Phit for a Queen: A Female Athlete Podcast: Recent Episodes
Kara Shelman and Rebecca McConville
PHIT for a Queen is a podcast devoted to female athletes wanting to have it all: performance, health, intellect and time for self. Created by Rebecca McConville, RD, CSSD and Kara Shelman, LCSW, MPH at Centimano Counseling.
Dr. Emily Kraus
Sports Medicine Physician | Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Emily Kraus is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford Children’s Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center. She is board-certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) sports medicine and takes a unique approach to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of sports injuries. She serves as the Director of the Stanford Female Athlete Program focused on female-specific translational research to answer fundamental physiological and sports performance questions important to improving the health and performance of girls and women, including the topics of bone health, the Female Athlete Triad, RED-S, running biomechanics, and mental health. Dr. Kraus also serves as the Medical Director of the Stanford Children’s Motion Analysis and Sports Performance Lab, focused on cutting-edge biomechanics research with a strong clinical application.
She is involved in multiple Stanford IRB-approved research projects, including The Healthy Runner Project, a multicenter prospective interventional study focused on bone stress injury prevention in collegiate middle and long-distance runners. She also has research and clinical interests in youth sports specialization, endurance sports medicine, injury prevention, running biomechanics, and adaptive sports.
Dr. Kraus proudly grew up a 3-sport high school athlete in small-town Nebraska and is now an avid runner and cyclist, completing 9 marathons, including Boston Marathon twice and California International Marathon in 2019 with a time of 2:50. With staying physically active as one of her personal passions, she recognizes how sports participation plays a valuable role in the physical, emotional, professional, and social development of a child and adolescent and is committed to maintaining these ideals for the next generation of youth athletes.
So you know she's Legit:
Stanford University School of Medicine Fellow, Sports Medicine Residency Program 2016 - 2017
Stanford University School of Medicine Resident, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Program 2013 - 2016
University of Nebraska College of Medicine Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Medicine 2008 - 2012
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Nutrition Sciences 2004 - 2008
Elise Keoghan, LPC
Elise Keoghan is a Licensed Professional Counselor and enthusiast of intuitive and functional athlete training and nutrition. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas and her Masters in Counseling from St. Edwards University, and has Gottman Institute Couples Therapy level 1 training credentials.
She also supports athletes at various levels from high school, elite club teams, D1 colleges, Ivy League, at the national level, to those who love including exercise in their life.
Elise has been supporting clients since 2014.
"I am Intuitive Eating aligned and an advocate of the anti-diet movement, HAES aligned, I use a social justice lens to approach body politics and body liberation and encourage my clients in strengthening body trust and mind-body awareness.
I have enjoyed fitness all of my life, and competed in various sports throughout high school, college, and the years following. My longtime love for fitness and sports has given me a special passion for working with athletes, particularly with eating disorders, body image, relationship with exercise, after injury or loss, life after college or pro sports, around relationships, and with anxiety, depression, or suicidal ideation.
I have a passion for working with Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA) or those who grew up in homes with addiction or abuse process trauma and the many ways their home life has impacted them.
I also have experience supporting clients around cross-cultural body image concerns.
Professionally, I enjoy speaking engagements and educating on Athletes and Mental Health and Athletes and Eating Disorders.
When I'm not at the office, I love to spend time with my nephew and niece, family, and friends, run local races with my siblings, be on the lake, weight lifting, boxing classes, listen to social justice podcasts, concerts, and stand-up comedy!"
So you know she's legit:
Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas
Masters in Counseling from St. Edwards University
Gottman Institute Couples Therapy level 1 training credentials.
Jenni Tarma
ERYT500, RRCA endurance coach, CrossFit L1 trainer
Jenni Tarma is a lifelong athlete, endurance runner, RRCA Endurance coach, CrossFit athlete
and CF-L1 trainer, Yoga Medicine Therapeutic Specialist, and a full-time ERYT500 yoga
teacher. She specializes in working with an active population and coaches everyone from elite
athletes to weekend warriors looking to feel better in their bodies. She is the founder and CEO
of Kaari Prehab, a company that provides customized mobility, recovery and injury prevention/
recovery services for active folks of all varieties.
Jenni has multiple advanced certifications in anatomy, physiology and biomechanics, and is a
lead teacher in the Carolina Yoga 200hr teacher training program, where she has mentored
dozens of new yoga teachers. She is also a senior teacher in the Yoga Medicine 500hr program,
where she has created continuing education courses on specialty topics like neuromechanics,
hypermobility, and teaching yoga to weightlifting athletes.
She is an enthusiastic writer who has contributed articles to Yoga Journal, Healthline, Weight
Watchers, OpenFit, Reebok, Thrive Global and Yoga Medicine ’s online forum among others,
and recently released an e-book on hamstring tendon injuries.
So you know she's legit:
CEO and Founder at Kaari Prehab
2020
Berklee College of Music
2000 - 2002
Sevenoaks School
l International Baccalaureate, Art, Music, Economics, English Literature, Russian, Chemistry.International Baccalaureate, Art, Music, Economics, English Literature, Russian, Chemistry.
1998 - 2000
STEPHANIE LANKFORD ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, WIN FOR KC
Stephanie, born and raised in Kansas City, earned her Bachelor of Science in Sports Management from Rockhurst University in 2013, as well as her Master of Business Administration in 2016. In 2011, while an undergrad, Stephanie interned at the Kansas City Sports Commission as the WIN for KC intern. Her love for the organization kept her coming back for two years while finishing school. Then, in 2013, she was offered a full-time position as an Events Coordinator, and she has been here ever since!
Currently, as Assistant Director for WIN for KC, she oversees logistics and planning for all WIN for KC events including the annual Women’s Sports Awards Celebration and Camp WIN.
Outside of work, Stephanie’s love of sports continues as she coaches girls basketball and officiates all levels of women’s lacrosse. Additionally, she serves as a member of the Connext – the young professionals' board of NonProfit Connect. Most recently, she welcomed a son – Logan – in June of 2019 with her husband Bryce Scovill.
Stephanie Allen PT, DPT, OCS
Steph has been a practicing physical therapist since 2014 and has been at Boston Physical Therapy & Wellness for the past 4 years.
She specializes in and absolutely loves ACL rehab in all its shapes and forms and has recently started her own virtual coaching business, ACLResolve, specifically for individuals who are navigating this injury.
Steph is also the co-founder of CALU, a mentorship and continuing education platform for students and new graduates within the musculoskeletal rehab realm. Steph is passionate about continued learning and demands a higher standard of care in the musculoskeletal rehab industry.
So you know she's legit:
Ithaca College Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Field Of StudyPhysical Therapy/Therapist 2007 – 2013
Ithaca College Doctor of Physical Therapy Field Of StudyPhysical Therapy 2007 – 2013
Licenses & certifications
Certified Functional Strength Coach (CFSC) Issuing authority Mike Boyle Strength & Conditioning License Issued 2018
American Physical Therapy Association Orthopedic Certified Specialist Issuing authority American Physical Therapy Association license Issued Jun 2015
American Red Cross CPR & AED American Red Cross license Issued Jan 2013 Expired Jan 2015
Kate Bennett, PsyD
Kate Bennett, PsyD, founded Athlete Insight, PC with one goal in mind: To serve the psychological needs of athletes. Dr. Bennett combines her experiences as an athlete, coach, and psychologist to bring a unique perspective to her practice. Blending the culture and demands of sport with her psychological expertise, Dr. Bennett designed Athlete Insight to meet the clinical and performance needs of all athletes.
Dr. Bennett approaches therapy with an empowerment-based model. She believes that individuals are hardwired to thrive; however, Dr. Bennett also recognizes that obstacles interfere with satisfaction and success at times. She utilizes athletes' natural strengths to support them in achieving personal goals, facilitating new insights and skill-building throughout the process. Dr. Bennett strives to empower athletes to thrive in life and sport.
The end result:
Confidence - Excellence - Happiness - Health - Resiliency - Success - Values-based Action
Dr. Bennett is the author of Treating Athletes with Eating Disorders: Bridging the Gap between Sport and Clinical Worlds. Dr. Bennett integrates her experiences in sport and mental health to provide a comprehensive resource for all healthcare providers who support athletes with eating disorders.
Traditional sport psychology interventions are translated into clinical action to help therapists align with the athletic identities of individuals recovering from eating disorders. From diagnosis and neurobiology to athletic identity and excellence, this book covers a range of topics to help readers build their own toolboxes of creative and clinically sound psychological interventions.
So you know she's legit:
Kate Bennett, PsyD, is the founder and director of Athlete Insight, PC. Her professional career began at Indiana University, where she earned a BS in Kinesiology and Athletic Training.
Dr. Bennett earned her EdM in Counseling and Sport Psychology at Boston University.
During her coaching career, Dr. Bennett coached several state and national champions as well as earned two national championships herself.
Over time, Dr. Bennett recognized her desire to help the whole person rather than focus solely on performance. She returned to graduate school to specialize in the treatment of athletes and eating disorders at the University of the Rockies.
Dr. Bennett completed her practicum at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Counseling Center, and her pre-doctoral internship at the Western Washington University Counseling Center. She then completed her post-doctoral fellowship at the Eating Disorder Center of Denver (EDCD) and continued on as a primary therapist.
In collaboration with EDCD, Dr. Bennett combined her clinical expertise and sport experience to launch the ELITE Program, a treatment program designed specifically to treat elite athletes struggling with eating disorders. She is an integrative therapist, working from a humanistic foundation and incorporating other therapies such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, and EMDR. Dr. Bennett is a clinical sport psychologist, licensed in the state of Colorado.
Hillary Allen
Hillary Allen was ranked #1 in the world sky running series when she fell 150 feet off a mountain ridge.
Hillary’s career as an endurance athlete has not been straightforward. Through injury, setbacks, and unexpected challenges, Hillary’s had to re-think what she considers impossible. Early in her career, Hillary earned the nickname “Hillygoat” when she proved her ability to run fast on steep, technical mountain terrain – a style of running known as Skyrunning.
Since then, she has raced all over the world, racking up wins and course records, establishing herself as one of the best mountain ultra runners in the world. In 2017 she had a life-threatening accident, where she fell 150 feet off of a ridge-line during a Skyrace in Tromsø, Norway. She was told she would never run again.
After several years of rehab and recovery, Hillary made a full recovery and returned to elite-level racing, racing some of her longest and most challenging events post-accident. She maintains the belief that ‘your best athletic days are ahead of you if you’re willing to work hard for what you love.’
Hillary also studies and teaches science, using her master's degree in neuroscience and physiology, and structural biology. She is also a trail running coach and a gravel cyclist.
So you know she's Legit:
UC Denver School of Medicine 2011 – 2016 Coe College Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Field Of Study Chemistry 2006 – 2010
Katie Spada RDN, LDN
Founder Spada Strong Nutrition LLC
Fellow Former Athlete!
Here to help you finally feel confident, all while breaking free from the stress of dieting, counting, and tracking! Katie is a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN/RD) and founder of Spada Strong Nutrition LLC. For 11 years, her life was completely focused on her career as a competitive synchronized swimmer. She ate, slept, and breathed synchronized swimming. After college, she hung up the goggles and was quickly flooded with questions about her identity after sport.
"I no longer identify as a synchronized swimmer, so who was I? I no longer had structured workouts daily, so what do I do? I no longer had fueling stations available, so most importantly, WHAT DO I EAT?"
Even as a “soon-to-be RD”, I was struggling with my nutrition and body image. It’s not easy to go from an elite-level athlete into NARP life after sport (I feel you!). So many changes occur, including how you need to fuel your body and probably how you feel about your body too. I’m here to help!
Based on my proven 5 pillar framework, I help take you from confused and frustrated, to confident and FREE in life after sport! No more questioning what to eat. No more questioning how much to eat. No more staring at your closet with utter frustration! Nope! Through The POWER Program, you will learn how to fuel yourself as a former athlete (no diets, no counting, no tracking required!) and improve body image so you can THRIVE in life after sport. I’d love for you to join my team!
So you know she's legit:
Northeastern University
Degree NameMaster of Science - MS
Nutrition and Fitness
Ohio State University
Degree NameBachelor’s Degree-Cum Laude
Field Of StudyHuman Nutrition
Samantha Arsenault Livingstone is an Olympic gold medalist, high-performance consultant, speaker and mental health activist. At home in the classroom, Samantha spent six years teaching high school science and coaching swimming. After a near-death experience with her then 12-month-old daughter, Samantha knew it was time to pay forward all she'd learned about achievement, mental illness, rising from failure and finding happiness.
In 2016, Samantha founded Livingstone High Performance and the Whole Athlete Initiative (the WAI) in response to the mental health crisis impacting adolescents across the globe. LHP provides pillars of support to organizations, teams, and individuals to elevate mental health and improve performance.
Samantha holds a master's in education and is a certified instructor of Mental Health First Aid and facilitator of Mindful Sports Performance Enhancement.
In 2020, Samantha co-founded WholeHealth Sport to equip coaches and parents with the training, skills and support needed to change the narrative, culture and game regarding mental well-being in sport.
Samantha was a member of the U.S. National Team, 1999 U.S. Pan Pacific Team and 2000 U.S. Olympic Team. As an 18-year-old, she stood atop the Olympic podium in Sydney, Australia after swimming the lead-off leg of the record-setting 4 x 200 Freestyle Relay. Post- Olympics, Samantha battled an eating disorder, depression and shoulder surgery. With the help of an amazing mentor, she rose from the rubble stronger, happier and healthier, ending her career as a 7 x NCAA All-American. To close out her career, Samantha led her teammates to the 2005 National Championship title as the co-captain of the Georgia Bulldogs.
She was named the 2005 NCAA Georgia Woman of the Year and is a recipient of the 2005 NCAA Top VIII Award given to student- athletes for their success on the fields and courts, in the classroom and in the community. She earned the Joel Eves award at the University of Georgia for earning the highest GPA of all student-athletes in her graduating class and was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America 1st Team. She was a recipient of post-graduate scholarships from both the SEC and NCAA.
Samantha resides in Berkshire County, Massachusetts with her husband and four daughters. You can learn more about Samantha and her offerings at samanthalivingstone.com.
Briana Butler
Pro Athlete Dietitian Co-Owner of @power_portions Former WNBA player
Briana Butler is a registered dietitian nutritionist and former professional athlete serving the Houston area. Upon retirement from the WNBA and overseas basketball, Briana followed her passion for health and sports by pursuing a career in performance dietetics, believing from experience that nutrition efforts and performance are congruous.
Since switching careers, Briana has worked with collegiate, professional, and health and wellness clients in private practice and under world-renowned brands, empowering them to reach their goals while including foods they love. Above all, Briana finds purpose in being a wife to her husband Brice and full-time mom to her children Braiden and Liana.
Follow Briana on Instagram at @theathletitian
So you know she's legit: Co-Owner Power Portions Meal Preparation, LLC Nov 2015 - Present Houston, Texas Area
Gatorade Sports Science Institute - Consultant Dietitian NBA G League Sep 2018 - Mar 2020
Culinary Sports Performance Intern Dallas Cowboys Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Performance Nutrition Intern EXOS Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
Sports Nutritionist Southern Methodist University Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Player WNBA (Women's National Basketball Association) May 2012 - Jul 2015 • WNBA 35th Draft Pick by Washington Mystics.
Shay Haddow is an expert coach and speaker on confidence and mindset for female athletes. Having worked with hundreds of youth female athletes and college teams from across the country, she’s empowered girl athletes to build unshakable confidence so they can live and play to their fullest potential.
As the host of the Alpha Girl Confidence Podcast, and Author of She the Confident, Shay is widely regarded for her insights on confidence and mindset by parents and coaches around the country.
After overcoming her own struggles with confidence throughout her club and collegiate soccer career, Shay knew that it was her life's purpose to provide female athletes with the mentorship that she wished she had when she was younger.
Shay has dedicated her life to empowering female athletes of all ages to uncover their greatest superpower of all, allowing them to break free from their limitations and achieve their biggest dreams, on and off the field or court.
Connecting with Shay
Alphagirlconfidence.com
So you know she's legit:
Utah State University Master of Education (MEd) Sport and Fitness Administration/Management
2013 - 2015 Utah State University
Utah State University Bachelor's degree Kinesiology and Exercise Science
2011 - 2014 Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Commonwealth University Kinesiology and Exercise Science
2010 - 2011
Traci Carson is a three-time University of Michigan alum, and most recently completed her PhD in Epidemiology at the Michigan School Public Health. Her dissertation research focused on mental health and eating disorders in collegiate athletes. Currently, Traci lives in Brooklyn, NY with her dog Lucee where she is working as a postdoctoral research fellow at NYU Population Health Sciences. In her free time, she enjoys cycling around NYC and exploring all the coffee shops the city has to offer.
So you know she's legit:
MPH, Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health (2017) B.A., School of Kinesiology, University of Michigan (2015)
As a life-long athlete since the age of three, Dr. A’nna has always been fascinated by how different foods impact our body. She started experimenting with different foods before, during and after track practices, which led her to three State Championships as a competitive runner. By 18 years old, A’nna was working in a research laboratory and published her first scholarly article in a peer-reviewed journal. Her classes and research at Cornell University were an outlet to expand and explore her curiosity of nutrition. Dr. A’nna took that curiosity and passion as far as academically possible, earning a PhD, conducting randomized controlled research trials, and as she says, “never stops learning.”
Dr. A’nna brings a wealth of knowledge into conversations with clients to help them live a high performance lifestyle by blending cutting-edge research with first-hand athletic experience. She actively listens to clients to understand their challenges and meet their needs. Dr. A’nna appreciates and respects that everyone has a different background and goals. For the detail oriented, Dr. A’nna creates a custom algorithm to calculate macronutrient needs and uses biomarker data to guide recommendations. But regardless of how broad or detailed your preferences are, she helps everyone feel confident with their nutrition. As the only combined PhD/Registered Dietitian in the world with all Ivy League degrees, Dr. A’nna is truly unique in her ability to help clients achieve their best.
Contact Dr. A’nna
So you know she's Legit:
Dr. A’nna graduated top of her class, Summa cum laude from Cornell University with a double major in Nutritional Sciences and Exercise Physiology. After receiving her Bachelor’s in Science, she was accepted into the only combined PhD/RD position where she simultaneously completed her PhD and dietetic internship to become a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist.
Dr. A’nna received world-renowned training from experts in the field of human nutrition, molecular and integrative physiology and psychology. She conducted multiple randomized, controlled trials at Cornell University during graduate school and as a Clinical Associate Translational Metabolic Investigator at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Iona (she/her/hers), is the author of #1 Best Seller Ghost - Why Perfect Women Shrink, and the creator of The Blacklight Method, her signature coaching framework.
Her mission is to help high achieving struggling women stop shrinking their bodies, worth, and power. How? Vulnerability, creativity, and breathwork. Why? Because everyone loses when brilliant women play small. This world needs your gifts.
So you know she's Legit:
https://www.ionaholloway.com/testimonials
Always playing sports as a kid, this former athlete-turned-author has experienced the range of challenges that girls face throughout their sports journey. Emily Williams, in writing her debut novel “Lady-thletes” discusses how to face problems head on with tips and tricks for players to try to overcome their own challenges. As a coach, she has been able to have this as a dialogue with her players, but is excited to be able to broaden the reach with her book.
Melanie Connell has been a licensed Physical Therapist for 20 years with certifications in Manual Therapy and Nutritional Health Coaching. After 18 years in practice, she set out to start her own clinic in Costa Mesa, CA.
"I launched my clinic with a very clear mission: to provide a remedy for athletes sidelined by persistent pain and injuries. My own health journey of infertility, hormonal issues, hypothyroid, and migraines led me to search for holistic practitioners that:
- Spent time actually listening to my story,
- Had the ability to problem solve the root cause of my issue, and
- Educated me on the connection of my health to my body.
If there is one thing I preach to all my patients, it is that “Everything is Connected.”
So you know she's legit:
Melanie Connell PT, MPT, MTC, CHC
https://remedypt.com
https://www.instagram.com/remedyoc/
Fiona is Director of The Mindful Dietitian and lives in Melbourne, Australia. She has been practicing as a Dietitian for over 20 years primarily in the areas of eating behavior, eating disorders, body image, sports nutrition & education/training. Fiona is a committed Health At Every Size ® and Weight Inclusive Dietitian spending most of her working week supervising other Dietitians, or running training events for Dietitians and health professionals.
She is the host of the Podcast “The Mindful Dietitian” and a Sports Dietitian, consulting at The Australian Ballet School and national sporting organizations. Fiona also teaches across Masters Level Dietetic training programs at several different Universities in Melbourne specifically in Counselling Skills and Weight Inclusive Approaches in Dietetics.
Fiona is a committed mindfulness practitioner and Yoga Teacher. Bringing a particular emphasis on embodiment, mindful eating, trauma-informed approaches, and body image into her work and training.
Collaborating with EDRDpro in their upcoming training series on Binge Eating Disorder
https://edrdpro.com/binge-eating-disorder-treatment-course-for-dietitians/
Eating Disorders in Sport Online Training for Dietitians
https://www.themindfuldietitian.com.au/online-learning
Vitamin A to Z the book:
https://www.themindfuldietitian.com.au/vitamin-a-to-z-book
So you know she's legit:
- Acceptance & Commitment Therapy training (2005)
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (2013)
- Mindfulness-Based Self Compassion training (2015)
- Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (2015)
- Yoga Teacher Training (2016)
- Supervision training for clinicians (2014)
- Australia New Zealand Academy of Eating Disorders Exec (current)
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Association for Size Diversity & Health Board Member (2016-17)
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MSc (Nut & Diet), APD
- Accredited Sports Dietitian (ASD)
- Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200)
Sasha Wolff is the founder of "Still I Run" – Runners for Mental Health Awareness. "Still I Run,"is a community of warriors promoting the benefits of running for mental health and was founded in 2016 after Sasha discovered the benefits of running after a brief hospitalization for depression and anxiety. "Still I Run" began as a Facebook page and website and has evolved into a non-profit with over 13,000 people in the community. When she isn’t working on growing "Still I Run," Sasha works full time as global communication professional for a furniture manufacturer in Michigan. She is raising her two young daughters with her husband, Greg. In her “spare” time she runs for her mental health, enjoys Lake Michigan, and spends time with her family and friends.
