we feel. I had heard, like, probably so many of us, that, oh, you gotta be careful with hormones. Oh, you gotta be careful. Lora Cheadle [00:16:31]: It can cause cancer. In fact, a new study came out two weeks ago that kind of debunks a lot of the old research that was done because the old research was done on, like, synthetic estrogens, not some of these bioidenticals. It was done some were done on rats, not even on women. And there are so many different factors that were not taken into consideration. So I've kinda had this belief, like, oh, you really have to be careful with that. And it doesn't really matter. Why would we wanna extend our childbearing years anyway? Well, here's what I learned at that conference from many of these physicians. Estrogen in our body helps with cognitive function. Lora Cheadle [00:17:18]: It helps with our cardiovascular health. It helps with bone density. It helps us age well, and it helps us think clearly. And most importantly, it makes us feel good. It can get rid of that brain fog. It can make us feel more alert. Progesterone. I started taking progesterone. Lora Cheadle [00:17:44]: It makes you sleep at night. It is better than I've ever had with anything with magnesium or melatonin or any of those other sleep aids. Progesterone is amazing. My body was craving progesterone. I didn't even realize that I had some brain fog going on. I didn't realize some of the, you know, the achiness, the heaviness, the weight gain, things like that. They were hormonal. When I feel better in my body, I feel more more like I can take on the world. Lora Cheadle [00:18:21]: When you feel better in your body, you are going to feel more confident, more secure. When you are able to think clearly, when you were able to sleep at night, you're gonna have far more capacity. Now I'm not saying everybody has to do hormone replacement. There are contraindications, and if you just don't want to, you just don't have to. But what I am saying is there's a lot of really good education out there, who I started using was MidiHealth, m I d I, Health. They are they're like online physicians. It's a real physician. They're covered by insurance, but they're all specialists in women's health. Lora Cheadle [00:19:08]: They're all specialists in hormone replacement. They're all specialists in everything that's going on. So even if you have no interest in hormone replacement, see a women's health physician, see a women's health specialist so you can start taking care of your body, sleeping better, regulating yourself better, and feeling better. So that was the first thing that I learned, and that was the first thing that I wanted to talk to you about because I wish somebody would have talked to me about that. I wish somebody would have asked. You know? Did you know that trauma can kick you into early menopause? No. I did not know that. Did you know that being kicked into early menopause can have devastating effects on long term bone density? No. Lora Cheadle [00:19:57]: I didn't know that. Did you know there's cardiovascular implications for menopause? No. I didn't know that. So these are some of the things. There's an impact. It's not just that you don't have your period anymore. It impacts everything. And for me, I'm definitely interested in cognitive decline. Lora Cheadle [00:20:19]: I don't want cognitive decline. I'm interested in bone health. I'm interested in longevity. I'm interested in feeling and looking good for as long as I can. Yes. It's part of the aging gracefully, but it's also aging healthily. And I don't want to be the frail old lady who can't get out of bed. So what I wanna move into next, because I feel like hormones are kind of that basic foundation, but that next level up, that next layer is the health, the nutrition. Lora Cheadle [00:20:55]: And I don't know about you, but nutrition was really hard during the betrayal recovery process. I mean, early on, you can't eat. The things that sound good are not necessarily healthy. And I just kind of lost all of that. Adequate nutrition is essential for our brains, for our bodies. And I'm not gonna spend a ton of time about talking about this because we all know it. We all know it. But what I am gonna talk about is that accountability and the reminders of how do I nurture and nourish myself. Lora Cheadle [00:21:37]: I'm not just cramming in food to get to my next meeting. This is feeding my soul. This is feeling my body. This is fueling what I'm going to look and feel like in ten years, in twenty years. And what I do now has a direct impact on how I will feel then. And that's this part of my hot girl summer is I want us to remember that and to start developing some habits around drinking healthy waters, taking if you wanna take your vitamins, your minerals. I have some thoughts on different supplements. I have some thoughts on different vitamins, but, obviously, you do you because I don't know your medical history. Lora Cheadle [00:22:27]: But things like taking a really good multivitamin, taking vitamin d. Vitamin d is something that's essential, and so many of us are deficient in vitamin d. And when you are low in vitamin d, it can lead to depression. Well, again, hello. Going through infidelity is very depressing. I need all the support. I need all the help that I can get. So, yeah, let me supplement my vitamin d. Lora Cheadle [00:22:57]: If it's gonna help, it needs help. It can help. The other thing is b vitamins. We burn a lot of b vitamins when we're under stress. Burn, burn, burn, burn, burn. Supplementing with your b vitamins can help give you that energy to help keep you online so you can manage the stress. Magnesium. There's seven forms of magnesium, which I didn't know, but they're all seven forms are utilized in our bodies differently and they can help us relax. Lora Cheadle [00:23:27]: Well, do you need some sleep support? Maybe magnesium can help. Maybe vitamin d for the depression. Maybe vitamin b, the b complex for your stress. Like, there's some simple things that we can do. And no. I'm not talking about, like, pedaling high end vitamins. I I know I know there's some high end things out there that are really, really great and really, really effective and things like that. But by the same token, there are so many things you can just go to Costco and pick up a big old bottom of bottle of b complex, and it's gonna help. Lora Cheadle [00:23:59]: And it's in service of not only getting you through this present moment, but in building the body that you want ten years from now, twenty years from now. Whether you're with this partner or with a new partner or you're gloriously on your own, don't you wanna be vibrant and strong and healthy and happy? Yeah. I don't wanna look like the haggard woman who has been through hell and back. I wanna look through look like the strong, powerful woman I feel like inside. And to me, it's really that blend of that inside, I want to feel strong. Outside, I want to look strong. Inside, I want to feel beautiful. Outside, I wanna look beautiful. Lora Cheadle [00:24:43]: I want congruence between how I look and how I feel. It's not that I'm decorating this body to impress other people or attract a new partner or impress my, you know, my husband. I want to look how I feel and I want to feel good. And I wanna look like I feel good. And I wanna look at myself in the mirror and smile and be like, yeah. And I wanna look down at my body, and I wanna like what I see, and I want to hike, and I want to run around, and I want to break out into a dance break when a song comes on that I really like and not be like, oh, ow. I can't do it. Oh, oh, oh. Lora Cheadle [00:25:25]: I want to take on the world, and I wanna look like I wanna take on the world. So that's why I mentioned nutrition. And then closely following nutrition is fitness. And again, I'm not preaching that you need to go change your life and have a fitness routine. Although I think you know this about me, maybe not. I've taught fitness since 1988. '19 '80 '8. I graduated from high school in '87. Lora Cheadle [00:25:56]: I started teaching aerobics in 1988, and I have pretty much taught nonstop since then. All forms of group exercise. I love group exercise. Not only do you get a fun, good workout, but you have a fun community. You've got a schedule. You go to the club at a certain time. You've got your class. You've got your regulars. Lora Cheadle [00:26:18]: You've got the music. You're moving. Whether it's, like, the hardest workout or the easiest workout or somewhere in between doesn't sometimes matter. It just matters that you're out there and you're moving and you're grooving and you're connected and people notice when you're gone. And that's nice. It's nice to be in a community of other people doing healthy things and to have people notice when you're gone. And in my community, we do, like, these little group happy hours about twice a year. We'll just meet at a restaurant or go see a movie, and we'll just connect because we're supporting each other and it's fun. Lora Cheadle [00:26:56]: And and in my case, I teach up at the rec center now, and most of the women in my class are in their seventies. But it's a beautiful connection, And we all care about each other and being fit feels good. Now here's the psychological component of fitness beyond all of the regular components. Like you will live longer. You will have a better quality of life. You will look better. You, like, you will have less aches, pains, ailments, all of that. There is no downside to having a fitness program. Lora Cheadle [00:27:35]: But I think what I really want to talk about is the somatic piece of fitness that I think gets overlooked a lot of times. Somatics is just another word for using the body, and we can use our body to make us feel a certain way. So I wish you could just talk back to me here. What are some of the words that you think about about how infidelity made you feel? It made me feel weak. It made me feel stupid. It made me feel ugly. It made me feel worthless. It made me feel broken. Lora Cheadle [00:28:11]: It made me feel all of those things. Think about all of those things that infidelity made you feel. K. Got your list? Now here's what's magic about that. What kind of exercise is the opposite of that? Take the word that you feel. I felt crushed. I felt broken. What is the opposite of crushed and broken? Maybe it's expanded. Lora Cheadle [00:28:47]: Instead of crushed, I'm expanded. That's where flaunt comes from. Instead of crumpled, we are flaunting. We are expanded. Instead of broken, we are whole. Instead of weak and stupid, we are strong and powerful. First step is taking the word that you feel. Second step is finding the word that is on the opposite side of that, and the third step is doing that thing physically. Lora Cheadle [00:29:22]: When you feel weak and broken, get to the gym and lift some weight. Show your strength. Move that body. I am broken, and I am weak, and I'm pumping this iron, and I'm doing squats. And you don't even really need to know what what to do. You can just go to the weight room and read the directions on the weights. If you were feeling agitated, you know that feeling where you're like, I can't settle down. I can't settle down. Lora Cheadle [00:29:52]: I can't settle down. And you're twitchy. That's adrenaline pumping through your body. Get it out. Don't let it twitch. It's trying to get out. Shake. Dance. Lora Cheadle [00:30:03]: A lot of my somatic processing songs in my program, we do shaking and we do dancing, move it out. That could be a great Zumba class, a great dance class. Shake it, move it, twist it, twirl it, aerobics. Move it. If you were like, I'm so trapped, run. Get on the treadmill, walk, run, sprint, do something. But instead of being trapped, set yourself free. Do you need flexibility and flow? Maybe you need yoga because you feel stuck. Lora Cheadle [00:30:43]: How many of you raise your hand? Raise your hand. How many of you have said I feel so stuck? Let's try some breathing yoga and stretch. Let's get you unstuck physically. Let's get into those hip flexors. Let's get into the hamstrings. Let's stretch the waist and the back. Let's stretch the heart and get you unstuck. When you do physically that thing, it helps bring online what you want to feel because we can feel and sense our bodies. Lora Cheadle [00:31:18]: And it's hard. It's really, really hard to have an amazing workout where you've lifted some weights and you feel powerful and strong and you've pushed through and you've done something difficult. And maybe you've spent some time on a stair master or in a class, and you're you're sweaty and you're wrung out, but you're strong and powerful, it's hard to go around feeling sorry for yourself when you've worked out. When you have done something that builds your body and you have constructed yourself, it's really hard to feel broken because you were providing yourself with evidence that you were not broken. The evidence is look who I am. The evidence is look at what this body can do. The evidence is feeling yourself differently. So that's that fitness piece. Lora Cheadle [00:32:12]: Yes. Fitness is important. There's nothing I can tell you knew about that probably, but let's talk about the psychological impact of fitness, and that's where I want you to focus. And that's where we're gonna be focusing during our ninety days together in our little hot girl summer. We're going to start proving to ourselves. I still got it. Or maybe I got it for the first time, but we're going to be using our bodies, not in a punishing way. Like I gotta do 12 more reps, but in a flowy, dancy, sexy way. Lora Cheadle [00:32:48]: And one of the things that I'm gonna bring in is a lot of the sexy dance. I think, you know, I dance burlesque. I've I've got many different yoga less burlesque classes, and we're gonna do that together. We're gonna do that together live on Zoom, or you can watch the replay just in short chunks, just in, like, thirty minute, quote, exercise chunks. But we're gonna learn some of the moves. We're gonna learn how to flow. We're gonna learn how to embody and hold that energy because that was taken from you. Your sensuality, your sexuality, your feeling of being chosen and desired was taken from you when your partner cheated. Lora Cheadle [00:33:33]: And it is time to take that back. Your joy, your pleasure for you, not for anybody else. So I'm gonna teach you how to get in your body, how to move in a way that feels sensuous to you. You're gonna learn the moves and it's gonna be fun. And here's what I wanna say about that. Can this be triggering? Oh, yes. It can be triggering. And if you're sitting here thinking, I love hate this, Lora. Lora Cheadle [00:34:04]: I hear you. I love hate it too. Because there's so much societal conditioning about what it means when a woman is sexy. Ah, that's scary. Scary, scary, scary. It's not scary. It's who you are. You have been conditioned to not be fully expressed in your body. Lora Cheadle [00:34:24]: You have been told, oh my God, what will people think? There's a lot of layers of conditioning. And no, we can't really undo it all in ninety days, but you know what? We're gonna take a really good start. We're going to get you into your body. We are going to get you flowing freely. You can have your camera off. You can be alone at home and nobody's gonna know. And this is what I want you to know. Most people cry. Lora Cheadle [00:34:50]: Most people cry at some point during my sexy dance classes because we're out of our heads and we're into our bodies and we are loving ourselves. We're not talking anything over the top here. We're talking shoulder rolls. We're talking hips circles. We're talking peeling the glove off and twinkling our fingers up our leg. We're talking flirty, sexy, fun moves, but it can be so triggering. So triggering. And my ask for you is to let those tears flow. Lora Cheadle [00:35:23]: Let your heart open. Notice where you feel uncomfortable and just love yourself through that. And then at the end of the day, at the end of the class, at the end of the summer, you're just gonna be laughing and feeling so much more confident and free and expressed in who you are. So these are those pieces. Let's talk about hormones. Talk to your doctor, go to Mini Health. Send me a message. I can talk to you about some stuff. Lora Cheadle [00:35:59]: I'm clear on the other side, but get yourself feeling better. Hormones are powerful. And if they're out of whack, everything is gonna be out of whack. And this is not about a hormonal woman. No. No. No. No. Lora Cheadle [00:36:13]: No. This is about how can I support myself so I can be in my right mind and I can feel competent and confident again? Nutrition, fitness, wellness, sensuality, expression. The other thing that I think is really important and often gets downplayed, but just this whole concept of beauty and aging. And we talked about this a lot at, Shailene Johnson's Can't Be More last week. They had some plastic surgeons there, and they talked about all the different procedures that were available from nose jobs to, like, the eyelid lifts to face lifts and deep plane lifts and the different kinds of lasers. And there's so much out there. And I think my biggest takeaway from that was it doesn't matter what you do or what you don't do. But what does matter is that you feel comfortable and confident in your own skin. Lora Cheadle [00:37:12]: And, yeah, we're all gonna age. And, yeah, things are gonna shift and change, but are you happy? And it's that again, it's that inward and that outward. What can I do to build myself up inside, and what can I do to make the outsides match my big beautiful inside? And a couple weeks ago, I went and had IPL. That's the pulse laser on my face for dark spots. I even had it done on the back of my hands. And it was one of those things that I'm cut not really disappointed, but not thrilled with the results on my face. But, oh my god, so thrilled with my hands. I didn't realize how the dark spots on my hands really made me feel. Lora Cheadle [00:37:57]: And now I look down and I have these, like, beautiful white hands. And I'm like, oh, this is amazing. It makes me feel really good. And my commitment to myself is that I'm gonna start leaning in more. I have an appointment for Botox tomorrow. Again, I'm not talking full level face lift. If you wanna have a full level face lift, do it. But I'm gonna start exploring some things. Lora Cheadle [00:38:25]: I've had Botox in the past, and it was fine. But I'm like, now I'm just gonna go. Before I was, like, very conservative. Oh, let's do a little bit around my eyes before my TEDx because I I just don't want these smile lines. And let's just do some in my forehead, but let's go light. And I feel like the energy I'm going in with tomorrow is more like, hey. What can you do? What do you see? What what might make me a little bit happier here? And, again, not for the sake of just being beautiful from all of this stuff. But you know what? How can I support me? And even if it was superficial, I mean, let's just call that out. Lora Cheadle [00:39:02]: Even if it's just total superficial and I wanna be hot, who cares? It's my life. Right? I gotta do me. I wanna look good. I don't care when I look bad, but I like to look good too. Because I have built my confidence to that level that it doesn't matter, and I'm okay because I'm doing this for me. I'm not doing this for somebody else. This takes me back. If you have read my book, Flaunt, drop your cover, and reveal your smart, sexy, and spiritual self, one of the terms that I coined was the term naked self worth. Lora Cheadle [00:39:40]: And same thing, I know some people are triggered by that. They're like, naked, infidelity. Oh, we can't talk about sex. We can't talk about sex because this was a sexual injury. Okay. Hang with me. Yes. Can that be triggering? Yes. Lora Cheadle [00:39:52]: Hearing about sex, is that triggering? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Becoming intimate again with your partner. Difficult. Lora Cheadle [00:39:58]: Yes. Triggering. Yes. But here's the thing. Ignoring it doesn't make it go away. Ignoring your own sensuality, sexuality, beauty, fun, joy, it's not about them. It's about you. It's not about, I wanna look so good that I'm going to that it's like a revenge makeover. Lora Cheadle [00:40:23]: Even if it is, let it be. It's about you. If you want to look good at whatever level, look good. But the concept of naked self worth is that you are just as comfortable in your own skin with yourself fully propped up, makeup, hair, filter on the phone, 10 pounds gone, that your level of confidence and self awareness as as your perfect ideal self is the same level as your confidence if you were woken up out of a deep sleep, had to put your 20 year old glasses on, your holy sweats, and run to the grocery store and you just ran into somebody? That, yes, you can acknowledge not looking my best now, but my level of self worth is the same. I have naked self worth, meaning I don't need anything else to make me worthy. I know that I am worthy for who I am. I know that flawed, broken, messy, whatever is a part of who I am, and I accept that. And that's what I want us to build this summer, but forever. Lora Cheadle [00:41:42]: I want us to build that level of self worth, that level of naked self worth that no matter what happens, I'm on it. I've got this. I am worthy. I am connected. I honor myself. And it's a lot about that sovereignty and that self honoring. How much are you respecting and honoring and loving yourself day in and day out? For me, this is for me. That does include doing some beauty rituals. Lora Cheadle [00:42:16]: That does include doing my little, you know, face lift not face lift, face facial patches. What are those little things? Like, you do a facial and you lay there and you put a little mask on your face. I've got so many of the little fun beauty things. I have, like, the Nura laser. I have, the Ferrero bear. I do fun things on my face. I just got my haircut today. I do my own color. Lora Cheadle [00:42:45]: I hate getting my nails done, but I do that periodically. But I want to feel good. So what are the things that I'm doing to care for myself because I want to feel good? I want my body to be in good shape. I want to learn new makeup tricks for women with older skin. My eyes are starting to sag. What can I do differently? I've recently changed my eye shadow because it didn't work the same way that it used to work. I've experimented with facial exercises. Like, I'm doing all of these things because it's fun, because I want to feel good. Lora Cheadle [00:43:25]: And when I do things that make me feel good, then I feel better. I still have that self worth and that self confidence, but it gives me a lift. And what I want for you is that lift too. What I want for you is permission to go do whatever the heck you need to do. I want you to have permission to buy the new clothes or get the makeover or go see the hair specialist or go to a med spa and see see what it would take. See what somebody recommends, whether it's fillers or Botox or a facial or whatever. Go check it out. You have my permission. Lora Cheadle [00:44:09]: You have my permission to make yourself feel as beautiful and as worthy and as sacred and as adored and as pampered as you want. And if you're like, Ick, I don't want any of it. Perfect. Know what makes you happy and lean into that. Do what makes you happy. This is all about flaunt. That first step of flaunt is f, find your fetish. I want to be girly. Lora Cheadle [00:44:40]: I want to have fun. I want to be beautiful. I want to feel sexy and powerful and strong in my own skin. I don't wanna feel frumpy. I don't wanna feel out of shape. I don't wanna feel embarrassed. I don't wanna feel like I hate my body. I hate my clothes. Lora Cheadle [00:44:56]: I hate my hair. I hate my face. I don't want to look at my summer vacation photos and be like, oh God, I don't want that experience. So I'm going to lean in to changing it. This is that sovereign peace. This is that power peace. We are not victims of life. We are not victims of aging, victims of circumstance, or even victims of infidelity. Lora Cheadle [00:45:23]: What are the things that you can do to get your groove back, to take your groove back? What are the things that you can do to take back control of your life, of yourself, of your mental well-being, and to start having fun again? Friendship is hugely important. Connection is hugely important. As you know, if you're in my Facebook group, so many of the infidelity and betrayal recovery, like Facebook and support groups, are bitch sessions. We do not need another bitch session. I do not need another bitch session. It does not help. What we need is connection, community, support. What we need is to be able to have deep conversations, real conversations, meaningful conversations. Lora Cheadle [00:46:05]: What we need to be able to say is, this is what I'm struggling with with intimacy. How did you get through it? Is this an aging thing? Maybe this is a hormonal thing. Maybe this has nothing to do with my relationship. Maybe this is my hormones. And to have somebody say, yes. Did you know estradiol vaginal cream can really help with vaginal dryness? I mean, sometimes it is that simple. Sometimes we get we waste. We waste so much time in our heads feeling like we're broken. Lora Cheadle [00:46:37]: Oh my god. What's wrong? I will never be able to enjoy sex again. I'll never be able to love my partner again. I'm never gonna be able to love myself again. I'm broken. I'm there's solutions out there. Let me tell you. There are solutions for everything. Lora Cheadle [00:46:55]: We just need to be vulnerable enough to ask, and we need to create that safe space. And that is my intention is I want to create this safe space for all of us so we can talk and we can share. I'm I'm feeling crazy about this. I'm feeling stressed about that. I don't know what to do here. Let's try this. Ask your doctor that. Have you tried this? Let's do this workout together. Lora Cheadle [00:47:21]: Tell me about those tears. Because that is the only way we are going to get ourselves back. The more we hide, it's so valid if you don't wanna tell everybody in your world about the infidelity. So valid. I get that. But it's also hiding a lot that you're going through, and we can't heal when we're in hiding. We have to heal with each other. So many of the women that I coach, they want weekly sessions because it's a place to talk. Lora Cheadle [00:47:52]: It's a place where they can show up and share, and they can ask hard questions because they have nobody else to talk to, because they're tired of being judged. And it's just so refreshing to be able to talk and connect. And that's what we're gonna create here. We're gonna create this community where you can talk to people, where you can say this is what's going on so you can get the help. Because like I said, there's solutions out there. It's just that sometimes we even have a hard time describing what the problem is. And that was something that the director of MidiHealth talked a lot about. She said that so often women don't they don't know what their symptoms are because the symptoms change. Lora Cheadle [00:48:35]: Because like in perimenopause, when I said earlier, the hormones go up and down and up and down. For a week, you might have a hard time sleeping. For another week, it might be joint pain. For another week, it might be irritability. For another week, it might be night sweats. For another week, it might be a random hot flashes. Things happen and then women are like, I don't even know. I have all of these random little symptoms, and they don't make any sense, and they're not consistent. Lora Cheadle [00:49:02]: And a lot of the medical providers have not been trained to recognize and realize when hormones are fluctuating, your symptoms will fluctuate. You're not crazy. You do not need a pat on the knee. You do not need to be told to deal with it. You need to talk to other people who are like, oh my god. Let me tell you. I feel crazy too. Let me tell you my symptoms are up and down or all over the place, but this is what balanced them out. Lora Cheadle [00:49:29]: Let me tell you. This is how I felt. Let me tell you. This is what I was afraid of. This is what I was so afraid of, getting intimate with my partner again. And I had all these insecurities about my body and my performance and if I was good enough. So let's talk about that, shall we? Okay. Let's talk about that. Lora Cheadle [00:49:46]: Who talks about that? Don't you wish everybody just talked about that? And then we all knew what each other knows. Because when we all share with each other about what we all know, pretty soon we're getting a more and more complete picture of what it really is rather than staying stuck in our head or reading random articles articles online. And, yes, there can be some amazing stuff online, but there can also be a lot of harmful stuff online and a lot of stuff written from a man's perspective or a woman who has not been through what you've been through's perspective. So come together, whether it's this ninety day program with me and all of us, or whether it's with somebody else, make sure it's a healthy community. Make sure the focus is acceptance, is curiosity, is being vulnerable, being authentic, and asking the hard questions. Make sure it's on solutions that make you feel better, that you're not shamed for or shut down for. Give yourself everything that you need and ultimately know that you deserve to feel really good. You deserve to feel really strong, free, healthy, vibrant, and joyful, and that you can. Lora Cheadle [00:51:10]: Infidelity is not a death sentence. It does not mean the whole rest of your life is ruined. It just means that you need to integrate this thing, this awful thing into your heart, into your life in a new and powerful way. One of the stories that I have shared in the past, and I'll share it again real quick here, is when I was in Peru, I did a plant medicine journey, and I never thought I would have done something like that. The long and the short was it was about integration of the ugly into what I had thought was my perfect, beautiful, amazing life. I mean, after all, I had worked fifty some years on creating perfection. Right? I had done it all right, and all of a sudden, I'm given this. And how do I integrate this? And what I learned is some things can't be beautifully integrated. Lora Cheadle [00:52:17]: They just can't. Some things just are, and they are ugly, and they are a part of it. And we can't dress things up, and we can't love it away. We just have to deal with it. We just have to let it be there, and we have to let it be ugly. And, you know, I'll share the full story again next week because we're we're getting close on time here. But it's a powerful story about integrating that ugliness in our life and just accepting it, that it is what it is. We can't sugarcoat. Lora Cheadle [00:53:00]: We can't pretend. We just have to be with what is. So I really hope you join me this summer. I hope you join me for ninety days of connection and fun and adventure and friendship and ritual and dance and beauty and joy and strength and power and all of that. I really hope you join me. Sparkleallseason.com for more information and to sign up. And you know me, I'm always available. If you wanna reach out, reach out. Lora Cheadle [00:53:33]: We can Zoom. You can send me an email, and I can answer all of your questions. But what I want you to know more than anything is you can get your groove back. You can get your groove back and then some. You can move into midlife, second chapter, third act, whatever it is, with so much passion and joy and freedom, and you could be the fullest, most vibrant version of yourself, maybe that you have ever been. So thank you for listening. As usual, always remember to flaunt exactly who you are because who you are is always more than enough. Lora Cheadle [00:54:20]: Tune in next time to flaunt, find your sparkle, and create a life you love after infidelity or betrayal with Lora Cheadle every Wednesday at 7AM and 7PM Eastern Standard Time on syndicated DreamVision seven radio network. Uncover the truth of what's possible for you on the other side of betrayal and develop the skills and strategies necessary to embrace the future and flourish today. Download your free Betrayal Recovery Toolkit at betrayalrecoveryguide.com.

