Shred the Should: Recent Episodes
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Welcome to Shred the Should Podcast, where we celebrate incredible humans redefining self, success and the word “should”. I’m your host, Alex Katz. I’m a coach, speaker and shredder of shoulds, on a mission to help you shred your should shame so you can live in alignment with who you want to be, rather than who you think you should be.Your whole life changes when you learn to stop “shoulding” on yourself, so if you’re ready to change your life, follow along each week to learn from “should shredders” who will teach you how to level up your life and shred the should along the way.
Tara Laferrera has been a professional in the fitness industry for 10 year and has a lot of advice for you if you are just starting out on your fitness journey, or struggle with consistency.
We bust some fitness myths and discuss things like: mindset shifts for success, how to build better body image, and ways to improve self love.
Want more from Tara?
https://www.taralaferrara.com
All socials @taralaferrara - literally every platform.
Happy New Year! Thanks for being here!
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In this episode, Mindi and I chat about mindset shifts to help you finally stop getting in your own way.
Mindi Huebner is an Intuitive Mindset Mastery Coach, an IBCP certified NLP practitioner, Health, Life and Success coach and Clinical Hypnotherapist. Mindi knows rewiring your brain is the key to unlocking your magic so that you can create a soul aligned business and extraordinary life. Her number one mission is helping women to reveal and release their limiting beliefs and embrace the confident, wildly successful humans they already are on the inside.
A gift from Mindi: rewireyourbrainclub.com
Check out her podcast: mindihuebner.com/podcast
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Do you ever feel afraid of making big decisions, like that one decision is going to determine the rest of your life? You want to hear this episode. I sit down with a former student, Maria Kelley, to talk through the big life decisions she's experiencing as a 20 year old preparing to graduate from college, and some tools to help navigate these and future scary transitions and decisions.
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This week we're deep diving into how to build resourcefulness, self trust and confidence.
Lucia Greene is an Elementary School Counselor, yoga and meditation teacher, energy healer, theater performer, and former teacher. After years of struggling with anxiety and depression, she is now committed to understanding how we heal trauma, and tend to our big feelings. She is especially passionate about using play and connection as healing modalities.
I'm so excited to be hosting the Trust Fall Forward Experience with Lucia on Saturday, Sept 24th from 9am - 12pm. This event / mini retreat is an opportunity to build a better relationship with yourself & your body, to improve self confidence, challenge your comfort zone, & connect with others on a similar journey. If you trust in us and yourself enough to attend, you will leave with new tools to move through discomfort and limiting beliefs that will help you approach life with more confidence, compassion, creativity and connection. Activities include: Intuitive yoga-fusion movement class, guided meditation & breath work, mindful nature walk, comfort zone challenge by choice, self trust & confidence building workshop, relationship building activities and optional apple picking! We can't wait to see you for a weekend of community, connection and conquering your comfort zone!
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Did you know that 48% of college students in the United States experience housing insecurity? Brianna Chance and I were a part of that statistic. Bri is a former student of mine, and she's dedicated the last two years to researching national policies and programs to support college students experiencing homelessness and food/ housing insecurity. She just released episode 1 of her documentary: Housing (In)Justice, and I was lucky enough to have been interviewed for the project. You can watch my interview (episode 4) and follow the series on Youtube.
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Megan Budway, aka The Music Ninja, is a Ninja Warrior Athlete from North Carolina who is passionate about helping others develop a better relationship with failure.
Megan was a music teacher for several years, but recently made a career change to allow herself more time to focus on her training as an athlete and give herself a better space for her mental health.
Megan has competed on 2 seasons of American Ninja Warrior, was the NNL Ameatuer Female champion in season VI, and competes in several other leagues across the country. She has a huge passion for creating a better space for women in the sport of ninja. Megan is also super excited to take on her new role as Director of Education for Neighborhood Ninjas, and can’t wait to use this role as a way to help shape the ninja community in a positive way.
Outside of the sport of ninja, Megan has a huge passion for music and the marching arts. She sings opera, plays several instruments, and loves metal music. She also loves to wakeboard, longboard, write, and spend as much time as possible with her pups.