Our Mission
Still I Run is a community where people can share their experience of dealing with depression/anxiety etc. through running or any other type of physical activity. We encourage one another to take time out of our busy lives to run for our mental health. Through various programs we offer, we hope to educate others about running for mental health, raise mental health awareness, provide encouragement to others, and help people experiencing hardship get started in their running journey.
Stephanie Mundt is a physical therapist & running coach in Scottsdale, AZ. Her business Volante PT & Performance specializes in helping recovering female runners return to training & competition without fear of re-injury. Steph was a distance runner in high school & college, struggling with an eating disorder that contributed to repetitive bone stress injuries. She hopes to transform & improve the management of running-related injuries in females to foster a greater sense of resiliency & empowerment among these athletes.
"The fear of being told to stop running has kept me & runners I know from getting help when aches or pains pop up because running is so much more than a form of exercise. It’s a way to unwind from the day or week, to push yourself harder and further than you ever thought possible, and a space where you can be truly free. But the good news is this: with many running-related injuries, you don't have to stop - you may just need guidance in modifications while your body adapts & heals."
Instagram: @drsteph_volantept
Facebook: Stephanie Mundt
WE Run FB Community
Two Women Running Their Mouths Podcast
So you know she's legit:
Owner
Volante PT & Performance
Scottsdale, Arizona
Physical therapy & run coaching: helping runners overcome setbacks so they can get back to training & racing at their highest level.
University of Southern California
Doctor of Physical Therapy - 2017
Arizona State University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Kinesiology and Exercise Science
2008 – 2012
Heidi Strickler is a Registered Sports Dietitian (RD/RDN), Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics (CSSD), and Metabolic Efficiency Training Specialist (METS), with a Master’s in Sports Nutrition (MSc) from Liverpool John Moores University in England. Although she is based in Seattle, WA, she works virtually with athletes worldwide. Heidi specializes in endurance athletes, female athletes, plant-based athletes, RED-S & amenorrhea.
Heidi believes that all foods fit, and loves educating and empowering her clients to eat in a way that supports their physiology, training, and lifestyle, brings them joy, and makes them feel confident and powerful, and ultimately optimizes not only performance but overall health and well-being.
Heidi brings her personal experience into her practice, including years spent as a high-level endurance athlete, as well as her own struggle with an eating disorder and amenorrhea in an athletic world where disordered eating behaviors and body types are normalized.
Heidi continues to compete at a high level in trail racing and ultra-distance events. She also loves snowshoe racing, cross country skiing, road and mountain biking, and doing anything and everything in the mountains. SHe does not go a day without a strong cup of coffee, and her favorite foods are peanut butter, dark chocolate, spicy Mexican food, donuts, sushi, and smoothie bowls.
So you know she's legit:
Registered Sports Dietitian (RD/RDN)
Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics (CSSD)
Metabolic Efficiency Training Specialist (METS)
Master’s in Sports Nutrition (MSc) from Liverpool John Moores University in England
Contact Heidi:
Instagram: @hkstrickler_sportsrd
Email: hkstrickler.sportsrd@gmail.com
LinkTree (all podcasts, articles. etc): https://linktr.ee/hkstrickler_sportsrd
Work with Heidi:
UCAN Discount code: UCANINSPIREHS
Website coming soon!
Sam Abbott is a registered dietitian nutritionist who helps those with PCOS ditch diets, improve insulin resistance, and balance hormones without feeling guilty or stressed about food. She runs the Instagram account @pcos.nutritionist where she gives free tips and support around PCOS nutrition education and also runs the PCOS Freedom Program – a complete program for improving hormone balance without a side of diet culture or weight stigma. Sam is passionate about empowering people with PCOS with the knowledge they need to improve their hormone imbalances and live their happiest, healthiest lives without dieting.
"I became interested in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) after seeing client after client struggle with symptoms. I share in my clients’ frustrations when they are handed a prescription for birth control and metformin, and then they are told they need to lose weight. The “lose weight” advice is a distraction from discussing how hormones can be balanced through diet, lifestyle, and supplements."
Get started today!
So you know she's legit: * BS in Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise, Virginia Tech * MSEd in Health Education, Virginia Tech * Didactic Program in Dietetics, University of Alabama * Dietetic Internship, Utah State University * Registered Dietitian Nutritionist * Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist, State of North Carolina * In progress – working towards my Intuitive Eating certification!
Dr. Jen Welter
NFL's First Female Coach I Speaker I GrrridIron Girls Founder I First Female Coach in Madden I First Female Running Back in Men's Pro Football I Author IMotion and Emotion Pioneer
Dr. Jen Welter is a groundbreaking, barrier-busting force of nature. She is a female trailblazer, a sports pioneer, Ph.D., passionate leader, world-renowned speaker, entrepreneur, and source of inspiration around the globe. Her relentless pursuit of individual excellence and success in challenging the status quo time and time again, fuels her current drive to help others achieve their best in sports, health and wellness, professional pursuits, and life.
She is driven by the belief that "Greatness is a choice you make over and over. And when you choose personal greatness-big or small-it becomes a part of who you are." In every realm she tackles, Dr. Jen is a game-changer, bringing vision, power, and purpose to her mission of breaking the chains of what has alwaysbeen and redefining what is and will be.
She tackled her football career with fearless tenacity and an unprecedented track record of pioneering firsts. Building on her remarkable career in women's football, which included 2 Gold medals with Team USA, 4 World Championships, and 8 All-Star selections, Dr. Jen busted into the men's game, as the first female running back signed to a men's professional team. Blending her passion for the game with a powerful, unique communication style, she broke through the biggest boys club of all, the NFL, as the first female coach in the league and the Madden NFL 20 video game. Crystallizing her journey into a playbook for overall success, she published "Play Big, Lessons in Living Limitless from the First Woman to Coach in the NFL."
Not content to stop there, Dr. Jen's belief in the power of sport to transform society inspired her to create sustainable platforms and inclusive programs to help women become leaders, give girls access, and empower kids to overcome challenges through physical, emotional, and social well being. She foundedGrrridiron Girls, the first national movement for girls in flag football. She has been honored and quoted by President Obama as a female pioneer and role model. She has coached everyone from kids in sports camps to C-level executives, on how finding your voice and having fearless conversations can fuel positivechange.
When the Coronavirus pandemic hit, she teamed with Creative Director and Founder of Jayne Agency, Brooke Foley to create the Critter Fitter book series, the world's first social, emotional, and physical wellness series for young kids. Covering themes ranging from social distancing and mask-wearing to resilience and wellness through movement, Critter Fitter offers a holistic platform for parents and children to solve a range of complex problems, giving youth a voice throughconversations, tools, and experiences.
Dr. Jen's message of overcoming life's obstacles with grit, tenacity, and limitless possibility has received worldwide acclaim, by audiences ranging from global companies and top schools to brands, nonprofits, and professional sports teams.
Heidi is a Registered Sports Dietitian (RD/RDN), Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics (CSSD), and Metabolic Efficiency Training Specialist (METS), with a Master’s in Sports Nutrition (MSc) from Liverpool John Moores University in England. Although she is based in Seattle, WA, she works virtually with athletes worldwide. Heidi specializes in endurance athletes, female athletes, plant-based athletes, RED-S & amenorrhea.
Heidi believes that all foods fit, and loves educating and empowering her clients to eat in a way that supports their physiology, training, and lifestyle, brings them joy, and makes them feel confident and powerful, and ultimately optimizes not only performance but overall health and well-being.
Heidi brings her personal experience into her practice, including years spent as a high-level endurance athlete, as well as her own struggle with an eating disorder and amenorrhea in an athletic world where disordered eating behaviors and body types are normalized.
Heidi continues to compete at a high level in trail racing and ultra-distance events. She also loves snowshoe racing, cross country skiing, road and mountain biking, and doing anything and everything in the mountains. SHe does not go a day without a strong cup of coffee, and her favorite foods are peanut butter, dark chocolate, spicy Mexican food, donuts, sushi, and smoothie bowls.
So you know she's legit:
Registered Sports Dietitian (RD/RDN)
Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics (CSSD)
Metabolic Efficiency Training Specialist (METS)
Master’s in Sports Nutrition (MSc) from Liverpool John Moores University in England
Connect with Heidi:
Instagram: @hkstrickler_sportsrd
Email: hkstrickler.sportsrd@gmail.com
LinkTree (all podcasts, articles. etc): https://linktr.ee/hkstrickler_sportsrd
Work with Heidi: https://my.practicebetter.io/#/5fbddc4c2a9c241908d6df6e/profile
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Bethany Frazier, MS, RD, LDN is the owner of the Kansas City Dietitian, a private nutrition practice that specializes in digestive wellness, hormones and healthy living.
Before returning to school to be a dietitian she received a bachelor's degree in sports management. Bethany holds a bachelor's degree in dietetics from the University of Central Missouri. She went on to complete her Registered Dietitian internship and master's degree in food and nutrition at Bowling Green State University. Bethany was a collegiate volleyball and cross country athlete. She still enjoys running in her free time and is looking forward to future coaching opportunities with her husband and 3 small children.
So you know she's legit:
The Kansas City Dietitian, Owner Kansas City Dietitian LLC
2013 – Present
Bowling Green State University Dietetics Internship
Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services
2012 – 2013
Central Missouri State University Bachelors of Science, Dietetics
2011 – 2012
Moody Bible Institute BA, Sports Management
2006 – 2008
Amanda Clements is a Certified Professional Coach who specializes in teaching and training the mental aspects of sports. She helps athletes perform under pressure, overcome disappointments, handle stress, and increase their emotional intelligence. Her "whole life" approach can also address those who feel they are lacking direction, purpose, motivation, organization, passion, or life balance. She has experience working with teams and individuals from club sports up to the professional level and uses mental performance techniques to help her clients achieve their desired goals.
Amanda’s twenty-year sports career includes competing as a Division I gymnast and playing defensive back for Washington DC’s semi-pro, women’s football team. It was her own, emotional struggle with transitioning out of competition that ultimately led her to combine her coaching practice with her love of sports. She now finds purpose in helping other athletes excel during their competitive careers, as well as navigate the transition into life thereafter.
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So you know she's legit:
iPEC Coaching
CPC
2009 - 2010
Certified Professional Coach
Energy Leadership Index - Master Practitioner
Core Performance Dynamics Specialist
Towson University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Sociology and Anthropology - Summa Cum Laude
2003 - 2007
Division | Gymnastics Team
Studen-Athlete Advisory Committee
National Society of Collegiate Scholars
Golden Key Internation Honour Society
Darkness to Light is the leading child sexual abuse prevention organization in the United States. We empower adults to help prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse.
We are working toward a world free of child sexual abuse where adults have the courage to protect kids.
Through a combination of research, education, and community advocacy, we use a social behavior change approach to pioneer new training initiatives that bring child sexual abuse prevention to the attention of the broader cultural conversation. Our work empowers adults and organizations to bring best-practices in child safety to their own communities.
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Darkness to Light is a leader in child sexual abuse prevention and uses the power of behavior change to protect children.
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Research broadens our understanding of how abuse occurs and can help us better prevent it.
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Whether you are trying to prevent abuse from happening, or you are concerned a child you know is being abused, there are resources available to help.
If you believe a child is in immediate danger report to authorities or child protective services. If you want any other one-on-one help in determining how to respond appropriately, call the Darkness to Light Helpline at 1-866-FOR-LIGHT or text LIGHT to 741741.
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The Injured Athletes Club
Injuries affect nearly every athlete, and the impact is mental as much as it is physical. Right now, you’re likely feeling isolated, disconnected from your team or training partners. You’re stressed out by dealing with this setback—and at the same time, robbed of one of your main coping mechanisms. You may even be feeling a loss of identity—who am I if I can’t train, compete, or move my body in the way I’m used to?
We’re here to tell you: You’re still an athlete. You’re not alone in feeling this way. And you have a critical advantage: All the time, skills, and energy that have propelled you forward in your sport can also help you overcome this setback.
Carrie Jackson Cheadle lives just north of San Francisco, California, and has been working on the performance of teams, organizations, and individual athletes and exercisers since 2002.
So you know she's legit:
She is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology and author of the book On Top of Your Game: Mental Skills to Maximize Your Athletic Performance and co-author of Rebound: Train Your Mind to Bounce Back Stronger from Sports Injuries as well as the co-host of the podcast The Injured Athletes Club.
She has been interviewed as an expert resource for articles that have appeared in publications such as Outside Magazine, Shape Magazine, Men’s Fitness, Women’s Health, Runner’s World, Women’s Running Magazine, Bicycling Magazine, New York Times, and HuffingtonPost. She is a sought-after speaker and has spoken and consulted with many collegiate teams, cycling teams, and triathlon teams, as well as corporate organizations including CamelBak. She’s also been featured in the TrainingPeaks blog and webinar series as an expert in Mental Skills Training.
Carrie has worked with athletes of all ages and at every level, from recreational athletes to elite and professional athletes competing at national and international levels. Carrie also specializes in working with athletes and exercisers with Type I Diabetes and she’s the director of the Mental Skills Training Program for Diabetes Training Camp.
She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology at Sonoma State University and her Master of Arts degree in sport psychology at John F. Kennedy University. Carrie has taught both undergraduate and graduate levels for psychology classes and is currently adjunct faculty for John F. Kennedy University.
Cindy Kuzma is a freelance writer, author, and podcaster in Chicago. She first moved there to earn her master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Once she saw the Lakefront Trail, she decided to stay. There, she’s trained for and completed 22 marathons, including seven in Boston.
Her six years working for medical journals taught her the way around a research paper; now, she’s fascinated by exercise science and how findings in the lab can help everyday athletes improve their performance, prevent injury, and live healthier lives. She also writes frequently about elite runners and Paralympic competitors; everyday athletes accomplishing extraordinary things; and the active community in Chicago, where winter forges deep bonds between those brave enough to train through it.
So you know she's legit:
Cindy writes regularly for Runner’s World, Chicago magazine, Women’s Running magazine, SELF, and more. She’s also written for Men’s Health, Furthermore, University of Illinois alumni publications, The New York Times, Outside online, Health.com, EatingWell, Women’s Health, Prevention, SELF, VICE, USA Today magazines, and many other digital and print outlets.
Her latest book Rebound: Train Your Mind to Bounce Back Stronger from Sports Injuries, with mental skills coach Carrie Jackson Cheadle, is out now from Bloomsbury Sport. Together, they host The Injured Athletes Club podcast and moderate The Injured Athletes Club Facebook group.
Cindy is also the co-author, with her husband Matt Kuzma, of Marathon Spectator Guide—aimed to help those who, like Matt, tirelessly follow their runners around 26.2-mile courses—and also contributed to The Superfood Swap: The 4-Week Plan to Eat What You Crave Without the C.R.A.P., by Dawn Jackson Blatner, R.D.N.
She’s a member of The American Society of Journalists and Authors. And, she’s certified as a running coach by the Road Runners Club of America and USA Track & Field (Level 1).
Like many of my patients, I saw doctor after doctor and tried many different treatments. I got fed up with taking medications that either made me feel worse or didn’t fix the issue. I tried tons of different supplements and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on doctor's appointments. It’s exhausting and extremely frustrating when everybody seems to have an answer, but nobody ever really makes any of the symptoms go away.
I’ve also watched as family members and friends go through this very same, frustrating process. Eventually, it becomes pretty clear that the way medicine is looking at chronic health problems just isn’t working.
When I reached this realization, I found Chiropractic and Functional Medicine. I knew I needed something that was different than conventional medicine. I knew I needed to look deeper into what I was doing with my lifestyle and nutrition that was contributing to the symptoms I was feeling. I knew I needed to find what was causing my symptoms, not just treat them on the surface.
I am now a Chiropractic and Functional Medicine physician. I look at how the body moves (or the lack of movement in some cases) and I combine that with taking a deeper look and functional approach to the body’s internal systems. Your body tells a story on the inside and outside. By utilizing both Chiropractic and Functional Medicine I have seen incredible life-changing improvements with my patients.
So you know she’s legit:
MASTER OF SCIENCE (M.S., 2018)
University of Western States
DOCTOR OF CHIROPRACTIC (D.C., 2016
University of Western States
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (B.S., 2014)
Human Biology, University of Western States
BACHELOR OF ARTS (B.A., 2011)
Psychology and Neuroscience Major, Spanish Major; University of Colorado at Boulder
Katie is a KCMO area yoga instructor with a passion for astrology, philosophy, and all things meta-physical. She learned to love her body again through yoga after a challenging two year stint in the world of competitive fitness. Her passion for yoga led her to self-study on a three week solo-adventure to Bali and eventually to Asheville, North Carolina where she received her 200 Hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification in 2017 at the Asheville Yoga Center.
With a background in body-building and physical fitness she understands both the anatomy of the body and the societal pressures put on it. She teaches both vinyasa style yoga, infusing the energetics of astrology into each class, as well as the more passive “yin yoga” in which she received additional certification in 2019. She teaches a style of yoga that focuses on cultivating a loving and compassionate conversation with the body. The goal in every class, whether active or passive, is to become present with the breath. She believes that it is with the breath that we connect through the body and to the spirit.
You can find Katie teaching mostly online these days with offerings such as yin yoga, astrology-themed flows and seasonal yoga malas through True Love Yoga and Hagoyah. You can find her in person one day a week, socially distanced and masked on the mat on Saturday mornings at Hagoyah! She also offers a once monthly “Restore and Release,” a monthly self-care reset, via her own platform! To learn more about Katie and her offerings you can connect with her on social media @kbkcyoga or through her website kbkc.yoga
So you know she's legit:
Katie Brown is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance, which acknowledges the completion of a yoga teacher training with a Registered Yoga School (RYS).
An enthusiast for movement, Michelle Laging became a fitness instructor and worked part-time for both 24-Hour Fitness and Curves in 2003. After shadowing a few Physical Therapists, it became obvious that this was the path she needed to pursue to fulfill her professional needs. Michelle graduated from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in 2008 as a Doctor of Physical Therapy and began her career at Denver Health Medical Center in the late fall of 2008.
"My 10-years of experience in inpatient care at Denver Health has been robust and extremely rewarding. Knit within the fabric of my experience on the orthopedic unit, medical-surgical units, and acute rehabilitation, was the development and delivery of Physical Therapy services to individuals with eating disorders. The past 3-years were solely dedicated to the unique needs of these individuals admitted for medical stabilization at the ACUTE Center for Eating Disorders by Denver Health. As I reflect back on my wonderful experience at Denver Health, I can truly say that my work both on the ACUTE unit and the acute rehabilitation unit allowed me to live my dream to “make a difference in people’s lives”.
So you know she's legit:
Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) University of Colorado at Denver (Aurora, CO) June 2005 – May 2008
Post-Baccalaureate Coursework (Physical Therapy Pre-Requisites) University of Colorado at Denver (Denver, CO) June 2003 – May 2005
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) Ball State University (Muncie, IN) August 1992 – May 1997
Professional Experience Healthbreak Inc., State of Colorado Wellness Center (Denver, CO) Yoga Instructor October 2003 - January 2008
24Hour Fitness (Denver, CO) Group Exercise Instructor June 2003 – April 2007
Davis Partnership Architects (Denver, CO) Landscape Architect June 1997 - May 2005
Denver Health (Denver, CO) Staff Physical Therapist, Inpatient Rehabilitation Services November 2008 – May 2016
Eating Recovery Center (Denver, CO) PRN Physical Therapist October 2016 – May 2016
ACUTE Center for Eating Disorders by Denver Health (Denver, CO) Lead ACUTE Physical Therapist May 2016 – February 2019 PRN Physical Therapist
March 2019 - present
Renee has been running competitively since the last 1990's. She has completed numerous marathons (including Boston), an ultra marathon, numerous triathlons (2 time Ironman finisher) and has a strong passion for competitive trail running.
The unique combination of being a physical therapist and endurance coach allows Renee the ability to provide each athlete with knowledge of how to care for their bodies while they are progressing safely through a training plan that optimizes their athletic performance.
For athletes living in the Phoenix vicinity, Renee offers full service physical therapy care, if needed or for prevention of potential injuries. Services she provides as a physical therapist include:
- Running Gait Analysis
- IASTM (Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization)
- Dry Needling
- Manual Therapy
- Detailed exercise prescription
Renee also offers a strength based group fitness class, one time a week, which focuses specifically on the mobility and stability activities needed to maintain a healthy body for endurance sports. Please refer to our Facebook page for more information on the group fitness class.
Foundation Physical Therapy and Endurance Coaching was founded by Renee Hodges, DPT (physical therapist), ITCA Coach in January 2015.
Coaching through Foundation is fully customized for each athlete based on their athletic history, goals and daily lifestyle. Athletes have unlimited access to Renee with questions training plans changes, etc.
Foundation focuses on building the fundamentals of athletic performance in order to achieve the ultimate potential of an athlete.
So you know she's legit:
In 2014 she obtained her coaching certification in order to enhance the quality of education she is able to provide her clients.
Renee Hodges, DPT, ITCA Coach has practiced as a physical therapist with a specialization in treating runners since 2003.
Kelly McGonigal (born October 21, 1977) is a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University who is known for her work in the field of 'science help' which focuses on translating insights from psychology and neuroscience into practical strategies that support health and well-being. Mainstream media articles about inner-conflict-related aspects of modern lifestyles regularly quote her. A longtime advocate of self-compassion and mindfulness as stress-coping strategies, McGonigal has lately altered her focus on the problematic aspects of stress; in a talk at the TED Global 2013, she emphasized the importance of an individual's subjective belief in themselves as someone who is able to cope successfully as being a crucial factor in their actual response to stress.
Through her trademark blend of science and storytelling, McGonigal draws on insights from neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, and evolutionary biology, as well as memoirs, ethnographies, and philosophers. She shows how movement is intertwined with some of the most basic human joys, including self-expression, social connection, and mastery--and why it is a powerful antidote to the modern epidemics of depression, anxiety, and loneliness.
