That's What She Said!: Recent Episodes
Nancy Kilcullen
In this episode, I discuss the challenges that arise while traveling for work or leisure. I discuss options for you as far as your exercise and when eating out. Traveling does not have to destroy your progress if you don't want it to.
In this episode, I explain where I have been in the last 2 months! I apologize for being gone so long! Life throws you curve balls sometimes!
In this podcast I discuss May being National Mental Health Awareness Month. Mental health is a vital part of your overall fitness. There is no shame in admitting you have mental health issues and getting help for it. I discuss ways to incorporate exercise, nutrition, mindset and other techniques to help live with and control your mental health symptoms better.
In this weeks episode, I review some examples of how to schedule exercise into your daily routine. I also discuss types of exercises that you can do with and without equipment. I also review ways to stay active while you are at home watching TV. There are plenty of ways to incorporate exercise and movement into your day!
In this week's Episode #14, I discuss consistency, especially in relation to your health and fitness goals. I use golf legend, Tiger Woods, as an example of being consistent despite the uphill battle he has been dealing with since his near fatal car accident last year. We need to work everyday to improve our daily habits by being consistent. This is where improvement and success takes place.
In this podcast episode, I discuss my personal experience of dealing with chronic pain in my hip for the last year. I discuss how fear of has prevented me from getting help until recently. The pain is not only affecting my professional life as a fitness professional, but personally with my workouts, sleeping and pretty much everything else at this point. After an x-ray today and scheduled for my first MRI ever in the next week with the possibly of surgical intervention is very scary to me. Hopefully all of this will lead to being pain free eventually. Chronic pain is detrimental to your physical and mental health, so don't let fear stop you from get the professional help you need.
In this episode, I review why water is vital for our physical and mental health. I discuss how water aids in particular bodily functions and why dehydration is something we can and should avoid. I review the minimum amount of water we should take in per day and methods you can use to boost your hydration and make water more enjoyable. You may think water is boring, but we need it do live, so drink up!
In this weeks episode, I interview a special guest, my 17 year old daughter, Katie Kilcullen. We discuss her participation in Irish Dance over the last few years. We also go over the difficulty of dealing with learning dance on zoom over the last 2 years and the determination to continue dancing despite this. We discuss how being sick throughout the month of February 2022 almost prevented her from participating in a very busy St. Patrick's Day performance and parade season this year. She discusses a valuable lesson learned about fitness and health through hydration, eating healthy and taking her supplements while recovering from illness and regaining her strength to dance.
In this weeks episode, I discuss re-evaluating your daily schedule to determine if your are really "too busy" or you are not prioritizing your daily schedule correctly. I use my personal experience of having difficulty in my time management skills, and how I am working on making daily improvements with this. It's important that we actually review if we are actually too busy or just not making an effort to prioritize our time. Scheduling your day between work, your spouse/partner, kids, friends and personal well-being is vital.
In this weeks episode, I discuss mental health, mine included, and how important it is through tough times to take care of yourself mentally and physically. I give examples of what I have done and currently do to control my depression and anxiety through fitness and positive daily activities. There is no shame in having depression or anxiety. You are not alone and there is help if needed!
In this episode, I discuss a recent incident that I experienced with with 2 couples fighting and having a "road rage" incident around me. Intense anger and people having outbursts are becoming the social norm in public, in homes, in schools and on social media. In fact, anger and rage have gotten far worse over the last few years. I discuss 9 ways to handle hostile and confrontational people. Anger and hostility are becoming more common place and this is not healthy. In some cases, it is dangerous. If you would like to live a healthy lifestyle and be "fit", you must not only work on your physical health, but your mental health and how you handle your reactions to people and events.
In this episode, I discuss the reality of aging and how it difficult it can be for each of us. I discuss my personal experience with aging and how social media, the workforce and television and film have made it taboo to "get old". I also discuss how positive mindset, nutrition and exercise are vital for healthy aging and for the "acceptance of getting older. We may not be able to stop ourselves from getting old, but we can do it gracefully and in a healthy manner!
In this episode, I will discuss exercise and how it plays a role, along with positive mindset and nutrition, for a successful fitness and health journey. I will discuss the physical and mental benefits of exercise and the importance of implementing a regular exercise program into your schedule and finding the types of exercise and activities that you enjoy doing that will allow you to become more fit.
In this week's episode, I continue the discussion from the previous episode. When a person makes the decision to become healthy and more fit, what factors have to be put in place to start your journey. The importance of establishing the real reason of why you want to make changes and building your goals from your why in order to achieve success.
In this episode I discuss the importance of making the personal decision to become healthy and fit and some important steps to take while starting your journey to improved health and fitness. The second half of this episode discusses nutrition and the the types of food, quality of foods and quantity of your daily food intake can play a role in reaching your health and fitness goals.
In this episode, I discuss what a resolution actually means and ways you can implement positive resolutions into all aspects of your life.
Discussion includes implementation of fitness goals through exercise, nutrition and mindest.