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The Mom Sweat Sanity Podcast – Life, Fitness, Motherhood & More Juggling life, fitness, family, and personal growth? You’re in the right place. After years of gathering moms for no-BS conversations over wine (and zero interruptions), Brittany realized the need for deeper discussions on motherhood, womanhood, and everything in between. Welcome to The Mom Sweat Sanity Podcast, where we get real about the highs, lows, and hilariously unfiltered moments of life. From parenting hacks and fitness tips to longevity secrets and mindset shifts, Brittany brings you weekly episodes packed with expert interviews, actionable insights, and the raw, relatable stories every mom needs to hear. No topic is off-limits—because let’s be real, motherhood is a wild ride, and we all deserve a space to share, grow, and thrive. Tune in weekly for your dose of self-care, self-love, and sanity-saving conversations that help you ditch the expectations and create a life you love. 💛 🎧 Subscribe now and start leveling up your motherhood game!
Episodes
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
TMSS 33 Show Notes
39 Things I’ve Learnt in 39 Years. Points and Perspectives.
Episode 33: Show Notes
They say self-reflection and knowing yourself is the starting point for all wisdom, and today's Mom Sweat Sanity offering is a special installment where our host, Britt Anderson, gets real and honest with 39 things she's learned in her 39 years on earth! This bite-sized episode is overflowing with personal reflections and insights on how to curate an internal and external world that honors us and those we surround ourselves with. Britt shares some ways we can be intentional with how we show up in the world through our thoughts, boundaries, actions, and reactions, and you'll hear a much-needed reminder that self-love, self-respect, and self- confidence trump everything else. Listen in for a moving story of a time when Brit and her partner learned that there is only this moment and this one day, and the powerful understanding that fear is a reaction but courage is a decision. Plus, Britt shares some hard- won insights on dealing with change, goal-setting, the gold hidden in the journey on the way to your goals, traveling, and so much more! Press play and gift yourself a gentle moment of inspiring clarity with us today.
Key Points From This Episode:
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● Introducing today's topic in anticipation of Britt's 40th birthday: 39 things from 39 years!
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● How self-respect, self-love, and self-confidence trump all.
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● Hearing about Britt's 'why' and the importance of communication and connection.
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● Finding grace in the hard seasons, and coming back to a self-empowered mindset.
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● The importance of surrounding yourself with people who love, support, and challenge you.
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● You are bigger than a number on a scale or a list or your age; this is your life and you define
yourself!
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● Releasing the things, people, and relationships that no longer honor your authenticity.
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● Talking about how you are allowed to change your mind.
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● Travel, travel, travel!
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● Britt shares a personal story where she realized that one day is all that matters.
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● Her approach to learning, setting goals, and where the gold is in these journeys.
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● Dropping expectations; how we create our own suffering by trying to control others.
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● How fear is a reaction but courage is a decision.
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● Some reflections on the choice of happiness.
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● Moving your body and climbing that mountain for the view; it's always worth it!
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● Hear about leaning into your knowledge and trusting that your truth is enough.
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● Telling the truth so you don't have to worry about which truth you may have told.
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● Britt's advice on dealing with the unplanned and unexpected.
Tweetables:
“Self-respect, self-love and self-confidence trumps all.” — Britt Anderson [0:01:51]
© 2021 Mom Sweat Sanity Podcast 1
TMSS 33 Show Notes
“Life can be hard and it can seem unfair. Look for the grace, it will be there.” — Britt Anderson
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“One of the best investments for growth, learning, and appreciation: travel.” — Britt Anderson
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“Investing in yourself is never selfish.” — Britt Anderson [0:07:32]
“Set goals. Not only the achievement of those goals will teach you; the road to that goal will be the biggest journey. That road may change, and in the end that goal may change because of the road you were on.” — Britt Anderson [0:07:42]
“Just because something isn't always enjoyable, does not mean it's not worth doing.” — Britt Anderson [0:09:55]
“The time will pass anyways. Make sure it passes doing the things [that] you want to do.” — Britt Anderson [0:11:09]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Britt Anderson
Britt Anderson on Instagram
© 2021 Mom Sweat Sanity Podcast 2
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
TMSS 32 Show Notes
Breakneck Booty with Shelby Kennedy: How YOU Can Prioritize Your Health and Wellness from Home with 19 Simple, No Equipment Necessary, Steps!