So you know she's legit:
Kelly McGonigal received a B.A. in Psychology and a B.S. in Mass Communication from Boston University, and her Ph.D. from Stanford University, where she is a lecturer in psychology and teaching a public course on willpower.
EMPOWER YOUR PELVIS Amanda Fisher is a Doctor of Physical Therapy at Empower Your Pelvis. Most mornings she’s at the gym with water in one hand and coffee in the other, followed by taking her boys to school and then on to the clinic with her favorite pelvic patients. Amanda and her husband Brett have three wild-n-crazy boys (yes, her hands are full!). She’s mostly known for her passion for pelvic floor dysfunction and teaching women how to find vaginal healthy products at Target (yes, she has a video on YouTube on this). People often refer to her as “The Crazy Pelvic Lady”, “Personal Trainer for Vagina” or “The Vagina Whisperer”.
In 2018, Empower Your Pelvis was voted as the Top Physical Therapy Clinic in Eastern Jackson County by The Examiner.
"I love serving the world by helping women realize there is hope with pelvic floor issues like peeing your pants, pelvic organ prolapse, pelvic pain, and pain with intercourse." "I work with people who are having pelvic floor dysfunction symptoms: leaking urine/feces, pelvic organ prolapse, low back pain, hip pain, pelvic pain, lower abdominal pain, pelvic pain with intercourse/speculum exam or inserting a tampon."
Amanda Fisher
empoweryourpelvis.com
So you know she’s legit:
Rockhurst University
Doctorate, Physical Therapy/Therapist
2008 – 2011
University of Missouri
Bachelor's degree
2005 – 2008
Kara is a clinically licensed social worker with 10 years’ experience in maternal mental health. The focus of Kara’s work includes pregnancy and postpartum mood-related disorders with a special interest in families struggling through infertility, loss due to miscarriage, stillbirth, or termination of a pregnancy. In addition to individual counseling services, Kara facilitates the “Postpartum Emotional Support Group”, “Pregnancy After Loss”, and “Perinatal Loss Support Group” at Shawnee Mission Medical Center. Early in her career, Kara worked in inpatient and residential settings for eating disorders. She has the unique expertise in working with those that struggle with disordered eating, exercise, and body image during the pregnancy and postpartum time.
She addresses maternal health issues at the community level. Her speaking experience includes local and statewide conferences and collaborating with hospitals, colleges, and behavioral health organizations to provide education and trainings about women’s reproductive mental health. If you are interested in hosting Kara you may email her at kara@centimano.com.
So you know she's legit:
Kara graduated from the University of Iowa in 2006 with her Master’s Degree in Public Health where she specialized in Maternal, Child, and Family Health. During that time she worked with Dr. Michael O’Hara and Dr. Scott Stuart- prominent researchers and clinicians in postpartum mood disorders. In 2009 she received her Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Kansas and in 2014 she received her Certificate of Completion in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders through Postpartum Support International.
Contact Kara and other members of the Centimano team at Centimano.com
Girls Running: All You Need to Strive, Thrive, and Run Your Best A life-long runner, Elizabeth loves sharing the sport with athletes as a running coach. She prepares people for wide-ranging running adventures with personalized training plans and one-on-one consultations.
Elizabeth works with a variety of individuals, from middle schoolers to master’s athletes, who want to run and/or race on roads, trails, and track. She has experience coaching athletes in a wide range of long-distance events, including the mile, 5k, 10k, half marathon, marathon, 50k, 50 mile, 100k, cross country, and road/trail relays. Elizabeth also specializes in post-injury comebacks, cross-training, and mental preparation. Whether you’re a beginner or experienced runner, Elizabeth works to chase your goals.
Running can shape a young athlete in healthy, positive ways for the rest of her life.
Girls Running offers the guidance and tools girls need to thrive on their running journey, right from the start. With straight talk on training, physiology, menstruation, sports nutrition, a winning mindset, body image issues, gear, team-building, and competition, Girls Running educates and empowers young runners to achieve their potential and love running more.
So you know she's legit:
Since Elizabeth started coaching in 2003, she's worked with a wide range of athletes and abilities. She began coaching high school cross country and track and field teams in and around Portland, Oregon, including Franklin High School.
Elizabeth then dedicated more than two years in various capacities to coaching at the Division I collegiate level, working with Oregon State University and Syracuse University cross country and track teams. At Oregon State, she was an assistant coach for the women’s roster in one of the country’s most competitive conferences. At Syracuse, she assisted the women’s team and was the cross country meet director, planning the Big East Conference Cross Country Championships, among other meets.
Elizabeth has extensive experience directing and coaching at running camps, including Melody Fairchild Running Camp and Steens Mountain High Altitude Running Camp, which offer in-depth youth and high school coaching as well as unique learning opportunities for coaches.
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Stephanie Roth-Goldberg, the founder of the Intuitive Psychotherapy NYC, is an interactive, psychodynamic psychotherapist. Her clinical areas of specialty include treating eating disorders and disordered eating from a Health at Every Size paradigm. As a weight-inclusive paradigm, HAES guides Stephanie’s work with clients in all aspects, including movement. She is deeply committed to helping individuals in all sizes find a movement practice that feels joyful and affirming.
Using an interpersonal approach Stephanie works with patients to resolve both acute problems and longstanding concerns. She provides a nurturing, non-judgmental environment where you can share your feelings, release stress, and start to feel better. Stephanie offers a sensitive, compassionate, individualized approach to therapy.
Stephanie works with adolescents who are struggling with eating disorders, social concerns, and college preparation anxiety. With adults, Stephanie supports them on a journey to recovery from eating disorders, often working collaboratively with other providers in a supportive, collaborative treatment approach. Stephanie is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and believes in the Intuitive Eating, anti-diet model. She is HAES aligned and LBGTQ affirming.
Intuitive Psychotherapy NYC
So you know Adrien's legit:
Certifications & Licenses * LCSW-R * CEDS * Intuitive Eating Counselor * “Certified Eating Disorder Specialist from the William Alanson White Institute Eating Disorder, Compulsions, and Addictions program” * Certification in Psychoanalysis (2020)
We're Born to Eat: Babies, Families, Athletes, & All
Leslie Schilling MA, RDN, CSCS, CEDRD-S
Through her years as a dietitian and nutrition therapist, Leslie has had the privilege to practice in many settings including research, infant nutrition, general pediatrics, collegiate and professional sports facilities, and eating disorder treatment centers. In addition, she focuses her own private practice on counseling families, those of all ages with disordered eating issues, and professional athletes and performers. With her warm, compassionate, and entertaining personality, Leslie been featured in media outlets like Health, Women’s Health, Self, Pregnancy Magazine, The Yoga Journal, BuzzFeed, the Huffington Post, USNews, and on HGTV.
Leslie owns Schilling Nutrition LLC, a private nutrition therapy and wellness coaching business that focuses on Intuitive Eating, weight-neutral, and non-diet approaches to health and performance. When she’s not counseling, reading, writing, cooking, or hiking with her family; you can find Leslie using her social media channels and speaking platforms to deliver science-based, non-diet messages with a dash of humor. Her most recent endeavor was creating and co-authoring the book Born to Eat.
So you know she's legit!
Leslie is a Master’s level, registered dietitian who specializes in disordered eating, sports nutrition, family nutrition, and weight concerns. She received her Bachelor of Science and Master’s degrees both from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. Leslie has worked with recreational, high school, collegiate, and professional athletes and performers.
She is a member of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP), the International Federation of Eating Disorder Dietitians (IFEDD), the Collegiate & Professional Sport's Dietitian's Association (CPSDA), and previously, the Behavioral Health Nutrition and Pediatric Nutrition Practice Groups of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Leslie is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) and a former committee member of the National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA). She is a specialist in sports dietetics and is the only Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian and Supervisor (CEDRD-S) in Southern Nevada.
Being GAME-DAY-READY starts with the right understanding of our body.
You want the right approach to nutrition to fuel your efforts. And just like everything else about sports, it starts with your thinking. My approach combines an understanding of science but also a therapeutic delicacy of exploring the relationship one may have with food, weight, performance, or body image. Embrace the right perspectives and abandon formulas, and you will see the short term results that you want — long into the future.
As your dietitian, my role is to not judge. I am here to:
- Listen
- Observe where you are currently
- Reflect where you want to be
- Walk beside you on how to get there
In a way, I am a relationship expert that helps you explore and strengthen your relationship with food, weight, body image, and sports performance — helping to find a place where these can mutually co-exist and thrive with enjoyment.
So you know she's legit:
- MS — registered dietitian, University of Kansas
- Board Certified Sports Specialist (CSSD)
- Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian ( CEDRD)
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Finding your Sweet Spot: How to Avoid RED-S
Christie Aschwanden is the author of GOOD TO GO: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn From the Strange Science of Recovery and co-host of EMERGING FORM, a podcast about the creative process. She’s the former lead science writer at FiveThirtyEight and was previously a health columnist for The Washington Post. Christie is a frequent contributor to The New York Times. She’s also been a contributing editor for Runner’s World and a contributing writer for Bicycling. Her work appears in dozens of publications, including Discover, Slate, Consumer Reports, New Scientist, More, Men’s Journal, Mother Jones, NPR.org, Smithsonian, and O, the Oprah Magazine.
She’s the recipient of a 2014/2015 Santa Fe Institute Journalism Fellowship In Complexity Science and was a 2013/2014 Carter Center Fellow. Christie received a grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting in 2007 to travel to Vietnam and report on the legacy of Agent Orange. Her television report on Agent Orange, created in collaboration with producer George Lerner, appeared on the PBS program Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria in June 2007. Her New York Times article about an Agent Orange remediation project in Vietnam’s central highlands was awarded the 2008 Arlene Award for articles that make a difference.
https://christieaschwanden.com/
So you know she’s legit:
Christie was a National Magazine Award finalist in 2011. Other honors she’s received include the Best Article Award (2005) and Outstanding Essay Award (2007) from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, an honorable mention for print journalism from the American Institute of Biological Sciences (2007), the National Association of Science Writers’ 2013 Science in Society Award for Commentary/Opinion, a Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service in Magazine Journalism from the Society for Professional Journalists in 2015, and an AAAS/Kavli Science Journalism Award and an Information is Beautiful Award in 2016. She has twice been a finalist for the NIHCM Foundation Health Care Digital Media Award (in 2016 and 2017).
Training is not one-size-fits-all. Learn to take a self-study approach so you can thrive as an athlete.
In her early 40s, Kim became a runner, a triathlete, and then a coach. But she didn’t always like endurance activities. At one point, she threatened to fire her trainer because the sessions involved Kim running around the 1/10th mile track at the gym. She stuck with it because she enjoyed the camaraderie among the moms, and because she quickly dropped 50 pounds, all while realizing she was capable of achieving hard things.
The discipline she developed as a runner gave her the strength to face a 2015 breast cancer diagnosis with courage. She continued running through treatment and celebrated the end of chemo by running a half marathon with a group of friends a week later.
As a new mom, a frequently-injured runner, or a breast cancer survivor, Kim was never content with sitting back and letting life happen to her. Every obstacle, injury, and surgery motivated her to look for solutions and continue her education.
Now—as a coach, podcaster, and author—Kim shares the lessons she's learned so that others can discover the solutions she so desperately needed.
As a runner and fitness enthusiast, I enjoy pushing my body and mind to achieve things I previously believed were “impossible.” As a coach, I believe that everyone has the ability to become who they want to be.
Check out Kim and all of the resources she offers at www.crushingmygoals.com.
Check out Kim's new book: www.crushingmygoals.com/book
So you know she's legit:
USA Track and Field Level I Coach, USA Triathlon Level 1 Coach, Lydiard Level II, Healthy Running, and RRCA (Road Runners Club of America). ACE Certified Group Fitness Instructor. Kim is a Functional Aging Specialist and a Breast Cancer Exercise Specialist. And she is also certified to coach TRX, kettlebells, foam rolling, and multiple forms of resistance training.
On all social media as @Powerofrun
Instagram: @Powerofrun
Podcast: Power Up Your Performance
Newest book: Holistic Endurance Training: The Integrated Approach to Thriving as an Athlete
Today we spoke with Lia Nees the founder of Cephalo Hypnosis and the creator of Hypnotic Athlete Accelerator an 8-week hypnotic female coaching program for athletes.
Lia says "I know what it’s like to feel like your mind is working against you, keeping you from reaching your goals."
I was struggling to reach my goals. I couldn’t get out of my rut. I couldn’t get past my own fear and anxieties. The smallest hitch would derail me. I felt stuck and overwhelmed watching everyone else around me thrive. I tried using willpower but eventually, willpower always runs out.
So I set off on a mission to learn about how the mind works. I wanted to understand why our mind seems to work against us, and how to get it to work with us.
In my search to master my mindset, I came across hypnosis. I learned the language of the subconscious and realized everything I had been doing wrong. From then on, I felt like I had a secret mental superpower! I rapidly surpassed every single one of my goals - all without using willpower... And everyone started asking how they could replicate the same results in THEIR lives too, most of whom were athletes.
So, I put together a program to teach my signature methodology that has allowed me to drastically change my life — all through hypnosis. That is how "Hypnotic Athlete Accelerator" was born!
My mission is to share my passion for hypnosis and its many benefits to improve people's lives the same way it improved mine.
So you know she's legit:
Lia Nees is an NGH Certified Hypnotist
Today we talk with Patrick Wilson, author of the Athletes Gut: The Inside Science of Digestion, Nutrition, and Stomach Distress. The Athlete’s Gut makes sense of the complicated gastrointestinal tract and offers solutions to the tummy troubles that keep athletes from enjoying and excelling in their sport.
Questions We Tackle:
- Why Dr. Wilson wanted to focus his work on the athlete's gut. The majority of endurance athletes suffer from some kind of gut problem during training and competition. Symptoms like nausea, cramping, bloating, side stitches, and the need to defecate can negatively impact an athlete’s performance.
- The topic is discussed more and a topic of interest is it because there are more gut problems that athletes are experiencing than in years past?
- Wilson shares with us his top 5 tips for managing gut issues.
- What should an athlete use? We tackle what is better- formulated products vs a more whole-food approach.
So You Know He’s Legit:
Patrick Wilson is an associate professor of exercise science and directs the Human Performance Laboratory at Old Dominion University. He earned a Ph.D. in exercise physiology from the University of Minnesota and completed post-doctoral training in sports nutrition at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Wilson has authored over 45 scientific articles that span the disciplines of exercise science, sports nutrition, and health. He is the author of the recently released book, The Athlete's Gut: The Inside Science of Digestion, Nutrition, and Stomach Distress. Wilson is also a credentialed registered dietitian.
GritLink
Our Mission - To be the go-to resource for endurance and adventure enthusiasts for finding health care and knowledge that uniquely speaks to their training lifestyle and gritty mindset.
Cortney Jacobsen has held product leadership positions at Amazon, Brightcove, and Disney. Her undergraduate majors of Classical Piano and Electrical Engineering speak to her mission to balance creativity and logic and found that a career in product management suited this quest well. She fell in love with the outdoor life when she moved to Seattle in 1998. In 2015, she started Northwest Energy Lab, a coaching service for endurance athletes. She is excited to reach more active and adventurous people through building GritLink.
Joan Studley has worked at Microsoft, aQuantive, and CDK Global, and ultimately discovered skill and passion for product management. She has an underlying personal belief that we should constantly pursue knowledge and discovery, and we create a more enriched community by sharing with others. She has participated in endurance sports for years, primarily cycling and running, which help her decompress while exploring nature. She is excited to combine her interests in connecting people and information with outdoor endurance activities thru GritLink.
- We believe that active people are happy people. And happy people are healthy people.
- We believe that both outdoors and activity are keys to longevity.
- We believe it is important to help endurance athletes and adventurers stay active as much and as often as possible.
Ashley and April founded Peak Mind: The Center for Psychological Strength in 2019. Their mission is to make information, tools, and techniques from the fields of Psychology and Life Design easily accessible so that everyone who wants to can THRIVE!
April Seifert, Ph.D.
I'm thrilled to be part of Peak Mind because I know first-hand how powerful the fields of Psychology and Design Thinking can be in helping people make the most of the one life they're going to live. You see, everyone has been given the same gift of one life. Few people, however, actively participate in it.
Ashley Smith, Ph.D.
I am passionate about sharing the principles and practices of CBT, applied neuroscience, and positive psychology beyond the walls of my office. While stress and heartache are unavoidable parts of life, I wholeheartedly believe that we always have some choice and some control over things that can maximize our happiness...MINDSET MATTERS!
- Our brains are powerful but they are not sophisticated and when you know the short cuts that they take, the glitches and the biases in the way that they process information you then have choices.
- We’d like to help you understand how your mind works so that you can build strength; flexibility, endurance, and stamina a lot like you can when you understand your body.
- Psychological strength can give you the tools you need to navigate uncertainty in healthy ways.
During Covid19 we're offering free workshops.
We want to help. Click the link below to get started now.
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So you know they're legit:
April Seifert, Ph.D., is a social cognitive psychologist, life design strategist, and serial entrepreneur. She is also an endurance athlete and a certified skydiver. She is passionate about helping women make the most out of their one life by creating a full and vibrant life experience.
Ashley Smith, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and entrepreneur who specializes in anxiety and related conditions. She blends cognitive-behavioral therapy, positive psychology practices, and applied neuroscience to help others live happy, fulfilling lives.
Adrien Paczosa is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian practicing in Austin, Texas, and the surrounding counties. She is the founder of I Live Well Nutrition as well as being the founder of Fearless Practitioners, the division of her business that offers training to dietitians and wellness professionals.
Adrien began her path towards nutrition by falling down. She has been dancing since age 2 and in college was a Kilgore College Rangerette. During practice she took a fall and broke her foot, and that sparked the ideas of needing a new direction in her life. After graduating in 2003 from the University of Illinois – Chicago with a bachelor of science degree in Human Nutrition, Adrien began her career as a staff dietitian at a hospital in downtown Chicago. She was promoted to the hospital’s Director of Food Service and Nutrition and was responsible for all food preparation as well as patient nutritional care.
While working at her clinical job, Adrien maintained her passion for movement by working as a personal trainer and nutrition coach in downtown Chicago. In 2006, Adrien returned to Texas to be close to family, friends, and warmer weather! She opened her private practice, I Live Well Nutritional Therapy in 2007 to Create better access to dietitians.
Check out Adrien and I Live Well Nutrition
So you know Adrien's legit:
Adrien is a Certified Eating Disorders Registered Dietitian (CEDRD). Adrien has been active in the local, state, and national dietetic association volunteering and holding board positions. She is currently the Texas Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Media Representative, which has allowed her to educate more Texans on the power of food. Becoming a board member and now the current chair-elect of Behavioral Health Nutrition (BHN) Dietetic Practice group has been a gift and honor to Adrien, and she continues to believe and strive to hold the bar set by BHN members to the highest degree of professional expectations.
Jason Belz
Jason Belz shares on PHIT for a Queen that we are disconnected from ourselves. We do anything to take us away from being present. His goal is to get people to reconnect with their bodies.
Environmentally, we aren’t connected to our bodies. There’s so much stimulus going on outside our bodies all day long, and in this technology age, we sit all day – working from computers or phones or sitting in school. We are a car city, so we aren’t even walking places or walking to the subway. People have lost this connection to their bodies; how it can move and should move. So that’s my mission – to get people to understand how to move better.
I don’t believe you’re going to be consistent with anything that’s tied to negativity. You can force your head under the water for a while, but eventually, you’re going to come up to breathe.
I’m not going to weigh people and congratulate them on their weight loss. I’m not willing to have those conversations in my gym. It’s about movement and about connecting to your body and having a better understanding of what it can do if you challenge it and pay attention to it.
I like to teach people how to breathe and how that breath can be used to create tension and stability that they can then carry into their resistance training. They can then move more load because they are able to brace and resist force more, and that carries over into their dynamic work.
Females are such an underserved population in every way. With soccer in general, the numbers show the rate of ACL tears being 4-8 times greater with females than with males. This isn’t happening during hard tackles; it’s happening during non-contact plays.
When they are younger, girls aren’t encouraged to go in and lift weights and train. By not getting under a bar, they are not learning how to decelerate load (which is what happens when their body is coming down landing and kicking), and they are not strengthening their connective tissues. These girls are fast athletes on the fields and their muscles fire really fast. We haven’t given them the tools and the strength of connective tissue to keep up with the muscle fibers firing that way.
To prevent ACL injury, we also need to show female athletes ways to protect the knee. Knee stability isn’t in the knee – it comes from the ankle and the glutes and the hip.
Check out Jason and A Greater You, developing injury resilient, high-performance athletes: http://www.gr8ru.com/.
So you know Jason is legit –
Jason Belz is a trainer and gym owner at A Greater You (AGY) in Lenexa, Kansas. AGY specializes in group training, creating a sense of community as they focus on attainable and maintainable transformation. Jason believes results are seen in many forms: increased mobility, ease of daily activity, better sleep, growing confidence, strength gain, fat loss, etc.
Marisa Michael shares on PHIT for a Queen that some rock-climbing communities are starting to emerge that are focused on body positivity. In these communities, rock climbers are speaking out that you don’t need to be thin to climb. If you have a body, you can climb.
If you look at rock climbers on social media or in climbing publications, there’s a lot of information about how to lose weight and a lot of information encouraging weight loss to be a better climber. But the research on anthropometrics and climbing ability doesn’t support this. All the research we have says that no, you don’t need to lose weight to be a better climber.
I love seeing the rock-climbing community come together to encourage rethinking long-held beliefs about weight. They are saying you don’t have to be thinner to climb better, and unnecessary weight loss is actually detrimental and has not been helpful for your body or for your sport.
The more elite rock climbers get, the more eating disorder patterns they have. There is more pressure for them to perform well. They want sponsors, so they have to do well and compete well. If they think they need to be lighter to do this, they are going to do it.
