Fit for His Glory: Recent Episodes
Courtney Foster
Welcome to the Fit for His Glory podcast where we hope to encourage you by helping you use your health and fitness journey to bring God glory. We hope that you'll learn, grow and laugh with us and we are grateful that you're here!
In today's episode, join Caroline and Courtney as we talk about how movement is a gift to our bodies. We discuss how movement is a gift to our body through physical health and energy, mental and emotional health, and spiritual discipline and growth.
We have been so excited about this episode and can't wait to hear your takeaways!
Also like Caroline shared at the beginning, we have available slots for the Fit for His Glory 6-Week Intensive. To learn more or join the next round starting June 17th, you can go here. Spots are filling so grab your spot now!
In this episode, we do a deep dive into all things hormones with the amazing Lindsay Hay! We talk about truly seeing hormones as a gift and working with our bodies and how God made them, instead of against them.
Lindsay is a Registered Nurse and Nutritional Therapy Practitioner working with women to help them manage their hormones. You can learn more about the work she does at https://www.lindsayhaywellness.com/ or follow her on Instagram @lindsayhay_.
We hope this is helpful friends and we know you will walk away with as many amazing takeaways as we did!
When we talk about our bodies being a gift, it can be easy to think of all of the times when it hasn't felt like one.
Living in a broken world, we will experience results of The Fall in every area of life including our physical bodies.
In this episode, we are joined by Brooke Lovingood as she talks through her journey with cancer in her early 20s.
Together Brooke and Courtney talk about what it means for our bodies to be broken, why we experience physical brokenness, encouragement for someone who might be in that season right now, and what it looks like to still view your body as a gift even in light of the brokenness it will experience.
We hope this episode brings encouragement, hope, and truth to an area that can be so hard to wrestle with.
For more faith and fitness content, you can follow us on Instagram @fitforhisglory or check out our website here!
Welcome to our newest series, Your Body is a Gift! In this series, we will talk about things relating to our bodies and how God uses them in our lives as a gift.
In this episode, Courtney and Caroline talk about how food is used as a physical and spiritual gift in our lives. You won't want to miss this episode as we shift our mindset away from indulging and restricting to finding JOY in discipline and abundance.
Food was God's first gift to His people; if we choose to view it as such, it can be a truly impactful gift in our lives: body, mind, and spirit.
To learn more about Fit for His Glory you can go to www.fitforhisglory.co.
To view the Your Body is a Gift merch for this series you can go here!
In this episode, we interview Katie from Dashing Dish. Katie has an incredible heart for the Lord and an amazing story of how God has redeemed her journey and now is using her in a big way to impact so many women!
Katie's gift and passion is providing nourishing recipes on her platform Dashing Dish. What started as a hobby has now become her full-time job where she gets to serve thousands.
Join us for this episode to hear powerful truth from Katie! We hope you are as encouraged and challenged as we were.
Also we will be partnering with Katie for our new Fit for His Glory membership to provide exclusive recipes and a special discounted offer for her membership just for FFHG members! Remember, the Fit for His Glory membership launches March 1st and you can find all the details at www.fitforhisglory.co.
You can find Katie on all social media @dashingdish, at her website www.dashingdish.com and her app, Dashing Dish (available on iPhone or Android).
In this interview with Lindsey from @nourishmovelove get ready to laugh, learn and maybe even cry some happy tears! You do NOT want to miss this episode as Caroline and Lindsey dive into all things faith, fitness, motherhood, and more. Hear Lindsey's personal story of how she has continued to transform her healthy lifestyle as she's grown her family and how God is using her business to whisper the name of Jesus all around the world. We have been SO EXCITED to launch this to you all and we can't wait for you to listen!
Happy New Year and welcome back to the Fit for His Glory podcast! In this episode, Courtney and Caroline are sharing something exciting that is happening in the world of Fit for His Glory and giving you all of the back story and details behind what is coming.
We are so excited about this year and what the Lord is doing and we can't wait to share it with you!
In today's episode, join Courtney as she dives into the "radical middle" that can help us find sustainability in our fitness journeys and every area of life.
If you enjoyed this episode, we'd love it if you would subscribe, share and even leave a review!
We are so excited for this month's episode. We are diving into 5 different misconceptions that Christians can have about fitness, and we are even stepping on our own toes! We hope this episode challenges, convicts and ultimately encourages all of us to become more like Jesus in the area of health and fitness.
If this episode blessed you, we'd love for you to subscribe and share with a friend. And for all of you overachievers, we'd love to hear your feedback in a review. We love you guys!
Health shaming is a pretty big topic that can have a lot of different definitions and look a lot of different ways. For today's episode, we're defining it as: looking down on someone else because of their body or actions related to their health or lifetsyle.
We are praying that this episode brings conviction and sanctification and helps to make us all more humble and more like Jesus.