MS-Patientin Corinna berichtet 2021 und 2025 über ihre Therapie, ihren Verlauf, ihren Job, das Bogenschießen und ihre Liebe zu Pferden. Auf meinem Blog findest Du die Kurzform vom Erfahrungsbericht von Corinna zum Nachlesen: https://ms-perspektive.de/podcast-079-interview-mit-ms-patientin-corinna-peppercrumb MS-Patientin Corinna alias @peppercrumb ist zurück im Podcast – vier Jahre nach unserem ersten Gespräch im Frühjahr 2021 (Folge #79). In diesem Update aus Mai 2025 berichtet sie offen und eindrucksvoll von ihrem Weg mit MS: von der Erstdiagnose und mehreren Therapiewechseln. Aktuell ist sie sehr zufrieden mit ihrer Immuntherapie, die ihr neue Lebensqualität schenkt. Corinna spricht über einen unerwarteten Schub, ihre Strategie, mit Rückschlägen umzugehen, sowie ihre ganz persönliche Erfolgsformel: Bewegung, Ernährung, Eigenverantwortung und mentale Stärke. Sie erzählt, wie Zumba, Krafttraining und Bogenschießen nicht nur ihren Körper, sondern auch ihre Psyche stärken – selbst nach einem Knochenbruch oder an schweren Tagen. Beruflich ist sie nicht nur wieder in Vollzeit zurück, sondern wurde auch zur Präsidentin des internationalen Bogensportverbands gewählt – als erste Frau überhaupt. Ein inspirierendes Zeichen dafür, dass Leben mit MS aktiv, kraftvoll und selbstbestimmt möglich ist.