For me, there’s not always a balance between my work, my family and myself. I have things take over, but it’s purposeful. I’m mindful of how I spend my time, and a time commitment has to be something that helps my business, my family or my self-care.
Check out Marisa and Real Nutrition LLC, offering personalized nutrition coaching: https://www.realnutritionllc.com/. Marisa offers rock-climbing courses on her web site that include information on how to eat before, during and after climbing for all levels of climbers – from indoor climbing to competitions and outdoor climbing.
So you know Marisa is legit –
Marisa Michael is a registered dietitian, Board Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics and certified personal trainer. She owns Real Nutrition LLC, a private practice in Portland, Oregon. She holds a master’s degree in sports nutrition and the International Olympic Committee’s Diploma in Sports Nutrition. Marisa loves triathlons and rock climbing. She firmly believes that food brings joy and a good relationship with food is important to both mental and physical health.
Tammy Beasley shares on PHIT for a Queen that you’ve got to give your body a chance to talk back to you. You really can learn to hear it, and your body can learn to trust you. But, it’s mutual trust, and both have responsibility.
When you have an eating disorder, there’s shame and darkness; a secret. The eating disorder has the power when you hide it – it’s a secret in a black hole. But when you expose it to the light – to relationships and to seeking health – it can’t survive. That’s the beginning of the end of the eating disorder.
As a society, we have never been so rigid and judgmental about our food. We are not giving ourselves any freedom to be an individual and listen to our own bodies. We have to follow this plan or do this and do that. We are a beautiful life, not machines. We can’t put in data and get out data. Calories in versus calories out isn’t a real thing. It doesn’t work that way.
We’ve pushed ourselves out of the driver’s seat completely with our relationship with body and food. Everything in our culture now is forcing us into the passenger’s seat, saying there’s only one way to eat. We are so opposite in our culture with food and body than we are in embracing diversity in any other way.
People sometimes think they have to micromanage everything about their bodies. The body is so much bigger and better than that. It’s really incredible how much the body gives to us. It takes the rigid things we give it and works to the best of its ability. Over time, however, micromanaging your body takes a toll. We need to get back to an intuitive place; realizing my body is not your body or anyone else’s body. And my body’s life story at this very moment is unique.
Trusting our body to communicate with us is a skill. It’s not easy, but it’s worth it. It’s putting yourself back in the driver’s seat.
It’s important to realize we are always growing as a person and growing in our own appreciation of what our body does for us. It’s a daily decision to say “this is good” to change. Change is different. It doesn’t mean it’s bad if it’s different; it’s just different.
Check out Tammy and Alsana, offering new hope for clients searching for recovery: https://www.alsana.com/
So you know Tammy is legit –
Tammy Beasley, RDN, CEDRD, CSSD, LD, is vice president of clinical nutrition services for Alsana. Tammy has devoted the majority of her 30+ years of experience as a registered dietitian to the field of eating disorders. Having recovered from an eating disorder herself, Tammy is passionate about sharing hope in recovery and is known for her innovative counseling techniques that help clients restore a nurturing relationship with both food and body.
We are Made to Move: Exercise and Eating Disorder Recovery
Join us as we speak to Dr. Brian Cook, whose research focuses on the etiological role and therapeutic potential of exercise in eating disorders. We look at the benefit of addressing exercise in eating disorder treatment and treatment tools that can be used.
- We don’t have an upper limit to how much we exercise but should there be one? With eating disorders, this is probably a good point to address.
- Cook believes we must address exercise in treatment just like we do food. We have a professional and ethical obligation to help discern all of the issues that surround exercise and eating disorder treatment. Our bodies are built to move.
- Intervening on the compulsive aspect of exercise to be able to unlock the potential the benefit of exercise without disordered behavior.
- We do know that we can use exercise appropriately in treatment to strengthen the body and also the brain and how the brain connects to the body.
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Dr. Cook’s research focuses on the etiological role and therapeutic potential of exercise in eating disorders. His education at the Universities of Rhode Island and Florida and an NIMH funded postdoctoral fellowship provided training under experts in the eating disorders field. He has consistently presented research at international level conferences – including a keynote address at the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals conference in 2017, published in leading journals, and written several invited book chapters. These accomplishments provide strong evidence of his passion for improving the lives of individuals and his potential for continued impact in the field of eating disorders. He has translated this research into clinical practice in his role as V.P of Movement, Research, and Outcomes at Alsana Eating Disorder Treatment & Eating Recovery Centers.
To find out more about Dr. Cook’s work and the treatment at Alsana Eating Disorder and Treatment Centers Go To:
www.alsana.com
Pappas shares on PHIT for a Queen that preventing injury in young female athletes comes down to recovery. Humans are able to adapt to about anything if provided enough recovery for the training modality. We have not really portrayed female athletes in science the way we should. The research is far behind in understanding the menstrual cycle and in claiming that certain hormones cause injuries.
The majority of young female athletes have menstrual cycle irregularity, primarily related to energy availability. Studies are beginning to show a relationship between those irregularities and soft tissue injuries.
In an overuse injury, we are chronically exposing the tissue to more force than it’s able to handle or recover from. We need to increase the strength of muscles, tendons, and ligaments and also learn to move our bodies in coordination so more muscle fibers within a muscle or more muscles, in general, are working together to absorb these forces.
Strength training must progressively overload and then allow for recovery.
Strength training is so important for any female athlete, regardless of whether she has any type of “predisposed risk” to injury or not.
There is no adaptation without recovery.
Some of the best athletes in the world are training hours and hours a week, but they are improving because they are notching that hard work with the appropriate recovery.
In a culture that says, “Don’t sleep, work hard, head down,” I like to say, “Work hard, but also work smart.”
Check out Emily and Relentless Athletics: https://www.relentlessathleticsllc.com/
So you know Emily is legit –
Emily Pappas is the founder of Relentless Athletics in Hatfield, Penn. She has a Master of Science degree in educational physiology and is an adjunct at Temple University, instructing a course on the development of female athletes. Emily has experience coaching and programming at the Division I collegiate level, working as an assistant strength coach for an internship with Temple University’s women’s rugby team. Emily holds her USAW Sport Performance certification. Her company specializes in female athlete development through strength training, sports nutrition, and sports injury rehabilitation.
Andrew Dole shares on PHIT for a Queen why “He comes informed when working with his athletes. Addressing Context= individual needs of the athlete.”
- His style is sorting science with common sense.
- Dairy can be a great resource as a complete nutritional package for that athlete.
- When working with his athlete’s takes the approach that you don’t have to take in dairy but what are you going to replace it with?
- Explore if your food beliefs are driven by who you associate with (culture within sport).
- Myth #1 -Debunks that humans can drink milk through their adult ages because they have been able to evolve to handle milk consumption.
- Myth #2- If you are not allergic to dairy there will not be an inflammatory response as a result of dairy consumption
- Myth #3-Challenges the myth that dairy causes phlegm.
- Myth #4-When asked if dairy interferes with an athlete’s hormone levels Andrew challenges it with decades of champion athletes that have been vocal about their dairy consumption.
- M-TOR is a nutrient sensor pathway that is responsible for increasing muscle synthesis.
- Leucine & Arginine are the light switches for the M-TOR pathway.
- Myth #5-Whey in comparison to plant-based protein foods you would generally have to consume double the amount to get the same amount of leucine.
- We are tending to lack the context in which we hear our nutritional science.
Check out Andrew and his work- https://bodyfuelspn.com/
5 – part series on whole foods vs engineered foods and how to use them together in endurance events.
https://bodyfuelspn.com/should-you-eat-potatoes-or-real-food-during-endurance-training/
Looking to learn more about dairy and ways to incorporate into your diet- https://dairygood.org/
So you know Andrew is legit:
Andrew Dole is the owner of BodyFuelSPN, a sport performance and lifestyle nutrition practice in Castle Rock, CO specializing in endurance athletes and weight management. An active triathlete, certified executive chef and triathlon coach Andrew manages clients around the world combining nutrition science, behavior modification, and culinary expertise into powerful life-changing nutrition interventions or sport performance-driven plans.
A graduate of the Metropolitan State University of Denver and earned a master’s degree from Kansas State University as well as a degree in culinary arts from the Art Institute of Colorado.
Andrew is also a published sports dietitian on the topic of exercise-associated muscle cramping and works with a variety of corporate clients, cities, sports clubs, and community health initiatives.
In addition to public speaking and private practice, Andrew has taught culinary and nutrition at the college level for over 10 years.
Dotsie Bauch’s journey to the Olympics has been extraordinary: after recovering from anorexia she found cycling and became a Silver Medalist at the age of 39 years of age. She shares how movement was an important part of her recovery and how decisions she made for herself along the way helped with performance.
- Dotsie’s journey to the Olympic has been extraordinary; after recovering from anorexia, where she almost lost her life, Dotsie found cycling at the age of 26 that helped in her recovery. Twelve years later she competed in the 2012 Olympic Games in London at the age of 39 years of age won an Olympic Silver Medal.
- Dotsie shares her journey of compulsive exercise, disordered eating, and recovery where movement was a part of her recovery.
- For Dotsie, going dairy-free was important to her because of the ethical stand on situations of what goes on behind closed doors in our food system. She did not want to pay into that system anymore and changed her diet to more of a plant-based diet. She noticed that it made an impact on the way her body felt during training. She shares her tips and tools to make sure you get the amount of fuel you need!
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After concluding a prolific professional cycling career that produced a medal at the 2012 London Olympic Games, eight US national championships, two Pan American gold medals and a world record, Dotsie Bausch has become a powerful influencer for plant-based eating for athletes and non-athletes alike. Named by VegNews in 2019 as one of the top 20 most influential vegans in the world, she utilizes her degree in plant-based nutrition to inform her impassioned messages as an advocate on behalf of humans, planet earth and animals.
Never one to shy away from facing staggering odds – just like she did in the Olympics while riding for Team USA, whose unlikely and triumphant story is chronicled in the Netflix documentary “Personal Gold” – her latest initiative is founding the non-profit Switch4Good. Switch4Good launched in early 2018 with a television commercial featuring six Olympians from four different countries and proves that cow’s milk is not part of a high-performance diet. The ground-breaking commercial aired on NBC during the 2018 Winter Olympic Games closing ceremonies and on ABC during the Academy Awards broadcast. View the commercial at https://Switch4Good.org. Bausch is also one of the stars of the film The Game Changers (http://gamechangersmovie.com), which chronicles the story of the world’s most dangerous myth. Directed by Academy Award-winner Louie Psihoyos and executive produced by Oscar-winner James Cameron, The Game Changers released to worldwide audiences in October of 2019 and in just one week, became the #1 downloaded film of all time on iTunes.
Long before embodying radiant health and becoming an influential game-changer, Bausch struggled for years with severe eating disorders and a recreational drug habit, that combined, led to a suicide attempt. It was during her recovery that she discovered her gift and love for the bike.
Bausch speaks passionately around the world, spreading her message about the numerous benefits – humane, nutritional and environmental – of plant-based eating. Her popular TEDx Talk, “Olympic Level Compassion,” has garnered over 275,000 views and has been a catalyst of change for thousands of people.
To find out more about Dotsie and to get connected go to:
https://dotsiebauschusa.com/
https://switch4good.org/
Dotsie’s Ted Talk: Olympic Level Compassion
https://dotsiebauschusa.com/about/#
Instagram: Veganolympian
Other Resources
https://ohsheglows.com/
30 Minute Vegan Dinners with Megan Sadd
https://www.carrotsandflowers.com/30-minute-vegan-dinners-cookbook/
Cecelia Townes shares on PHIT for a Queen “How when she got the NOs she just redirected.“
- Found her joy for sports by age 5 playing tennis
- Missed her love of the sport so much she walked on to the Howard tennis team.
- Found she couldn’t escape sport even during her law school.
- Challenged herself to look at what she wanted out of her career and did she really want to give up the sport.
- She wanted to stay within athletics and found her love of teaching student athlete’s skills.
- She started Beyond the Game which provides lifestyle workshops.
- After her persistence to address the way women in sports are being covered, she created her own blog that has now shaped into its own company including coverage on ESPNW.
- Sexism is real
- When hearing “no one watches women sports.” Her reply is “Because no one puts on the tv.”
- You have everything to be successful you just have to unlock it.
- Your job is to find your purpose here on earth. You are more than an athlete.
https://www.ceceliatownes.com/
https://gladiathers.com/
So, you know she is legit:
After graduating from UCLA School of Law Cecelia Townes began to reflect on her experience as a tennis student-athlete at Howard University and take a critical look at how women in the sports industry were being portrayed. She realized that more could be done to help prepare student-athletes for life after college sports and to improve the position of and conversation around women in sports.
With those ideals in mind, Cecelia founded Beyond the Game LLC, a company that provides workshops that prepare student-athletes for life outside of sports, and GladiatHers®, an organization dedicated to using content, events, workshops, and mentorship to empower, inspire and connect women in sports. From career-oriented workshops and events to written and verbal commentary on women playing and working in sports, Cecelia is a leading voice on a woman's role in this male-dominated industry. Cecelia also continues to practice law, where she focuses on employment and labor law and issues of diversity and inclusion.
Cecelia has previously written for such outlets as ESPNw, Sport in Law and Women Talk Sports, and her efforts for GladiatHers® have been highlighted by top outlets such as Bloomberg.
Wendy Sterling & Casey Crosbie (dynamic duo dietitians) share on PHIT for a Queen “How the Plate Method helps bring back the fun and enjoyment to eating and takes away the exactness. “
- Avoiding “exactness” a hyper-focus around numbers.
- Eating doesn’t need to be number focused.
- Add back the fun and enjoyment of eating.
- The Plate Method fill the plate up and make sure all food groups are present.
- Aim for half the plate carbohydrate.
- Depending on their goals there may be different versions of the plate.
- Snacks vary according to their nutritional goals.
- It is important to incorporate variety each and every day!
- Does your plate make sense?
- It is easily understandable for all.
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The Plate Method helps to teach normalcy around food.
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Wendy Sterling, MS, RD, CSSD, CEDRD-S is a Certified Eating Disorder Registered
Dietitian and Approved Supervisor through the International Eating Association of Eating Disorder Professionals, and a Board Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics in the Bay Area in California. She specializes in sports nutrition and eating disorders. Wendy maintains a private practice in Menlo Park and Los Altos, California.
Wendy is a co-author of “How to Nourish Your Child Through an Eating Disorder: A Simple, Plate-by-Plate Approach to Reestablishing a Healthy Relationship with Food.” She and her colleague Casey Crosbie created the innovative approach to refeeding called the “Plate-by-Plate Approach,” a no-numbers, visual approach, which has been featured in the Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics in an article entitled, “The Use of the Plate-by-Plate Approach for Adolescents Undergoing Family-Based Treatment.” For tips, support and encouragement on building good plates for nutrition rehabilitation for the treatment of eating disorders, follow on Instagram: @platebyplateapproach.
She is also the co-author of, “No Weigh! A Teen’s Guide to Body Image, Food, and Emotional Wisdom,” a book co-written by an adolescent doctor, therapist, and herself as the dietitian for teens about their changing bodies, hormones, emotions, and tips for improving sleep, body image, and their relationship with food.
Wendy has been the Team Nutritionist of the Oakland Athletics since 2016. She has consulted for the Golden State Warriors, New York Jets (2006-2013), NY Islanders, and Hofstra University’s Women’s Lacrosse and Volleyball teams, where she worked directly with players to improve endurance, speed, and explosiveness. Wendy has worked closely with the Menlo School since 2014, where she has developed a sports nutrition curriculum for the Athletics program and has consulted for the Santa Clara Aquamaids synchronized swim team. She is a Sports Performance Nutrition Consultant for a variety of Sports Agencies, where she helps athletes achieve peak performance prior to the NBA draft and NFL Combine. Wendy is part of the United States Olympic Committee Sports Dietitian Registry. She works closely with competitive athletes in order to enhance sports performance and gain a competitive edge.
Wendy worked at The Healthy Teen Project, an intensive outpatient program and partial-hospitalization program for teens struggling with eating disorders, from 2014-2017. Wendy provided nutrition counseling to children and adolescents in the Eating Disorders Center at Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York which is part of the NS-LIJ Health System from 2001-2011. There she worked as part of a multi-disciplinary team, evaluating and treating a spectrum of eating disorders and disordered eating. She has conducted research in the areas of amenorrhea, osteoporosis, and metabolism on adolescents with eating disorders and her publications can be found here. Wendy has been on the Clinical Advisory Board of Project HEAL, a nonprofit organization created to aid in the funding for the treatment of eating disorders since it was created in 2008.
Wendy received her B.S. in dietetics/nutritional sciences from Cornell University. She earned her Master’s Degree in Nutrition Education at Teacher’s College at Columbia University where she also completed her dietetic internship. Wendy is a former competitive dancer and All-American Cheerleader.
Follow her on Instagram at @wendy_sterling!
Casey Crosbie is a Registered Dietitian and a Board-Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics. She currently serves as Director of Nutrition Services for the Healthy Teen Project in Los Altos, CA and is a co-author of the book "How to Nourish Your Child Through an Eating Disorder: A Simple, Plate-by-Plate Approach to Rebuilding a Healthy Relationship with Food." She has published 3 scholarly articles, including “The Use of the Plate-by-Plate Approach for Adolescents Undergoing Family-Based Treatment.” Casey previously served as Lead Dietitian for the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Comprehensive Care Program for Eating Disorders at Stanford.
Emily Anderson is a Licensed Therapist, a Registered Yoga Teacher, and a Certified Trauma-Conscious Yoga Method facilitator. She defines and explains how trauma impacts our body, how trauma-informed yoga can be beneficial and other treatment modalities including Somatic Experiencing.
- Emily defines trauma for us. Usually, when people think of trauma they think of trauma as specific events; war, sexual assault or and accident. Emily finds it beneficial to widen the definition of trauma to include how it impacts the nervous system. Anything that overwhelms our ability to cope, can be registered in our nervous system as traumatic. So anything that is too much, too soon, too fast.
- Trauma doesn’t just impact the part of our brain that is in charge of logic and reason, that part of our brain tends to go offline when we are overwhelmed. It impacts the lower level parts of our brain that are in charge of survival. Therefore it is helpful to treat the lower parts of our brain and body in the treatment process.
- Trauma-Informed Yoga can be beneficial because much of it based on choice, it is not about a facilitator telling you what to do with your body but finding and offering lots of options. The individual can begin to be curious about how their body is reacting and choose what type of movement the body is needing at that moment.
- Emily shares treatment theories on how to heal trauma including EMDR and Somatic Experiencing.
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Emily Anderson is a licensed therapist and founder of Embodied. Counseling + Yoga in Kansas City. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher and a Certified Trauma-Conscious Yoga Method facilitator. Emily applies an integrative approach to therapy and trauma healing that is informed by neuroscience and rooted in compassion and validation. She utilizes evidence-based modalities such as EMDR, yoga, mindfulness, and Somatic Experiencing. She offers individual trauma-informed therapy for adults as well as groups and workshops. Emily’s intention as a therapist is to provide a safe space for individuals to get curious and cultivate an awareness of their own mind-body connection. A space where they can tap into their innate resiliency and their body’s own wisdom to heal. Emily is a former collegiate athlete and marathon runner. She found healing benefits personally from the modalities that she now offers professionally. When she’s not working, Emily’s favorite ways to recharge are traveling internationally, hiking new trails all over the world, sipping on a mug of hot tea, and spending time with her favorite people.
To find out more about Emily's practice and to get connected about upcoming workshops or events go to:
https://embodiedkc.com/
Instagram @embodied_counseling
Clip-8.58 “ Some say the wave I surfed was 40- 50 foot, bigger than a house.
Bethany Hamilton shares “How surfing was in her blood and she knew nothing would keep her from her passion” on PHIT for a Queen.
- Surfing was just something she was destined for.
- While in the hospital recovering a fellow surfer who lost a leg from a shark but didn’t keep him from surfing.
- An important part of surfing is understanding the ocean.
- Started with a short film that was focused on high-performance surfing ended up in a documentary.
- She has a passion for riding bigger and scarier surfs and the highlight was surfing The Jaws.
- I didn’t know what I was capable of but I was willing to try.
- We can all overcome more than we know!
- My faith in God was my rock in a hard place.
- So many of us are more unstoppable than we know!
Check out the teaser to her incredible story:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5MsXjUQLYM
https://bethanyhamilton.com/
Professional surfer Bethany Hamilton is a global icon and inspirational beacon. She rose from the personal tragedy of losing her arm to a tiger shark at the age of thirteen to becoming one of the world’s leading female surfers. BETHANY HAMILTON: UNSTOPPABLE follows Bethany over a four-year journey, capturing what it means to be unstoppable. In 2005, she took a first-place result in the National Amateur Competition, just 9 months after the tragedy occurred. She went on to become a Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Award Nominee and two years later she was honored by ASP with the Peter Whittaker Award for “Integrity, Respect, Achievement, and Sportsmanship while displaying a passion for surfing.” Soon thereafter, she met and married her soul mate, Adam Dirks, and the following year, she came in first place at the Women’s Pipeline Pro. In 2015, Bethany and Adam welcomed their first child Tobias and within a year of giving birth, she surfed the most dangerous wave in the world – “Jaws.” Following that remarkable achievement, Bethany went on to finish third in the Fiji Pro beating a six-time World Champion and the 2016 World Champion. Bethany continues to prove that nothing will stop her from achieving her dreams and inspiring millions of people along the way
Dr. Donna Duffy dives into the impact of concussions on females, how women and girls present and recover differently, and how much we still don’t know about this injury in sport.
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You get a concussion when you have a blow to the head and body that causes your brain to move back and forth in your skull. Your brain can have different reactions when this happens, there is disruption there and this can be a concussive experience. Body blows can also cause a concussion.
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The HPA axis is something that can make a concussive experience different for women and girls. Progesterone and estrogen are released when from the HPA axis when the brain sustains trauma, and this is a hugely under-researched topic.
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The disruption from the concussion can cause these hormones not to produce and secrete like they are supposed to.