If you have takeaways or enjoy today's episode, we'd love for you to leave a review and share it on social media and tag us @fitforhisglory!
College, working full time, marriage, having a baby, having multiples... there are so many different seasons that we all go through and it can be challenging to navigate our health and body image during those times.
In this episode, Caroline and Courtney share more of where they are now and what God is teaching them in that unique season and also look back at previous seasons of their lives and what they have learned through those. We hope you will enjoy this and that it will encourage you as you walk with the Lord in your health in every season!
Caroline Ward is a mom of 3 amazing teens and wife to Kelly Ward. She came to Athens, GA in 1996 as a part of the 2 time National Championship Gym Dawg team and has lived there since. She graduated with an Accounting Major from UGA and a Masters Degree in Public Administration. She is a personal trainer and the owner of TransFit which stands for Transformational Fitness based on the verse Romans 12:2.
Courtney met Caroline in college and they were connected by Courtney's Accounting major and love for fitness. Courtney started working at TransFit as an intern and that is where she first started to learn about how faith and fitness are so connected.
This episode is rich and full of wisdom on how to balance a "full" life while prioritizing health and fitness all with Christ at the center.
You can find Caroline over at @transfitathens or www.transfitathens.com. She is such an inspiration and full of wisdom, give her a follow you won't regret it!
A lot of times when someone feels the conviction to start stewarding their body well and pursue a healthier lifestyle, often the next question is... well where do I start? Today we are getting really practical with some tips and advice on how to go about picking a fitness routine and how to get started as you navigate your health and wellness.
We hope you will enjoy this episode and be blessed by it! If you have any tips, quotes or takeaways we would love to hear your feedback in a review or would love for you to follow us on Instagram @fitforhisglory and tag us. Thanks again for listening!
A lot of times, a specific goal is what leads us to pursue health and fitness. However, once we are pursuing health for God's glory it can be tricky to navigate what goal setting looks like. Should we set goals? Is it alright to feel proud once we accomplish a goal? How do we make sure that goal hasn't become an idol?
In today's episode, we are going to talk through all of that and more! Here are some main takeaways:
Ask yourself: If you were to write down your fitness goals, do they lean more toward self and striving OR serving + sanctification?
Pride means the ultimate motive behind our actions is about us. Rejoicing and praising God and getting excited about how the bodies He designed are changing points to Him.
Ultimately, goals give us a metric to track and be held accountable for the actions that result from the inner work that the Lord is doing in our lives.
4 Questions to ask yourself about goals:
- Is this goal increasing my discipline in a way that glorifies God?
- Does working towards this goal make me glorify God more or myself more?
- Am I actively rejoicing and praising God for His good design as I accomplish this goal (or part of it)?
- Does this goal grow my faith more than it grows any change in appearance or metric?
- If goal setting doesn’t come naturally to you Is there any area of my life that goal setting and requesting accountability might grow me in discipline for the sake of godliness?
Verses mentioned: Proverbs 16:9, Proverbs 19:21, Proverbs 21:5, Isaiah 32:8
Today we are so excited to interview a special guest: Georgia Brown! (@iamgeorgiabrown). Caroline and Courtney have known Georgia for around 5 years and have watched her grow by leaps and bounds in her walk with the Lord in the area of her health. On this show, you'll hear Georgia's story and how she has navigated growing in discipline but also walking in freedom in her fitness journey. We hope you enjoy and if you don't know Georiga, check out all that she is doing on Instagram, her own podcast Faith + Friends, and more!
If this podcast is going to be all about fitness, we have to ask ourselves the question: is fitness actually biblical? If the word "fitness" isn't in the Bible, is it still something that we should pursue? In this episode, join Courtney and Caroline as they walk through the different definitions of fitness and see how those definitions can align with Scripture.
To stay connected we hope you'll subscribe and we would love to hear your feedback in a review! You can follow us at @fitforhisglory (Caroline) and @courtneytfoster (Courtney). Thanks for tuning in!
When people think of their story with health and fitness, for most of us the topic of "body image" has come up at least once. It's something that so many people struggle with so today we are going to dive in and look at what Scripture has to say about this common topic. We hope this is encouraging to you and leads you to experience more joy and freedom in how you view your body.
To stay connected we hope you'll subscribe and we would love to hear your feedback in a review! You can follow us at @fitforhisglory (Caroline) and @courtneytfoster (Courtney). Thanks for tuning in!
Welcome to the first-ever Fit for His Glory podcast. We have been so excited to begin sharing in this space with you and hope you will be encouraged and challenged in your fitness journey as you listen.
In this first episode, you'll get to meet your hosts, Courtney (@courtneytfoster) and Caroline Foster (@fitforhisglory), and learn a little bit more about their background and what brought them to this podcast. We will also outline what you can expect from this podcast and close out by praying over the podcast and you as a listener.
Thanks again for tuning in and we hope to see you next time!