In this episode, host Tamara Marie talks with Brittany, a passionate educator, all about her journey to Spanish fluency.Despite years of studying Spanish, Brittany felt stuck when it came to real conversations.

Today, we are learning from Heather Lynch. Heather is deeply committed to creating a more regenerative world where people live in harmony with themselves, others, and nature. Her mission is to empower those working toward positive change to find greater happiness, fulfillment, and peace—helping them feel more aligned with the change they want to create in the world. She helps changemakers reconnect with themselves, to work in alignment with the change they want to see, and take inspired action towards systemic change. She previously spent 10 years working in international development and sustainability in corporates, start ups and government, but began to feel that her work wasn't addressing the root causes of the challenges she cared most deeply about. Alongside this, she struggled with climate grief, overwhelm, and feeling incongruent and unfulfilled in her change work. Heather has shifted her focus to supporting people who are trying to make the world a better place — helping them transform from the inside out, so that they can become the change they want to see in the world. Let's get started... In this conversation with Heather Lynch, I learned: 00:00 Intro 02:35 Her start at the large consultancy firm PWC. 04:40 Questioning whether she made an impact. 09:20 It starts with me. Where can I contribute? 12:30 Is focusing on inner development a selfish act? 15:40 Trying to make the business case for sustainability drained me. 17:00 Focus your time and energy on your circle of control. 20:00 If you are working towards something that matters to you, it brings people along the journey with you. 22:50 Be aware of your ego; when it comes up, choose how you want to respond to it. 28:00 We can't change the inevitable. But we can change how we respond. After all, life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react. - Charles Swindoll 29:20 I always have a choice about how I respond. 31:45 Finding training every day in how to respond, like with the puppy and starting with Zumba. 35:50 I became a corporate version of myself at PWC. 39:00 Getting away from the question, how do I have the biggest impact? 43:15 At the time, I didn't have enough emotional intelligence to manage the grief I was feeling about the state of the world, and to lean into the emotions 45:20 The people who have contributed the least to the world's problems are going to be the people who are most impacted. 46:25 “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” - Rumi 51:05 What is your conditioned self versus your authentic self? 54:50 Four years, four themes in her life. 56:20 Our mind is 80% negative and 70% repetitive thoughts, based on the past. 1:02:15 The more I find inner peace with myself, the less external things I need. 1:04:50 Falling in love with nature. We are nature. 1:06:50 If you feel that you don't have enough, give something away. More about Heather Lynch: https://heatherlynch.substack.com  https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherlynchcoaching/ https://linktr.ee/heatherlynch  https://heatherlynch.substack.com/podcast  https://www.linkedin.com/video/live/urn:li:ugcPost:7191406423707123712/ Resources On Purpose Understanding the Circles of Control, Influence & Concern Stoicism - Wikipedia Jon Kabat-Zinn Chuck Swindoll De bermudadriehoek van talent - Simon van Teutem Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī Eckhart Tolle - The power of now Climate Coaching Alliance James Altucher - write down 10 ideas per day South Downs Way Video of the conversation with Heather Lynch https://youtu.be/GXZfk59lupU Watch the conversation here https://youtu.be/GXZfk59lupU

Hoy no hay tiempo para una introducción larga, así que pónganse los gorritos de aluminio que en este episodio hubo teorías de conspiración, vaticinios confirmados y profecías apocalípticas. Además, alguien de la Legión Mach0rra recibe una sabrosa descarga y dimos el chisme de un famoso influencer penepé. ¡Despierta, durmiente, que empezó La fokin Hora Mach0rra!   LA MEJOR TIENDA DE ROPA (TODA MODA en CAGUAS): https://www.instagram.com/todamoda/   USA EL CÓDIGO "MACHORRA20" PARA UN 20% DE DESCUENTO EN: https://www.manscaped.com/   EL MEJOR PATREON DE PUERTO RICO: https://www.patreon.com/lahoramachorra   PARA ARBOLITOS CUSTOM DE NAVIDAD Y OTRAS ARTESANÍAS: https://www.instagram.com/pr_artisans/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/lahoramachorra/ CANAL DE CLIPS: https://www.youtube.com/c/lahoramachorraclips LA MARCA DE ROPA DE VALI: https://www.resistancecompany.com/   Hosts: Alexis 'Macetaminofén' Zárraga, José Valiente & Oscar Navarro === REDES === Maceta https://www.facebook.com/TioMacetaminofen https://twitter.com/Macetaminofen https://www.instagram.com/macetaminofen/ Valiente https://www.youtube.com/user/valiente101 https://twitter.com/JoseValiente https://www.instagram.com/josevalientepr/ Oscar https://linktr.ee/oscarnavarropr   

Send us a textIn this episode of Ginger Biz, I'm joined by author and wellness guide Pearl Howie to explore a topic that often goes unspoken: the fear of success. We dive deep into the emotional roadblocks that can arise when we step into our true power, especially when our dreams start becoming reality. Pearl shares her personal journey from corporate life to Zumba instructor, wellness traveler, and published author, and how embracing authenticity changed everything for her.Whether you're struggling to give yourself permission to pursue a joyful business or doubting your worth as you grow, this episode will feel like a warm conversation with a wise friend who truly gets it.In this episode, you'll learn:What “fear of success” really is and how it shows up for entrepreneursWhy we sometimes resist the things we're naturally gifted atHow authenticity helps minimize rejection and builds resilienceThe role of energy, mindfulness, and daily habits in achieving your goalsTangible tips for overcoming self-sabotage and taking imperfect actionYou'll walk away from this episode with a renewed sense of possibility, deeper self-awareness, and the tools to move through fear with more grace and confidence.About Pearl:Pearl Howie is a wellness advocate, speaker, and author of over 25 books including Pearl Escapes Fear of Success. Known for her unique journey from the corporate world to full-time Zumba instructor, global traveler, and spiritual seeker, Pearl helps others reconnect with joy, authenticity, and purpose. She's currently launching a new community space, Roshonara by Pearl Escapes, to help others on their journey of self-discovery.Call to Action:If something resonated with you in this episode, don't let the inspiration pass you by, take one small, authentic step today. Whether it's writing for 15 minutes, hitting publish on that thing you've been holding back, or simply choosing to believe in yourself a little more, just start. Then tag us on Instagram and let us know what you're moving toward!You can find Pearl here:Website: https://pearlhowie.com/Instagram: @pearlescapesEmail: pearl@pearlescapes.co.ukNewsletter: Newsletter and offers from Pearl HowieBooks: Available on Amazon by CLICKING HERE______________________________You can find me here:Instagram: @gingerbizWebsite: https://www.katymurrayphotography.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TipsandTricksforyourbusinessX: https://twitter.com/GingerBizKMLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katy-murray-ginger-biz/Some of the links in these show notes are affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links and make a purchase, we may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. This helps support the podcast. We on

In this playful and inspiring episode, Wendy sits down with Staci Berkovitz, author of Naked at 50, to talk about what happens when you stop waiting for life to happen and start saying yes to it instead. From walking the Camino to visiting a nudist resort, Staci shares how she embraced 50 new experiences at 50 and why the real secret ingredients to midlife joy are vulnerability, humor, and presence. Through it all, she discovered the beauty of embracing discomfort, letting go of expectations, and writing a new narrative for this chapter of life. Whether you're navigating a milestone birthday or simply craving more freedom, this episode is your permission slip to do things differently and delight in the unexpected.About Staci:Staci Berkovitz is an Integrative Corporate Health Coach. Known for her expertise in mindfulness and her infectious love for laughter, she helps her clients tackle stress with confidence. Staci comes equipped with a wealth of wellness certifications. She is a National Board-Certified Health Coach, Author, Global Presenter, Certified Integrative Somatic Practitioner, Certified Meditation Leader, Certified Mindfulness for Kids Instructor, Certified Positive Psychology Coach, Certified Laughter Yoga Leader, and certified in Zumba, Stretch, and Yoga. She's also a Group Fitness Instructor.Most importantly, Staci is someone who's navigated her own share of stressful life events, and through those experiences, she's learned how to find peace in the midst of chaos—both inside and out. With years of experience as a corporate wellness professional, Staci is here to provide support your team where it is most needed.Connect with Staci:On Instagram @nakedat50 or @livingontheexhaleOnTheExhale.comHer Podcast: Living On the ExhaleGet Her Book: Naked at 50Referenced in This Episode:Tantra Speed Dating________________________________________________________________________________________ Say YES to joining Wendy for her: Say YES Sisterhood PWH Farm StaysPWH Curated France TripsInstagram: @phineaswrighthouseFacebook: Phineas Wright HouseWebsite: Phineas Wright HousePodcast Production By Resonant Collective Want to start your own podcast? Let's chat!Thank you for listening to the Say YES to yourself! podcast. It would mean the world if you would take one minute to follow, leave a 5-star review, and share with a friend.

Klassisches Krafttraining, Zumba oder Cardio – die Fitnessbranche boomt gerade. Immer mehr Menschen melden sich in einem Fitnessstudio an – inzwischen sind es fast 12 Millionen. So viele wie noch nie, heißt es aus der Branche. Die trifft sich ab heute in Köln auf der FIBO der weltgrößten Fitnessmesse. Darüber sprechen wir im SWR3-Topthema.

In this week's Real or Fake News game show segment, Marc Cox and Kim St. Onge go head-to-head in a fun competition, where they guess whether outrageous headlines are real or fake. Kim, fresh off her win last week, faces off against Marc as they discuss a series of bizarre stories. From a man arrested for making millions off fake AI-generated bands, to a $14,000 South Korean government incentive for marriage, and an oil painting of an Uncrustable sandwich selling for $5,000, the headlines are wild. They also tackle the high demand for Zumba instructors, the unexpected origin of Ozempic, and the resurgence of metal braces.

