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Talking all the things: Life, Fitness, Kids, Family and Accountability Coaching. After years of bringing MOMS together by hosting evening get-togethers over glasses of wine, no kids or partners and a whole lot of common complaints, Brittany decided it was time to bring her female driven topics and #momdiscoveries to the podcasting platform. Here she talks all things life, health, fitness, kids, relationships – you name it, nothing is off the table! Diving deeper into all things motherhood & womanhood, she interviews some incredible guests finding tips and tricks, parenting hacks and longevity tips to make the most of our lives while keeping our sanity in check! It’s time to get real, let go of the expectations we feel from the outside and begin to live a life of fulfillment. Show yourself some self love and take some selfcare time to listen in weekly!
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Wednesday Sep 01, 2021
Wednesday Sep 01, 2021
Conquer 100 Behind the Scenes: How Family Conquers All with Sunny Jo Lawrence
WELCOME BACK!!
The Mom Sweat Sanity Podcast is back after a summer hiatus and we cant wait for you to tune in to all out exciting new line-ups!
We are kicking it off with an amazing women, Sunny Jo Lawrence.
TUNE IN TODAY!
Episode 29: Show Notes.
For anyone who followed the Iron Cowboy James Lawrence complete his incredible Conquer 100 physical challenge by completing 100 triathlons in 100 days, today’s guest may be familiar to you. In this episode, we speak to his wife, the equally incredible Sunny Jo Lawrence. She gives us a behind-the-scenes look at what life was like for James, for her, and for their five children as he undertook this incredibly challenging pursuit. We look at the ups and downs of such a journey and what it looks like to be the organizer and the support system. She speaks about how the Conquer 100 required a collective effort for the whole family, how each of her kids found their own purpose and role in it, and how she prepared for it by setting the tone. We also discuss how she has used the experience to teach her children that change and disruption are opportunities for growth. Tune in today to find out where she saw the biggest growth in herself during the Conquer 100, the importance and the difficulty of maintaining a good attitude through challenging times, and why this generation should not be afraid to pursue hard things intentionally. You’ll also hear about Sunny Jo’s calling to connect with women, her new speaking career, and her future plans in terms of content creation, as well as the possibility of a book. What does Sunny's life look like with five kids in a goal-oriented household and how does she keep her values in check? Well, tune in today to find out!
Key Points From This Episode:
- Some of Sunny Jo Lawrence’s background and her love of fitness.
- How fitness brought her and her husband James Lawrence together.
- Sunny Jo’s experience of doing triathlons.
- How Sunny Jo prepared for Conquer 100 by setting the tone for the household.
- How Sunny has taught her children that change and disruption is an opportunity for growth.
- How this lesson relates to the pandemic.
- How James lives his mantra of living in the present.
- Sunny Jo’s calling to connect with women and her new speaking career.
- How her new career offers her the opportunity to self-reflect and grow.
- Why having to adapt everyday was one of the greatest challenges she faced during the Conquer 100.
- The importance and the difficulty of maintaining a good attitude in the situation she faced.
- The most physically challenging thing Sunny Jo’s has ever experienced firsthand.
- How this generation avoids discomfort but Sunny Jo’s daughter is learning to pursue hard things intentionally.
- Future plans for Sunny Jo in terms of content creation and the possibility of a book.
- Sunny Jo’s normal morning and evening self-care routines.
- Her thoughts on her changing role as a mother as her children grow up.
- Britt’s advice for Sunny Jo to sit in your silence.
Tweetables:
“Every mom knows that she sets the mood of the home. So, I imagine in these moments of chaos, as long as the mom keeps it together, the whole family keeps it together. I knew that. I knew it was imperative.” — Sunny Jo Lawrence [0:07:21]
“And that’s the crazy part, it’s like people went into this year with COVID saying, ‘Oh my gosh, everything’s uncertain!’ Every morning when you get out of bed, life is uncertain. It is no different than every other day of our lives.” — Sunny Jo Lawrence [0:10:53]
“It’s okay to suffer but when you go 10 and 20 years and you haven’t figured out your path and you can’t figure out this balance, that’s what I want to talk to women about.” — Sunny Jo Lawrence [0:17:05]
“It’s a beautiful place of growth for me as well because I get to self-reflect and say, ‘Well, where am I? Where do I have gaps? Where am I missing what I need to be seeing in all this? And where do I have room to grow?’” — Sunny Jo Lawrence [0:20:26]
“The whole journey is unprecedented. No one’s ever done this before, no one knows what to expect. The people who’ve come closest are us!” — Sunny Jo Lawrence [0:25:45]
Sunny Jo's Bio:
Sunny is a Utah native and have a college degree from Utah Valley University in the field of Psychology. I married James in December of 2000 and we are loving life together. We have five children, four daughters and one son on the end. I have always loved being a mom, as well as James’ #1 supporter through all of his accomplishments. We balance each other out and make a great team.
