Phit for a Queen: A Female Athlete Podcast

Isabel Foxen Duke shares on PHIT for a Queen

            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

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.

• 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.

 

• 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!

 

• 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.”

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.“

 

 

 

Specialization is THE MOST Detrimental Thing for the Young Athlete with Dr. Tommy John

  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