On this special episode of One League Under the C, Josh catches up with CFO of Zumba, and co-founder & CEO of FC Naples, Roberto Moreno, to discuss the process of starting the team, getting the right coach, and letting the community shape the club. We had some connection issues while Roberto was on his way to the match, but it's a great conversation and we hope you 

In this weeks episode, Parsons has a cultural day out and a restaurant experience to remember. Meanwhile Emslie ponders whether to become a meat eater again. Oh... and Parsons outlines how he would run a dictatorship. Emslies Mach fest show is on sale here: https://machcomedyfest.co.uk/show/2025/joseph-emslie/If you want to see Joseph Parsons on tour, you can buy tickets at:https://www.josephparsons.co.uk/tourYou can contact these most beautiful of boys on social media or simply comment below.Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/parsonsandemsliehttps://www.instagram.com/joseph.emsliehttps://www.instagram.com/josephparsonscomedyBluesky:https://bsky.app/profile/parsonsandemslie.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/josephemslie.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/josephparsons.bsky.socialTitle track credit: "Once Is Enough" - Margareta (it's a banger)

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In this heartfelt and hope-filled episode of The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, host Ginny Yurich is joined by beloved author and speaker Annie F. Downs to talk about the tender intersections of grief, growth, and God's goodness. With warmth and vulnerability, Annie shares the story behind her new children's book Where Did TJ Go?, co-written with her sister Tatum after the loss of Tatum's infant son. Together, they created the book they couldn't find—one that speaks gospel truth into the deepest sorrow, reminding kids (and their parents) that even in our saddest stories, good news remains. Annie and Ginny also explore the theme of redemption through Annie's past struggles with quitting, self-image, food addiction, and grief, showing how perseverance, community, and grace have reshaped her story. From Radnor Lake sunrises to Zumba classes and the sacredness of small beginnings, Annie opens up about how beauty and healing often arrive in unexpected ways. With Scripture as their compass, the conversation winds through Psalms and personal memories, always circling back to this truth: our tears are seeds, and in time, they bring songs of joy. This episode is a balm for the soul—an invitation to see our own lives as stories in progress, full of sorrow, yes, but also bursting with hope. ** Get your copy of Where Did TJ Go? here Get your copy of Looking for Lovely here Learn more about Annie and all the wonderful things she has to offer here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

L'energia della musica, il ritmo della danza e il potere delle parole: per Giovanna Amatruda questi tre elementi si intrecciano in un'unica esperienza di apprendimento.

Dr. Jeanine Cook-Garard learns about Zumba and other new trending ways to get your body moving towards a healthier life.  She speaks with Karren Ross-Fortunet, a Public Speaker and a Certified Speech Coach who is on a mission to empower all those who are interested to become the best version of themselves. Karren is a Certified Zumba Instructor who has a passion for fitness. 

Zumba co-founder and CEO Alberto Perlman joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders. Plus, Alberto's take on the value of partnerships for growing brands — and why entrepreneurs should say ‘yes' more often.First we meet Stefanie in Michigan, who's looking for the smartest route to raise capital for her non-slip workout shoes. Then Jack in New Hampshire, who wants to broaden the appeal of his protein powders for sensitive stomachs. And Peter in Colorado, who needs help evaluating which opportunities to chase for his plant-based ski wax.Thank you to the founders of Barreletics, Drink Wholesome, and mountainFLOW for being a part of our show.If you'd like to be featured on a future Advice Line episode, leave us a one-minute message that tells us about your business and a specific question you'd like answered. Send a voice memo to hibt@id.wondery.com or call 1-800-433-1298.And be sure to listen to Zumba's founding story as told by Alberto and his co-founder Beto on the show in 2017.This episode was produced by Sam Paulson with music by Ramtin Arablouei. It was edited by John Isabella. Our audio engineer was Neal Rauch.You can follow HIBT on X & Instagram and sign up for Guy's free newsletter at guyraz.com or on Substack.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Former newspaper reporter Jennifer K. Morita writes stories for Sacramento State by day and plots murder mysteries by night.Her debut mystery, GHOSTS OF WAIKĪKĪ, has been nominated for a Left Coast Crime Lefty Award for Best Debut Mystery and an Agatha Award for Best First Novel. It's about an out-of-work journalist who reluctantly becomes the ghost writer for a controversial developer. When she stumbles into murder - and her ex - she discovers coming home to paradise can be murder.Jennifer was a runner up for the Sisters in Crime Eleanor Taylor Bland Award in 2022.She is a member of SinC, Crime Writers of Color, Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers. Jennifer is also active with her local SinC chapter, Capitol Crimes, where she served as vice president and president.When she isn't chauffeuring her daughters around town or pushing Girl Scout cookies, she enjoys reading, experimenting with recipes, leisurely hikes, Zumba and Hot Hula.Mentioned in the Podcast:Plot Perfect by Paula MunierEleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Crime Writers of Color: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/EleanorTaylorBlandCrime Writers of Color: https://www.crimewritersofcolor.com/Jennifer's Social:Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/authorjenniferkmoritaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/jenniferkmorita/Blue Sky Handle: https://bsky.app/profile/jenniferkmorita.bsky.socialTik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jenniferkmoritawritesWebsite: www.jenniferkmorita.com*****************About SinCSisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.www.SistersinCrime.orgInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/sincnational.bsky.socialThreads: https://www.threads.net/@sincnationalFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrimeTikTok:: https://www.tiktok.com/@sincnationalThe SinC Writers' Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo

Welcome to the latest episode of L.I.F.T.S – your bite-sized dose of the Latest Industry Fitness Trends and Stories. Hosts Matthew Januszek, Co-Founder of Escape Fitness and Mo Iqbal, Founder & CEO of SweatWorks attended Connected Health & Fitness Summit 2025 event in Los Angeles.   In part 1 of this podcast episode, Matthew and Mo interviewed: Eric Bormel, Director, Consumer Healthtech at Solomon Partners. Gavin Jennings, CEO at C.H.E.K Institute. Lauren Pufpaf, President and Co-founder at Feed Media Group + Jeff Yasuda, Founder and CEO. Natalie Barnes, VP of Product Management & Product Design at Zumba.    In this episode, we dive into a wide range of topics, including: Shifts in the fitness tech industry, from inflated expectations to enlightenment. Challenges in the fitness industry (high failure rates, lack of personalization). Music's impact on wellness. Consumer preferences for music in fitness. Zumba's origin and evolution. Zumba's use of AI for data analysis and personalization. To learn more about the Connected Health & Fitness Summit, click here: https://connectedhealthandfitness.com ====================================================== Support fitness industry news by sponsoring future LIFTS episodes. Contact us at marketing@escapefitness.com for advertising opportunities. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and turn on your notifications so you never miss a new video when it's published: https://www.youtube.com/user/EscapeFitness Shop gym equipment: https://escapefitness.com/shop View our full catalog: https://escapefitness.com/support/catalog (US) https://escapefitness.com/support/catalogue (UK)  ====================================================== Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Escapefitness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/escapefitness Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/escapefitness LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/escapefitness/   0:00 Intro 1:48 Eric Bormel | Solomon Partners 14:07 Gavin Jennings | C.H.E.K Institute 28:19 Lauren Pufpaf & Jeff Yasuda | Feed fm 44:39 Natalie Barnes | Zumba