I am excited about starting my own career, and heading into the second half of my life. I am passionate about people, and love getting to know anyone with whom I cross paths. I am regularly told that I am a ray of sunshine and that my personality fits my name.
I have been an athlete for most years of my life, and have enjoyed the calmed down version now that I am entering the next chapter of my life. Golf has waited many years, and is now something that I love to do, especially in my hot pink golf shoes.
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Wednesday Jul 21, 2021
Wednesday Jul 21, 2021
The Mom Sweat Sanity Podcast
Episode 028. Featuring Meredith Dawson
Show Notes
Discovering Key Tools & Techniques to Thrive at Life with Thriving Life Collective’s Meredith Dawson
Episode 28: Show Notes.
Shortly after Meredith Dawson became a mom, she also became a single mom. She realized that she desperately needed resources to deal with the stress, overwhelm, and trauma that she was faced with, and this led her to develop an entire tool kit of resources to help her cope and ultimately thrive. As a childhood educator and mother, Meredith felt compelled to be more than a teacher and left the classroom to have a greater impact on her community by using these tools to help support teachers and families. Today, she joins us to talk about her business the Thriving Life Collective and how she is equipping people with key tools and techniques through a range of wellbeing practices. Meredith explains the importance of breathwork to be able to process the emotional messages in our bodies and explains some of the other resources she utilizes, including essential oils, meditation and mindful movement. She educates us about tapping, a technique where you can stimulate a physiological effect on your nervous system by tapping on different pressure points in your body to reset your energy centre. For helpful tips on how you too can thrive physically and emotionally, tune in today!
Key Points From This Episode:
• An introduction to Meredith Dawson: mother, childhood educator, and well-being warrior.
• How trying to deal with the stress, trauma, and overwhelm of becoming a single mother led
Meredith to find resources to help.
• How she uses the tool kit that she developed to help herself and others.
• The importance of breathwork to be able to process the emotional messages in our body.
• How Meredith left teaching in order to have a greater impact on her community.
• Insight into her ‘back to breath’ program and what it entails.
• How COVID impacted her business and the need for support in schools.
• An introduction to the tapping technique and its physiological effects on the nervous system.
• A breakdown of where all the pressure points can be found in your body and what can be
achieved by tapping on them.
• Insight into her outdoor program and the importance of nature.
• The importance of being able to identify stress and reset your energy centre to move
forward.
• How tapping when you talk through your vision can help make it a reality.
• An overview of some of the different programs Meredith offers and what they entail.
• Where you can find Meredith and her programs.
• What Meredith’s daily routine consists of.
• Meredith’s final thoughts: “What if everything within us was for us and it was the overflow
that went to other people?”
Tweetables:
© 2021 Mom Sweat Sanity Podcast 1
TMSS 28 Show Notes
“It’s just led me down a path to creating this beautiful Thriving Life tool kit, to be able to share with others and to use myself, to use with my own family that really works.” — Meredith Dawson [0:03:26]
“I like to say that I’m a mom and an educator and a well-being warrior, but really I’m just a human who’s striving to thrive, like we all are, right?” — Meredith Dawson [0:03:36]
It really, for me, comes back to that ability to connect with breath, because when we connect with our breath, we create space to be able to process emotions and process those emotional messages in our body that can really get mixed up in our heads.” — Meredith Dawson [0:05:50]
“What if everything within us was for us, for our own well-being, and it was the overflow that went to other people?” — Meredith Dawson [0:28:47]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Thriving Life Collective Meredith Dawson on Instagram Britt Anderson
Britt Anderson on Instagram
© 2021 Mom Sweat Sanity Podcast 2
Tuesday Jul 06, 2021
Tuesday Jul 06, 2021
Episode 27: Show Notes.
