The Work IN to move out of stress, tension & anxiety
The Work IN is for fitness professionals and refugees from the body brand nation who are ready to make trauma informed instruction the gold standard of professionalism across the industry. You'll find mentorship and professional perspectives to help fitness professionals and wellness educators who want to set themselves apart using a creative, trauma sensitive approach so that they can get lasting results for their clients and avoid burnout for themselves.
Episodes
214 episodes
Respecting recovery: The mind body pathway to boost your fitness results
5 minutes can make or break the results for your workout. You can do everything “right”: dial in your macros, hit your heart rate zones, get your hydration and vitamin D and still struggle to find the results you’re looking for. In fact you ...
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Season 5
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Episode 212
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16:59
5 Hard earned truths that make or break a fit pro career
5 Hard earned truths that make or break a fit pro careerCongratulations! Getting that certification in the mail is exciting. You earned it. You deserve to be proud of yourself for the work it took to get those offici...
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Season 5
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Episode 211
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19:40
Fit pro success: email marketing basics
For new fit pros fresh off certification it can be very scary building a student base from scratch. Most certs don’t teach you how to do that. So a lot of us end up working for someone else and getting churned and burned out of the industry ...
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Season 5
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Episode 210
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30:39
Teaching to the room: How to make every student feel like the only student
Group exercise prescription has become the faceless assembly line of the fitness industry. Branded plug and play format companies have taken the place of creative freestyle instructors in pursuit of a baseline of quality control. Instructors...
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Season 5
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Episode 209
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23:53
5 Beta launch lessons to build your fitness business
Last week we mentioned using beta testing as a way to find direction and course correct when we’re learning how to price our services in the fitness industry. Today our work in we’re breaking down the mighty beta for fitness professionals. I...
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Season 5
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Episode 208
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28:35
3 mistakes in pricing your fitness services and how to avoid them
Knowing the value of what you offer and how to price it in the fitness industry is probably the most challenging thing to figure out as a fitness professional. And that’s today’s Work IN. We are pulling back the curtain on how to price fitne...
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Season 5
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Episode 207
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30:07
Mastering the art of saying no for successful fit pros
5 tips to master the art of saying NOMany women have been conditioned from an early age to override that inner voice that says “no”. That gut feeling that this is wrong, we don’t want this. Our intuition. That conditioning infuses us ...
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Season 5
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Episode 206
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The #1 boundary to set no matter what you teach or coach
We’re shifting gears a bit over the next few weeks as we take a look at some essentials for fit pro success. Now I know not all of us are fitness professionals. But we all are fitness and wellness consumers. And because of that I want to tak...
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Season 5
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Episode 205
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Muscle through menopause: beyond the hot flash
Time to flex! Myth busting muscle through menopause. It's not the end ...So what I hope for today's discussion is that you will leave here with a better understanding of some of the tools at your disposal and confidence to...
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Season 5
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Episode 204
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1:10:16
Eating to Sleep and Sleep to Cure Cravings
A good night's sleep is the holy grail for many of us, especially women because it’s so responsive to our hormone fluctuations. In our modern society in general, men and women, on average, are lucky to get 6 hours of sleep a night, despite r...
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Season 5
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Episode 203
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49:15
Nutrition results you can live with
So often at the beginning of the year we feel a push change. A push towards healthy eating choices and a pull towards familiar habit patterns. When both happen at the same time we get stuck in the middle. The body is a complicated system of ...
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Season 5
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Episode 202
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36:43
Exercise and the Myth of Motivation
Motivation is an unsustainable myth. At least in the sense that most of us understand it. The idea that we need to feel some kind of way in order to take action toward our goals is BS. We shouldn’t be reliant on a fleeting sensation for anyt...
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Season 5
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Episode 201
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24:44
8 Essentials to make any health change last a lifetime
Ep 200 8 essentials to make any health change last a lifetimeNothing changes until something changes. Welcome back to The Work IN podcast. At the time of this recording it is a brand new year. 2025. And just like eve...
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Season 5
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Episode 200
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35:31
The art and science of manifestation: Why goal setting is such a struggle and resolutions fail
Hey there, welcome back. Today marks the episode 199 of The Work IN podcast and as we are set to enter 2025, and celebrate our 5th season. I can’t even believe that. I didn't even think I wanted to do a podcast! But here I am looking a...
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Season 4
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Episode 199
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39:19
Anandamaya kosha your bliss body
Welcome back to our series on the koshas. We've discussed Annamaya, our physical body layer, pranamaya kosha our energetic/breath layer, manomaya kosha our mental layer and last week we discussed Vijnanamaya kos...
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Season 4
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Episode 198
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20:41
Vijnanamaya Kosha wisdom self
We continue our exploration of the koshas this week with the 4th kosha. Vijnanamaya kosha is our wisdom body. The seat of our intellect.We strive for both wisdom and intellect and yet struggle to define them in practical ways. That’s our Wor...
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Season 4
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Episode 197
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25:15
Manomaya kosha your mental self
We are rarely who we think we are. Or are we? Manomaya kosha is the mental illusion over our true self. Our Work IN today we’re discussing our mind, its monkey aspects, squirrelish behavior and how to untangle the truth of who we are.
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Season 4
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Episode 196
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22:13
Pranamaya kosha breath of life
Without breath, we cease to exist and yet we spend very little of our time or attention understanding its healing power. Unless we’re in a yoga class. That’s our Work IN today, exploring pranamaya kosha, our energetic self, through the breat...
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Season 4
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Episode 195
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32:23
Annamaya Kosha your physical self
Annamaya Kosha Your physical selfWelcome to our series on the koshas. The Koshas are the 5 layers of self, set one within the other from the physical body to the Bliss body. Today is all about Annamaya Kosha. Anna meaning food ...
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Season 4
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Episode 194
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26:45
Lifting the veils: An introduction to the Koshas
Stress and trauma is overwhelming because it permeates every layer of our being. Having a deeper understanding of what those layers are can help us start the healing process toward post traumatic growth. Today our work IN is an introduction ...
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Season 4
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Episode 193
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18:34
Sexism in medicine: Misogyny, gaslighting and trauma in women's healthcare Part 2
Welcome back this is part 2 of our hysterical history. Today we shift into examples of medical misogyny in modern medicine.Our work IN today is a mix of healthcare history and a rebellious call to action for women everywhere to...
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Season 4
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Episode 192
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34:39
Hysterical history: Medical misogyny, gaslighting and trauma in women's healthcare
There is to this day a pattern of dismissal that is compounded by a lack of value placed on the female patient's lived experience and a distinct bias and inequality when it comes to research and precision guidelines for women. This is ...
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Season 4
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Episode 191
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28:37
Connecting all the hard things
One of the most powerful tools we have to build resilience and overcome chronic stress and trauma is connection. It’s the first thing that is sacrificed in the face of stress injury and yet it is the number one thing we need if we’re going t...
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Season 4
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Episode 190
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23:49
Hard Things: Good hard sleep
Ep 189 Hard things: Good hard sleepSleep is a hard thing. Good sleep is even harder.The complexity of our network of systems makes it even harder to isolate the keys to getting a great night’s sleep when literally anythin...
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Season 4
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Episode 189
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35:16
Uncommon sense on your plate
Eating “right” is a hard thing but not because it’s actually hard to do. Experts keep changing their minds, making unsupported nutrition recommendations that are riddled with conflicts of interest and have resulted in the exact opposite of h...
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Season 4
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Episode 188
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34:42