Midlife is not a time to slow down. It's an opportunity to redefine what's possible! In this empowering episode, Lesley Logan sits down with fitness and lifestyle coach, Heike Yates to discuss how women can embrace aging with confidence, take bold action toward their goals, and stop dimming their light. Heike shares her personal fitness journey, the importance of mindset shifts, and practical steps for staying active and strong at every stage of life.If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co. And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:How societal expectations impact women's confidence as they age.The mindset shifts needed to embrace midlife with strength and joy.Why taking messy action, no matter how small, leads to transformation.The power of community and accountability in achieving personal goals.How to reconnect with your past dreams and take steps toward them.Practical fitness and self-care tips for midlife and beyond.Episode References/Links:Heike Yates Website - https://heikeyates.comHeike Yates Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pursueyourspark Heike Yates LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/heike-yatesHeike Yates Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/heikeyatesGuest Bio:Heike Yates is a Midlife Health and Fitness Expert with over 35 years of experience. She makes wellness and fitness simple for midlife women, turning midlife challenges into easy, actionable steps that help them truly thrive. Heike's approach goes beyond just fitness and nutrition; she focuses on helping women get out of feeling stuck or in a rut, guiding them to get stronger, develop a resilient mindset, eat better, and boost their energy. As the founder of ‘Pursue Your Spark,' Heike also hosts a popular podcast reflecting her mission. Outside of coaching, she's an avid triathlete and adventurer, always seeking new challenges in the great outdoors. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox.DEALS! DEALS! DEALS! DEALS!Check out all our Preferred Vendors & Special Deals from Clair Sparrow, Sensate, Lyfefuel BeeKeeper's Naturals, Sauna Space, HigherDose, AG1 and ToeSoxBe in the know with all the workshops at OPCBe It Till You See It Podcast SurveyBe a part of Lesley's Pilates MentorshipFREE Ditching Busy Webinar Resources:Watch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable Pilates Follow Us on Social Media:InstagramThe Be It Till You See It Podcast YouTube channelFacebookLinkedInThe OPC YouTube Channel Episode Transcript:Heike Yates 0:00  When I look around and I see us in midlife where we feel so defeated by what we used to be able to do. Oh, I used to play tennis and now I can't. Women feel so defeated and so sad about what they're no longer able to do that it's time that we, or I, step up to the plate and say listen, it is not that bad. There are choices, but it comes down to the choices that you need to make and you need to see yourself in a different light.Lesley Logan 0:34  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.Lesley Logan 1:17  Hey, Be It babe. Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast. I've got a great interview for you. This is going to be a fun, uplifting, inspiring, take action, but all for you. And I'm excited for our guest today, Heike Yates, because she is you. Maybe she might be older than some of you, she might be the same age as some of you, but she is you. She is us. It's really nice and refreshing to talk with someone who has had all the obstacles. She's been through all the things, and is on the side where she's able to look at life in a way that allows her to live the life that she wants to have and really have fun with it. And so I'm excited for you to get to hear her and be inspired by her. And also I think you're gonna have some fun little one-liners to write yourself, write down and remind yourself that you freaking rock and that we're gonna talk about not dimming your light. So here is Heike Yates.Lesley Logan 2:11  All right, Be It babe. This is gonna be fun, ladies. I have been actively searching for guests that specifically speak to the age group that is pretty much listening to this podcast. And so I'm really excited, because our guest here today is an expert at that. So, Heike Yates, can you tell everyone who you are and what you rock at?Heike Yates 2:30  Hey, I'm Heike Yates, and I have been a coach for 40 years and a Pilates coach for 20 of those, and I work specifically with women in midlife, and I hope you really feel better about yourself, feel stronger, healthier, more confident in your body, and not feel like you were held back. I want you to feel like you're thriving and not listen to all the other things you hear on social media that's are wrong with you. I want you to feel right in your body and right about the things that you think about yourself. In a nutshell, that's what I do. Lesley Logan 3:07  I mean, isn't that what we all want? But why is it so hard?Heike Yates 3:10  Because we're told something is wrong with us. You look around in social media, everybody tells us that we're not skinny enough that we're not lean enough, that we're not pretty enough, that we should use all these products to make ourselves better in life, and so we start doubting ourselves.Lesley Logan 3:33  But I feel like that probably starts when we're very young. So by the time we're midlife, it's been years of doubt of ourselves.Heike Yates 3:39  And it's also, I think, particularly through perimenopause and menopause, as we're going through the shift, things are getting worse because our bodies are changing and life is beyond our control. You think about sleepless nights. How many women can relate to not being able to sleep, not even because of the night sweats, just because we can't. And you wake up in the morning and you're whooped and you're barely functioning. And so menopause is a big dip, in my opinion, when it comes to these doubts, even getting deeper and stronger, and we feel like we're stuck.Lesley Logan 4:21  So how did you get to where you wanted to focus on helping women with this? And how did you get to be this expert? Let's go on your journey for a moment. What led you to this? Heike Yates 4:30  I'm a mom of two adult children now, and when I was pregnant with my first one, I had gained a lot of weight, namely 50 pounds, and at that point, I did not know what exercise means or can mean to a woman's body, or how to actually do it. I grew up in Germany and exercise is part of what you do. You walk to the butcher, you walk to the grocery store, you bicycle to the beer gardens because I'm from the south of Germany, in Munich area, and so exercise is part of your life. When I was pregnant and I gained 50 pounds, I had really no clue how to lose the weight and feel comfortable again in my skin. I mean, I love my son, I love my husband, but I felt out of shape. I felt yucky. And a friend of mine said, come on, let's go to the YMCA where we can take dance classes, because most women love to dance, and I'm no exclusion. We took this class, and it was so much fun. We did some dancer-cise, as it was called back. Then we did weights, and we did core work, and there was this group of women, and you can just picture this, we're in the basement of a church where you show up with your boom box and a yoga mat rolled up, and you had to bring your own weights into the room. Everybody, of course, had their little spot, so you had to make sure, as a newbie, that you didn't take their spot. And then the instructor hit play, and back then, we still had the tapes to pop the tape in, hit the go, and off we went, and the routines were pre choreographed. So as I learned later, over the period of time, you learned a routineLesley Logan 6:09  Like a Zumba class, kind of. Heike Yates 6:11  Like Zumba, exactly, but it was called dancer-cise, and that's how I got started, and I really loved it. And I was asked to become a teacher for the YMCA and their programs, and I wasn't sure if I could actually do this. Me, who's never exercised, hop around in front of all these people. I was like my husband encouraged me, no, no, you can do this. I think in the back of his mind he was just thinking, get her out of the house, get her away from the baby and the husband, and I started learning how to do these classes, and as I started to learn the routines, I felt really confident. I felt proud of myself. And I started to get to the point where I had to audition, because you just couldn't teach, you had to audition. Lesley Logan 7:01  Right, right, right. You gotta get someone to say, like, yeah, you actually do know what you're doing before we let you do it for other people. Yeah. Heike Yates 7:08  So I auditioned and I bombed, and I had no idea why I bombed. And she said, You know, I can't let you teach you don't hear the beat. And I said, What the heck are you talking about? I'm perfectly. Lesley Logan 7:21  I've been doing it. Heike Yates 7:22  I've been doing it. And she said, every now and then, you hit the beat. I had no idea what she was talking about. And she said okay, here's what I'm talking about. And I still didn't get it. Now she didn't know, and most people don't know, I'm deaf on one ear, and that affects my perception of sound. And so she took my hand and she put it on the speaker, and she said now, feel the beat. It was like a light bulb went off. That was the beat. And so I practiced my routine with the hand on the speaker, first to feel the beat, and then tried to remember where the beat was. And over time, I trained my one good ear to find where the beat was, and I passed the test. I was so, so proud of myself. And you know, it's a disability that is not visible, and it can relate to people with hearing problems. As we get older, we don't hear well. So with that said, once I passed that test, there was like no stopping me, Lesley. I just went for everything, pre post-natal classes, step aerobics, if anybody knows about step aerobics, then slide came along. We did slide, and then kickboxing, Tai Bo. So I did all of these classes and became a personal trainer, and then eventually started teaching yoga for three years, and then I discovered Pilates and fell in love with Pilates.Lesley Logan 8:48  I mean, we love Pilates around here.Heike Yates 8:51  We sure do. Who does not love Pilates? And so all of this was my career path, but along the way, I used everything I've learned, and I became a bodybuilder. So I was on stage with those big muscles, building muscles, and competing in body building competitions to running ultra marathons. So my longest distance is a 50-miler, JFK 50-miler here in in the area. And then I became an Iron Man triathlete.Lesley Logan 9:18  That is amazing. You do all these things and this is all part of the journey in kind of getting to where you are today, right? So you did Iron Man, those I can't do because I can't get in the water. I'll be real. I can swim, you guys. Open water swimming is not my thing. I can understand that. I just don't like when I can't, whatever's touching me, I can't see it. It's my own problem. You know, we all have our own fears. That's fine. So then what? How old is your kid at this point? Where are you at in creating your thing that helps women in midlife?Heike Yates 9:53  You know when you think about that as we get older, so now my kids are 32, one's 35 and I'm a grandma of almost three year old, so I want to stay fit for her as well. But in the meantime, it's midlife, past menopause, past all the hormone changes, so I'm postmenopausal, but what do I get? Arthritis in my knee. I have a bad knee. I have a bad shoulder, so I have to stop running because of that, I have some arthritis in my neck, and Pilates, of course, is perfect for all of this to help me strengthen my body and function. So now I'm looking for different things to do physically and so I can swim. I learned to swim just because I wanted to be an Iron Man. I'm not comfortable in the water. I'm a super slow swimmer, but I can do it. So I can, you know, do Aqua bikes. So I bike a lot. I do a lot of strength training, low impact exercises, and that helps when I look around and I see us in midlife where we feel so defeated by what we used to be able to do. Oh, I used to play tennis, and now I can't. Women feel so defeated and so sad about what they no longer able to do that it's time that we, or I, step up to the plate and say, listen, it is not that bad. There are choices, but it comes down to the choices that you need to make, and you need to see yourself in a different light.Lesley Logan 11:28  Okay, I agree. So how do we actually go about seeing ourselves in a different light? Because, for example, I have a client that I was teaching yesterday, I know we've been working on her strength, because she's had a bad foot that's been going on, we worked on her strength, and I was able to say oh, look, that's gotten so much better. And she's like, really? And I was like, yeah. We see ourselves every day and so we don't always see the changes that we're making. I feel like it'd be so hard to see ourselves in different light. How do you think we should go about doing that? Or how do you coach people on doing that? Heike Yates 11:57  I tell them to take a really good look at what they really want, not what somebody else tells them they want. (inaudible) as somebody else tells them they should be, but what they really want. And really get clear on, you know, I know it sounds so cliche, but the why? Where do I want to be in where I am right now in my life? Look at this. Look at not what you can't do, but look at what possibilities are there. Lesley Logan 12:26  Yeah, so I just got back from the retreat in Cambodia, and we did some breath work, and I had them visualize a year from the day of the retreat. And I was like, what do you want your life to look like? And Heike, the question of what do they want stumped half the women. They don't know what they want. They haven't been allowed to want things they have been raised or over time had to make so many compromises of themselves and what they want so to just even dream of what they want, you can't even get past the first question, then it goes to the spiral of, I don't even know what I want. What do you tell people to think about if they don't know what they want? What if they're just stuck on that one question? Heike Yates 13:09  You know, I think that's a good time to start journaling. Start writing down your thoughts. Maybe you're envying your friend. Write it down. I want, what she has, whatever that is, if you can't think of it yourself, look around you, and I always say, oh, what exercise should I do? I'm like, what does your friend do? Do what they do. Try it out. Or if you go on an Insta and you see a cool workout, I did a cool workout the other day. I did a bungee workout. I've been wanting to do that bungee workout forever, and I finally signed up for it, and I took that class and say okay, taking action, no matter how messy the action is. Even if you don't know what you want, but if you don't try anything, you will never find what it is that lights you up. Lesley Logan 14:02  Yeah, no, I agree. Like, even figuring out what you, trying things out and figuring you like, I don't want that, is actually very helpful. Helpful for getting closer to what you want and what you like and what you need and getting to know yourself. Okay, so we should change how we look at ourselves, and what was the other part of it? Heike Yates 14:18  When we look at ourselves, we gotta be really honest with what we want, or, like you said, which is also a good way to look at it, is what we don't want. I'm like, try things, go places, but do take action. And don't sit there and wait. And I find so many women don't take action. They sit there all frozen and do nothing and hope that the universe will provide some answer. It's okay to, air quotes, fail because we never fail. We try something. We may not like it, we may not be good at it, but it doesn't matter. We need to take action to move forward in life, and especially in midlife where, as you pointed out, we've been imprinted with these thoughts and feelings and habits that we should have and should behave.Lesley Logan 15:12  I'm thinking about some of the amazing women who listen to this show, who are action takers. If they're listening to this podcast, they're clearly ready to soak up information to make changes in their life. No one would listen this podcast unless they wanted to. We're literally saying be it till you see it so you have to take action. And I also know, because I get to meet a lot of our listeners, you can take action and then there is an obstacle, especially for the women of this age group. Their parents are getting older, and their kids are growing up, so they're that sandwich generation where they're taking care of two different groups of people. And so it can be, if they have five minutes of themselves, sometimes that's all they have. And so sometimes it can just feel almost like they're actually failing, because they're they set up these things, and they took two steps forward, and then something happens that takes them out of it. Something happens medically, with their partners or with their parents or with their kids, and then it can just feel like you're being selfish. Just, you know what I mean? We probably agree at the same thing. Self-care isn't selfish care, but when there is an emergency, when there is these obstacles, it is hard to do that. What are the habits or the things that you lean on in those moments, because it can just sometimes feel like things are crashing around you? Heike Yates 16:24  Have an accountability partner. Seriously, my clients that I see in person, they come in and say Heike, you're the only hour this week I allow myself to do what I want to do. And of course, they unpack all the other stuff that comes with it, like the aging parents and the teenage kids. You basically mentioned these two groups, which happened to me this week after I got back from vacation. It was like a tsunami of information, but it's the only time that they said no, you're there for me, you're waiting for me, and you make me feel important. You make me feel that I don't have to be feeling guilty taking the time. I don't have to fear the fear of repercussions, because I was selfish and took care of myself, and afterwards, they're like, I feel so much better. I'm so glad I came. Lesley Logan 17:23  Yeah, no, I agree. Like, accountability can be so key. It's also just part of like, feeling like you're in community and you're not alone. You are past perimenopause and all that, looking back, because I think that's when we get to connect all the dots. How can more women in midlife really enjoy embracing that change? Heike Yates 17:41  Again, it goes back, be honest with yourself. Start finding what your dreams are and your wildest dreams, I know it sounds so simple or difficult, however you want to look at it, I don't know what I want to dream of, but we all have dreams. We all have secrets that we don't tell anybody, because we feel that they're ludicrous. Why me? I shouldn't be wanting this. Keep that dream alive. I know when we started, before menopause, before the kids, before the marriage, the divorce, the whole mess that comes in the middle is we had a dream. My dream was always to travel the world and all through these years, and I've been where you just came from, your retreat in Cambodia. And I love, love, loved it. Angkor Wat was amazing. And I just came back from Japan. Lesley Logan 18:37  Japan is a wonderful place too. I like it. Heike Yates 18:40  Oh, my God, never been, so my dream from before all of this, when I was 23 was to travel the world. I took a little hiatus with being a mom, with building my career, with building my businesses, with doing all of that. But as the kids got older, also, the more I learned about how to care for my parents, we live both in Germany, and how to deal with that side of parents aging, I felt that it is really important to look back at that dream. It's like, what was it? And you'll figure out a way to do it. And the way I always think about is when you have a dream, I'm not going to tell your listeners, okay, pack your bags, go to Japan tomorrow. It takes baby steps to plan it all. I mean, it took me now two years to plan this trip. Even we had COVID, and we had all that, but I planned this trip with my husband, and I told my parents where we were, and my kids don't care, because they're all grown and but it's that dream that we have, and I know everybody has a dream, whether it's starting a knitting club or gardening the hearts out of your garden. It's not about the big audacious goals that we hear like, oh, she went to Japan. Look at her. No, it's about what it is that lights you up?Lesley Logan 20:10  Yeah, I think it's really, thank you for sharing that it took two years, because I think we can sometimes struggle with how quickly something should happen, and we can get hard on ourselves that the timeline isn't going as quickly as we think it should, or it probably should, giving ourselves permission to take three years to do something that usually takes some people a year, just because you've got other things going on. And that's where that accountability partner can come in handy, too. Heike Yates 20:37  Yeah. And when you think about this, it's baby steps with everything, your body changes through menopause. Well, you can lose weight if that's your desire, which, personally, I don't like to talk about weight loss a lot, because that's like the number one thing on social media. Everybody wants you to do, is lose weight, but feel better, feel stronger, you know, be able to walk further, to do the 100 without stopping. It's like the little things that we can do. And it takes time. It takes time. Lesley Logan 21:07  How do you get your mindset wrapped around the transformation that you're going to be taking? Because I do think that it can be, let's just say someone also had the dream of traveling the world, and they did take a break of travel because they were a mom. Now they're trying to do it again. How do they get out of the shame and judgment of I didn't use travel in any of these years, and I've got to start up again. And it can feel overwhelming, because to become the traveler again, be someone who can pack their bags, if you're not used to it, it's not the easiest thing to do. My mom traveled to Cambodia, maybe been 10 times or 12 times at this point, but my mom came for her first time. It was her first international trip. I got to watch what it was like to be a first time international traveler, because I do it all the time. I travel the world all the time. It's easy for me, but for someone, it's their first time, or they're just getting into it. I was like, wow, there's a lot more to think about for that. So how do we embrace that mindset, of that transformation that we're going to do?Heike Yates 22:01  I think a lot of times we hold ourselves back by saying that I'm not deserving of it. I think that's really the root of like, my mom just came to visit. She's 82 and she's really bad knees and a bad back. And I said, you know, come visit me here in the States. You haven't been to my new house, and she's not a world traveler by all means. Her travel is sort of like going on the bus tour. And we laid out a plan. She was so nervous. She's like, oh my god, do I have to sit there for eight hours? No, no, you have an aisle seat. So this goes into the how do I get out of? Plan it. We got an aisle seat. I said, you just tell the flight attendant that you need to get up every now and again, and then you walk around a little bit. And then at the airport, we made sure that she had wheelchair access, which she was adamantly not wanting to have, because she's strong and she's only 82 and she can do all this. And I said, Mom, imagine you have to schlep your suitcase. There's somebody that helps you, and they drive you around. And then she finally agreed to it. So she arrives in Washington, DC, with the biggest smile on her face while this dude is pushing her in the wheelchair, schlepping her suitcase. And she says, this is really great.Lesley Logan 23:22  I love that. I love that. Heike Yates 23:26  So it's planning. You are allowed to have the things you want to. Then start planning. Start planning. Again, baby steps. What is the list that the thing that I need the right now that gets me to where I want to go. And I have another little story on that. I ran the marathon in the Antarctica. Lesley Logan 23:47  Cool. Heike Yates 23:48  It's a. Lesley Logan 23:49  Okay, but hold on, don't forget your story. Is there a view, or is it the same for 26 miles? Do you know what I mean? Like, like, does the scenery change? Because that would be a, really, is it just penguins the whole time?Heike Yates 24:00  It's basically nothing. And the race is like from one research station to the next. We basically ran from Russia to China and back. Lesley Logan 24:13  Okay. Heike Yates 24:14  I don't know how many, how many times it was the most boring part of the race, really.Lesley Logan 24:21  All right, anyway, because I'm just like, wow. And then it's like, hold on, it's just ice, right?Heike Yates 24:27  There's nothing there. It's ice and gravel and snow. And you see a penguin every now and again. And that's, that's, that was the race (inaudible).Lesley Logan 24:33  That would be the hardest marathon. Because at least when I ran like, LA Marathon, at least every part of LA changes. I was like, oh, now I'm in Chinatown. Now I'm in Koreatown. Now I'm here.Heike Yates 24:44  Nope, nope, nope. Most boring marathon ever, and we're so glad we were done. But the package around it was super cool, because it was a whole trip. But the trip is very expensive, and when I told my husband that I wanted to do this he's like, we can't afford it. So I said, here's the deal, so for three years, I put away money every month that I comfortably could put aside towards the trip. Three years. And after three years, they said, here, sign up, pay the first down payment. And I had the money for the first down payment. I had the money, actually, for the second payment that was due a little while later, and then we chipped in the rest. And my husband's like, you have all this money? I said, "I planned." This is really what I wanted. So when you're thinking of I want to get out of the rut. I'm stuck in here and I want to follow my dreams. It's like, plan for it, and then follow through. Put your money where your mouth is. Yeah, you know, I saved my money and I said, we got there, and it was a trip of a lifetime. It was on freaking believable. Lesley Logan 25:54  That's really cool. I mean, that's, I think I'm worried about the marathon, but I'm sure, like, the whole thing sounds even better than all of that, what are you the most excited about right now?Heike Yates 26:04  I am the most excited about on publishing my first book. Lesley Logan 26:08  Cool. Heike Yates 26:09  I wrote my first draft. I'm in the moment trying to find a publisher or somebody who can help me edit my book and get everything together. And I, just before this interview, I talked to another publisher, and I'm trying to make a decision of who I'm going to go with that helps me publish my book.Lesley Logan 26:25  Oh, cool. Are you self-publishing, hybrid publishing? Looking for an agent? Heike Yates 26:28  I'm checking out all possibilities. And today was the agent that does a lot for the book, but it's also I talked to somebody today finally that understood what my book is about and could relate to the content. I'm trying to publish, again, a book for women in midlife. The book is all about getting out of the cages that hold us back and out of the rut and feel like ourselves again and tell us to do that. And not everybody gets that. I've talked to publishers who are like, oh, yeah, this is a menopause book for women. No. So even I, you know, like everybody else, I look around I see what's there. So that's what I'm most excited about right now. Lesley Logan 27:13  Yeah, we had a guest on a couple years ago, maybe it's a year and a half ago. Anyways, she went through 100 rejections on her book before it got published, but it was published in multiple languages when it was published, and it was the best publisher, but she had to find an agent and a publisher who understood what she was trying to say, and thank you for sharing that story, because I think a lot of times we can have an idea, and if you put it in front of the wrong audience. That wrong audience, it could be a family member, or one of your best friends, but they're not the audience for that idea or for that thing, and they could still love you, and they could still be an awesome person, and they could still say something shitty that makes you go, oh, but we have to be, I loved your response, it's like, no, that's actually not it, because we have to be able to be discerning and like, actually, you're not hearing what I'm saying, and that's okay. I'm going to move on to someone else who's going to hear what I'm saying and celebrate that. Heike, we're going to take a brief break, and then we're going to find out how people can find you, follow you, or work with you. Lesley Logan 28:11  All right, so if people want to follow the journey of this book, if they want to pursue their spark with you, where can they get more of you? Heike Yates 28:19  Literally, Google my name. Heike Yates, H-E-I-K-E Y-A-T-E-S. You'll find me everywhere and anywhere on social media, or Pursue Your Spark, either way, you'll find me everywhere on social media. Super simple to get in touch with me. Lesley Logan 28:34  That's awesome. Well, you know what? You have a name that no one else has, I think. I'm sharing my name, like my exact spelling and my exact name, with a lot of different people, and it's a little I'm like, how did that happen? I spell it differently than everyone else, but there was a travel author in the UK when I was a child that has my name, and I know, so very jealous. Okay, well, you've given us really, actually, some great little tips and takeaways, to be honest, people, if you're listening to this, you're probably like writing these things down. But because we cannot skip the Be It Action Items, bold, executable, intrinsic or targeted, steps people can take to be it till they see it, what do you have for us? Heike Yates 29:11  Okay, as I said already, dream big, bold dreams. Take action with small, I like to call them baby steps. Break down those baby steps even into smaller steps, and connect to your why, to your core, to where you were before life happened, before things changed for you. What do you want to do and stop, which is what I love to say, stop dimming your light and move on and enjoy life. Lesley Logan 29:47  Yeah, we don't have to dim our light. There's a lot of people out there trying to play with the dimmer as it is. Don't need to help anyone. Oh, gosh, Heike, this is such a pleasure, so fun, such an uplifting conversation. I am excited to hear how everyone else, what their takeaways are and how they use these tips in their life. Please let us know. Let Heike know. Let the Be It Pod know. Send this to a friend who maybe needs to hear these words, because sometimes, maybe we want someone to be our accountability partner or we want to be their accountability partner, but they may need a reminder first, and so I think maybe sometimes it's often easier to give your friend the advice through a podcast. And then, yes, they'll get to the end and they'll hear this, and they'll hear that we told you to share it to them, and then they're gonna know what the jig is. But you know what, they'll thank you for it, because they'll have stopped dimming their light because of this. So let us know. Share this with a friend until next time, Be It Till You See It. Lesley Logan 30:37  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcast. 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[1.Adagio, 2.Andante] for one's health : けんこうのために“Do you do (are you doing) something for your health?”[00:09]Hello, everyone. Today's theme is “health”.Repeat after me[00:14]1.  For my health, I exercise a lot.2.  For my health, I jog.3.  For my health, I eat well-balanced.4.  For my health, I don't drink alcohol.5.  For my health, I don't smoke.6.  For my health, I use the stairs.7.  What do you do (= are you doing) healthwise?8.  Do you do (= are you doing) something healthwise?NOTE: shiteimasu < shimasu ＜ suru : て-Form/Present progressive;  implying  continuing state / what you do regularly.[01:58]Now, make a sentence as follows.For example,Do you do (= are you doing) something healthwise?Yoga→ I do Yoga (regularly).Ready?[02:11]1.  What do you do for your health?every morning, stretching exercise→ Every morning, I do stretch excercise.2.  Do you do something healthwise?in the morning and evening, take a walk→ I take a walk 40 minutes (each) in the morning and evening.3.  Do you do something healthwise?everyday, about 10,000 steps, walk→  I walk about 10,000 steps every day.[03:30]4.  What do you do for your health?twice a week, attend Zumba class→ I attend Zumba classes twice a week.5.  What do you do for your health?mustle training, at home→ I do mustle training at home.6.  Do you do something healthwise?nothing in particular→ I don't do anything in particular.=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= 「けんこうのために なにかしていますか。」[00:09]みなさん、こんにちは。きょうのテーマはけんこうです。Repeat after me[00:14]1.  けんこうのために、よくうんどうします。2.  けんこうのために、ジョギングします。3.  けんこうのために、バランスよくたべます。(バランスよく= well-balanced)4.  けんこうのために、おさけをのみません。5.  けんこうのために、たばこをすいません。6.  けんこうのために、かいだんをつかいます。7.  けんこうのために、なにをしていますか。8.  けんこうのために、なにかしていますか。NOTE: (しています ←します・Vて-Form/Present progressive: implying continuing state /what you do regularly.[01:58]では、つぎにようにぶんをつくります。たとえば、けんこうのために、なにかしていますか。ヨガ→ ヨガをしています。いいですか。[02:11]1.  けんこうのために、なにをしていますか。まいあさ、ストレッチ→ まいあさ、ストレッチをしています。2.  けんこうのために、なにかしていますか。あさばん、40ぷん、さんぽ→ あさばん、40ぷん、さんぽをしています。3.  けんこうのために、なにかしていますか。まいにち  10,000ぼ(いちまんぼ)、あるきます→ まいにち10,000ぼ、あるいています。[03:30]4.  けんこうのために、なにをしていますか。しゅうに２かい、ズンバのクラスにかよいます→ しゅうに２かい、ズンバのクラスにかよっています。5.  けんこうのために、なにをしていますか。うちで きんトレをします→うちで きんトレをしています。(きんトレ= きんにくトレーニング = mustle/strength training =  work out)6.  けんこうのために、なにかしていますか。とくになにも→ とくになにもしていません。Support the show=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=Need more translation & transcript? Become a patron: More episodes with full translation and Japanese transcripts. Members-only podcast feed for your smartphone app. Japanese Swotter on PatreonNote: English translations might sound occasionally unnatural as English, as I try to preserve the structure and essence of the original Japanese.