In today’s episode, we continue our conversation with Hilary Spires, but with a bit of a twist. Our guest Hilary Spires takes on the role of interviewing our host Brittany to talk about all things endurance, nutrition, and motherhood. Tuning in listeners will hear about Brittany’s journey and how she first set herself ambitious training goals after pregnancy. She shares key takeaways from her course with Dr. Stacey Sims, all of which come back to the crucial lesson that ‘women are not small men’. We discuss some of the crucial differences between men and women in endurance sport, such as the distinctions between real food and race nutrition and how women process glucose differently from men. Brittany explains how your menstrual cycle and hormones affect your energy and how you process fuel. She also unpacks why taking in the correct carbohydrate to protein ratio during a race is essential. We loved hearing from our inspiring host, and we’re sure you’ll find the conversation every bit as informative as we did! For all this and much more, join us today!
Key Points From This Episode:
- Part two of our interview with Hilary Spires.
- In today’s special episode, Hilary Spires flips the mic to interview our host, Brittany Anderson.
- How Brittany became incentivized to take on big fitness goals after her pregnancies.
- Brittany describes how she started her podcast to connect with and support other women.
- How Brittany got into triathlons after the birth of her daughter.
- The value of children seeing their mom doing something for themselves like pursuing fitness goals.
- Dr. Stacy Sims and her course on nutrition and racing for women.
- Dr. Stacy Sims’ lesson that ‘women are not small men’ and how it has changed Brittany’s approach to running, nutrition, and body awareness.
- The difference between real food and race nutrition and how women process glucose differently from men.
- How your hormones and where you are in your menstrual cycle affect your energy and how you process fuel.
- Why women should prioritize consuming real food and only turn to liquid calories much later in a race.
- Brittany shares her go-to fuel for half marathons.
- The importance of ingesting the correct carbohydrate to protein ratio to avoid gut rot.
- Brittany shares her thoughts on alcohol affecting performance.
- We hear from Brittany about working out before breaking your fast and how she fuels herself when she doesn’t want a big breakfast.
- How Brittany learned to take better care of her body and become her own advocate when it comes to seeking medical support.
Tweetables:
“I've always been in sport in some way since I was a child. And once I had my kids my incentive to get back into shape post-pregnancy with all of them was really to set myself some big, audacious goals.” — Brittany Anderson [0:02:54]
“In terms of resistance, and longer endurance, women’s recovery to baseline is way faster than men. So we actually need to refuel our body within 30 to 45 minutes of our workout. A return to baseline for a man is 18 to 21 hours. Huge difference!” — Brittany Anderson [0:15:31]
“Really listening to yourself like ‘Is today's run feeling hard because I just don't feel like doing it? Or is it hard because my body shouldn't be doing this?’. Being honest with ourselves.” — Brittany Anderson [0:27:57]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Tory Schultz
Roar
Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
Trail Tips, Talks, and Routes and FKT with Hilary Spires of the Trail Running Women Podcast
Episode 26: Show Notes.
Finding the time to push your boundaries on trail runs when you have kids can seem like an impossible balancing act. Our guest today is all too familiar with this dilemma and has accumulated tricks and tips to help you better manage your time and get the most out of your trail running. In today’s episode, we get together with Hilary Spires, a mom of a two-year-old son and an incredible trail runner and coach, who also hosts her very own podcast Trail Running Women. In our conversation, we discuss the many joys and challenges of trail running, from finding fresh routes to increasing your distance. We talk about the sense of connection and community that can be found in trail running and how motherhood led Hilary to this endurance sport. For all this and more, tune in today!
Key Points From This Episode:
- Introducing today’s guest, Hilary Spires.
- The wonderful community and sense of connection that Hilary found in trail running.
- Hilary shares her tips for increasing your distance.
- The benefits of trail running versus road running.
- How to frame your training as ‘time on feet’ to help you manage your time.
- Why power hiking is an excellent strategy for going up a steep hill.
- Hilary gives her tips on equipment and when to use them on trails.