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Do you struggle to trust yourself and your decisions? Do you feel like you'll only be happy with your body when you reach a certain scale number or aesthetic? Katie, Chelsea and I tackle the role that self trust plays in all aspects of your life.
Chelsea is a Certified Self-Care and Holistic Health Coach who specializes in helping women set boundaries with themselves and others to eliminate self-sabotaging behaviors while also learning the power of prioritizing themselves. Katie is a Certified Master Level Health & Life Coach & ACE Certified Personal Trainer, who specializes in inner child healing and habit change coaching. Over the past 3 years she has coached women to ditch harmful diet and beauty culture messages and learn to create ease with eating and movement.
If you love their work, you can reach them on instagram or join them for their retreat in Colorado Oct. 5-9th 2022!
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This week we're shredding some major shoulds related to executive functioning, self care, self talk, boundary setting and more! Sarah Lovell is an executive function coach, social worker, and entrepreneur. Sarah has been coaching since 2014 and took the leap into entrepreneurship in January 2022 when she founded Executive Functioning First, LLC.
Sarah helps college students and adults create individualized and sustainable systems to reach their academic, career, and personal goals. As an executive function coach, Sarah works with clients to identify strategies to navigate challenges related to time management, organizing, prioritizing, planning, and starting and finishing tasks in their daily lives. Sarah’s coaching philosophy emphasizes how self-care, self-talk, and mindset set the foundation for our abilities to use our executive functioning skills.
Sarah works with clients all over the country (and world!) on Zoom. She is currently accepting new clients and offers a free 20-minute Zoom to see if working together would be a fit. You can connect with Sarah on Instagram (@executivefunctioningfirst) or her website (www.executive functioning first.com)
When she’s not coaching, you can find Sarah taking her dog Georgia on trail walks, listening to podcasts, paddle boarding, and planning her next travel adventure.
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Much love! <3 Alex
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What even is pelvic health and why is it important? The answer might surprise you... This episode explores SO many important topics like pelvic health, rehab, overtraining / overexercising, back pain, proper breathing, and managing expectations (just to name a few).
Our guest - Dr. Amelia May (Ponchur) - is a Doctor of Physical Therapy specializing in women’s/pelvic health. She is the Director of Physical Therapy at Genesis PT & Wellness in Dallas, TX, where she also treats patients throughout the week.
She has a background in sports & orthopedics, previously working with high school athletes & adult olympic weight lifting athletes. She loves helping folks return to exercise after injury/pain, pelvic floor dysfunction, and/or pregnancy/postpartum. She holds a certification in functional dry needling and has completed a multitude of pelvic floor & women’s health related continuing education courses over the years.
Connect with Dr. Amelia on Instagram!
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Cory Camp is a friend; fellow coach, athlete and podcaster; and newly published author! We sat down to talk about how he shreds shoulds and helps his community do the same!
Cory is a personal performance coach for former athletes to find their flow in life. He works together with his clients to improve holistic well-being through simplifying and optimizing their life.
A former nationally ranked swimmer turned Forever Athlete, Cory has spent much of his time following his formal athletic career researching how to bring “the zone” into daily life.
Cory started Forever Athlete Radio Podcast as a way for him to share insights from conversations with the world’s most elite athletes and coaches. This endeavor helped him create Forever Athlete, a social learning platform designed to connect, inspire, and support the growth seekers of the world. He even hosts "Forever Athlete Away Games" to help improve connection, mental health and flow.
You can also grab a copy of his book here: Forever Athlete: Connect with Your True Identity Daily: A Collection of Stories from Peak Performers. If you're listening to this on 4/6/22 - it's Cory's birthday and his book is on sale!
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Dr. Mark Shrime is not only a Ninja Warrior athlete, Chair of Global Surgery and the author of "Solving for Why", but also an incredible human who has dedicated his life to fighting fear and injustice. We deep dive into fear, purpose, shredding should shame, and "solving for why".
You can grab a copy of his book here!