Are you a group practice owner feeling overwhelmed and considering an exit plan? Dive into our latest episode where Gabrielle Juliano-Villani talks about the emotional roller coaster of selling her practice.This episode isn't just about the when and the how of selling a group practice—it's also a tale of personal evolution, burnout prevention, and understanding that your business is an asset.Key Themes:Considering Selling Due to Burnout: Many private practice owners may be feeling overwhelmed by the responsibilities and stress associated with running their practice, which can lead to burnout. This episode directly addresses the emotional journey and practical considerations of selling a group practice, as Gabrielle Juliano-Villani shares her personal experience of deciding to sell due to burnout, providing guidance and reassurance to listeners who may be contemplating a similar decision.Fear of Financial and Legal Complexities: The prospect of selling a practice introduces a range of financial and legal challenges, and many practitioners may feel ill-equipped to navigate these waters. This episode alleviates these concerns by discussing the importance of having financial documentation in order, considering capital gains taxes, and understanding the value of proper bookkeeping. Patrick and Gabrielle underscore the significance of being strategic and well-informed before proceeding with a sale.Uncertainty About Future Career Path and Income Streams: Therapists often find themselves locked into the mindset of traditional one-on-one therapy sessions as their sole source of revenue and may struggle to envision alternative career paths or income streams. The discussion between Patrick and Gabrielle illuminates the vast potential of leveraging therapists' transferable skills in different ways. Try to explore diverse revenue streams, which can help prevent staying in unfulfilling situations and prepare for eventual transitions out of private practice.More about Gabrielle:Gabrielle Juliano-Villani is a licensed clinical social worker, consultant, coach, entrepreneur, and educator based in Sarasota, FL. She has been in the mental health field for over a decade specializing in stress, chronic health conditions, and trauma.After realizing her own burnout in 2021, she sold her thriving group practice and made it her mission to educate others on the impact stress has on our everyday lives. Gabrielle pulls from her experience as an EMDR and Polyvagal Informed therapist to utilize mind/body approaches to help others implement everyday strategies to manage stress and live their best lives.Gabrielle is an international speaker, retreat leader, and has been featured in Authority Magazine, The Daily Om, Bustle, and the Everyday Woman TV Network. When she's not working, Gabrielle is teaching Zumba, surfing, or reading a psychological thriller at the beach.Gabrielle's Website: gabriellejulianovillani.com–––––––––––––––––––––***This episode is the 3rd of 10 episodes that All Things Private Practice is re-releasing for 2025. Please enjoy, and we'll be back with new content, resources, and guests in a couple of months. –––––––––––––––––––––

Send us a textBecky Sisco is a full-time momma and homeschooler of two, as well as an entrepreneur and business owner. She and her husband own a residential remodeling business, as well as a handmade natural skincare business!Becky is also the troop coordinator for one of the local American Heritage Girls troops in College Station, TX, sings in the praise band at her church and helps with cooking dinner for over two hundred people at her church every Wednesday night.However, it has been hard for her to keep up, being held back by many health issues including obesity, type-2 diabetes, Hashimoto's, acne, gastroparesis, ADHD, and depression/anxiety. Finding no help from doctors, trying every diet, and failing every time, she just kept gaining weight and feeling worse.Becky used to be very active, leading workout groups at her church and teaching Zumba at a local dance studio. She loved cycling, running, and working out with her Camp Gladiator group. One of her biggest goals now is to do a mini-triathlon, but that goal seems to be slipping further and further away as her health continues to deteriorate. Becky and her family have recently decided to try a carnivore diet, and she is sharing their journey on her new YouTube Channel! Find Beck at-YT- @CarnivoreFamilyJourneyFB- @Becky SiscoSisco Home Services- https://www.shsbcs.com/FB- Bee Kind Homemade CreationsFind Boundless Body at- myboundlessbody.com Book a session with us here!