- Why it’s important to always have snacks when trail running.
- Hilary discusses the double Baden-Powell run that she will be undertaking with her friend as well as other races she is looking forward to.
- The joy of pushing your boundaries through trail running and getting out of your comfort zone.
- Hilary shares some of the running trails she discovered during the limitations of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- How Hilary approaches potential encounters with wildlife like bears and cougars.
Tweetables:
“If you have the time, then yeah, definitely get one of those runs to be a little bit longer. But you don't need to be taking off for five hours. I know, lots of us have kids. And that seems impossible.” — Hilary Spires [0:05:18]
“We're all capable of so much. But we don't often push ourselves that much in life anymore. We don't get to get to the edge of our comfort zone, because everything we need is right around us.” — Hilary Spires [0:11:11]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
What’s in Your Smoothie? A Conversation with Blended For You Founder and CEO, Deanna Embury on her Passion to Bring Nutrient Dense Meals to your Freezer for Whatever Health Need or Age You Desire
Episode 25: Show Notes.
When friends and family of entrepreneur, Deanna Embury, had health struggles, she found herself making smoothies for them to aid their nutrition. This planted a seed that eventually led to the establishment of Blended For You Smoothies. Deanna joins us today on the Mom Sweat Sanity Podcast to talk all things smoothies! Hear about how the company came about, why she put off starting it, and how she spent a year on product development. Find out what goes into the smoothies, how they get the nutrition content so high, and how much protein you can expect to find in them. Deanna also talks about the connection between good nutrition and mental health, and how the company is developing blends that aid the health of seniors and support those with different illnesses, such as diabetes. She shares how these smoothies are designed to be a complete nutrition meal, boosted with superfoods to support different health goals and taste preferences. To find out why Blended For You smoothies should be a staple in your freezer, the different ways they can be enjoyed, and why kids and adults like them so much, tune in today!
Key Points From This Episode:
- An introduction to Deanna Embury and how she got into the smoothie business.
- How the health struggles of friends and family members influenced her to make smoothies.
- Why she put off starting the business and spent a year on product development.
- The struggles of trying to introduce customers to something that was new.
- The importance of minimizing food waste.
- The pros of frozen food when it comes to ingredient shortages.
- How the products actually work and help people on the go.
- The high-nutrition aspect of the smoothies: 90 percent have a vegetable included in them.
- How the smoothies for kids are different from the rest of the product line.
- The protein content of the smoothies: 80 percent have between 15 and 21 grams.
- Why they used only vegan and plant-based proteins and avoided gluten.
- How the company is expanding into blends that support different critical illnesses.
- How the packaging is made from compostable, non-toxic plant materials with no plastic.
- Deanna’s favorite smoothies: the green ones!
- The role of nutrition in supporting good mental health.
- Deanna’s morning routine and her life hack for getting through stressful periods.
- Future plans for the business include leasing space in Toronto and developing blends that support the needs of diabetics and seniors.
- Where you can find Blended For You smoothies.
Tweetables:
“There’s a lot of ingredients. It’s about ingredient combining and really putting a lot of thought and love and care into absorption and what best foods combine together – and making it taste good.” — @Blendedforu [0:04:02]
“I played around with all kinds of things with the goal of creating something that will help people, whether it’s just staying healthy and managing a busy life, whether it’s getting your greens in because you just don’t like to eat them, or something more serious.” — @Blendedforu [0:05:47]
“The core of the company is about helping people eat well, stay energized, helping our customers and communities be healthy or stay healthy.” — @Blendedforu [0:11:21]
“I love the combination of the health and nutrition and the low food waste.” — @Blendedforu [0:12:05]
“A big part of what I am passionate about and doing a deep dive into is how nutrition supports mental health.” — @Blendedforu [0:20:12]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Tuesday May 25, 2021
Tuesday May 25, 2021
Mental and Physical Health: Building Confidence and Connection in Youth, One Kilometre at a Time with Sole Girls Founder, Ashley Wiles.
Episode 24: Show Notes.