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What would your life look like if you stopped spending so much mental energy worrying about food and how your body looks? What would it feel like to trust your body? Can you even remember the last time you trusted your body, or have you spent your life dieting, trying to change your body, and constantly feeling like a failure?
Caite Sunderland and I deep dive into what intuitive eating is, what it's not, and how it can improve your health, relationship with food, and body image. If you've spent your life yoyo dieting, this episode is for you.
Round 4 of my food freedom and holistic health group coaching program for women, Mind Body Breakthrough, starts 3/6/22. This week only, you can enroll for 50% off - you can learn more and schedule a free consultation call with me here: https://alexkatzcoaching.thinkific.com/pages/mind-body-breakthrough
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Griffin is a Mindset & Emotions Coach who works directly with business managers & leaders as they navigate the demands of feeling drained & that they hold the "weight of their teams" to feeling free & in flow through embracing The Overflow Effect.
As a former Elementary School Administrator, Griffin knows what it's like to always put others first & fall into automatic. Through diving into the foundation of all humans, our brain & our heart, Griffin works with leaders to find the flow they want professionally & personally.
Griffin has a variety of experiences that has led to the work he does today such as a Certification from Yale's Center of Emotional Intelligence, Personality work at Harvard Business School, & a Life Coaching Certification from The Jay Shetty Certification School.
He connects with many people through his Freedom Project Group Coaching Program, Men's Huddles, Company Coaching, & 1:1 Coaching.
You can connect with Griffin on Instagram!
If you want to hear us dive a little bit deeper into men's mental health, check out this Instagram live we did recently!
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Navigating mental health, self advocacy and mindfulness with Lucia Greene.
Lucia Greene is a yoga and mediation teacher, spiritual healer, and current graduate student in a School Counselor program, theater performer, and a former teacher. To many, she seems like the epitome of being grounded and centered, but most don't see the incredible journey she has been on to get to this point. At age 15, Lucia started "feeling the big feelings". These feelings quickly grew into depression and suicidal thoughts that she hid throughout high school and college because "the show must go on", as they would say in her theater group.
In this episode, we discuss Lucia's journey with mental health, how she developed a mindfulness practice, and how "refusing to be refused" saved her life. This episode offers SO many action steps for you, and SO much hope if you feel like you're never going to change or get better.
Trigger warning, depression and suicidal ideation.
To learn more about Lucia or attend one of her meditation sessions, you can connect with her on instagram.
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This episode feature one of my best friends and favorite should-shredding solopreneur, Kristen Mann. Kristen and I talk a little about our own experiences pivoting to running our own businesses, and dive into shredding the "shoulds" and should shame that come with entrepreneurship, hustle & grind culture, and changes in identity.
Kristen is a graphic designer, business coach, and entrepreneur. She helps aspiring business owners create a personalized roadmap to ditch the 9-5 corporate life and grow their business or side hustle with confidence and ease.
She started her business-owning journey in 2017 as a graphic design consultant, helping both small and large businesses create consistent, cohesive brands amongst all platforms. She's worked with brands such as PUMA, Central Rock Gym, Steward Healthcare, Hilton Hotels, Magic Beans, and EnterpriseDB.
Through her 4.5 years of building her own design business she discovered that there were no comprehensive resources to make the transition from the 9-5 world into self-employment simple and stress-free. So, she developed the course that she needed back then:
Launch Your Business Bootcamp starts on January 31st and is a 10 week coaching program for aspiring business owners and side hustlers to gain clarity, get organized, and fast-track their journey to freedom and flexibility. The course will supply all the tools and support they need to make figuring out finances, legal, mindset, business systems, ideal client + offer creation, and marketing a breeze. Apply by the 14th to take advantage of the early-bird offer!
When she's not coaching or doing design work, you can find Kristen hiking, cooking vegan meals, and taking care of her aquariums and leopard gecko. You can connect with her on Instagram @kristenmanndesign
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Alex Weber is an International Speaker, Award-Winning Entertainer, and American Ninja Warrior positively inspiring millions to achieve breakthrough success, who "has decided to live my life on this planet by what passionately fires me up in my heart.”