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This is the second in the series of interviews with authors of “The Other Side of Divorce: Breakups That Lead to Breakthroughs”. Today, I have the opportunity to speak with Laura Richards, Gina Nalbone Phillips, Melissa K. Range, and Myriam-Rose Kohn. We explore why they contributed to the book, the lessons they learned through their divorce, and the words of wisdom they would like to share with other women at any stage of the divorce process. Tune in to hear from the authors, consider a different way to experience divorce, and why sharing how divorce can positively impact your life is so important. About the Guests:Laura RichardsLaura Richards is an international podcaster and author dedicated to empowering women by providing a platform for sharing their profound stories of darkness and resilience. Through her acclaimed podcast, "That's Where I'm At," Laura unveils her personal journey of recovery from a 32-year marriage to a narcissist. She insightfully reveals the deceit and manipulation tactics used by abusers, offering guidance and support to help women recognize, understand, and heal from such experiences. Beyond her podcasting achievements, Laura is also the author of the best selling book "There Is Hope: 52 Keys To Healing After Divorce," a book offering essential insights and strategies for rebuilding life after the end of a marriage. Her work stands as a beacon of hope and transformation for those navigating the path to healing and empowerment.To find out more about Laura's podcast: https://www.thatswhereimatpodcast.com/ Gina Nalbone PhillipsGina Phillips is the owner of WNY Divorce Financial Advisors, LLC, where she passionately dedicates herself to empowering individuals navigating marital transitions to regain control over their financial well-being. As a skilled liaison between clients and divorce mediators and attorneys, Gina is driven by personal experience and a deep understanding of the challenges that accompany divorce. Her pursuit of certification as a Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA®) demonstrates her commitment to providing comprehensive support. With over 30 years of experience in auditing and accounting fields, Gina brings a wealth of knowledge to her practice. Her certification as a CDFA® combined with her expertise enables her to offer compassionate and cost-effective assistance. Whether you are in the early stages of considering a divorce or currently navigating the complexities of the legal proceedings, Gina will guide you with empathy and expertise to ensure your transition is as smooth and financially secure as possible.To find out more about Gina: https://www.wnydivorcefinancial.comMelissa K. RangeMelissa is a single mom of three certified lifeguards who have saved over 20 lives combined, plus Apollo the friendliest dog in town. Melissa loves to travel (especially if it means playing with fire), meet new people, and live interdependently by her own lights. Tell her she can't do something, and she will probably reply, "Watch me!"She has been on a spiritual path for 15 years, being inspired to evolve through multiple certifications such as Firewalk instructor, Crystalline Priestess, Money Breakthrough Business coach, Sacred Money Archetypes coach, and Doula. She's also an Usui, Karuna, Angelic, and Crystal Reiki Master Teacher, Akashic record reader, and former Zumba and ballroom dance instructor.Melissa mentors and empowers women to rebuild their intuition, reclaim their power, and restore grace to their lives by reminding them of who they are, and helping them to push their edge through focused action to create what they want in life. She is a...

許多人在面對癌症或重大傷病後，常常感到失去快樂，甚至對生活失去興趣、對未來充滿迷茫。但綺顏診所院長吳敏綺，經歷4年內2次抗癌的挑戰後，認為生命有限，反而要追求快樂、充實生活。 她曾接受過13小時的大手術，並面對多次化療以及身心的雙重考驗。但她並未被擊倒，術後僅1個月就重返工作崗位、2個月後即跳入海中游泳、跳Zumba，積極面對每一天。 在這段治療旅程中，身為先生的長庚醫院精神科醫師陳志根，全程陪伴妻子。兩人不僅共度抗癌時光，還一起種茶、跳水、玩立槳，過著比健康人還要精彩的生活。作為患者家屬，他的陪伴技巧是什麼？ 無論你是病友、家屬，還是正在尋找生命力量的人，本集內容將教你如何以正向心態面對癌症，擺脫自責，更專注於「好好生活」。 **✅本集節目重點 ** 1. 生病後，患者最需要的是什麼支持？ 2. 不需要檢討自己，罹癌只是運氣不好！ 3. 家人和伴侶，如何成為患者抗癌路上的堅強後盾？ 4. 癌症、重大傷病患者，如何找到快樂、重拾正常生活？ 主持人：《50+》總顧問周慧婷 來賓：綺顏診所院長吳敏綺、長庚醫院精神科醫師陳志根 製作團隊：賴慧勳、胡念慈 《50+學院》熟齡美式街舞

Did you know the way you manage your money could mirror how you care for your health? In this episode of Total Health in Midlife, I sit down with Marie Burns, a Certified Financial Planner and former Registered Dietitian, to explore the fascinating connection between financial habits and physical well-being.  Marie shares how behaviors we learned in childhood influence our choices today and how rewriting those narratives can lead to greater balance and confidence. We discuss why financial wellness and physical health are deeply intertwined, offering practical tips to take charge of both.  From uncovering your "money personality" to understanding how stress impacts your finances and health, this episode is packed with relatable stories, actionable advice, and tools you can use to start making positive changes. Whether you're looking to feel more empowered in managing your money or inspired to create a healthier lifestyle, this conversation will leave you with fresh perspectives and a renewed sense of possibility.  Don't miss the valuable insights Marie shares about living more balanced and vibrant midlife. About Marie Burns Marie Burns, a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) with insurance and securities licenses, has been advocating for clients as a financial advisor for over 20 years.  She has helped clients with their financial lives in a fiduciary capacity in a bank setting, accounting firm, at Vanguard, at a financial planning firm, and now writes and speaks and has her own practice with an independent Registered Investment Advisory firm called Focus Point Planning.  She enjoys cooking, reading, walking, hiking, Zumba, and especially creating memories with family and friends.  Get full show notes and more information here: https://elizabethsherman.com/206

Programmation musicale consacrée aux nouveautés avec Fabregas le Métis Noir feat Deplick Pomba, Nono Manzanza, Tiakola, entre autres. Présentation Peggy Broche. En fin d'émission, la séquence gold met à l'honneur des chansons sorties avant la fin des années 2010. Pour visionner les clips, cliquez sur les titres des chansons :Fabregas feat Deplick Pomba - MbembeNono Manzanza - Ça monte, ça descend Tiakola feat KLN - No limit Asake, Wizkid - MMSAdviser - I know Waïv - Voicer Delgres - Pou vou JP Manova - Coin des AmenEmma'a - Je m'y oppose Eloïsha Iza - Afro beauté Tabou Combo - Baissez bas Gemini All Stars de Ti Manno - Exploitation Colé Colé Band - Jennifer  Shoogar Combo - Lèlène ChérieRetrouvez notre playlist sur Deezer.  À lire aussiAvec Fabregas le Métis Noir et Deplick Pomba, la musique congolaise adoucit les mœurs

Programmation musicale consacrée aux nouveautés avec Fabregas le Métis Noir feat Deplick Pomba, Nono Manzanza, Tiakola, entre autres. Présentation Peggy Broche. En fin d'émission, la séquence gold met à l'honneur des chansons sorties avant la fin des années 2010. Pour visionner les clips, cliquez sur les titres des chansons :Fabregas feat Deplick Pomba - MbembeNono Manzanza - Ça monte, ça descend Tiakola feat KLN - No limit Asake, Wizkid - MMSAdviser - I know Waïv - Voicer Delgres - Pou vou JP Manova - Coin des AmenEmma'a - Je m'y oppose Eloïsha Iza - Afro beauté Tabou Combo - Baissez bas Gemini All Stars de Ti Manno - Exploitation Colé Colé Band - Jennifer  Shoogar Combo - Lèlène ChérieRetrouvez notre playlist sur Deezer.  À lire aussiAvec Fabregas le Métis Noir et Deplick Pomba, la musique congolaise adoucit les mœurs

Welcome to the Personal Development Trailblazers Podcast! In this episode, we'll share insights, and inspiration to embrace life's shifts. Dr. Candace Hayden's path to becoming a transformational coach and hypnotherapist was forged through profound personal challenges and triumphs. A doctorate in Organization Development and Change in hand, Candace found herself questioning her purpose after graduation. Life responded with trials—her mother's passing, a divorce after 21 years of marriage, and supporting her son through a career-ending injury. In the midst of grief, a chance encounter with a soul coach set her on a new trajectory. Drawn to the world of holistic healing, Candace earned her certification and began to uncover her deeper calling. This marked the beginning of a transformative journey—one that saw her shed over 100 pounds, become a licensed Zumba and Pound instructor, and earn her RTY 200 Yoga license. But transformation wasn't just physical. By 49, Candace realized she was redefining herself entirely—moving beyond roles of daughter, wife, and mother to rediscover the woman within. A breakup, the decline of her father's health, and the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic deepened her resolve. Amid these struggles, she made a powerful choice—to love herself fully and live life on her own terms. In 2021, a sudden and unexplained paralysis from the chest down tested Candace's spirit once more. Facing the possibility of never walking again, she defied the prognosis. Through grit, faith, and the power of hypnotherapy, she regained mobility—eventually walking in a marathon in Greece. Today, Candace's practice, LivinLife Coaching Practice, reflects her unwavering belief that transformation is possible for everyone. Whether guiding clients through hypnotherapy, wellness coaching, or life transitions, she draws from her own experiences to help others overcome adversity and step into their fullest potential. Her motto is simple yet powerful: "Focusing on the whole person – mind, body, spirit, and soul. Connect with Dr. Candace here:  https://www.facebook.com/LivinLifeCoach https://www.instagram.com/livinlifecoach/ https://www.livinlife-llc.com Grab the freebie here: https://www.livinlife-llc.com/ebook =================================== If you enjoyed this episode, remember to hit the like button and subscribe. Then share this episode with your friends. Thanks for watching the Personal Development Trailblazers Podcast. This podcast is part of the Digital Trailblazer family of podcasts. To learn more about Digital Trailblazer and what we do to help entrepreneurs, go to DigitalTrailblazer.com. Are you a coach, consultant, expert, or online course creator? Then we'd love to invite you to our FREE Facebook Group where you can learn the best strategies to land more high-ticket clients and customers.  QUICK LINKS:  APPLY TO BE FEATURED: https://app.digitaltrailblazer.com/podcast-guest-application DIGITAL TRAILBLAZER: https://digitaltrailblazer.com/

Chalene covers so much in this episode! She's visiting her mom to help her prep for her big Zumba teaching debut (so fun, right?). Then it's time to unpack what's going on with Hollywood and this ultra-thin trend—seriously, what's happening? Plus, the real difference between divas and superstars gets broken down. There's also a look at the wild ride of having a newborn and going straight back to work, updates on the Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively situation, and some exciting news about Camp Be More. Oh, and let's talk about critical thinking—why are people so into following the crowd lately? Whether you're walking or just chilling, this episode's got something for everyone!

Brightside Opportunities Center in Lancaster is changing lives with its innovative programs from fitness and wellness to education and youth initiatives. Sally Winchell, Wellness Director at Brightside, has been at the center for ten years. Winchell helped to design the layout of the fitness center. “We have strength and conditioning. We have some Zumba classes. We have a senior pound class. I work with younger people with lifting weights, doing personal training all the way up through people that are in their 90s, “said Winchell. Isiah Perry, Program Director at Brightside says the center offers nutrition programs as well. “Through these nutrition programs that we're doing with seniors, but also for the kids. Sally came into Stem camp and did a whole day all about nutrition, how to read a food label. My kids, we call them food detectives. What to stay away from Red dye is terrible for you. Sugar in these sodas is three times your daily limit. We're uplifting them to make healthy choices so that they can live of, well, vibrant life, “said Perry. Sometimes, participants can be a little hesitant when joining due to fear or self-doubt. However, Perry and Winchell work hard to build confidence among people in their fitness programs. “Or some people believe, I want to do this by myself and get down to a certain level before I enter into a public space. And the educational programs, I see the same thing with the youth, where they are shy to explore educational activities outside of the classroom. And that can be with learning loss due to Covid, whether or not confidence in their abilities, whether that's math or reading. But really that self-doubt is something that we have to overcome by instilling a sense of community and giving them a purpose, “said Perry.Support WITF: https://www.witf.org/support/give-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to another empowering episode of the "Do the Thing" podcast!

The DOtD lads take part in a Zumba class as we review Coralie Fargeat's “The Substance”! We talk through the many themes in the film, the director's vision for the ending, and Nico and Justin do battle once again. Must be a Monday. Spoilers at the aerobics show.Like & Subscribe to keep updated on new episodes!Website: https://www.dotdhorror.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dontopenthatdoorTwitter: https://twitter.com/DOtDHorror Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dotdhorror

We have a lot of things planned for this hour. Harris Faulkner is on, for instance. But not everything we wanted to talk about ended up happening, because of the rhythm of the night.