Tired of being chained to a desk, Ashley Wiles pursued work with special relevance to her. She started Sole Girls, a program empowering pre-teen girls to address mental and physical health within a supportive community. First off, Ashley explains how she was able to escape the corporate rat race in order to start Sole Girls. She goes on to share the story that motivated her to dedicate her life to giving young girls the resources they need in order to thrive and describes the ways in which childhood influences self-esteem in adult women. Ashley introduces us to the heart behind Sole Girls and how it goes about achieving its goals of creating a safe and supportive space for girls. We touch on the ways in which body image issues are formed and talk about the role of sport in creating community and supporting mental wellness. We go on to discuss the ways in which sport teaches important lessons to kids, how the narrative in women’s sports is changing, and how Ashley is everyone’s hype girl. Tune in for the inside scoop on how Ashley Wiles made her dream of helping young girls into a reality and get inspired to do the same!
Key Points From This Episode:
- How Ashley was able to leave her corporate job in order to pursue her passion of creating a safe space for pre-teen girls.
- Why it is important to prioritize caring for women’s mental health from childhood.
- How the pre-teen experience has changed over time and how it has remained the same.
- The way in which physical goals help us to achieve psychological goals.
- What Sole Girls aims to do and how it goes about achieving this.
- How body image issues are formed through fixating on imperfections.
- The importance of compensating women appropriately for their work and ideas.
- The role of sport in creating community and supporting mental wellness.
- How the irrelevance of labels in sport can show kids the value of being on their own path.
- How the narrative in triathlon is changing.
- The ways in which Ashley Wiles is everyone’s hype girl.
Tweetables:
“When the economy crashed I really realized that everything is fleeting and you can choose what you do with your time.” — @evaruns [0:02:20]
“A girl died by suicide. Her name was Amanda Todd and that fuelled part of my passion of we need more tools for girls and has set me up on this journey of helping women thrive.” — @evaruns [0:03:30]
“Giving ourselves permission to do, be, and have whatever it is that we want starts with our childhood and so many of us forget what it’s like to be eight.” — @evaruns [0:03:40]
“They still have the exact same worries. It has just escalated with social media and photoshopping. It’s just more now than when we were kids.” — @evaruns [0:09:30]
“Essentially, Sole Girls is an aided program that focuses on girls’ mental and physical wellbeing so they can have some place that’s safe to talk about friendships and frenemies and anxiety and everything that comes up” — @evaruns [0:05:54]
“Body image plays a huge role and it can be anything. It could be a nose or an arm or an eyebrow or something we just dial into and that becomes the most important thing that we need to fix or change or have different, which is challenging!” — @evaruns [0:09:55]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Ashley Wiles on Instagram
Ashley Wiles on Twitter
Sole Girls
Sole Girls on Twitter
Sole Girls on Facebook
Sole Girls on YouTube
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After years of bringing MOMS together by hosting evening get-togethers over glasses of wine, no kids or partners and a whole lot of common complaints, Brittany decided it was time to bring her female driven topics and #momdiscoveries to the podcasting platform. Here she talks all things life, health, fitness, kids, relationships – you name it, nothing is off the table! Diving deeper into all things motherhood & womanhood, she interviews some incredible guests finding tips and tricks, parenting hacks and longevity tips to make the most of our lives while keeping our sanity in check! It's time to get real, let go of the expectations we feel from the outside and begin to live a life of fulfillment. Show yourself some self love and take some selfcare time to listen in weekly!
show notes found at www.momsweatsanity.com
Tuesday May 11, 2021
Tuesday May 11, 2021
Navigating Hormonal Health in Women from Youth through Menopause: Why ‘Women Are Not Small Men’ with Dr Stacy Sims
Episode 23: Show Notes.
If you’ve ever been frustrated by the fact that the same training methods that work for men simply do not work for women, then this episode is for you! Today, we are joined by Dr. Stacy Sims, an applied researcher, innovator, and entrepreneur in human performance, specifically the sex differences in training, nutrition, and environmental conditions. When studying nutrition, science, and exercise physiology, Dr. Sims became increasingly frustrated that proven physiological protocols and methodologies were based on male data and were not applicable to women. This led her to becoming an expert in this field, coining the phrase ‘women are not small men’, and writing the book, ROAR. Today, she joins us to discuss how we as women should be training our bodies, fueling our bodies, and factoring in our hormones to maximize our performance potential. Hear about how, as women, our cycles influence our physical abilities when training and we need to learn to listen to them and individualize our methods. We also discuss how different phases of life like puberty and menopause influence our bodies and how we can accommodate these hormonal changes for optimal physiological health. For all this and more, tune in today!
