Plus Fitness with Tara: Recent Episodes
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Hi, I’m Tara from Plus Fitness with Tara. I’m a curvy, fun, body-positive coach and personal trainer. I love business and fitness. Do you have the tools you need to be a rock star in fitness? A healthy love of yourself and help from me in sifting through health news will do that! I’ve got fitness topics and guests. Rock stars aren’t born – they are bread with experience and desire. Let’s do this together!
Suzanne Milner is promoting health and wellness via Vibrotactile Technology. Studies show there is a definite response in the brainstem for sleep. Listen to how we all need to improve our health and how we can with one patch make that happen! Listen also to how to join her team as an affiliate and share the wellness experience
Guest Martha Wilkinson shares her success with Party for Gold where you get paid cash for gold jewelry you no longer wear or want to part with. She describes the need for more education in the goldsmith trade as well as her experience as a female goldsmith. The price of gold means your jewelry may be worth more than you think! Connect on FB, Instagram and website for more info.
Keith shares his love and passion for Send Out Cards and the reach it has for his clients and affiliates. Learn how to take a photo on your iPhone and share that as a card with personal and professional connections within minutes! Connect with Keith to learn more about his innovative and cost-savings way to send out cards whether it's for family/friends or marketing a business.
What is summeritis? How does it effect my business in the wellness and health industry? What is the current status of the fitness industry in Canada? How did we make out during Covid? What do I need to know to stay in business in the fitness industry for 2023? Questions brought to me and answered in this episode.
Highlights from Platinum this year leading up to the annual eWomenNetwork Conference in August 2023. So much to learn and see and do! Don't miss out. Hear a tidbit of info from Platinum that I can share as part of the educational part of running a business from eWomenNetwork's team. Listen to a blog post on why an eWomenNetwork member found ICON so impactful in their 10 year anniversary event!
Elizabeth (Dr Roz) Rosner discusses Love Revolution. Elizabeth, known as Dr. Roz, is a Leading With Love Strategist, Entrepreneur, Consultant, and Change Maker. She says two things have always been true about her: One is that she LOVES learning. Even now, she is known for being insatiably curious, especially about other people.The other is that starting at a very young age, she was aware of the power of LOVE in her life. Her mission is to teach 8 BILLION Souls to harness the transformative power of L.O.V.E. (Let Others Voluntarily Evolve)Love Revolution is the umbrella organization she has created for her business and interests that include teaching and sharing nonviolence. We can all learn about love and her vibrant enthusiasm for discussing L.O.V.E. is apparent.
What does Ayurvedic Nutrition teach us? Hear some thoughts from the Chopra Center teachings. How do our hormones as we enter perimenopause and menopause effect us as women? Hear some thoughts from Dr Len Kravitz from the University of New Mexico. Why I can't count Macros!
Unearthing your story can be hard. Here's my story in the hopes of sharing to you with I feel so passionate about size inclusivity in our fitness culture. Welcome us in and watch change happen. But everyone's story is complex. Listen to mine and share with me what comes up for you!
Winter is still here in Nova Scotia, Canada. Listen in for some tips on how to find light in the darkness. Meditation, fireplaces, spa... all can be used to help ease the hibernation we're in.
What happens when we travel? What can we learn? How does it change us? Listen as Tara explains her own revelations from traveling from an early age to how it's changed her over years.
My life has not been linear with friends, family, partners and careers. I finally found what I love to do with wellness cpcc coaching and enjoy my membership with eWomenNetwork so much I am bringing this business network to Halifax, N.S. Canada. Listen in as I explain my path!
Listen to Lori Totten as she describes the shame she overcame to turn her network marketing job into a full time career. She is determined, passionate and helpful for her team and her clients. Without a doubt she is making change happen for those that listen to her and follow her.
Guest Sheri Millington from Raw Power NS discusses her thoughts on strength training, why everyone can have access and more about their community.
What brings you joy? Listen to Guest Jade Martin speak about her serial entrepreneurial days and how she's combined wellness into natural soap making and an AirBnB called Seaside Glamper in Hubbards, Nova Scotia. Her passion is entrepreneurial gold.
Today's guest Leona Pineo shares her story on how she became an Aqua Zumba Instructor and how this community kept her strong in her recovery from illness. She is a wellness warrior and full of energy and also gives out tips on where to go down South if you're vacationing! Meet Leona and hear her joy!
Guest Michelle Pfile has lived throw PCOS, adoption and losing family members over the past decade and found her resiliency amid all of it. She shares her nutrition passion and health results to empower women to feel hope and satisfaction with their wellness. A true life long learner she is enrolled in nutritional therapy to keep helping others. Find her on Instagram and her website MichellePfile.com
Aaron doesn't just know fitness - he has years of experiencing addressing the mindset of his clients. Why do people love working with him? His belief in them plus his own experience in fitness brings a unique perspective on how to succeed. He does a shout out to East Coast Kicks for a special birthday present as well. The strength behind the trainer involves a community.