I want to share something that's been on my mind after visiting a few local gyms recently. What started as a simple search for a place to get in some strength training turned into a bigger reflection on how much community shapes and inspires us.  There was an older gentleman lifting more weight than I could, and a woman in sequins heading to Zumba, ready to hit the dance floor. Watching everyone show up in their own unique way reminded me how powerful it is to be part of something bigger and how community can inspire us, push us, support us, and help us grow.  Whether it's a gym, a writing group, or even a bunch of fans rallying for the same team, the connections we make help define how we see ourselves and what's possible.  In this episode, let's take a Wise Walk together and reflect on the communities that inspire us, the lessons they bring, and how showing up matters—not just for us, but for the people around us. How is the support of community positively impacting you? What community are you consistently excited to engage with? How do they inspire you, and how do you inspire others? What about that community makes you say, "That was an amazing use of my time"? What are you gaining from being part of community? What groups or communities have helped you raise your vibration or lift yourself to a higher level? Which communities have inspired you or offered a safe path to explore a unique aspect of yourself? As you explore an interest, what has surprised you along the way? What have you learned that you might not have known if you hadn't shown up? What awareness did you gain from those experiences? In the communities you engage with, where are you the student? How can you take the lessons you've learned and pay them forward to benefit others? How does learning and growing through these experiences become a part of you? How can you use what you've learned to help someone else in the future? When you show up in your community, can you embrace the mindset of being both a student and a teacher? How do you pay it forward in ways that feel authentic and aligned with you? Thank you, for being part of this community, for showing up as your true self, and for bringing your curiosity and energy to push us all to see what's possible.  I'd love to hear what resonated with you from today's episode—what communities are inspiring you right now, and what you've learned by showing up for them. I look forward to our Wise Walk together, next Thursday, so be sure to tune in. Until then, don't forget to prioritize fun as you read the signs, direct your path, and get your stride on!   In this episode: [04:40] I'm seeing people of all walks of life doing what lights them up and supports their interest and wellbeing. [05:35] The other thing that community does is it brings us closer together in ways outside of our initial interest. [06:13] The kickboxing class was also going for it. I remember how those classes helped me in that phase of my life. [07:04] We gain a sense of belonging and feel seen for showing up. [08:14] New York JETS fans are diehard because of a sense of belonging and rooting for the underdog. [09:20] Writing groups are also a great source of sharing and caring. Joining communities helps us tap into different aspects of ourselves. [12:12] I love it when we slow down, check our reality, and take time to reflect on these questions. [13:26] Being a substitute yoga teacher is also a gift of community where I can show up and be present. [15:54] Community empowers you and makes you more fearless when you know you have support. [16:32] We are not alone, and we belong when we join a group and put ourselves out there.   Memorable Quotes: “Community isn't always about winning or accomplishments. It can also be about just showing up and having that sense of belonging, that sense of understanding.” - Mary Tess “Every time you're learning, growing, and expanding your knowledge and experiences, that becomes a part of you that you might be able to share to help someone else in the future.” - Mary Tess “The connections we make help define how we see ourselves and what we believe is possible” - Mary Tess   Links and Resources: Mary Tess Rooney Email Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram Heart Value  

The Taliban edict that women's voices should not be heard aloud renders women up and down Afghanistan inaudible as well as invisible in public. Women are already denied most forms of education and employment. They are not allowed to go outside without a male guardian, and have to be completely covered up, including their faces. Now the new rules say they should be quiet too. Women singing together, or even raising their voices in prayer, is forbidden.But there's more than one way to be heard.Our Whole Life is a Secret records the day to day life of 'Leila', a lively, energetic Afghan woman aged 23, doing everything she can to navigate the rules. From behind the walls of her home, Leila reveals her vivid interior world, and that of her female friends and relatives. She and her sisters are the first women in their family to read and write, and before the Taliban returned to power in 2021, she was a university student. Now she teaches in a secret school and is part of a dynamic online learning community. From reading Emily Bronte to working out to Zumba, Leila is determined to keep stay sane and busy.'Leila' is not her real name and all locations are omitted for safety reasons. Her words are read by Asal Latifi.

The Taliban edict that women's voices should not be heard aloud renders women up and down Afghanistan inaudible as well as invisible in public. Women are already denied most forms of education and employment. They are not allowed to go outside without a male guardian, and have to be completely covered up, including their faces. Now the new rules say they should be quiet too. Women singing together, or even raising their voices in prayer, is forbidden.But there's more than one way to be heard.Our Whole Life is a Secret records the day to day life of 'Leila', a lively, energetic Afghan woman aged 23, doing everything she can to navigate the rules. From behind the walls of her home, Leila reveals her vivid interior world, and that of her female friends and relatives. She and her sisters are the first women in their family to read and write, and before the Taliban returned to power in 2021, she was a university student. Now she teaches in a secret school and is part of a dynamic online learning community. From reading Emily Bronte to working out to Zumba, Leila is determined to keep stay sane and busy. 'Leila' is not her real name and all locations are omitted for safety reasons. Her words are read by Asal Latifi. Producer/Presenter Monica Whitlock Sound design and mix James Beard Editor Penny Murphy

Send us a textIn this thought-provoking episode of God-sized Stories, I had the immense pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Tim Muehlhoff, professor at Biola University and co-director of the Winsome Conviction Project.Dr. Muehlhoff and I delve into his latest book, co-authored with  Sean McDowell, titled "End a Stalemate," which couldn't be timelier given our current polarized world."Addressing the heart is key to preventing emotions from wrecking our conversations," says Dr. Muehlhoff.

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In the next inspiring episode of The MisFitNation Show, host Rich LaMonica welcomes Staci Berkovitz, Integrative Corporate Health Coach and wellness powerhouse! Staci brings more than just wellness certifications; she delivers a roadmap to resilience, stress management, and joy. With her expert blend of mindfulness, laughter yoga, and positive psychology, Staci guides others through stress with confidence and calm. A National Board-Certified Health Coach, Certified Somatic Practitioner, Author, Group Fitness Instructor, and Zumba & Yoga Leader, Staci has transformed lives globally, helping clients turn life's challenges into powerful growth. Staci's personal journey with stress has been her greatest teacher, and she's here to share her most effective strategies, empowering people to find peace within the chaos—whether at work or home. Tune in to embrace a life of balance, laughter, and true wellness! Check out her site here: https://ontheexhale.com/ https://tinyurl.com/3txxz5z7 https://www.instagram.com/livingontheexhale https://www.instagram.com/nakedat50  Become a part of The MisFitNation https://linktr.ee/themisfitnation Want to be a guest on The MisFitNation? Send Rich LaMonica a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/richlamonica

Blanca Rodriguez is the owner and CEO of Wounded Healer, LLC.  Her mission in life is to help others improve quality of life, no matter what age we are.  She has been a licensed massage therapist for 19 years, certified canine massage therapist for 8 years, Fitness instructor for 45+ individuals and Zumba and dance teaching for 40+ years. Amazon bestselling book coauthor, Holistic life coach, motivational, inspirational speaker, educator, and volunteer. Blanca is a member and mentor at the American Massage Therapy Association, member, mentor and vice president of education at Talking heads of Stuart Toastmasters, member of Puerto Rico Toastmasters club, and Area Director for Toastmasters International. #drdanamzallag, #drdanpodcast, #Happinessjourneywithdrdan, #ddanmotivation, #inspiringinterviews, #drdancbt, #drdantherapy, #drdancoaching, #drdanhappiness,   --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/happinessjourney/support

How does a Big Four accountant and part-time Zumba instructor transform into the President and CEO of her own fractional CFO services organization? In this episode, Shannon Weinstein takes us through her unique career journey—from balancing corporate accounting by day and teaching fitness classes by night to launching her own consulting firm. Shannon shares the pivotal moments that led her to realize the financial struggles many small business owners face and how she turned her passion for teaching into a thriving business, helping entrepreneurs master their finances.In this episode, you will learn:The importance of separating personal and business finances early onHow cash flow management can make or break your business—even if you're profitablePractical tips for overcoming financial fears and taking control of your business's futureWhy building a solid financial foundation from the start is key to long-term successWelcome to the Consulting Success podcast. I'm your host Michael Zipursky, and in this podcast, we're going to dive deep into the world of elite consultants where you're going to learn the strategies, tactics and mindset to grow a highly profitable and successful consulting business.Before we dive into today's episode. Are you ready to grow and take your consulting business to the next level? Many of the clients that we work with started as podcast listeners just like you, and a consistent theme they have shared with us is that they wished they had reached out sooner about our Clarity Coaching Program rather than waiting for that perfect time. If you're interested in learning more about how we help consultants just like you, we're offering a free, no pressure growth session call. On this call, we're going to dive deep into your goals, challenges and situation and outline a plan that is tailor made just for you. We will also help you identify where you may be making costly and time consuming mistakes to ensure you're benefiting from the proven methods and strategies to grow your consulting business. So don't wait years to find clarity. If you're committed and serious about reaching a new level of success in your consulting business, go ahead and schedule your free growth session. Get in touch today. Just visit Consulting Success - Grow to book your free call today.Shannon Weinstein, CPA and President/CEO of Keep What You Earn Co., is a fractional CFO dedicated to empowering small business owners by making financial concepts simple and relatable. Starting her career early, she managed a McDonald's at 16 and later spent 15 years in Big 4 and corporate finance. Through her top 1% podcast, Keep What You Earn, Shannon combines real-life examples with financial expertise to help entrepreneurs understand their numbers and use them to scale their businesses. She's also a much sought-after speaker and advocate for financial literacy.Connect with Shannon WeinsteinDiscover more about Keep What You EarnMentioned in this episode:Follow Consulting Success!Make sure you're following us on your podcast app! Already subscribed? Tell a friend about the show that you think could benefit as well!Check Out Our Youtube ChannelDon't miss any of our additional content over on our Youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/@ConsultingSuccessTV

Our Leaning King (new nickname pending!) Keith Morrison is back at it with a mysterious new episode involving a shadow (not to be confused with The Shadow), a window (of a house and into people's souls), and a Zumba class with sassy workout queens. This episode also features a heroic and well caffeinated daughter, a case of mistaken Windex identity, and move over Bill Nye, Dr. Dragovitch and his bowties are the Science Guy we want! Join K & K for a truly evil murder plot in the most well-heeled of tony enclaves, it's THE SHADOW IN THE WINDOW!  Official Description from NBCU: A teenager's life is turned upside down by a shocking discovery as what seems like a fatal accident reveals itself to be something much more disturbing. Keith Morrison reports.  Make sure to subscribe to LIVE, LAUGH, LARCENY, follow @livelaughlarceny podcast on Instagram, and leave them a five star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!  We have some amazing sponsors, and shopping with them helps us out so much! Have you STILL not struck a PROSE? Get with the program! Get fifty percent off your first haircare subscription order at PROSE.com/datewithdateline! Take your free consultation, get your one-of-a-kind formulas, and see the difference custom haircare can make! We're so excited to eat quick, healthy, and delicious with GREEN CHEF!!! Go to greenchef.com/datelineclass for 50% off your first box and 50 FREE credits with ClassPass! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! Guaranteed happy family dinners! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

By Audrey Scott I have been Fasting since June 2020, aged 51, 4 months into the Pandemic. My weight had crept up again despite exercising 4 hours every morning to pass the time and try and keep the weight gain to a minimum. I weighed 230lbs at that point. I read Delay Don't Deny by Gin Stephens. I can't remember how I found her on the internet, but I bought her book on Amazon, and it resonated with me so deeply that I finally felt hopeful that I may have discovered a lifestyle that could work for me. With my Nursing background, I understood the concept of Insulin Resistance and suspected that I suffered from this as I'd dieted for over 20 years on and off.  I was slim as a child and always adored food, and I can remember feeling hungry a lot as a girl and not enjoying that sensation My weight gain started when I left home to train as a nurse, with shift patterns and feeling like I had no control over when I would next get to eat on shifts, I began the habit of overeating so I wouldn't experience hunger. I also discovered fast food and Alcohol and enjoyed the student lifestyle to the fullest!! I knew I was gaining weight but didn't weigh myself regularly as I didn't want to know.   This continued for years, I lost weight on a low fat diet after I had my first child only to regain again after I had my second daughter. I began to try to seriously address my weight gain in 2003 when I moved to the USA with my husband and family; at that point, I weighed 266 lbs, my highest recorded weight, and needed to lose some. I lost 40 lbs. That was the start of years of YoYo dieting before I found IF in 2020    I started on an 18/6 protocol, clean fasting from Day 1. I lost 2 lbs of water weight in the first week and nothing for three months! I persevered as I genuinely thought that something would be happening inside of me, and my clothes were getting loose. I had a woosh of a 2 lb loss in October and then lost weight steadily from that point on, about 1 lb per week.  In the December of that year, I started doing a Meatless Monday for the autophagy benefits, and I swiftly moved onto a Hybrid ADF Approach on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays with subsequent Up days and a 4/6 hour window on a Sunday, which means I can be socialable on the weekends with my family.   I have been maintaining my weight around the 170 lb mark for about 18 months, happily fasting with zero plans EVER to stop   I have been married happily for 28 years, have 2 precious adult daughters and two gorgeous rescue cats. I work part-time in a Secondary school as a Learning Support Assistant.  In my free time, I love being with family and friends, doing Zumba, moderate exercise, listening to podcasts, reading, and watching TV.  I love going on holidays/vacations. I try to cruise at least once a year and still fast on these trips, just adapting my windows to what suits you.  I am so grateful to have discovered Fasting; it has given me the tools to make me feel good about myself, and I love to look and feel healthy.