The Shero Shift: Recent Episodes
The Shero Shift
The Shero Shift podcast, sponsored by Cardio Dance Babes, is a collection of stories of the lives of REAL everyday women. We use these stories to remind us that we’re all Super Women. Through understanding this we start to redefine fitness in the context of self-love and body appreciation.
Jessica Moser is no stranger to loss. She has had a seat directly across from death and despite all her experiences, she manages to approach life with tenacious hope. Not false hope, but the hope of a survivor.
Jennifer Mann is a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst for women. Jennifer turned her own ugly experience into a way to help other women navigate the rocky waters of divorce.
Alison Hughey, a music therapist, uses music to help others cope with their emotions. Her own experiences in an abusive relationship damaged her in unpredictable ways. Through the healing process, she unlocked her own strength and now uses all she’s learned to help others heal through music.
Larissa Lyles, a stay-at-home boy-mom and wife, struggled to find her confidence after dropping out of high school to get married and have kids. Was this all her life would be? She found that her confections had the potential to not only give her a way to spread joy, but also give her a second chance. She would not give up on herself again. The best bet you can make is on YOU. You can be your own SuperWoman.
Bri Plyler is an adult ADHD coach and advocate. After struggling to find her fit in the world, she came to find that she herself had a brain that operated on a slightly different wavelength. She now encourages, educates, and supports others like her and helps them to keep going until they find their own way so that they can live healthy, successful, and happy lives.
Rebekah Elliott endured some extremely intense physical issues at a very young age. After a leg-lengthening surgery (and subsequent physical therapy) as a teenager, she grew a passion for making exercise and fitness accessible to everyone through true connection and community. This personal trainer-turned-gym owner is a powerhouse in the health & fitness world. Her life didn’t take her exactly where she thought it would, but she’s created a career and a life she loves by listening to her own intuition.
Regan -- a dance fitness instructor for 10 years and one of the co-owners of Cardio Dance Babes -- speaks out about how she used dance to help manage Type 1 Diabetes and fibromyalgia. Between teaching dance and managing her husband and 4 kids, Regan is truly a super woman to all of the Cardio Dance Babe Community.
With the recent loss of her mother, Regan now does all her superhero duties under the heavy mantle of grief. Yet her strength of character prevails. Regan shares with us how she looks to the future full of hope, not in spite of the loss of her mother, but because of the legacy of strength she left.
Dionne spent many years fighting for a relationship with her mother who repeatedly rejected and abandoned her. Dionne’s story is about how your origins don’t have to determine your final destination and that leaving behind toxic people can have lasting effects. To be fully free of them is to accept, assert, and live into the fact that you are worth more.
Kerry is the Managing Partner of Cardio Dance Babes and an advocate and tactician for women-owned businesses. Kerry spent much of her life trying to make up for the sins of her past only to learn that living in the other extreme of careful and cautious is miserable in its own way. We are often our own worst enemies. This is a conversation about how living to the fullest expression of yourself is the best way to finding your purpose.
Adrienne is a mindfulness expert and Reiki healer. In this episode, she walks us through her own journey to mindfulness and how it saves her joy on a daily basis. We can honor the past without getting stuck in it. And we can plan for the future without being overwhelmed by anxiety about it. In this conversation, we learn about how to stay in the moment so that we can live life to its fullest.
Holly is a business coach and advocate for female-owned business. Holly’s gift is speaking into women and helping them believe in themselves enough to go after their dreams. Holly’s journey to authentic living is what makes her messaging so impactful to her community. This conversation is about how she got to a place of self-love but there and we’re making some stops along the way to dig into bariatric surgery, divorce, and finding your purpose.
Karen, who owns a local bookkeeping company, last her son in a tragic accident when he was 8 years old. Karen uses her experience to help other mothers who’ve lost their children through grief coaching. She helps them answer the question- when is it ok to be happy again? This interview asks this question of all women in all circumstances. When CAN you be happy?
Ryan, a 21 year old college student, started with an unhealthy obsession with food and working out very early in life. After being treated for an eating disorder in her high school years she started having some physical issues that caused her to gain weight. The doctors were unable to help her much during this time and she became increasingly unhappy with her body. It affected her school, her social life, and her self-image.
The pressures of the times coupled with a tendency to overly fixate on "being healthy" left Ryan lost, frustrated, and severely depressed. She could not seem to control her body, no matter how hard she tried. The struggle to let go of our own expectations for our bodies is something that every woman can relate to. There are some things that we can’t “fix”. This interview really makes you think about what “healthy” really means.
Connie, one of the founding Boss Babes members, is more that a survivor, she’s a thriver! Connie had been married 4 times. Her life is one trauma after another. But Connie took back the control and built the life she knew she deserved. Connie is now 63 years old and has an incredibly successful engineering career even though she didn’t even have a GED until she was 34. She’s also a life-time WW member and, in her time as a Boss Babe, has progressed from doing push-ups on a wall to doing real ones on the floor! This story is one every woman should hear. You’re only as limited as you allow yourself to be!
Courtney, a realtor and retired Army veteran, has spent much of her life in the service of others. After her time in the Army and the years she spent caring for her mother after a fatal cancer diagnosis, Courtney wondered -- what’s next? In this episode, we talk about what happens when your purpose is fulfilled and you have to take the time figure out what YOU want.
Meredith, one of our Boss Babe members, shares her story. Meredith, like so many other women, lived through a terribly abusive marriage. After years of being broken down, she finally found the courage to leave. Meredith poured herself into a corporate career. Despite her success, there were constant barriers to living into her true potential. Meredith’s story is one of learning to be true to yourself, not matter how the world tries to tell you you’re not enough OR that you’re too much.
Vanessa Thomas, co-owner of Cardio Dance Babes, is a former ballerina turned weightlifter. Vanessa’s strength is seen all through her story, from finding herself after leaving the professional dance world to coming into her own independence. In this podcast, Vanessa shares her struggles with her eating disorder, her marriage, and her traumatic experience with the sickness of her child. There is a lesson for everyone here as we take a deep dive into how we control what we can and let go of what we can’t. In finding that balance, we find our true strength.
Latoya Smith, an engineer-turned-photographer, walks us through her story of leaving a job she hated to help women discover their inner goddess through boudoir photography. By marrying the two sides of herself, she uses her background to run a very successful business and has built an entire community for women dedicated to furthering the message of body positivity.
Stacy’s story is a journey to coming to terms with the fact that no one else’s love and approval means anything until we first love ourselves. True success is on the other side of finding our individual strengths and trusting our own instincts.
Leslie’s story is full of lessons we can all learn about letting others in to love us and how to love ourselves, even when our bodies betray us.