Episode 32: Show Notes
We've all said it - there aren't enough hours in the day. Between work, family, and the bazillion things on that never-ending to-do list, the modern woman's days can easily slip away in a rush of caring for everyone else but ourselves. And, while we know that carving out time to take care of your body is about more than fitness, who honestly has the motivation or finances to spend hours in the gym? Powerhouse Shelby Kennedy believes we all deserve time to honor our bodies and feel empowered about prioritizing ourselves, without having to break the bank or restructure our whole day. Today we are thrilled to have her back on the show to celebrate the launch of her book which tells you how to do exactly that! Breakneck Booty: The 19 Most Effective, No-Equipment Exercises To Strengthen, Grow And Transform Your Glutes From Home in Just 14 Days is designed with the modern woman in mind, and takes you through simple but targeted explanations of each step in the 2-week challenge to show how you can (and should) shape your fitness routine to fit into your lifestyle. In this conversation, Shelby shares what inspired her to write this book, examples of the ways you can use the exercises and adjust them to the challenge level you would like, and some inspiring advice on how she lives her life through presence, vulnerability, and bravely sharing what you have to offer with the world. From the importance of the mind-body connection in terms of mental health, to why the booty is the best place to start, tune in now to hear how self-love and feeling good can become a part of your daily life!
Key Points From This Episode:
● We catch up on the Shelby Kennedy brand, and her inspiration for Breakneck Booty! ● Hear Shelby's take on failure, and being brave with what you have to offer.
● The importance of believing in yourself, and getting out of your own way!
● How, as modern women, we don't have the time or money to spend hours in the gym. ● How we each deserve affordable and time-saving fitness that works for our lifestyle.
● Achieving the 2-week challenge and then shaping the schedule to fit your needs.
● Some examples of ways you can adjust the challenge level of the exercises.
● Shelby shares her life journey with exercise and what she's learned along the way.
● What the mind-body connection means to her, and how exercise boosts mental health. ● Why the booty is a great place to start!
● Shelby's mission: empowering, educating, and helping women to boost their self-love. ● Honoring yourself and your body by intentionally carving out 'me time'.
● How the experience of a physical book or list can be super motivating and personal.
● Shelby's approach of living in the moment; sitting in the discomfort of the unknown.
© 2021 Mom Sweat Sanity Podcast 1
TMSS 32 Show Notes
● How she is embracing vulnerability and being open to all types of feedback.
● Hear Shelby's inspiring final advice on self-acceptance and valuing what we want!
Tweetables:
“Failure is a very real option, but if you do not try you are never going to know what you're capable of.” — Shelby Kennedy [0:06:23]
“This life is a balance of believing in yourself, and getting out of your own way.” — Shelby Kennedy [0:07:37]
“Can you work out and feel good about yourself, feel good about your results and the effort that you put in? And not have it take up all your time because you're a busy modern woman and you have a bazillion things to do? Yes! And I believe that's what my book delivers.” — Shelby Kennedy [0:08:59]
“Yes, you're taking your 30 to 45 minutes to do your workout, but that time is about you, and I feel like we [as women] don't get that.” — Shelby Kennedy [0:15:00]
“I am trying to live in this moment right now. And what that means for me is, you need to live in it with how it feels.” — Shelby Kennedy [0:21:20]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Shelby Kennedy on Instagram @itstheshelblife Breakneck Booty on Amazon
Britt Anderson
Britt Anderson on Instagram
© 2021 Mom Sweat Sanity Podcast 2
Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
Hormonal Cycling: How Aligning with Your Cycle will Unlock Balance and Synergy in your Life and Workplace with Ash McDonald
Episode 31: Show Notes
Have you ever heard of hormone cycling? It affects every woman with a menstruation cycle, and we go through four different stages every month. Did you know that there are also optimal times for memory, for creativity, for balance? Well, today you’ll hear from therapist turned holistic business coach, growth strategist, and cyclical planning expert, Ash McDonald, as we discuss the various hormonally optimal times throughout the month and how aligning with your cycle will unlock balance and synergy in both your life and your workplace. Ash is the Founder of Ash McDonald Mentoring, where she helps women entrepreneurs increase their profit and productivity by optimizing their mindset, hormones, and time. Her mission is to teach women with big dreams how to crush their goals without having to miss out on the moments that matter most in life and, in today’s episode, we get a sneak peek into her process as she shares the power of utilizing your cycle as a blueprint for your life, the feminine alignment coaching programs that she offers to help you do just that, and how to approach things everything in your life using what Ash calls a cyclical workflow. Tune in today for all this and more!
Key Points From This Episode:
- An introduction to Ash McDonald, therapist turned holistic business coach.
- ‘Business biohacking’, the term Ash coined for utilizing your cycle as a blueprint for your life.
- Learn about the feminine alignment coaching that she offers and how it can help you in your business and your personal life.
- Find out why understanding your hormonal cycle should be a commonplace narrative.
- The importance of changing the narrative about periods for men and boys as well as women.
- What hormone cycling and cycle syncing mean and helpful resources you can reference.
- Hear about the four phases of your cycle: menstruation, follicular, ovulation, and luteal.
- During which phase you are most connected, adaptable, creative, or communicative.
- How the contraceptive pill can interfere with our cycle and cause estrogen dominance.
- The digestive enzymes in raw vegetables that can be instrumental during ovulation.
- Some of the effects of elevated levels of progesterone during your luteal phase.