Key Points From This Episode:
- An introduction to performance physiologist, Dr. Stacy Sims.
- How her questions around physiological methodologies that worked for men and not women led her to become a female athlete performance physiologist.
- Learn about her book, ROAR, which helps you work with, not against your female physiology.
- Insight into how, as women, your cycle influences your physical abilities when training.
- Frustrations with the fact that knowledge of female physiology is amiss in healthcare, especially in Canada, and the generalization of data for men.
- Where the catch phrase ‘women are not small men’ came from.
- ‘Lift heavy shit’; the benefits of ‘lifting heavy’ for menopausal women.
- How Dr. Sims got into weightlifting.
- Hear about some of the online resources and courses that she offers.
- How to avoid negatively impacting your children’s bodies and hormones.
- Information about Dr. Sims’s upcoming books.
- The importance of hydration, and some of the hydration products she recommends.
- How Dr. Sims makes time for herself.
- Insight into her current training regime while living in New Zealand.
- Her top two tips for women right now: know your cycle and find time for some parasympathetic response.
- Things to consider before you put your child on birth control pills.
Tweetables:
“The more you begin [to research], the more you realize that all the protocols and methodologies, the guidelines are all based on male data.” — Dr. Stacy Sims [0:02:26]
“I think about all the female athlete performance potential that’s left on the table because we’ve been training, we’re being told what to do based on male data, and we're inherently not men.” — Dr. Stacy Sims [0:02:33]
“Not only do we have to individualize precision training, but how can we appropriately train our women to get the best out of them?” — Dr. Stacy Sims [0:02:53]
“If the menstrual cycle was a male problem, there would be an optimal education solution around it.” — Dr. Stacy Sims [0:06:56]
“Know your cycle, and if you don’t have a normal cycle, still track it to see how you feel on certain days because, even if you’re on an OC, you also have fluctuations. Understand how your body responds.” — Dr. Stacy Sims [0:21:13]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Tuesday May 04, 2021
Tuesday May 04, 2021
Endurance Couture: How Functional Endurance Sport Clothing and Fashion Collide. A Conversation with Betty Designs Founder Kristin Mayer on Life, Sport, Motherhood and Connection
Episode 022.
Endurance Couture: How Functional Endurance Sport Clothing and Fashion Collide. A Conversation with Betty Designs Founder Kristin Mayer on Life, Sport, Motherhood and Connection
Episode 22: Show Notes.
Today’s guest is the very inspiring Kristin Mayer. As an athlete, she has completed marathons, ultra-marathons, and triathlons while also raising her son, designing beautiful clothes, and running a successful business. Today she shares her story about how her divorce led her to establish her own clothing line Betty Designs, which doesn’t just provide functional and stylish sports attire to female athletes, it has also inspired and created a community of women known as the Betty Squad. She explains how the butterfly and the skull logo came about, how the Betty Squad of brand ambassadors was established, and how she chose the women she included in it. She discusses how she coped with the pandemic, in terms of her physical training and her creativity, and how she feels about her son going off to college. Get some insight into some of Betty Design’s upcoming kits, and what’s next for the business as well as Kristin’s athletic career. To hear what Kristin learnt through her own journey, as well as some encouragement for those of us who feel that we should have it all together but don’t, tune in today!
Key Points From This Episode:
- An introduction to Kristin Mayer, designer, mom and athlete.
- How it was not courage or inspiration, but fear that motivated her to start her company.
- Kristin shares what she learnt through her own journey and gives encouragement to people in their 30s and 40s who don’t yet have it all together.
- How Kristin managed to stay fit during COVID: she took a break from endurance training and went skiing instead.
- How her creativity soared even though she struggled emotionally and physically.
- Kristin explains where the butterfly and the skull came from in the Betty Design logo: the two sides of her, tough and feminine.
- How Kristin came up with the idea to have a Betty Squad to represent the brand, and how she chose who to include it in the squad.
- Britt and Kristin discuss the sense of community that has formed among Betty Squad members and the value of this.