In addition to being an in-demand keynote speaker, an award-winning host, and competing alongside elite athletes on American Ninja Warrior, Alex has been awarded US Lacrosse Coach of the Year honors, holds a World Record, and competed in the World Championships of lacrosse finishing as a Top Scorer in the world. But he also knows what it feels like to hit setbacks, self-doubt, pressures, uncertainty, and failures -- and overcome them.
In this episode, Alex and I talk about what it means to fail forward, and how to train your mindset for success, even in the face of setbacks.
If you love this episode, you can learn more about Alex's approach to "becoming the unstoppable you" in his new book, "Failproof" - available at Barnes and Noble and on Amazon!
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If you are struggling because the holidays look different this year, or if you feel overwhelmed by all the "new year, new me" stuff, you’re not alone.
While the new year can be a great time to reflect on the past twelve months, it can also be a time when all the feelings you’ve been repressing over the last year come together and make you feel like you’re failing at life. The flood of “new year, new you” messages may remind you of the goals you made 12 months ago that didn’t go the way you wanted, the things you didn’t get to do, and the life you thought you’d have by now.
If you feel like you "failed" this year (or last two years) because life didn’t look the way you thought it “should”, you weren't as productive as you wanted to be, you didn't get to do the big thing you were planning, or you felt like you didn’t do anything well, I hope this episode will help you pause, breathe, and reframe.
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Happy Holidays!! This week's Shred the Should Episode is a special holiday edition to help you shred the toxic diet culture holiday "shoulds".
This time of year is wonderful, except for when diet culture crashes the party and tells you not to enjoy your holidays so you don't "fall off the wagon" and “ruin your bikini body”.
First things first, your body’s job is not to look good in a bikini.
Second, this messaging can be so harmful, send you into a "diet starts Jan 1" spiral, and keep you from being fully present or fully enjoying your holiday.
SO, Lara Days and I did a deep dive into where this messaging really comes from, ways to have less food fear this holiday season, how to set boundaries with others who may make triggering comments about food or bodies, and dismantle a few diet culture myths. I know this will be SO helpful for you and really hope you listen!
Lara is a certified nutrition coach, personal trainer, yoga instructor, and sports nutritionist who is on a mission to dismantle the diet industry and empower people to live their happiest, healthiest, most confident lives! Lara focuses on improving your mindset, unlearning your past conditioning, and creating productive daily habits so that you can find food freedom, ditch diet culture, and step into your power!
You can follow Lara on Instagram here!
Read my article on why practicing body gratitude is important and helps improve body image here!
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This week we are joined by Kelsey Rudzinsky, who talks about her journey of shredding the should, battling should shame, healing, discovering, and becoming...and how all of that that led her to leave her job, travel the world, and become the the person she needed when she was younger.
This was SUCH a powerful episode and I’m still in awe of the insight, authenticity and should shredding stories Kelsey shared.
Kelsey describes herself as “an ever- changing being, navigating this human existence and journeying through life! More specifically living right now as a nomad and a space holder, living in service, dedicated to healing myself, others and the universe as a whole!🤗”
This episode was SO good and there is SO much more that we want to cover, you can definitely expect to hear more of Kelsey in the future.
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Welcome to Shred the Should Podcast, where we celebrate incredible humans redefining self, success and the word “should”. I’m your host, Alex Katz. I’m a coach, speaker and shredder of shoulds, on a mission to help you shred your should shame so you can live in alignment with who you want to be, rather than who you think you should be. Your whole life changes when you learn to stop “shoulding” on yourself, so if you’re ready to change your life, follow along each week to learn from “should shredders” who will teach you how to level up your life and shred the should along the way.
Episode 1 is a look behind the scenes of what “shred the should“ means, who I am, and what you can expect on this journey together. You can grab your Shred the Should Shirt to benefit college students experiencing homelessness at the link below:
https://mailchi.mp/b55420bf2d49/shred-the-should-shirt-pre-order
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