What is burnout? Check out advice from Huffington's Thrive Global, Chopra and Canyon Ranch plus my own experience. Where is our common sense - why are we not getting enough rest? Learn now to change that with proven methods such as nutrition, meditation and Yoga
Food. We need it for daily activities and energy. Listen to my experience of food and learn how the 2B Mindset program helps me. Listen to my take on how food is the new prescription for wellness and improved health. Plant based protein nutrition gave me a new perspective and health results.
Soul or Spirit? Both or just one? Wellness involves Mind, Body and Soul. In this episode, Tara speaks on different belief systems regarding the soul and different definitions. She applies it to what she does as a Primordial Meditation Instructor and Master Reiki Teacher. Her clients succeed when they feel part of the Divine and Tara helps them make that connection.
What is love? Why do we need it? How do we find it? Hear this and more from Plus Fitness with Tara as she goes through her own weight loss journey and wellness adventure using the 645 Program.
Lisa Olsson discusses her love for wellness, her business, her family and how she found her passion for what she does in health and fitness. Listen how this athlete spends her time helping others succeed and how she prioritized her family at all times. She is a Hope Dealer!
Guest Krista Goode, financial advisor and EwomenNetwork member talks about her GoodeLife Community. They're organizing Blessing Bags and sign up is Feb 28th 2021. You can join her GoodLifeCommunity anytime at her website. Listen in to hear how! It's good to be a GoodeLife member.
Phew - we survived January 2021. Now, it's time to grab our energy and learn how to love ourselves to give our goals the best chance of success. Listen to these four tips by Tara on how to do so. An article by Deepak Chopra also brings in some suggestions. It's time to release stress and show off our love!
Sometimes you just need a few tips on how to work through the stress of the holidays in 2020. Listen here to see if you can adopt a few actions to make it easier on you - if you're alone or with family.
In this episode Tara shares her love of dogs as a companion and part of her family. Also two other articles sharing lessons people have learned from dogs are included as is the Chopra Center.
Feeling frozen in place by current events? Wanting to find a way to actively support yourself and help take care of stress? Listen to my description of Yoga and how I found my way to certification and teaching others how Yoga can help everyone.
Let's fix that crown and work as a team to overcome workplace stress and conflict. Using meditation and mindfulness anyone can work together! Tips and comments on my own experiences in a team environment.
Nutrition, Yoga, Meditation and Mindset are tools in your Wellness Toolkit not just for overall health. But for help developing and evolving Resilience to cope with stress and trauma. Listen in on where to start! Tips from Tara MacDonald
Everyone has a toolkit of hardware tools and accessories. Listen here about how you create your own Wellness Toolkit from someone who survived extreme burnout and a heart attack. Made for the times we live in.
Yoga Instructor Dawn Perrier gives us insight into why she became a teacher and how it saved her life. She leads an online yoga offering at this time as well as her videos called the Daily Ground. Find her at Dawn Marie on Facebook.
Scott thinks everyone can have an affordable home gym for less than a Pelaton bike. Hear him speak on how overtraining almost shut him down in his health. Learn about what his programs can do for you - he's online and ready to help. Catch him on YouTube.
Stacy Chesnutt is inviting women to run shirtless on International Women's Day! Hear more about why here. She is the Race Director for Sole Sisters Womens Race Series - an international walk-run that happens in June each year in Dartmouth, N.S.
How do you get through your dark days? Feeling alone and anxious? Listen to Danielle discuss how she manages being an introvert while also being an entrepreneur. Working out and using social media to run a business is no joke and Danielle shows us how it's done.
Erin Acton is a life and business coach and speaker. She is a member of eWomenNetwork and uses her experience of riding a bicycle across Canada to effectively help her clients get over obstacles. Listen to Erin discuss how her clients benefit from her coaching.
Scott Walsh was unable to make this podcast but he, Kaitlyn and I ventured to Anaheim, California to enjoy some sightseeing and experience the largest USA fitness conference. We met new people, enjoyed different workouts and listened to what's happening across North America for 2019.
Danielle has been with Beachbody since it opened its doors in Canada years ago. Hear about her experience and why she chose this forward thinking, people-based company along with her own challenges and successes. Danielle knows how to coach people to success!
Nancy Ehle talks how she was stuck in the down and dirty quicksand of life and overcame this challenge with Walk 15 and fitness. She now helps others succeed and spreads her message of overcoming challenges with exercise .
Scott Walsh has over nine years of experience working with people on their path to fat loss. He tells it like it is in this episode and reveals his new program.
Color Her Confident - How to find your personal power through Brianna Michelle Young's courses. Listen to her story about meeting Gloria Estefan and rising up through a period of bullying to be the successful entrepreneur now!
Suzanne Milner, Professor at Saint Mary's University and Entrepreneur discusses her side hustle and how her choosing to work in Nova Scotia is a fantastic game changer for the economy.
Kaitlyn Beaver is my Guest today and discusses her business in personal training. Why is Reiki so important in her approach to helping the client? She offers online programs as well in nutrition and training. She coaches men and women to reach their goals.