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Dr. Duffy is interested in sub-concussive trauma; trauma to the brain that does not result in immediate symptoms such as dizziness, confusion, nausea, loss of consciousness. Sub concussive trauma is not something that disrupts play or your regular activities.
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Most athletes know how to work around the assessment of a concussion to go out and return to play.
*Some researchers believe that women present stronger or more exaggerated symptoms, and they take longer to recover. Dr. Duffy argues that there is some bias in some of the research and literature and how it has been written in terms of female concussions.
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Dr. Donna Duffy has a joint appointment at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG)-Donna is an Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology (KIN) and a Director in the Center for Women’s Health and Wellness (CWHW) in the School of Health and Human Sciences. Donna completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Kinesiology at UNCG in 2007. Prior to coming to UNCG, Donna completed her B.S. and her M.Ed. at Boston University in Boston, MA. Donna has graduate faculty status at UNCG where she teaches in the Athletic Training Program and the Ed.D program. Donna also coordinates the undergraduate Sport Coaching Minor in KIN. Donna has an active research agenda called the Female Behavior and Recovery after Injury and Neurotrauma (BRAIN) Project, focused on neuroendocrine function and dysfunction in female athletes after a concussion, as well as the cognitive and neuromotor consequences of a concussion. Donna is also involved with research projects in the Virtual Environment for Assessment and Rehabilitation Laboratory (VEAR) under the direction of Dr. Chris Rhea at UNCG, where she is focused on neuromotor function and changes of female athletes before and after a concussion. In addition, Donna collaborates closely with Dr. Jenny Etiner, Dr. Laurie Wideman, Dr. Scott Ross and Dr. Will Adams at UNCG. Donna also has research collaborations with many faculty and clinicians outside of UNCG including the Female Athlete Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, the CTE Center in the School of Medicine at Boston University, Gaelic Games for Girls at University College Cork, in Cork Ireland and with various community organizations including, Greensboro Roller Derby, PINK Concussions, the Girls Athletic Leadership Schools in Denver and Girl Fit in Newton, MA. Donna is the Research Consultant for PINK Concussions and serves on their Board of Advisors. Donna also holds a Research Scientist position under Dr. Kate Ackerman at Boston Children’s Hospital and Donna was a Visiting Research Scientist in the Department of Neurology and the CTE Center in the School of Medicine at Boston University. Donna is on the Board of Directors at the Women’s Resource Center in Greensboro, NC and serves as the Managing Editor of the Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal. Donna's research on female athletes and head injuries has been published in several peer-reviewed journals and Donna was recently quoted in the NY Times on her work related to female athletes and concussions and has been a guest on several podcasts.
How to Connect and work with Dr. Donna Duffy:
UNC Greensboro Center of Women’s Health and Wellness
https://hhs.uncg.edu/cwhw/faculty-staff/
https://www.pinkconcussions.com/
Adam McAboy shares “Why He developed a community for athletes to not feel alone- The Athlete’s Village.” on Phit for a Queen.
- Found people were like sponges for expert information.
- Found now as coaches he and Mark Henderson (swimmer in the Atlanta Olympics) were in the same boat.
- Wanted a platform for current and former athletes to give back to sport.
- As an athlete, we avoid showing weakness.
- The Village brings about many different perspectives.
- Can follow many different areas of interest or topics
- Athletes can post questions even anonymously
- Experts in the community love to support
- https://www.theathletesvillage.com/
So you know he is legit:
Adam has privately coached and mentored many young athletes and has worked as a coach for the Novato, CA mountain biking teams. He enjoys working to understand the individual athlete's strengths and vulnerabilities and developing an individualized plan, according to the needs of the young person. He finds great joy in watching young people develop not only into more fulfilled and healthier athletes but also (even more importantly) into stronger, more complete and balanced individuals. It is to this end that Adam has joined forces with fellow Cal Alumnus and Olympic swimmer, Mark Henderson, to create The Athletes Village, a business that focuses on making an athlete's experience in sports more rewarding and fun by offering valuable, relevant sports information. Adam's drive and enthusiasm for the task at hand, coupled with his strong ability to bring people together to communicate and create effectively, will help the Athletes Village achieve its goal of inspiring and educating young people to obtain their potential in sports and in life.
Currently, 70% of kids who start organized sports in the United States will quit by the age of 13. Even more disturbingly, a child under the age of 17 is brought to the E.R. in the United States every 25 seconds with a sports-related injury, a stat that many experts believe can be significantly cut by injury prevention education. The Athletes Village is working to change this sad reality and to ensure that all levels of young athletes, their parents, and coaches, have a fun, healthy, character-building sports experience. Ultimately, The Athletes Village aims to create "athletes for life".
Mission
Our mission is twofold. First, we want to help athletes, parents, and coaches achieve their dreams, avoid injuries and have more fun regardless of their age, gender, race, religion, financial status or location.
Second, we are building a platform where current and former athletes can go to give back to the sport they love, support the next generation and eventually make some extra income when we build our marketplace.
Why I decided to build the Athletes Village.
I have always believed that it is important to continue to push one’s self and to pursue new ventures. This can include anything from cooking or playing an instrument, to learning about history or other languages to learning new sports and skills. Even though it has been years since I competed at a high level, I have always felt connected to track and field and have enjoyed working with kids of many levels. As my friends’ kids entered high school sports, I found myself being called upon more and more for advice for their kids who were taking up running. Even though my experience was years old, the “expertise” that I possessed was something valuable for my friends and their kids.
My co-founder, Mark, was having the same experience. And to add to that, he was having a difficult time finding valuable information on how to coach his own kids in sports that he never engaged in. In 2015, Mark and I had a conversation about this and decided that we should try to build a platform that would solve these issues.
Dr. Erin Haugen is a Sports Psychologist working with athletes and high performers. She shares some of her tips and tools for tackling some negative self-talk that can impact our performance.
- Haugen shares how she has been involved in educating on mental health and breaking mental health stigmas within the athletic training field. Collaborating with other fields within the sports world helps the athlete as well as our own well being.
- Something that Dr. Haugen focuses on in therapy with athletes and high performers is focusing on the negative mindset that they might have and focusing more on the middle ground and having a non-judgemental stance.
- We need to be aware when we are "scolding on ourselves” Let’s put away our shoulds about something we did, and let’s look at the why.
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Erin Haugen, Ph.D., LP, CMPC, is a licensed clinical psychologist and sport psychologist in Grand Forks, ND. She is passionate about sport performance, athlete mental health, interprofessional practice, and professional well-being.
Dr. Haugen has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC) through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at River Valley Services/Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown, CT and post-doctoral residency at the University of California, Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, CA. She works with athletes from over 20 different sports from recreational to elite (Olympic and professional) levels and specializes in working with collegiate student-athletes.
Dr. Haugen is employed at Assessment and Therapy Associates of Grand Forks (ATAGF), PLLC. She is also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of North Dakota and faculty member at Altru Family Medicine Residency. She teaches sports medicine fellows from family medicine and physical therapy as well as athletic training students. She provides consultation and mentorship for professionals interested in enhancing their work with athletes or pursuing the CMPC credential. She is also a past president of the North Dakota State Board of Psychologist Examiners (NDSBPE).
In her spare time, Dr. Haugen competes in triathlons and enjoys camping and hiking with her husband and three border collie mix rescue dogs: Molly, Fromm, and Eddie.
To find out more about Dr. Haugen’s work and practice information go to:
https://www.drerinhaugen.com/
Nancy Clark shares on PHIT for a Queen what to expect in the 6th edition of her Sports Nutrition guidebook as to what things change and was things stay the same.
- It is a whole another food culture we live in
- Help athletes under the controversy
- The ultimate goal is to make sure an athlete’s muscles are well-fueled
- We forget about whole food comes in a whole matrix & synergistic compounds
- Keep the recipes simple- 6 ingredients or less, nothing strange & easy to prepare.
- Be responsible with your nutrition just as you would with your training.
- Put the structure back into your meals
- Food is Fuel, hunger is a request for fuel
- Recipes focus on how to use popular food trends such as chia seeds.
https://nancyclarkrd.com/books/
At 18 years of age, Samantha won a gold medal but that was only the start of her journey as an athlete and mental health advocate. She shares with us how she went about shattering her perfectionist armor and how she is supporting athletes to do the same. nt leaders.
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Samantha was 18 years old when she won her Olympic Gold Medal. She shares with us about this experience and the mentors she had along the way. Her first passion was soccer but she got that medal in swimming!
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At 13 years of age, Samantha’s mom picked up on some behaviors that she noticed that Samantha was not happy in the sport environment that led her to leave a toxic sport club and move on to better!
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Hitting the pinnacle of her career at 18, Samantha showed up at college to swim with a case of imposter syndrome struggling with overwhelming emotions and disordered eating.
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Through a critical event in her daughter’s life, she shares how she had to let her perfectionist armor shatter to figure out how to move forward, tolerate uncertainty, and cope with anxiety.
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Samantha is back in the athletic arena with the goal to build an empowered village where all athletes feel safe, supported and seen!
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Samantha Arsenault Livingstone is an Olympic Gold Medalist, high-performance consultant, mental performance coach, speaker, educator and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Livingstone High Performance, LLC., and two, multi-module online courses, the Rise Free Academy and Ride the Wave: A Bootcamp to Strengthen Our Emotional Agility — inspiring, empowering and equipping athletes, coaches and female leaders with the skills they need to become more mindful, courageous, resilient leaders.
In addition to private and group coaching, Samantha consults with teams and organizations on athlete wellness initiatives, leadership, strategic planning, rising skills and developing high-performance cultures. She is a certified instructor of Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement (MSPE) and as of September 1, 2019, will be a certified instructor of Mental Health First Aid.
Take the five day I AM challenge and join Samantha’s private community space to link arms, connect + participate in her free challenges.
Samantha and her husband, Rob, live in the Berkshires with their four girls.
How to Connect and work with Samantha:
https://www.samanthalivingstone.com/
Dr. Claire-Marie Roberts shares on PHIT for a Queen why it is important for her athletes to know “They are more than JUST athletes.”
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Her experience as a swimmer helped her experience sports psychology first hand.
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Sports psychology even though she knew was her passion ended up being a second career however her experience as a civil engineer helped her navigate a male-dominated field.
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She has created an interdisciplinary approach focusing her efforts on the staff that works with the athletes treating them holistically and compassionately.
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Many female athletes felt they had to postpone motherhood until they were done with their athletic career.
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Women now are showing that you can come back to sport after having a child.
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Society expectations, physical difficulties and no guarantees all make the return to sport difficult for female athletes.
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For professional athletes’ pregnancy is treated in the same manner as a doping violation.
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There needs to be more education regarding how to get athletes back to sport after giving birth.
The Exercising Female
Twitter- @robertscm
Women in Sport & Exercise-@WISE_AN
So you know she is legit:
Claire-Marie is a Visiting Research Fellow in Sport & Exercise Psychology. She combines her academic work with her role at
The Premier League, managing Coach, and Football Manager development. Other examples of her roles in high-performance sport involve working with national governing bodies of sport, professional sports teams, individual athletes, their parents, coaches and sports scientists. She has helped prepare a number of athletes and teams for international competitions including the Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games. Her role as a British Olympic Association Psychologist at the London 2012 Olympics was to date, her career highlight.
Her experiences of working with athletes reflect her research interests that include sport neuropsychology (specifically concussion and traumatic brain injury), career transitions in elite sport, visual behavior in sport performance and women in sport. She specializes in working with elite adolescent athletes and their parents and is one of the U.K.'s first sport psychology specialists trained to deliver Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy.
Claire-Marie is a non-executive board director of UK Anti-Doping, founder of the Women in Sport Academic Network (WISEAN), a member of the Women in Sport Research Action Group, a TASS Registered Psychologist and STEM Ambassador.
Hormonal contraception and how it is used for the female athlete can be confusing with controversial opinions. Dr. Elliot-Sale joins us to clear things up on this topic!
- Sale discusses the use of hormonal contraception in the female athlete, where is the place for it and when it should be used.
- Sale did research in the UK looking at why female athletes were using hormonal birth control and results showed that many were using it to manipulate their cycle. 10:20
- If you continue to use BCP year on year without break, that it may disrupt hormonal homeostasis.
- If you have someone with low energy availability, the body is clever and it will stop the period which is a great early marker for something being off. If you are on hormonal contraception we lose that early warning sign.
- There are many variations in hormones in birth control options and there could be different side effects with the female athlete depending on what type she is on. Education for the athletes is much needed!
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Dr. Elliott-Sale completed her undergraduate degree and Ph.D. [Exercise Physiology] at Liverpool John Moores University. Her Ph.D. examined the effects of female reproductive hormones on muscle strength and since then her work has mainly focused on female athletes. She worked as a Lecturer at Brunel University and the University of Brighton before undertaking a four-year Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at Kings College London. Dr Elliott-Sale joined Nottingham Trent University (NTU) in September 2009. In addition to her research on female athletes [the Female Athlete Triad and Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport], her work in recent years has involved designing exercise interventions for weight management in overweight and obese pregnant and postpartum women. She is an Associate Professor [Reader] of Female Physiology and the Head of the Musculoskeletal Physiology Research Group at NTU
To find out more about Dr. Elliot-Sales work and research go to:
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/science-technology/kirsty-elliott-sale
Dr. Elliot-Sale is a huge fan of 261 Fearless and so are we! If you haven’t heard of this organization, check it out!
http://www.261fearless.org/
Dr. Caroline Silby shares how “strategies to align sports performance with capability” on PHIT for a Queen podcast:
- The Sports Scene should be used to model and develop confident, healthy adults.
- Align sports performance with capability.
- We have to identify the qualities that make you successful but also identify the qualities that need to have balance.
- Works with the American Girl company on projects empowering young girls through books
You can find Dr. Silby and her books at:
- https://www.drsilby.com/
- https://www.drsilby.com/sports-fitness/
So you know she is legit:
Caroline Silby, Ph.D. holds a Doctorate and Master Degree of Sports Psychology from the University of Virginia. She is a nationally recognized expert on the development of elite athletes, author of, Games Girls Play: Understanding and Guiding Young Female Athletes (St. Martin’s Press, 2000, 2001), contributing author to, Sports Secrets and Spirit Stuff (American Girl Company, 2006) and The Female Athlete (Boston Children’s Hospital Harvard & Springer Publishing, May 2016) and just released A Smart Girls Guide: Sports and Fitness: How to Use Your Body and Mind To Play and Feel Your Best (American Girl Company, February, 2018). Dr. Silby spent twelve years as adjunct faculty at American University and continues to serve as a consultant to their sports teams. She has worked on an individual basis with two Olympic Gold Medalists, over 20 Olympians, two Paralympian Gold Medalists, four World Champions, fifteen National Champions, dozens of professional dancers and hundreds of National Team members and Division I student-athletes, teams and their coaches.
As an elite athlete, Dr. Silby was a member of the National Figure Skating Team. She later served on the U.S. Figure Skating Association Board of Directors, Athlete Advisory Council and Sports Medicine Committee. Dr. Silby was appointed to the U.S. Olympic Committee Athlete Advisory Council, Collegiate Sports Council and Finance Committee. Currently, she serves on the Sports Medicine Committees for the United States Figure Skating Association as well as the Professional Skater’s Association and is a member of the Medical Advisory Board for American Ballet Theatre. Formerly, she served as President of the Board of the Southwest Women’s Law Center and on the Education Committee for the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Dr. Silby has served as a spokesperson and consultant to the American Girl Company and is completing her second book with the company. She is a speaker for the US Department of State Sports United program. She has been a contributing writer to Sports Illustrated, Pointe Magazine, CheerProfessional and is an expert advisor to Faith Popcorn’s BRAINRESERVE, Center for Sports Parenting and Title IX Sports.
In her role as a featured speaker for SportsUnited, a US Department of State program, Dr. Silby has worked with basketball, tennis and soccer athletes and coaches from Morocco, Swaziland, Australia, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Colombia.
Dr. Silby is also a curriculum creator for Winning Play$, a financial education program for high school students, focusing on the psychological, emotional, and behavioral aspects of money. The program won the U.S. Department of Education’s Excellence in Economic Education Award in 2010. She also serves on the Advisory Board for FabLab, a Fox television series, aimed at encouraging girls to become engaged in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Dr. Silby is a sought-after expert and has appeared on numerous radio and television programs including the Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, Tru-Television, ABC-Wide World of Sports, Oxygen Television, NPR and the Mitch Albom Show. She resides in Annapolis, Maryland where she has an active national practice.
John Hohlt from The Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) shares on PHIT for a Queen how using Christ through sport to influence.
- Went into coach due to the positive influence of his coach
- We went to see the world transformed by Jesus through sport
- Coaches can be the greatest influencer in the sports world
- FCA wants to help complete the ministry
- Coach’s words have power
- We are called to be ambassadors for Christ, and this doesn’t change on the field
- Do you want to be a legend, or do you want to build a legacy?
To learn more about FCA Camps in specific locations, visit www.FCACamps.org and watch the 2019 FCA Camps video here.
View the media page for FCA here. For more information about the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, visit FCA’s web site at www.fca.org, its Facebook page at www.facebook.com/fcafans or its Twitter feed @fcanews.
Learning more about FCA:
Throughout more than six decades, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA, www.fca.org) has worked to bring coaches and athletes together through large events, exciting Camps and impactful Huddles. But the small, intimate groups that meet for Bible studies, devotions and prayer help athletes to truly lean on their brothers and sisters in Christ—and become closer to Him in the process.
FCA offers hundreds of resources, from sports-themed devotional Bibles to Bible reading plans that athletes can complete alone or with others. All are designed to help coaches and athletes further their walk with God.
“When coaches and athletes come together in the exciting setting of a game or match, they can go all out for Jesus on the field,” said FCA President and CEO Shane Williamson. “But when they quiet their hearts, get into God’s Word and fellowship with their teammates in Christ, that’s when real Christian growth happens.”
For example, on the YouVersion Bible reading app, FCA offers several reading plans, such as the 31-day RISE Devotional for Competitors, the 31-day Undefeated Devotional for Competitors, the 10-day True Competitor Sports Devotional, the seven-day Heart of a Coach Devotional and the 31-day Relentless Devotional for Competitors, among others. Additionally, those who want to delve further into the stories of each FCA Magazine can also follow along with five-day reading plans that supplement the interesting and uplifting magazine content.
Under FCA’s numerous resources, coaches and athletes can find free devotionals, Bible studies, videos and reading plans for individuals, small groups or entire teams. Full collections on topics such as criticism, dedication, righteousness, injuries, accountability, fear and more allow coaches, team leaders, and parents to choose the subject that best fits each situation. FCA also offers free ice-breakers, games, and skits that can be utilized to bring groups together and help athletes get to know one another—all while deepening their learning about the Bible and God’s love and grace.
Mindfulness has found its place in sports! Dr. Saltzman discusses mindfulness and how it can lead to improved sport performance overall, reduce stress and increase the enjoyment of sport!
- Saltzman defines mindfulness as paying attention to the here and now, with kindness and curiosity so we can choose our behavior. Mindfulness lets us tune in to our bodies and fine tune our athletic performance.
- What is going on in our body when we practice mindfulness? Mindfulness increases problem-solving and emotional regulation, learning and memory and cognitive flexibility as well as decreases activation in our amygdala (our flight or fight region of the brain). The brain has neuroplasty which means we can change the wiring of our brain, and we can change it to be more resilient and compassionate. Cool, huh?!
- Saltzman shares her most valuable tools for mindfulness; learning how to have your feelings without your feelings having you, learning how to respond instead of reacting and self-compassion.
- Mindfulness can be helpful for athletes but even more important, it can be helpful for coaches and parents even more! Dr. Saltzman shares some issues that are coming up with our young athletes and how it is impacting their health and happiness.
- Saltzman has an online course for athletes, coaches, and parents. Get signed up and use the discount!! September classes to come.
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Amy Saltzman M.D. is an athlete, mindfulness coach, holistic physician, and devoted student of transformation. She is the author of A Still Quiet Place for Athletes: Mindfulness Skills for Achieving Peak Performance and Finding Flow in Sport and in Life. In 2018, the book was voted Changing the Game Project’s book of the year for Athletes. Dr. Amy’s offerings allow any athlete or team to develop mental, emotional, and spiritual skills for finding flow; the exact same skills are being used by an ever increasing number of college, professional and Olympic athletes. She offers in-person and online mindfulness training, to individual athletes, coaches and teams.
To find out more about Dr. Saltzman’s work, her book and to sign up for training go to:
http://www.stillquietplace.com
Dr. Saltzman has generously offered a 10% discount for her upcoming Fall training in September. You can sign up now and put 10%PHIT in the scholarship box to receive!
Valeria Weber Williamson of Your Shot of Yoga shares on PHIT for a Queen “ Why you have to give yourself permission to fail, but not permission to quit. “
- Yoga has been shown in research to complement care of mental illness such as trauma, depression, chronic pain or anxiety.
- Be involved in finding your own way
- The Why of yoga will vary as to why you are using it
- Yoga gives you the space to let everything go for a minute.
- Part of why we don’t find thing sustainable is we don’t build our network
- It needs to not suck, It needs to not be boring
- IF we don’t take care of basic things like self-care we won’t be able to show up.
Where can you find your shot of Yoga?
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https://www.cratejoy.com/subscription-box/do-a-shot-of-yoga/
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Do a Shot of Yoga subscription box provides 10-minute “shots” of members-only digital content, private community access, and a box full of awesome yoga presents in your mailbox every month.
- You can expect 5 - 6 yoga and self-care items + organic, GMO-free treats! –
- Your Do a Shot of Yoga subscription includes access to a private FB community + in-depth and researched information from Valeria Weber Williamson, a yoga teacher, researcher, and writer, who answers questions personally and interacts regularly with subscribers in the FB community. WEB: https://shotofyoga.com/ -
IG: https://www.instagram.com/shotofyoga/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/ShotOfYoga/
So you know she Is Legit:
Valeria Weber Williamson is the Founder & “Shotcaller-in-Chief” of Do a Shot of Yoga subscription box. For women who want to improve their strength, flexibility, and mood while decreasing chronic pain and tension-filled relationships, Do a Shot of Yoga offers digital content, community, and a themed monthly box of yoga and self-care information, motivation, and treats. - A 500 CYT trained in the Iyengar tradition and hot lineage, Valeria teaches hot yoga and coaches people struggling with overwhelm in how to create a sustainable at-home yoga practice that is tailored to their unique needs. - Valeria is passionate about bagels (not just round bread with a hole), the perfect cup of chai, her amazing husband, and their 6 beautiful kids. She also prefers to binge watch hit shows after all the seasons have been released, so please, no spoilers.