- How Ash would approach the task of creating content using a cyclical workflow.
- How early cycle syncing can be beneficial for women; as soon as you have a period.
- Why, as a cyclical being, you are not meant to be the same person every single day.
- How the world around us is built upon the belief systems and 24-hour cycles of men.
- Learn more about The Flow Lab and Ambitiously Aligned courses that Ash offers.
- The power in building and scaling a business that is aligned with who you are.
- Ash shares her morning routine and how it differs from phase to phase during her cycle.
Tweetables:
“Our superpower is understanding our cycle and using it as a blueprint for our life.” — Ash McDonald [0:03:20]
“Thinking through my cyclical workflow [of] content [creation] – menstrual would be brain dumping, follicular would be writing, ovulation would be recording, and that luteal phase would be editing.” — Ash McDonald [0:19:09]
“As a cyclical being, you are not meant to be the same person every single day.” — Ash McDonald [0:22:22]
“We, [as] women, can have immediate results in our life that we are deserving of when we look through the lens of our own cyclical blueprint.” — Ash McDonald [0:24:23]
“It’s all about building and scaling a business that is aligned with who you are.” — Ash McDonald [0:27:42]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Ambitiously Aligned Mastermind
The Mom Sweat Sanity Podcast 2021
Tuesday Sep 07, 2021
Tuesday Sep 07, 2021
Raising Your Frequency with Love Powered Co-Founder Anna Lozano
Episode 30: Show Notes.
I think that after the past year and a half or so, we can all agree that we are all in need of a higher frequency. Well, today you are in luck! In this episode, we chat with Anna Lozano co-founder of Love Powered Co. on all things high-frequency living. She shares how through maintaining a high frequency and listening to her intuition, the universe has led her through many uncertain but ultimately fulfilling experiences. Among these is the story of how she left a corporate dream job to become an entrepreneur, as well as the story of how her family was led to move to British Columbia and the rewarding journey that they have been on over the last few months. Anna explains how our kids already have so much mindfulness and intuition, and why we should be equipping them to not forget it. She also explains how she met Lindy Sood and came up with the idea for Love Powered Co based on what they mutually wanted for their kids. Tune in today to find out the importance of following your soul’s purpose, how discomfort leads to magic, the pros of writing down the pros and cons, the importance of raising our frequencies in light of what’s happening in the world today, and how to go about doing this. For an inspiring conversation that is sure to leave you with a higher frequency, tune in today!
Key Points From This Episode:
- How the universe led Anna Lozano and her family to move to British Columbia.
- Some background to Anna and how her family came to Canada from Poland.
- What made her leave a corporate dream job to become an entrepreneur.
- How she met Lindy Sood and came up with the idea for Love Powered Co based on what they mutually wanted for their kids.
- The importance of following your soul’s purpose and how discomfort leads to magic.
- How our kids already have so much mindfulness and intuition and the importance of equipping them to not forget it.
- Why Anna feels that the traditional education system is outdated.
- Thoughts on collaboration over competition and women entrepreneurs supporting each other.
- Anna’s passion for investing in female-funded companies that are doing good for the world.
- The courses and masterclasses that she offers.
- The importance of raising our frequencies in light of what’s happening in the world today.
- Anna’s upcoming Instagram frequency course to show people ways to raise their frequencies.
- How Anna discovered her superpower for connecting people.
- How she found the courage to follow her intuition and step out of the corporate world.
- Advice to others on how to step out of their comfort zone.
- How the worst-case scenario is not that bad and the pros of writing down the pros and cons.
- Why Anna keeps a proof journal of her wins.
- Anna’s daily self-care ritual and how this changes with the season of her life.
- The future possibility of a holistic micro-school.
Tweetables:
“I just started putting it out there that I want to be an entrepreneur, I want to create, I want to be in charge of my future, I want to be in charge of my happiness, to be in charge of putting what I want into the world, and I want to contribute to making the world a better place.” — Anna Lozano [0:06:44]
“We both looked at our children — and we said, ‘Well, what if we raised them with this foundation of personal growth and mindfulness and affirmations and gratitude so that when they grow up, they're not undoing all the programming, but this is just their foundation?’” — Anna Lozano [0:08:42]
“With all the shifts happening in the world today, the most important work we can do right now is our own frequency. We have to keep our frequency high. We have to stay in that high vibrational standpoint, no matter what is happening outside of us.” — Anna Lozano [0:18:00]
“Whatever I'm putting out into the world is just coming back to me as a boomerang. So if my frequency has lowered, well, guess what? I'm gonna attract things, opportunities, experiences, people that are vibrating at that frequency, and I can't have that!” — Anna Lozano [0:19:29]
“Thirteen years ago, I felt it and I acted on it. And I continue to do that. It’s not that we don’t have things that feel fearful come our way, or feel scary, but I just work through it because I already have proof that it is so much better on the other side.” — Anna Lozano [0:23:14]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
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!
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