- Kristin’s future plans for Betty Designs: Her enjoyment is more important than the growth.
- Upcoming Betty Designs product extensions.
- Kirstin shares some of her favourite kits over the years.
- How Kristin’s son has influenced her designs and how she feels about him going off to college.
- What is next for Kristin on the training docket: altitude training.
- What new kit is coming out for Kristin’s next race, why she chose white, and the benefits of skin suits.
- One thing that people who know Kristin don’t know about her: She’s not actually as outgoing as she seems.
- Why Kristin will never do another Triathlon.
Tweetables:
“My real passion is design and being a mom, and those two things being woven together is how Betty Designs launched.” — @KristinMayer [0:02:09]
“At the end of the day, you have to say to yourself ‘What’s really going to make me excited to get up in the morning?’ and then start working on that, as your side hustle — that invigorates you in all areas of your life.” — @KristinMayer[0:04:48]
“Sometimes I just think ‘I am tired of adulting, I am tired of learning,’ but that is all part of it and, as athletes, we’re more resilient to that. — It’s the same with business; try stuff, it’s okay to fail.” — @KristinMayer [0:05:32]
“You’re female and you’ve got this other side of you that’s so tough and focused, and it’s those two sides. The skull the tough head-down focus, and the butterfly the femininity, the other side.” — @KristinMayer [0:13:10]
“If I could have a Betty thing to wear for every single sport that I do, that would be my dream. And that’s a lot of sports!” — @KristinMayer [0:19:40]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Betty Designs on Instagram
All Betty Squad Sponsors outlined on image
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Bringing the Joy with Jessica Janzen: How to Lean into Life’s Nudges, Learn from Pain and Rise up to Your Life’s Purpose…One Dance Party at a Time
Episode 21: Show Notes.
On today’s show, I spoke to the very inspiring Jessica Janzen, author, speaker, coach, and founder of the Love for Lewiston Foundation and apparel company; The Lewiston Label Inc. When Jessica’s second child Lewiston was just two and a half months old, he was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy and given less than a year to live. Sadly, her dreams of proving the doctors wrong did not come true. While many people let such tragedies destroy them, Jessica found a way to push through the pain, show up, and dance her way through some of the biggest heartbreaks any person can face. Today, she gives us some advice on how we too can cope with life’s challenges. She discusses how life is 50 / 50: “Fifty percent awesome, 50 percent shitty,” and how to find skills to power through the tough stuff. She discusses the course she’s created to empower people to be present, show up and move forward. She also talks about her new book Bring the Joy: How Following the Nudges of Your Heart Leads to an Abundant Life, as well as the success of her foundation, and even her ongoing attempts to contact Justin Timberlake. Equal parts heartbreaking and humorously inspiring, you won’t want to miss this episode!
Key Points From This Episode:
- An introduction to Jessica Janzen and her many roles.
- The story of her baby Lewiston who passed away from Spinal Muscular Atrophy a few months into his life.
- How Lewis’s first birthday party led to the establishment of a foundation.
- The importance of ‘asking’.
- How to find skills to power through the difficult parts of life.
- Jessica discusses her book Bring the Joy.
- How people should look for and respond to life’s nudges.
- Advice for people trying to ‘bring the joy’.
- An introduction to “Joy starters” - finding joy in the simplest of pleasures.
- How to write a “What doesn’t suck?” list.
- The importance of developing power habits to take care of one’s mental health.
- The importance of overcoming negative thoughts for good mental health.
- The importance of having a core group of people for support.
- The role of a healthy diet in one’s overall well-being.
- The importance of self-care.
- The importance of accepting professional help if necessary.
- Jessica talks about her daily dance parties with Lewiston.
- She mentions her ongoing attempts to contact Justin Timberlake.