Nathan Carlson from Running Mate KC shares on PHIT for a Queen
- Desired to run each day faster than the other and found that his body wasn’t able to withstand the training.
- This led him to his interest in physical therapy specifically for running.
- When looking at injuries we must look at so many different variables to put them at their best place to come back to health.
- Consistency is key with injuries- training, mindfulness, progression
- There is never One workout that is the workout.
- Injuries- does it go away, or does it require an adjustment?
- Tendinopathy & bone injuries continue to be the leading injuries in female athletes
- Heavy lifting helps to make tendons thicker & bones denser.
- Lifting also helps to improve running economy.
- Ideal situation runners lift twice a week, 30 minutes
- Daily do something from the hips, knees, lift something or pull something
http://runningmatekc.com/
So you know he is legit:
Nathan Carlson received his Doctor of Physical Therapy from Rockhurst University and focuses on the management of runners and triathletes. He is a USA Track and Field Coach and combines his extensive experience working with endurance athletes to provide the most comprehensive care in the Midwest. His specific clinical interests include the management of bone stress injuries and tendon related disorders. Aside from patient care, Nathan manages multiple local runners and triathletes strength training programming. Nathan has one simple goal. Provide the highest quality injury management and training experience for endurance athletes of all levels. Lastly, Nathan helps manage Chris Johnson’s mentorship group the Runners Zone which helps coaches, clinicians, and dedicated endurance athletes refine their abilities at injury management, coaching and strength training.
Current Roles:
- Owner of Runningmate PT and Performance
- Physical Therapist for UMKC Cross Country and Track
- The host of The Runner’s Zone Podcast
- Manages The Runners Zone (mentorship group for clinicians, coaches, and dedicated endurance athletes) along with Chris Johnson and Joel Sattgast
- Nathan also enjoys running, cycling, drinking coffee and spending time with his wife and two boys.
Josh Wolf shares on PHIT for a Queen why “he loves coaching and how the real coaching comes when looking outside the lines”
- You have to reframe your brain, reframe your friendships
- My biggest weakness of addictive behavior became fulfilled when I became a triathlon athlete.
- You are never too old to start something you are passionate about
- Found that once you have found that feeling of understanding it couldn’t get any worse you know what is coming next.
- Found that pushing the limits helped him translate into other aspects outside of triathlons
- Found coaching was a great way to instill this in others
- The biggest thing I do as a coach is finding what they need from me and then bring that out of them- real coaching comes when looking outside the lines.
- Mindset is an opportunity and the opportunity to always shape our thoughts.
- Finding how each of his athletes needs to be talked to.
Josh Wolf is a father, successful endurance coach, speaker and 7 time USA Triathlon All American and 6-time Ironman World Championship Qualifier. He specializes in reframing mindsets allowing us to achieve what we once thought was impossible.
Where you can find more information on how to join the Wolf pack:
Josh Wolf
Head Endurance Coach
Find Your Endurance
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816.668.2677
Jon Hereth of Summit Rehab shares “Why your feet are like your car- biomechanics, capacity, and maintenance.” on PHIT for a Queen.
- The brain uses the foot to figure out where the body is in space.
- The foot is responsible for sensory input
- Biggest foot injury: plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendonitis, bunions
- The foot is prone to injury due to repetitive doing things right or poorly
- Learning biomechanics to allow your joint to handle more stress.
- Build your capacity and good position to handle the stress.
- Learn how to help your body be able to handle the stress as well.
- Toes should be the widest part of the foot. Our footwear can work against this to create short-foot.
- Foot self-care starts with getting your intrinsic muscles working, spacing the toes
http://www.summitrehabkc.com/
Jon Hereth PTA Jon graduated from MCC-Penn Valley and became licensed as a Physical Therapist Assistant in 2009. He currently treats patients and is the assistant administrator at Summit Rehab in Lee’s Summit, MO. Professionally, Jon’s interests include sports and orthopedic physical therapy, injury prevention, chronic pain, and following a movement-based approach popularized by the works of Gray Cook, Charlie Weingroff, Dr. Vladimir Janda and Dr. Stuart McGill. As a therapist and athlete, Jon enjoys looking at the mechanics of human movement in order to help patients achieve maximum performance in their own lives. An active strength athlete and highland games competitor, Jon has become one of the “go-to” rehab specialists for strength and barbell sports across the area.
The healthcare system has done a disservice with the recovery of the female athlete.
Dr. Somers discusses how the gender biases of the female body, sports injury and how we recover is detrimental and harmful. She shares all that she has learned about physical therapy of the female athlete. * Confessions of a PT: Dr. Somers shares her journey of becoming a PT, why she wanted to specialize in the female athlete and how the healthcare system has done a disservice to the recovery of the female athlete.
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Dr. Somers addresses the subtle gender biases of the biomedical model, such as the language we use to describe a woman's body, and how she came to have an injury as harmful and untrue.
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Dr. Somers believes good physical therapy means that the client is in charge of their body, and instead of listening to others saying what the right thing is, let them know that they can decide what is good for them or not. The science backs up this technique.
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We know that pain itself is not dangerous and those recovering from an injury are scared of it, understandable. The reality is pain is experienced by all human beings and instead of avoiding it how can we build the confidence of moving forward with it. The client can draw the lines of pain.
You Know She is Legit:
Dr. Ellie Somers is a physical therapist, performance coach, writer, athlete, and owner of Sisu Sports Performance & PT in Seattle, WA. She obtained her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Saint Louis University where she also played collegiate soccer. Ellie has been a physical therapist for 10 years and specializes in work with female athletes, with a particular focus on runners and sporting athletes. She believes in keeping athletes from becoming medicalized and actively seeks to help athletes find a plan to get them to where they want to be in a way that works for them.
How to Connect with Dr. Somers:
https://sisuperformancept.com/drelliesomers
Instagram: drelliesomers
Facebook: @sisuperformancept
Twitter: @drelliesomers
Confessions Blog Post by Dr. Ellie Somers
https://sisuperformancept.com/blog/2019/1/3/physical-therapist-confessions
Megan Marshall, co-founder of the F.L.Y Movement joins us to share her journey of recovery as a collegiate athlete, what helped her and why she started the Movement.
- Megan shares her own story of being a collegiate athlete, the transition from being a high school runner to a collegiate athlete and some of the struggles she had.
- Recovery is not perfect, and everyone has their own story of recovery. Megan surrounded herself with family, her teammates and an outpatient team that was beneficial. For her, recovery is never-ending.
- Megan found that creating freedom with her schedule and listening to her body’s needs, incorporating different sports and activities beneficial in her recovery.
- The F.L.Y Movement was started by Megan to share her story and create transparency about eating disorder in sport at Universities and organizations.
You Know She’s Legit:
Megan E. Marshall, M.Ed., is the Business Core Administrator in the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University. She is also the co-founder of the F.L.Y. Movement (Fuel. Love. You.). They seek to provide educational workshops to cultivate safe spaces for athletic teams to discuss body image, sport, and performance. Their mission is to create transparency in the way you think and talk about body image and eating disorders in athletics.
Marshall began her time at Penn State as a Division 1 student-athlete on the track and field team. She was a Big Ten Medalist in the Distance Medley Relay, a Big Ten Scorer in the 800 meters, and a member of the Penn State school record-setting Distance Medley Relay team in 2007.
Marshall has worked in academic advising since her return to the university in 2012. Along with advising undergraduate students she has been a part of many wellness efforts on campus such as: The Body Project, a dissonance-based body acceptance intervention program & Stand For State, Penn State’s bystander intervention program focusing on sexual and relationship violence, mental health concerns, acts of bias, and risky drinking and drug use. She has also collaborated with multiple stakeholders across campus and presented at the DUS Advising Conference on Mental Health on College Campuses.
How to Connect with F.L.Y Movement
https://www.loveflymovement.com/
Sally Roberts of Wrestle Like a Girl shares “How the world of sport can teach girls that the world is theirs.”
- Sports came out of a tough choice to either participate in a sport after school or go to Juvenile Detention.
- Sally choose wrestling as an outlet for her anger, getting along with the opposite gender and how to walk with confidence.
- Confronting challenges head-on was a way to not give others power.
- You may see gender but what you need to see is we are all athletes
- As a physical & emotional outlet for her depression joined the military
- During her time in Afghanistan became impacted by how little girls enamored American women.
- Created Wrestle like a Girl to be an advocate for lil girls
- Teaching the sport of wrestling to show women the world is theirs
- Working with high schools to bring more sanctioned opportunities for girls to wrestle.
- There needs to be a culture shift that girls can wrestle girls OR equality that girls can wrestle regardless.
- Has found that the opportunity generates the interest.
- Spreading the word through empowerment camps.
- Teaching safeguards to let female athletes know what their rights are.
https://www.wrestlelikeagirl.org/
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Sally Roberts is a former elite wrestler, Army soldier, sport psychology consultant and founder of Wrestle Like A Girl™ nonprofit organization. Sally was a resident at the Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center for eight years during which she was a 3-time national champion, 2003 World Cup Champion, 2003 & 2005 World Bronze Medalist, and a 2008 Olympic Alternate. She served 6 years in the Army as a Special Operations soldier where she volunteered for deployment in Afghanistan. She was also a member of the Army’s prestigious World Class Athlete Program and represented both the U.S. Army and Team USA in elite athletic competitions. She earned a B.A. in Psychology from University of Colorado - Colorado Springs and a Master of Arts degree in Sport and Performance Psychology from University of the Rockies. She has a certification in nutrition from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. In 2016, Sally founded the nonprofit organization Wrestle Like A Girl, Inc.® on the premise that girls can do anything and that through sport can realize their full potential. Sally received the 2016 Women in Sport Award on behalf of United World Wrestling and the International Olympic Committee. She is a board member of USA Wrestling, the United States Olympic Committee Youth Development Working Group, and the Association for Applied Sports Psychology. She is an athlete ambassador for TrueSport, the grassroots organization for the United States Anti-Doping Agency. Sally spoke at the United Nations ‘Global Good’ summit and participated in the Global Goals World Cup activist soccer tournament on Team Sports Equality Enforcers promoting the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. Sally and Wrestle Like A Girl were featured on Megyn Kelly’s Today show and named USA Wrestling ‘Woman of the Year’ for 2018.
Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani returns to the show to discuss her new book Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders
- Dr. G shares helpful concepts that she uses throughout the book, such as the caveperson brain, our overall biological drive, and adaptation to keep us alive when we are struggling with disordered eating.
- “I’m not sick enough” is a statement that we hear with those that are struggling with disordered eating. We explore the beliefs around this statement in regards to seeking help with an eating disorder and caring for ourselves.
- The mind-body connection exists in us all, and we have to begin listening to emotions that are coming out in our physical body. The medical system silos body and soul and tends to want to get to the root of it vs the need for comfort and talking through things.
- We explore what needs to be changed in the healthcare system to prevent, diagnosis and treat disordered eating.
So you know she is legit:
Jennifer L. Gaudiani, MD, CEDS, FAED, is the Founder and Medical Director of the Gaudiani Clinic. Board Certified in Internal Medicine, she completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard, medical school at Boston University School of Medicine, and her internal medicine residency and chief residency at Yale. From 2008 to 2016, she was one of the leaders of the ACUTE Center for Eating Disorders at Denver Health, the nation’s top medical stabilization center for adults with eating disorders who are too medically compromised to receive care in a mental health setting. She left as its Medical Director to found the Gaudiani Clinic, which provides superb outpatient medical care to patients of all genders with eating disorders and disordered eating and to those in recovery. The Gaudiani Clinic embraces treating people of all shapes and sizes. Through a collaborative, communicative, multi-disciplinary approach, the Clinic cares for the whole person, in the context of their values.
Dr. Gaudiani has lectured nationally and internationally, is widely published in the scientific literature as well as on blogs, as the only internist. Dr. Gaudiani is one of the very few outpatient internists in the US who carries the Certified Eating Disorder Specialist designation and is also a Fellow in the Academy for Eating Disorders.
To Find Out more about Dr. Gaudiani and the Gaudiani Clinic go to:
http://www.gaudianiclinic.com/
To Learn more about Sick Enough and to buy a copy for yourself go to:
https://www.sickenough.com/
Want to hear more of Dr. Gaudiani? here is the link to our first interview!
Is Your Energy Aligning to Your Values with Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani
Sumner Brooks creator of EDRD Pro shares on PHIT for a Queen “It is the behaviors that create the health outcome, not the weight that creates Health At Every Size.“
- What is HAES? Heath At Every Size
- Found that if she was going to focus on weight loss as a solution it felt wrong.
- While Body positivity may be a trend the harm that those in larger bodies have experienced is not a trend.
- HAES is a way of living centered around well-being, not size.
- HAES is delivering the same care to everybody.
- Health is not a guarantee.
- Humans are hard-wired to believe common sense over science.
- People will do anything to avoid bullying including weight.
- Created EDRD PRO to bring high-quality education to those anywhere, anytime.
Where you can find Sumner & her EDRD Pro:
https://edrdpro.com/
Savvy Girl- A guide to Eating
So you know she is legit:
Sumner is a registered dietitian and eating disorder specialist who has been working as an outpatient counselor with clients on all levels of the disordered eating spectrum for over 10 years.
Sumner’s work currently focuses on supporting and educating new and established dietitians with integrating a weight-inclusive approach into their practices and creating resources to improve skills for the identification and treatment of eating disorders. In 2014 Sumner published Savvy Girl: A Guide To Eating available now on Amazon. She wrote and published this book in collaboration with a client to provide readers with both the counselor and client perspective.
This non-diet living handbook written around the Intuitive Eating model, helps people get away from chronic dieting and learn Intuitive Eating. Sumner is enthusiastic about disseminating a weight-neutral approach for health and chronic disease management to reduce oppression and stigma for people living in larger bodies.
Other special interests include Binge Eating Disorder and Intuitive Eating in the treatment of disordered eating. Sumner’s most formative Influencer in the field is the one and only, Elyse Resch! One of the Original Intuitive Eating Pro’s and co-author of the book Intuitive Eating, Elyse has been a mentor and friend who has impacted Sumner’s work, beliefs and counseling style greatly. Sumner has studied under the supervision of Elyse since 2011.
Living life creatively with Paralympian Patty Cisneros Prevo
- During her freshman year at Indiana University Patty was in a car accident that led to a spinal cord injury that left her wheelchair-bound. She a very special individual who planted the seed that she could continue to be an athlete and introduced her to wheelchair basketball.
- Once an athlete, always an athlete! That competitive nature did not go away for Patty, and connecting to teammates who felt the same way led do back to back gold medals in the Paralympics.
- The concept of living creatively was one that really helped Patty. That she could live a full life, still doing everything she loves to do but doing it in a creative way.
- Patty noticed a lack of literature around individuals with disabilities. She recently won a book award and will be publishing a children's book entitled Unstoppable that shares stories of 15 athletes who have struggled with a physical disability.
So You Know she is Legit:
Patty Cisneros Prevo was a member of the USA Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Team from 1999-2009 competing in three Paralympic Games- 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens, and 2008 Beijing. Team USA won back-to-back gold medals in 2004 and 2008, where Patty captained the team. She has won four National Wheelchair Basketball Association Championships, including one as head coach of the University of Illinois Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Team. In 2010, Patty played overseas in the Professional European Wheelchair Basketball League with Germany’s Lahn-Dill winning three championship cups in an undefeated season. She currently coaches the Denver Lady Rolling Nuggets Wheelchair Basketball Team.
In the fall of 1996 as a freshman at Indiana University, she suffered a spinal cord injury in a car accident that left her paralyzed. Patty is happily married to Tony, and together they are proud parents to their spunky girls, Elliana (6) and Nyah (3). Patty is also currently working on her first book, UNSTOPPABLE, about 15 female athletes with physical disabilities.
How To Connect with Patty:
Twitter: @pattycisprevo
Instagram: @pattycisnerosprevo
Renee McGregor shares on PHIT for a Queen “what is orthorexia & the movement #trainbrave”
- Her background in clinical practice gave her valuable skills working with other disciplines
- Her love for running naturally drove her to sports nutrition
- Found her interest in clinical nutrition and sports dietitian blended her into specializing in eating disorders.
- Orthorexia is the obsession with eating correctly
- Trainbrave is an educational campaign to make runners aware of eating disorders and RED-S (relative energy deficiency in Sport)
- Found that there was a lack of resources for those that wanted to compete but weren’t elite athletes
- The disordered eating comes as a symptom of how to deal with discomfort
- Trainbrave opens the conversation not only for the athlete but the coaches as well
- These athletes tend to be looked over as they look “healthy”
Renee McGregor BSc (hons) PGDIP (DIET) PGCERT(sportsnutr) RD SENr
Renee is a leading Sports and Eating disorder specialist dietitian with over 15 years’ experience working in clinical and performance nutrition, with Olympic (London, 2012), Paralympic (Rio, 2016) and Commonwealth (Queensland, 2018) teams.
She works with individuals, athletes of all levels and ages, coaches and sports science teams to provide nutritional strategies to enhance sport performance and manage eating disorders.
She is presently working with a number of national governing bodies and professional endurance teams including, Scottish Gymnastics, The GB 24 hour running squad, The EA Marathon development squad, pro-cyclists, and triathletes.
She is regularly asked to work directly with high performing and professional athletes that have developed a dysfunctional relationship with food that is impacting their performance, health and career.
She is the best-selling author of Training Food: Get the Fuel you Need, Fast Fuel: Food for Triathlon Success and Orthorexia: When Healthy Eating Goes Bad. She has spoken at many events including Stylist live, Cheltenham Literature and Science festivals, Google Talks and BBC News night.
She has spoken on many podcasts including Food Psych, The Food Medic, Running for Real, Let's Get Running and Tough Girl.
She is passionate about mental health and wellbeing and proud to be an ambassador for many charities involved in this field, including Head Talks and Anorexia and Bulimia Care.
She is the co-founder of #TRAINBRAVE a campaign raising the awareness of eating disorders in sport; providing resources and practical strategies to reduce the prevalence.
Her aim is to “Empower Balance in a Performance-Driven World”.
She is on the REDS advisory board for BASES (The British Association of Sport and Exercise Science) and I sit on the International Task Force for Orthorexia.
Renee has been invited to speak at several high profile events including The European Eating Disorder Society Annual Conference as the UK expert in Orthorexia, Cheltenham Literature Festival, Cheltenham Science Festival, The Stylist Show and Google.
She writes for many national publications and is often asked to comment in the national press. She regularly contributes to radio and TV, including News night and BBC 5 Live.
Isabel Foxen Duke shares on PHIT for a Queen
- Her first diet was as a child encouraged by her pediatrician from that point felt she was always in a dieting cycle.
- Finally, after years went to treatment for binge eating learning that binges are caused by dieting.
- The constant pursuit was the problem in itself.
- We must separate health from weight. Making a wellness mask for vanity.
- There is NO evidence that larger bodies cause chronic illnesses.
- “Blaming poor health on fatness is like blaming lung cancer on yellow teeth” Linda Bacon
- Culturally we have given people the opportunity to make dieting a moralistic value.
- We now know that dieting leads to bias thus making weight a status symbol
- Stop saying healthy when you mean skinny
- Trying to lose weight by dieting is like trying to win money with the lottery
- Most people that have lost weight on a diet have had some rebound.
- We must address our own weight bias
- I was taught to fear weight gain and thin was rewarded
- Prioritize mental health as part of your health equation!
- My mental health is avoiding the judgment of my food and body.
Be sure to follow Isabel at: How To Not Eat Cake, can be found at www.isabelfoxenduke.com and you can watch her free video training series at www.stopfightingfood.com.
So you know she is legit:
Isabel Foxen Duke is the Creator of Stop Fighting Food—a free video training program for women who want to "stop feeling crazy around food." After years of trying to overcome emotional eating, binge-eating and chronic weight-cycling through "traditional" and alternative approaches, Isabel discovered some radical new ways to get women over their "food issues" once and for all—not just by shifting the mindsets of individuals, but by challenging the dominant diet culture as a whole. A fixture and thought-leader in the greater body-positive movement, Isabel has been featured in the Huffington Post, Elle Magazine, XOJane, and has been praised by Ricki Lake
Owning Our Futures with Fitness Entrepreneur Sara Grey
At 26, Sara found herself as a single mom wanting to make a change so she can provide for her son. The tenacity, grit, and mindset through movement that she learned as a D-1 athlete was something she believed help her beat the odds. She shares her story of resilience, how she is changing how women talk to each other and themselves about their bodies and health.
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Statistically speaking, Sara wasn’t supposed to succeed but she did! She shares how being an athlete helped her drive forward and how it led to her passion for changing the conversation around women’s health and fitness.
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Women can be harsh critics towards other women, and harsh critics to themselves. With all that criticism going around, we are making a lot of assumptions about how other women see us. One of the most impactful things Sara has done is quit saying anything negative about any other human being, circumstance or herself. She found that this created opportunities for her in relationships and work when she decreased this negativity. Sara wants us to give up the gossip!
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Sara shares some of her success secrets like journaling forward. Instead of journaling about her day, she journaled about the day that she was going to have in five years. She is also very selective on the thoughts that she allows herself to have, that she puts into action.
- You find your own voice by believing that what you have to share is significant, it matters, you might not see the impact right away but you need to trust that what you’re doing if it comes from the right place is useful.
So You Know She is Legit:
Sara Grey founded FiTONIC to make whole-body health easier. She is a former NCAA Division 1 athlete, with a biology degree and lifelong interest in the impact of nutrition and movement on our health. An avid athlete, Grey runs, weight trains, bikes, hikes, swims, yogas, and she’s always on the lookout for a new challenge. Along the way, she discovered that as she developed tenacity and resilience by pushing through her fitness boundaries, she also developed the tenacity and resilience she needed to transform her life, which kinda came in handy, because. In her 20s, Grey was a broke single-mother, working as a waitress on welfare insurance, sleeping with her infant son in her arms on a family member’s couch. When her son was 5-months old, she enrolled in law school, determined to provide for him. After graduating with honors, she joined a prestigious law firm as a litigator and developed a successful career.
She is now the mother of four sons, married to her best friend and workout partner, and crushing new goals every day. Grey understands feelings of failure but she also knows what it means to break through. and transform your life, step by step, until you’re ready to unleash into a race-finisher’s sprint. She’s continued to overcome obstacles, whether it’s in the courtroom or on the gym floor. Grey created FiTONIC for other women who also want to climb mountains, who need to do that thing that seems impossible until it isn’t.
Connecting with Sara:
https://fitonicbody.com/
Instagram: @fitonicbody
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FiTonicBody
Power the Hustle Podcast by Sara Grey: https://www.facebook.com/FiTonicBody
Robyn and Tim share on PHIT for a Queen why they “ took mental health advocacy on the road.”
- Wanted to use her voice to break the stigma around mental health.
- Generational gaps share different hurt around mental health stigma
- Decided to create this bus as a legacy for their daughters
- Strives to find a place that those with addiction and mental health are treated with respect
- 2019 is 365 days, 30 cities hitting the cities breaking stigma, providing resources
- The bus is a vehicle for us being able to speak out.
- Wide Wonder represents the bigger picture, inclusivity, and wonder… curiosity
- People that go on to recover live on rich, plentiful lives and these stories need to be shared
- Use your voice, Use your story
Robyn Cruze
Co-Founder, Wide Wonder
www.widewonder.life
@widewonder.life
https://www.widewonder.life/bus/
In February 2019, Robyn and her family will commence their passion project—Wide Wonder—where they will travel around the United States in a converted school bus to inspire new perspectives on mental health and addiction.
Internationally-recognized author and speaker Robyn Cruze published Making Peace with Your Plate (Central Recovery Press) with Espra Andrus, LCSW, which will enter its second edition in Fall 2019. Her work and her recovery story have been featured internationally in media outlets including Refinery29, Yahoo Style, Psychology Today, Good Morning Washington, NPR Radio, among others. Having struggled and found recovery from mental health disorders, Robyn serves as a Director of Advocacy consultant for Eating Recovery Center, and has an integral presence in two Facebook communities—Eating Recovery and Binge Eating Connection—combining a total of 250K+ followers. As a successful Australian film, TV and theater actor, Robyn holds a Master’s degree in performing arts and is a sought-after keynote speaker, educating on mental wellness, addiction and the recovery from. She also trains on The Body Conversation—how to have a relationship with your body and the food you put in it.
Timothy Harrington’s mission as a nationally recognized emotional health advocate, thought leader, coach, and family recovery support specialist is to meet anyone affected by the addictive behavior of someone close to them exactly where they are and attend to their particular needs with a personalized and comprehensive, continuum of support strategy, that includes modern, relevant, and values-based comprehensive family recovery education, training and ongoing support. He believes that—”Anyone affected by the addictive behavior of someone close to them deserves a higher level of ongoing care and support that matches the importance of their role in the sustainable recovery and healing process.“
As the son of renowned Major League Baseball pitcher Tommy John who played in the Major Leagues for 26 seasons and was the first person to come back in 1974 from the revolutionary surgery named the Tommy John Surgery, it is not surprising that Dr. Tommy developed a passion for proper healing and physical function as he witnessed firsthand the outcomes of injury, innovation, and principled healing. Dr. John shares with us the problems he is seeing, and research is showing when youth specialize too early in sport, and ways we can prevent and protect our young athletes!
- Tommy John played professional baseball but he didn’t begin specializing in that sport until the age of 17. His parents, even though his dad was a professional baseball player encouraged playing many different sports growing up, or just playing in general. As children, we are not SUPPOSED to be good at a particular sport. We need to try a variety of things and have fun with it.
- Tommy is adamant that children shouldn't specialize too early in one sport. He defines specialization as COMPETING in one sport more than 8 months at of the year and because of research specialization in a sport is the single greatest risk factor of youth injury.
- Research is also saying that a multi-sport background whether organized or not, we get better grades in school, we choose better foods for breakfast, we get better sleep, better self-efficacy, less depression. We are now prepared to be healthier and happier adults.
- Consequences that we are seeing in our youth due to too early of specialization: burnout, not fun anymore which leads to increase in injuries such as concussions, Tommy John surgeries, meniscus, stress factors, and spine. Injuries that we should be seeing later on in life. Kids are being medicated for mental health conditions because of anxiety and depression because they are not able to perform in their sport for their age!! The pressure is so huge.
- What can we do to prevent some of these injuries from occurring:
- Rethink- what we are doing is not ideal
- Food first- nourishment
- Childhood and Freeplay is training
- Explore other sports- Even if you Suck!
- Recovery- SLEEP is key
So You Know He’s Legit:
With Master Degrees in Health and Exercise Science from Furman University, Dr. Tommy John brings over 17 years of health experience to the table. At the completion of his studies, Dr. Tommy played professional baseball for three years with teams such as the Schaumburg Flyers, Tyler Roughnecks and the LA Dodgers. After his career was abruptly ended from a rare infection in his throwing shoulder, Dr. Tommy developed his own baseball performance company providing over 11,000 baseball training sessions for baseball enthusiasts from ages six to thirty. Additionally, he expanded his practice of personal training, sports performance training, and rehabilitation of all types of soft tissue injuries.
Dr. Tommy was drawn to chiropractic because he realized there was a higher element missing from the healing, performance process and proper function of the human body in the innate intelligence and the nervous system: brain, brainstem, and spinal cord. That paramount observation led him to obtain his Doctor of Chiropractic Degree from Life University, (a 4-year program), in Marietta, Georgia, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.
As the son of renowned Major League Baseball pitcher Tommy John who played in the Major Leagues for 26 seasons and was the first person to come back in 1974 from the revolutionary surgery named the Tommy John Surgery, it is not surprising that Dr. Tommy developed a passion for proper healing and physical function as he witnessed firsthand the outcomes of injury, innovation, and principled healing.
Dr. Tommy John also has a book just released in June 2018(Da Capo) called Minimize Injury, Maximize Performance: A Sports Parent’s Survival Guide, which is a unique program: a diet, lifestyle, and movement plan (Rethink. Rebuild. Replenish. Recover) for injury and performance-proofing young athletes in every sport.
How to Connect with Dr. Tommy John and to Get His Book:
Dr. Tommy John Performance and Healing Center
https://www.drtommyjohn.com/
Twitter: @DrTommyJohnDC
Facebook: @Tommy.John.ARP.Training.Wellness
Allie Kieffer shares how “ I don’t run fast because I am lighter. I ran fast because I am stronger” on PHIT for a Queen.
- Running was her way to escape her environment
- From a young age had others label her as “different” when it comes to the typical running body.
- How strong can I be to get through this marathon
- Lean on your strength
- If I don’t properly eat I can’t then recover to keep up my running.
- If my life was just about running it wouldn’t be very worthwhile.
- Hey, I am going to prove you wrong that I don’t need to change my body to perform my best.
- Have fun and be exposed to more than just one sport
- Focus on a growth mindset that focuses on did you try hard, did you have found and look more at the process.
- Congratulations to Allie on her “practice” half that she ended up winning at The Rock and Roll half marathon.
Where you can follow Allie:
https://alliekiefferdotcom.wordpress.com/results/
Twitter-@AllieKieffer
IG- @kiefferallie
The BLUEPRINT for Success of the Student-Athlete with Seneca Blue
Student-athletes come into the world of higher level sports with the expectation that they know how to handle these stressors and transitions. They are not prepared and we are beginning to see the impact on the student-athletes overall health. BLUEPRINT is a resource for all student-athletes to being learning life skills and coping strategies to help them with these major life transitions.
- Seneca discusses the challenges of student-athletes; they have the stressors of being a young person in general and the extra stressors of being student-athletes. Many do not have the resources to cope with the stressors of this transition which is leading to mental health struggles, substance abuse, disordered eating and body image struggles. BLUEPRINT is that resource for students.
- What is BLUEPRINT? BLUEPRINT is a global holistic development and wellness platform that will empower every student to create their own future.
- Beginning with a focus on Student-Athletes, BLUEPRINT will revolutionize how students voices are heard and how their stories are told so they can discover how to live the best possible version of themselves.
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They will shape a generation of students into healthy, informed and conscious leaders focused on improving themselves, their communities and the larger world around them. Their impact will be their legacy.
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BLUEPRINT is focusing much of their work with the middle school population, to give them the skills needed so when they do make that transition to high school and college so they are more prepared. BLUEPRINT follows athletes throughout their career, ages 13-23.
- GameChangers: BLUEPRINT currently has 118 GameChangers & 6 Advisors total. Athletes and specialists are part of this to change the narrative and culture of the student-athlete.
More about Seneca:
Seneca has dedicated his life to serving the ever-changing needs of student-athletes. Whether it be as a mentor, coach, pro basketball skill development trainer or his current role as BLUEPRINT’s Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer. Seneca has always relentlessly pursued impactful ways to add value to the lives of student-athletes.
BLUEPRINT exists to provide a safe & inspiring destination for student-athletes that offers unique wellness & development resources for every stage of their journey. There are hundreds of millions of students across the globe craving community, guidance, mentoring, resources & inspiration on how to live a well-rounded life. Today’s digital landscape is absent of such resources for our kids & young adults. A select few social platforms dominate every aspect of their lives. BLUEPRINT will revolutionize how their voices are heard, how stories are told and how to live the best possible version of themselves.
Connecting to Seneca:
seneca@blueprint.us
Twitter: @SenecaBlue
Follow BLUEPRINT on:
Facebook: @weareblueprint
Instagram: @weareblueprint
Medium @weareblueprint
Twitter: @WeRBlueprint
www.blueprint.us
- By day I am a doctor, by night I am getting my hands-on any outdoor adventure.
- Saw a gap in the care of the health of the female athlete.
- Found she was able to blend her experience with medical complication secondary to disorder and issues seen within athletic population specifically female athlete.
- Trying to change the culture of amenorrhea being a natural consequence. The loss of a menstrual cycle is a RED flag! For every year without a menstrual cycle, you can lose 2% bone density
- Debunks why birth control is not beneficial at protecting or rebuilding bone.
- Is this an athlete with a good strong heart or an athlete under fueling causing a “starved” heart?
- Feels there has been a great effort to get the word out on RED-S
- Under fueling in sport doesn’t just happen in females.
- Only 37% of physicians in a survey could identify the components of the female athlete triad.
- In any medical system many times you have to advocate for yourself.
Where you can find Dr. Rosen:
So you know she is legit:
Dr. Rosen is a board certified in internal medicine and eating disorders expert physician at the Gaudiani Clinic. Dr. Rosen is the former assistant medical director of the ACUTE Center for Eating Disorders at Denver Health and has trained and worked with Dr. Gaudiani for over five years. She is excited to expand her care to outpatient medicine and get to know her patients over a longer course of time.
Dr. Rosen graduated summa cum laude from Wake Forest University and attended medical school at the University of Florida where she was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. She moved to Colorado to complete her internal medicine internship and residency at the University of Colorado School of Medicine where she has been an assistant professor for the past six years. While at ACUTE, Dr. Rosen was honored with numerous awards in recognition of her compassionate medical care, collaboration, and mentorship. Additionally, she contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications, blogs, and presentations.
Dr. Rosen is recognized as a certified eating disorders specialist (CEDS) by the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (iaedp) and joins Dr. Gaudiani as one of a very small number of internal medicine physicians with this distinction. Dr. Rosen is also a member of the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED), the Society of Hospital Medicine, and the American College of Physicians.
Dr. Rosen is passionate about working with recreational and professional athletes with eating disorders or disordered eating and exploring all aspects of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S, formerly known as Female Athlete Triad). In conjunction with working with athletes, Dr. Rosen enjoys treating bone density health issues such as osteoporosis and osteopenia, in addition to working with individuals with regard to their reproductive health. Dr. Rosen recognizes having a doctor with eating disorders expertise is far too uncommon and is excited to be an advocate for patients who are often misunderstood or not heard in the outpatient medical world.
In her spare time, Dr. Rosen loves being outdoors, traveling, and spending time with her husband and dog, Archie.
Dr. Janean Anderson shares “Why thoughts matter” on PHIT for a Queen.
- Believes her journey to eating disorder recovery allows her to empathize and be patient with her clients.
- Wrote her book to help others sort out what is the eating disorder and what is you.
- Talks about common thought patterns that are detrimental to mental health: black or white, catastrophizing.
- Explains the different types of therapy & when one may work better than others “Do what works!”
- Unhelpful thoughts create unhelpful behavior that creates behaviors.
- “Thoughts matter”
- Podcast is a mixed of solo interviews on core concepts for recovery and interviews with other experts.
- Stay tuned for her book on Meditations that use concepts from her Recover Your Perspective book.
Where you can find Dr. Janean Anderson:
Recover Your Perspective: A Guide to Understanding Your Eating Disorder and Creating Recovery Using CBT, DBT, and ACT
The Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast
Dr. Janean Anderson is a licensed psychologist and host of The Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast. Her debut book, Recover Your Perspective: A Guide to Understanding Your Eating Disorder and Creating Recovery Using CBT, DBT, and ACT, became a bestseller. She earned her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University and completed her predoctoral internship at the University of California, Davis.
Dr. Anderson is a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist (CEDS) through the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP) and is an iaedp Approved Supervisor (CEDS-S). Dr. Anderson has specialized in the treatment of eating disorders since 2008.
Dr. Anderson is the Founder and Director of Colorado Therapy & Assessment Center, an outpatient treatment center specializing in eating disorders in Denver, Colorado where she resides with her loved ones including her golden retriever. Recovered from an eating disorder herself, she wholeheartedly believes recovery is possible!
Dr. Anita Johnston shares “How stories allow us to have our aha moments to create new neuro pathways” on PHIT for a Queen.
- We have evolved from an over emphasis of goal oriented culture vs emotional oriented
- Our lives out of balance gets played out in food, & our bodies.
- We are taught to disregard our instincts and intuitions.
- Emotions are energy in motion.
- IT is the suppression and inappropriate expression of emotions that cause damage.
- Food gives us the illusion of control.
- Writing came as a way to bridge storytelling with a way to explain the complexities of eating disorders.
- Shares how you can learn to imagine how to sort understand your bodies’ needs (Tank A) versus your emotional needs (Tank B).
Where you can find Dr. Johnston and learn more about her words of wisdom:
Anita Johnston, Ph.D., is a psychologist, storyteller, and author of Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationships with Food Through Myth, Metaphor, and Storytelling, which has been published in six languages.
She has been working in the field of eating difficulties and body image distress for over 35 years and is currently the Clinical Director of ‘Ai Pono* Hawaii which has a residential treatment program in Maui and outpatient eating disorder programs in Honolulu and the Big Island of Hawaii.
She is the co-creator of the Light of the Moon Café, an interactive e-course, women’s circle, and online “workbook” for Eating in the Light of the Moon.
Dr. Johnston provides virtual individual consultations and conducts workshops around the world. She is best known for integrating metaphor and storytelling into her training as a clinical psychologist to explain the complex issues that underlie struggles with eating, exercise, and body image.
You can find her at:
www.DrAnitaJohnston.com
www.LightoftheMoonCafe.com
or contact her at:
anita@DrAnitaJohnston.com
Pronunciation note:
‘Ai Pono sounds like iphone, but instead of phone you say pono (oh no with a “p” in front)
free gift link: http://lightofthemooncafe.com/PHIT
Here are some of the questions I would love to have you answer:
1) You use such poetic words to demonstrate the emotional connections between our bodies and food.. can you share more
and how this inspired "Eating in the Light of the Moon".
2) You now have Eating in the Light of the Moon cafe and your own treatment center can you share more about this?
3) How do you live out the PHIT philosophy in your life?
Who is protecting our athletes? Sexual abuse in sport with Nancy Hogshead-Makar
Nancy has been in the world of sexual abuse when it comes to club and Olympic sports for 8 years now. She discusses the issues around sexual abuse in sport, updates us on the new policies taking place since the gymnasts have come forward and what we can do to protect our athletes.
Nancy has been in the world of sexual abuse when it comes to the club and Olympic sports for 8 years now. She discusses the issues around sexual abuse in sport, updates us on the new policies taking place since the gymnasts have come forward and what we can do to protect our athletes.
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Nancy has been involved in sexual abuse issues when it comes to Club and Olympic athletes for 8 years now. She shares the reasons that it has taken this long for policies to be made to protect these athletes.
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The gymnasts that came forward changed the world of sport. Because of them, there is now a statue that gives the USOC, and US Center for Safe Sport a legal duty to take care of athletes. Nancy updates us on the changes that have occurred since the gymnasts have come forward.
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What are the red flags that athletes and parents can be aware of: when a coach is alone with them, that they give them a gift, texting them individually, friending them on social media that can make abuse possible.
So you know she’s legit:
1977, at the age of 14, the only American swimmer to be ranked number one in the world in an international event.
1984, won three gold medals and one silver medal at the Los Angeles Olympics. The most decorated swimmer at the Games.
In 2000, ranked by Sports Illustrated as Florida’s 13th greatest athlete of the 20th Century.
She completed her BA in Political Science and Women's Studies from Duke University and her law degree from Georgetown University.
She is one of the foremost exponents of gender equity in education, including sports participation, sexual harassment, employment, pregnancy, legal enforcement, and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. She has testified before Congress numerous times, is a frequent guest on national news programs, serves as an expert witness in Title IX cases, and has written amicus briefs in precedent-setting litigation. She authored Equal Play, Title IX and Social Change (Temple University Press) and Pregnant and Parenting Student-Athletes; Resources and Model Policies (NCAA).
She is currently a civil rights lawyer, assault survivor, a tireless advocate for the promotion, protections, and support of girls and women in sport, and Founder of Champion Women.
Connecting with Nancy Hogshead-Makar
http://championwomen.org/
Was I only Fast because I was Anorexic? Messages in Sport with Kara Bazzi Kara shares about the messages in the sport world that are prominent that can be challenging for athletes who are at risk for eating disorders. She also shares her journey of recovery, transitioning out of collegiate running and developing a healthy relationship with sport.
- Kara shares her journey of being a Div I athlete and struggling with an eating disorder, her recovery and how this drew her to where she is now, Co-Founder and Clinical Director of Opal Food and Body Wisdom
- Thinner is better is a message that is still prominent in the athlete world. The power of silence that takes place with coaches and teammates can contribute to the continuance of this message.
- Perfectionism vs Excellence. That we can really desire to perform well and try hard but what are we going to do with the outcome. With perfectionism, there is more focus on the outcome than the process.
- Kara discusses exercise in eating disorder treatment and how Opal addresses working with the athlete in recovery.
So You Know She is Legit….
Kara is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist who has been focusing her work on the treatment of eating disorders since 2002. Kara has strong local ties; having graduated with honors from the University of Washington with a degree in psychology and her Master’s Degree in Marriage & Family Therapy from Seattle Pacific University. She and Julie Church, RD founded the Eating Disorder Program at the Seattle Pacific University’s Counseling Center, a multidisciplinary program that offered comprehensive care for the undergraduate student population. From 2004 to 2011, Kara was in private practice offering individual, family, couple, and group outpatient therapy. She is an approved supervisor through the State of Washington, a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, and a member of National Eating Disorders Association, International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals, and the Academy for Eating Disorders.
One of Kara’s passions and interests is working with athletes. As a former University of Washington cross country and track athlete, she continues to compete in sports, both as a passion and also to stay connected with the athletic mindset and lifestyle. She has developed the Exercise + Sport program at Opal to ensure that clients relationship to sport and exercise is an integral part of their treatment.
To Connect with Kara:
https://www.opalfoodandbody.com/
The Appetite Podcast
https://www.opalfoodandbody.com/podcast/
Improving our Mental Toughness with Dr. Haley Perlus
Dr. Perlus shares her views of mental toughness in sport and how we can build our own to help improve our sport performance or any goal that you might have for yourself!
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Mental Toughness is wanting it more than you fear it. The ability to press mute on the fears that you might have in sports and focus on the desire and the want and have that be greater than the fear is how Dr. Perlus defines it.
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How do we build mental toughness?? Work on those mental blocks, which is a negative story that you are telling yourself that is debilitating your performance. By changing this story and the way you look at something can be beneficial.
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Sometimes you just have to accept what is and when you do this you end up spending less energy on the mental block. So suck it up!
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Dr. Perlus shares some tips she uses that helps in her career and performance; music, goal setting, imagery, and visualization.
So you know she’s legit:
Haley holds a Ph.D. in Sport and Exercise Psychology, an M.S. in Sport Pedagogy (coaching behavior), numerous fitness and coaching certifications. The former elite Alpine ski racer is an expert inspiring, motivating and empowering athletes and teams of all types to achieve peak results.
An adjunct professor at the UCCS, a seminar leader at top sport and fitness conferences, a consultant to National Team and Division I scholarship athletes, an appointed Industry Leader by International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association, and four-time author.
Connecting with Haley Perlus:
http://drhaleyperlus.com/
Lauren Anton shares “when people are so disconnected from their body this is when the disorder creeps up” on PHIT for a Queen.
- Her role as a trainer in a gym gave her first-hand insight into the culture that contributes to eating disorders.
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Interesting fact that breathe work when going to school for acting helped her be able to use this as a mind-body connection tool.
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Could be this disconnection a result of trauma?
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Dispel the weight stigma of “what is a larger body in running?”
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Feels that injuries can stem from negative thought processes about altering the body.
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Self-compassion is honoring where my body is Today!
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Can one separate their activities by intention for self and intention for disorder?