Tweetables:
“We ended up shifting our perspective and making a stake in the sand, and said, ’Whatever we do, we are going to fight with Lewiston on his fight and we will bring the joy to his life, whether it be until he’s 80 or if it’s just until he’s six months.’” — @jsjanzen [0:05:40]
“When someone gives you the diagnosis: “Less than a year”, you live those 365 days a whole lot differently.” — @jsjanzen [0:06:29]
“And then I’m like, ‘Your kid died, just be present in the moment with your children!’” — @jsjanzen [0:06:46]
“I got good at asking rich people for money. And then, people who aren’t rich, I’m like, ‘You got five bucks? You can make a donation.’ I’m just shameless!” — @jsjanzen [0:10:18]
“Life is 50 / 50: Fifty percent awesome, 50 percent shitty!”.” — @jsjanzen [0:13:54]
“Stop the pity party. Let’s go have a dance party and let’s go live your life.” — @jsjanzen [0:17:30]
“A therapist for your past, a life coach for your future.” — @jsjanzen [0:28:11]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Bring the Joy: How Following the Nudges of Your Heart Leads to an Abundant Life
Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
The Mash Movement: Movement, Awareness, Service and Health, Bringing Awareness and Hope to Muscular Dystrophy with Kasha Mitton and Maggie Aynsley
Episode 20: Show Notes.
Their love for movement, combined with the introduction of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) into their lives, and their desire to create meaningful change, drove two best friends to found The Mash Movement. Although Kasha Mitton’s son’s diagnosis of DMD is painfully challenging, she and Maggie Aynsley choose to live in hope and optimism in the face of this tragedy. In Canada, little is known about DMD, and there are no approved treatments. The Mash Movement raises awareness around this rare neuromuscular disorder through storytelling and movement - not only movement in the physical sense, but in the emotional realm too. Their goal is to be there for people who are suffering all kinds of hardships, and their adopted mantra is “start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.” Their passion for their cause and gratitude for each other is inspiring, as you will hear today. Make sure you have a box of tissues nearby for this equally heartbreaking and heartwarming episode.
Key Points From This Episode:
- “Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can” - Arthur Ash.
- Maggie and Kasha introduce themselves and what they are hoping to achieve with The Mash Movement.
- The meaning behind the Greek symbol which can be found in their logo.
- Factors which led to the founding of The Mash Movement, slightly over a year ago.
- Their biggest accomplishment so far: 25 days of Live in the Movement.
- Learn about Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), the neuromuscular disorder which Kasha’s son, Jude, suffers from.
- The lack of a collective voice and approved treatments for DMD in Canada, although they do exist elsewhere.
- Support being shown for The Mash Movement from all over.
- Maggie explains why storytelling has become an important part of The Mash Movement.
- The story behind Jesse’s Journey, the only charity in Canada focused on research for a cure for DMD.
- Chapters in The Mom Babes book that Maggie and Kasha have written.
- Life has thrown them huge challenges but Maggie and Kasha maintain hope and optimism.
- An emotional sharing of the qualities that Kasha and Maggie admire in each other and their feelings about life.
- Gratitude for their community.
- The online yoga class, in collaboration with Free Flow, that you can join on Earth Day (and why you should!).
Tweetables:
“Movement brought up together. It’s our language of healing.” — Kasha Mitton [0:00:35]
“We truly believe in hope. Not just for those suffering from Duchenne but for anyone who is journeying through hardship.” — Maggie Aynsley [0:04:38]
“Every day, little by little, if we can bring awareness [around DMD], because it’s rare, because we don’t have a collective voice.” — Kasha Mitton [0:13:27]
“Our ultimate goal is that we just continue being for other people. We’re not “human doings”, we’re human beings and we just want to be for other people. — Maggie Aynsley [0:20:21]
“It’s not just about bringing people together through physical movement. It’s about working people’s muscles of compassion and empathy and generosity and just love for each other. Those are the muscles that we need in this world.” — Kasha Mitton [0:23:52]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
The Mash Movement on Instagram
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After years of bringing MOMS together by hosting evening get-togethers over glasses of wine, no kids or partners and a whole lot of common complaints, Brittany decided it was time to bring her female driven topics and #momdiscoveries to the podcasting platform. Here she talks all things life, health, fitness, kids, relationships – you name it, nothing is off the table! Diving deeper into all things motherhood & womanhood, she interviews some incredible guests finding tips and tricks, parenting hacks and longevity tips to make the most of our lives while keeping our sanity in check! It's time to get real, let go of the expectations we feel from the outside and begin to live a life of fulfillment. Show yourself some self love and take some selfcare time to listen in weekly!
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