Where you can find Lauren at https://laurenantonrd.com/
How you know she is legit:
Lauren Anton, MS, RD, CEDRD-S, CPT is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Personal Trainer in private practice in Los Angeles, CA. She is a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian and Approved Supervisor through the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals. Lauren specializes in eating disorders, sports nutrition, and helping those who struggle with their weight and seeks to assist clients in moving away from a punitive experience with food and movement to one of self-compassion and self-care. Her non-diet, weight-inclusive, Health at Every Size® approach allows clients to shed the rules and regulations that bind them to behaviors that no longer serve them. As an expert in eating disorders and nutrition therapy, Lauren has worked at most levels of eating disorder treatment (residential through IOP) and has spoken at numerous national and regional conferences and events on adolescents, eating disorders, and sports nutrition. She has also presented her own research at two conferences examining the effects of intuitive eating – based nutrition education on adolescent female cross country runners. She has been quoted in publications such as The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, and the Huffington Post. Lauren served as a co-chair on the Academy of Eating Disorders Weight Stigma and Social Justice Special Interest Group from 2015-2018 and on the iaedp-Los Angeles board from 2010-2014. Lauren is passionate about normalizing and enhancing the eating experience and encourages each of her clients to “taste their food with all their senses” in her Mindful Eating experientials.
Dr. John Sullivan shares why “The Brain always Wins” on PHIT for a Queen
- The Brain is the Governor connected by the vagus nerve
- The brain hasn’t been viewed as cool because we don’t tell a good story about it.
- Why we should view mental health as brain health- “we don’t know what human consciousness is”
- Breath rate manages heart rate which also manages the brain.
- Shares how brain management starts with PROCESS- listen to find what those stand for
- When you can regulate heart rate and respiration rate you can regulate emotion.
- Leaving you to be able to “see and do” emotion regulation, pattern recognition.
- What if we viewed nutrition as the messages received to optimize brain health and function versus physical function? - “nutrition is neurotransmitters. “
- Does our lack of social connection- eye to eye, hand to hand impact our brain health?
- http://www.thebrainalwayswins.com/home.html
- https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Always-Wins-Improving-Management/dp/1909273732
- Some of the proceeds go back to the military where they can continue to study the brain and the impacts on war.
How you know he is legit:
Dr. John P. Sullivan is a Sport Scientist and Clinical Sport Psychologist. He has over twenty years of clinical and scholarly experience, including his work with the New England Patriots in the National Football League (NFL) for sixteen years assisting with the coordination of sport science and clinical care. Dr. Sullivan’s experience also includes such work within the National Basketball Association, Major League Soccer, British Premier Football League, Premier Rugby League, Australian Football League, and Olympic national teams. He is an expert consultant for the elite military of the Department of the Navy and law enforcement in regard to performance and welfare needs.
As the Clinical Sport Psychologist/Sport Scientist for Providence College and the University of Rhode Island, he maintains positions in Sports Medicine and Sport Science. He is also the Assistant Director of the South County Sports Medicine Concussion Clinic in Wakefield, Rhode Island.
Dr. Sullivan is a visiting scholar/sport scientist at the Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS)/Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in Brisbane, Australian, examining the current state sports technology in the marketplace and its utility as well as concussion rehabilitation, cognitive training in sport, and sport recovery. He is also a visiting professor and researcher at Queensland University of Technology within the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Psychology, and Neuroscience departments focused on projects in athlete health, human performance, and neurophysiology (brain-based performance). Domestically, Dr. Sullivan also serves as an Instructor/Supervisor for Brown University Medical School Sports Medicine Fellowship.
He provides consultation to the NFL office on issues related to well-being and performance and is a member of the mental/behavioral health advisement group. Dr. Sullivan was one of five national experts identified by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to provide expert contribution to new guidelines for the NCAA Sports Medicine Handbook, and he is the co-lead author for the interdisciplinary consensus statement regarding the treatment of mental health issues with student-athletes, which is sponsored by the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) and the NCAA. Dr. Sullivan also serves as a Scientific Advisory for five sport technology companies providing support and oversight throughout the development process.
Dr. Sullivan is a national and international practitioner-researcher who conducts central nervous system (CNS) measurement/assessment, performance optimization, testing, talent selection, recovery training, and concussion assessment/rehabilitation. He has established expertise in psychophysiological profiling and developing cognitive abilities (e.g., decision making, complex reaction time, and read-and-react abilities) of elite performers. Dr. Sullivan uses various markers such as, Central Nervous Systems Assessment - DC Potential, Heart Rate Variability (HRV), Electroencephalography (EEG), Accelerometry/GPS, Multiple Object Tracking (MOT), Optic Flow (OF), and biofeedback to determine optimal training loads, recovery interventions, and maintaining as well as enhancing cognitive capabilities in performance environments.
He is a frequent contributor writing on sport science and sports medicine for peer review journals and popular press (Australian Financial Review, The Atlantic, BBC Sports, ESPN, the Guardian, Huffington Post, New York Times, the Daily Morning Telegraph, the Telegraph, Sports Illustrated, and the Sydney Morning Herald). He has also co-authored a book focusing on the latest cognitive science and neuroscience related to optimal brain performance entitled The Brain Always Wins (Urbane Publishing London UK Ltd).
He has co-authored three recent chapters; the first on the merging of technology, neuroscience, biofeedback, and sport/performance psychology in Sport psychology: On the way to the Olympic Games; and the second chapter focusing on well-being and mental health issues in athletes within fundamental concepts in sport and exercise psychology; A project sponsored by the International Society of Sport Psychology, and the third chapter for the American Psychological Association (APA) book - Career Paths in Psychology: Where Your Degree Can Take You 3rd edition - focusing on working in sport and the role of Sport Psychologists and properly defining the title, role, and credentials.
Dr. Lonnie Sarnell tackles the world of mental health issues in sports, particularly performance anxiety and the overlap between anxiety and disordered eating.
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Athletes are humans and struggle with mental health issues! The thoughts around mental health and anxiety are that if we struggle with it it's a personal failing versus something that is extremely prevalent and can be treated. Lonnie tackles myths around mental health in the sports world.
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The average delay between onset symptoms of mental illness and intervention can be 8 to 10 years.
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We need a little anxiety to help with motivation and performance but when anxiety and stress lead to suboptimal performance, that's when it can become a problem.
So you know she’s legit:
Lonnie Sarnell, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist who provides clinical and sport psychology services to adolescents and adults. Dr. Sarnell has experience working with a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, academic stress, life transitions, eating disorders, and relationship concerns. Dr. Sarnell specializes in peak performance and anxiety management. She has worked with athletes at all levels, including high school, college and professional athletes. Dr. Sarnell completed her B.A. in psychology at Yale University, where she played as a goalie on the Division I women’s lacrosse team. Dr. Sarnell received her Psy.D. in clinical psychology with a concentration in sport-performance psychology from La Salle University, where she provided sport psychology services within the athletic department. She completed a pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Delaware’s Center for Counseling and Student Development, where she consulted with Student Services for Athletes and provided sports psychology and personal counseling services for students. Dr. Sarnell’s post-doctoral specialization areas were performance anxiety and eating disorders. From 2013 – 2016, Dr. Sarnell worked at the Metropolitan Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy, a private practice on the Upper East Side of New York City that specializes in the treatment of anxiety.
Connecting with Dr. Sarnell:
http://www.drlonniesarnell.com/
Michelle Cordero shares with us “How she uses a holistic approach when taking care of her athletes.“
- Athletic Trainers are part of the Sports Medicine team and are usually the first to the athlete when injured.
- Also are behind the scenes to prevent injuries from happening.
- Share what puts the female athlete at risk for injuries- training, nutrition, maintenance.
- The goal is to break down the injury to relatable terms so they can understand what is going on to their body.
- Avoid generalizations and bring back information put into context.
Check out Michelle’s Facebook community- Athlete Remedy
So you know she is Legit:
Michelle A. Cordero is a Certified Athletic Trainer and Corrective Exercise Specialist in Miami, Florida. She was mentored by the leading expert in heat illness in the United States while pursuing her degree at the University of Connecticut as well as learn from top educators in the field. She went on to pursue her Master's Degree in Sports Medicine at Florida International University where she began her medical coverage with young athletes in the high school setting.
She has a passion for sports and loves nothing more than to help athletes overcome their struggles and get back to competition. Michelle has been the Head Athletic Trainer for the 5-time State Champion and 2-time Dick’s National Champion Girls Basketball team in Florida and has worked with elite level athletes in the U18 and U20 Women’s National Soccer Team. Although her primary practice has been working with student-athletes in middle and high school, Michelle has also worked with collegiate, professional, and high-level athletes in multiple sports as well as been part of the medical staff with the FC Barcelona Escola: an International academy based in Barcelona, Spain that holds soccer camps worldwide.
She is the creator of Athlete Remedy, a website devoted to empowering and educating sports parents and athletes with practical tips and guidelines for preventing, treating, and recovering from sports injuries in a language that YOU can understand! She strongly believes in providing a user-friendly approach that cuts to the chase and isn’t full of big scientific explanations. She leads a growing online community of sports parents by providing insight and filling in the gap in the world of sports injury treatment and recovery with weekly training, LIVE Q&A, and injury consultations.
Contact Michelle
Instagram: @athleteremedy
Facebook: Athlete Remedy
Athlete Remedy Community
Emily May, the co-founder of Hollaback!, a global, people-powered movement to end harassment, joins us to discuss the issue, how to respond to harassment and how we can be a part of creating a safer community.
- Emily explains what street harassment is: sexual harassment that happens in a public space; a whole spectrum of behavior that is a product of sexism and racism. Everywhere across the world it exists and it is a problem! Youth are even more at risk, the majority of young women will have experienced street harassment by age 12.
- Street harassment might feel like a normal thing that we as women have to tackle when we are out there on a run, but it isn’t normal. If someone says something derogatory in the workplace there are systems in place to prevent this from occurring but not in public places. This makes consequences for the harasser difficult to enforce.
- There is no perfect response to a harasser. Emily shares tips on how to respond in these situations.
So you know she’s legit:
Emily is an international leader in the gender justice movement. In 2005, at the age of 24, she co-founded Hollaback! in New York City, and in 2010 she became its first full-time executive director.
Under her leadership, the organization has scaled to over 50 cities in 25 countries and launched HeartMob, Hollaback!’s platform designed to support people being harassed online, and The People’s Supper, a collaboration designed to bring people together to repair the fissures in our relationships, heal, and bridge difference. Emily believes that by having each other's backs in deep and meaningful ways, we can disrupt cycles of hate and create a world where everyone has the right to feel safe and confident.
Prior to running Hollaback!, Emily worked in the anti-poverty world as a case manager, political action coordinator, director of development, and most recently, a one-woman research and development team. She has also worked on four political campaigns. Emily has a Master’s Degree in Social Policy from the London School of Economics, is an Ashoka Fellow, a Prime Movers Fellow, and has won over ten awards for her work including the TEDCity 2.0 Prize.
Connecting with Emily and Hollaback!
https://www.ihollaback.org/
Dr. Amy Bender shares “why getting your ZZZsss is key to your success” on PHIT for a Queen podcast:
- “I have always wanted to be an author so it was natural to write about her story”
- Use perfectionism for good, not destruction!
- Is on a mission to educate coaches on the forms of eating disorders and bring about awareness.
- We have to have a behavior approach versus appearance approach.
- Happiness in my core!
- By breaking my silence I mustered the courage to recover.
You can follow Dr. Bender at:
@sleepforsport
So you know she is legit:
Dr. Bender received her Ph.D. and Master of Science degrees in Experimental Psychology from Washington State University specializing in sleep EEG. Her current research focuses on the relationship between sleep and recovery on athletic performance. She has developed sleep intervention protocols for numerous Canadian National Teams. Her research interests stem from being an athlete herself; she is a Hall of Fame basketball player, has summitted a handful of volcanoes, completed an Ironman in 2009, and currently runs around chasing her 3 children who are all 5 and under.
Descriptor: Aja shares her experience of being stigmatized as a voluptuous runner and why this led her to start a podcast around these topics.
Descriptor:
- Aja shares how she has experienced weight stigma as a runner and why she decided to speak out about this problem in the running world. She started Flaunt Performance: THE Podcast for THE Voluptuous Runner and athletes.
- We don’t have to lose weight to start a sport. It is the perception that you CAN’T but that is not true. We address those stigmas!
- We live in a society that is very anti-pleasure. Aja shares that she feels that order to accept and love our bodies we have to embrace pleasure.
So you know she’s legit:
As the daughter of a marathon runner, Aja began to develop her passion for running at around 8 years old. However, her initial path to running bliss wasn’t filled with much satisfaction. As a fat kid, the overbearing messages of weight loss and body image overshadowed the pleasures that running had to offer. Ironically, running soon became a mental refuge that Aja used to retreat from the constant pressures of bullying and not quite fitting into what was “normal.”
But issues regarding body image persisted throughout her life...until they were no longer bearable.
December 30, 2015, Aja gave birth to her second daughter; Yaminah. Three days later, she and her husband heard the news that no parents ever want to hear. Yaminah was very ill and wouldn’t live very long. Yaminah died in her parent's arms on January 19, 2016.
At that point, everything stopped. Aja realized that she could no longer carry the load of weight loss pressures along with insurmountable grief. Weight loss, along with tons of other issues, seemed so minuscule when compared to losing a child.
So like she had always done when she needed to retreat, Aja ran. In fact, she decided to sign up for her first 1/2 marathon in honor of Yaminah.
Training for that 1/2 marathon wasn’t pretty at all. It wasn’t because Aja wasn’t in shape for running. Her body was used to running. In fact, she ran while pregnant with Yaminah. Training wasn’t pretty because at her highest weight ever, Aja learned what it really means to be fat and athletic. It means being ignored while shopping for running shoes. It means not being able to find running pants that fit over big hips. It means running in nightgowns to hide the fact that her butt hangs out of those too-small running pants!
In May of 2016, race day finally arrived. Aja looked around at everyone at the starting line and saw people of all shapes and sizes coming together for one common goal. But she knew all of the other round athletes at that starting line had experienced many of the issues she’d experienced during training. Aja decided to do something about it. She wanted the world to at least hear their stories. So Aja launched Flaunt Performance Podcast.
Flaunt Performance Podcast is a podcast for voluptuous runners who just love to run. It’s a no diet-talk, no fat-shaming, no self-shaming zone where pleasure trumps weight loss.
Aja lives with her husband and two living children in Northwest Indiana. She enjoys gardening, swimming, and retreating on running trails.
To Connect with the Flaunt Performance Podcast: THE podcast for the Voluptuous Runner
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/flaunt-performance
Facebook @flauntperformance
Twitter @FlauntPerfor
Changing the Game of Youth Sports with John O’Sullivan
The world of youth sports that is changing drastically leading to high burn out. John joins us and discusses this changing atmosphere and ways parents and coaches can help to keep the Play in Sport!
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Changing the Game has the main goal of keeping the Play in sports. John discusses the changing times of youth sports, and how we have pushed the adult version of sport onto our children.
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How can the parent be encouraging but not too pushy with our children when it comes to engagement in sport? Let’s first increase their physical literacy. Second, let’s let them play sports that they really love.
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Is there anywhere else where we allow an adult ( a coach) to spend so much time with our children, yet they have no training?? Coaches need further training then they are getting now.
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It can be helpful to encourage your kids to have three goals for that sport season: have fun, work hard, fulfill your commitment.
So You Know He is Legit….
John O’Sullivan is an internationally known TEDx Speaker and the founder of the Changing the Game Project, which he started in 2012 in order to better educate parents, coaches and youth sports organizations and put some more “play” in playing sports. John is a former collegiate and professional soccer player and coached for 20 years on the youth, high school, and college level. He has been an advisor and presenter for numerous sporting organizations across the globe, including US Soccer, Football, Lacrosse, Swimming, and Hockey, and he sits on the National Advisory Board for the Positive Coaching Alliance and the National Association for Physical Literacy. John is the author of two #1 bestselling books, and his blog gets nearly 5 million visits a year. His goal today is to start a discussion about changing the environment in youth sports so we can keep more kids active, healthy and involved in physical activity.
To Connect with Changing the Game
http://changingthegameproject.com/
John’s Ted Talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXw0XGOVQvw
Dr. Laura Miranda shares how “strategies to align sports performance with capability” on PHIT for a Queen podcast:
- Was inspired by the women that helped put her back together during her injuries as a young athlete.
- Align sports performance with capability.
- Loves to workout outside as it reminds of playing as a child.
- Injuries can impact an athlete’s identity and being able to say “I am not OK and what can I do?”
- Empowering positive talk is a must for mental & physical healing- Speak to yourself as if you were a young child.
- Must adhere to the training program- It works if you work it
You can find Dr. Laura Miranda at:
- http://drlauramiranda.com/
- http://drlauramiranda.com/pursuit/
- Be sure to follow her on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter as @DrLauraMiranda
So you know she is legit:
By trade, Dr. Laura Miranda DPT, MSPT is an NYC based doctor of physical therapy, certified personal trainer, and creator of PURSUIT, the outdoor fitness movement. She is also an author, speaker, and has appeared in and writes for many major publications like Shape, Buzz Feed, Huffington Post, and Girls Gone Strong. By mission, she empowers people on their path toward becoming the best possible version of themselves.
Laura Moretti shares how she listens to her own body’s needs while training for Ironman and being a dietitian on Phit for a Queen.
- Her combination of passions & interest lead her to a career path as a dietitian
- Laura shares her strategies on how to fuel and train as a competitive triathlete while juggling her job as a dietitian
- She really focuses on listening to her own body needs while training.
- Discusses how certain personality traits are drawn to certain sports.
Where you can learn more about Laura:
https://www.lauramorettird.com/
http://www.childrenshospital.org/directory/staff/m/laura-moretti
How you know she is legit:
Laura Moretti completed a Master’s Degree in clinical nutrition as well as her didactic program in clinical dietetics at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education, Department of Nutrition and Food Studies. She completed her dietetic internship at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. She previously worked as the Primary Nutrition Therapist at Columbus Park Collaborative and Appleman Nutrition in New York City. In 2015 Laura relocated to Boston from New York City to join the Sports Medicine Team and at Boston Children's Hospital where she is also the Dietitian for the Female Athlete Program. Her passion lies in educating athletes on how to properly fuel their bodies for optimum health and performance. She possesses a specialty in sports performance based nutrition as well as treating low energy availability, disordered eating and eating disorders in athletes. Laura has an extensive amount of experience in consulting and collaborating with Olympic and professional athletes, local colleges and universities, as well as professional sport and dance facilities. She also is the consulting RD for the Boston Ballet Company and School as well as an instruction at the Institute for Rowing Leadership. Laura is an active member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, International Academy of Eating Disorders, Massachusetts Dietetic Association, Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietitian Association, The American College of Sports Medicine, The International Association for Dance Medicine and Science, Co-Chair of the AED Sport and Exercise SIG, and the SCAN Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. On a personal note, Laura is a competitive triathlete, Boston Marathon Qualifier, and Finisher, as well as an avid skier.
Kay Glynn shares why she plans to spend all of her life being active and why her grandkids call her the Grandma that eats broccoli.
- Found her way to connect with others by doing track meets
- Never wants to stop learning and wants to share her story to help others
- Feels her balance in activities has helped her to continue strong in sports.
- Grandkids call her “the grandma that eats broccoli and has long blonde hair”
- Wants to show others who she is by being the motivational entertainer
Where you can learn more about Kay:
http://kayglynn.com/
How you know she is legit:
One of Kay's lifetime passions has been dancing and performing acrobatics since the age of 4. For over 20 years, she has owned her own studio where she taught various disciplines of dance--such as tap, jazz, ballet, and acrobatics. She won a Ford Mustang at the age of 15 doing a novelty acrobatic routine with chairs.
In the last 5 years, this routine has given her spots on such t.v. shows as The Late Show with David Letterman, The Jimmy Kimmell Show, Oprah, The View (with Barbara Walters), America’s Got Talent, 30 Seconds to Fame, I’ve Got a Secret and Country Fried Home Videos which also includes clips of Kay pole vaulting in her backyard pole vaulting pit. Recently, she also made a dream come true. She flew on a trapeze for the first time—at the age of 55!
In the spring of 2009, Kay closed her dance studio, and she and her husband bought a local insurance agency where she is working part-time. Kay is enjoying spending time as a motivational entertainer, and training for track and field at her home in the country where she has a pole vault pit, a high jump pit, hurdles, and an area comprised of a horizontal bar, rings, and trapeze. Also, Kay was featured in the Aug. 2009 issue of A.A.R.P. Magazine
Women are more at risk for anxiety, depression and other mood disorders. Meeka shares why this might occur and how our biology has an impact.
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Statistically speaking, women tend to struggle with depression more than men. Meeka shares the reasons behind this and speaks further on how hormones affect the female brain.
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Estrogen is a big part of this dynamic. The female brain really likes estrogen and appetite, mood, sleep, sex drive and pain levels, can be affected by a fluctuation in it.
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There is a difference between the diagnosis of anxiety, and living anxiously. Meeka shares how we are using the word anxiety and how this looks different.
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We have to get everything done! And if we don’t do it, it won’t get done! Meeka shares how this over functioning could be a coping tool and is serving a purpose in mood regulation.
So You Know She Is Legit…
Meeka is a Licensed Specialist in Clinical Social Work that has been considered the pioneer in the Kansas City area in advocating for those pregnancy and postpartum related depression and anxiety. And she was the first to establish a specialty practice in 2008. She strongly believes in the power of story to teach others about the struggles families face. She often uses her personal story and the collected stories of families that she has worked with since 2003. It helps others to see perinatal issues through the lens of both mother and professional. Her style is to infuse her work with warmth and humor. And her goal is to engage clients and the community with her candid approach. Most importantly she aims to leave people informed and inspired.
Her work and advocacy for families have been featured in:
Parents Magazine, Adoptive Families Magazine, The Kansas City Star, M Magazine, Fit Pregnancy and National Public Radio.
To Connect with Meeka:
www.centimano.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/centimanocounseling/