20 | Own Your Glow + Crown the Queen Within with Latham Thomas
Learn how radical self care can be your biggest empowerment tool from one of Oprah’s Super Soul 100 thought leaders.
Latham Thomas is a doula and self care/wellness guru, author of Own Your Glow, and creator of Beditations: Guided Meditations for Rest and Renewal. Named one of Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul 100, Latham helps women embrace optimal wellness and spiritual growth as a pathway to owning their power.
She has served as a doula and lifestyle guru for celebrity clients including: Alicia Keys, Debra Lee, Rebecca Minkoff, Tamera Mowry, DJ Khaled, Venus and Serena Williams and more. Latham's leading a revolution in radical self-care, teaching women everywhere to “mother themselves first”.
In this episode we talk about SO much great stuff that I ca’t what for you to hear. Just some of the topics we cover are:
- What creative entrepreneurs and new moms have in common
- Why forcing things never works and what to do instead
- How self care can be your biggest empowerment tool
- How to level up and truly walk the walk to contribute to equality in today’s world
- Productivity vs the process ; what we do vs who we are
- The value of play and why we need it
And SO much more.
Follow Latham on Instagram, check out her Mama Glow website, and grab her book!
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4 | Self Care Beyond the Face Masks
The Problem with Progress that No One Talks About
19 | 5 Steps to Manage Overwhelm + Get it All Done
Is your to-do list as long as a CVS receipt? Turn the overwhelm into organized action in these 5 steps.
Is your to-do list as long as a CVS receipt? Are you struggling to stay organized, prioritize, or take action on the things that need doing?
Home, career, errands, social life, side hustles, oh my. There’s a lot we feel we need to stay on top of these days and I don’t know about you, but usually I end up feeling helplessly pinned underneath the 21 car pileup of overwhelm.
In this episode I break down the 5 steps that I personally use to help me turn overwhelm into (organized) action.
his strategy can also be super useful to put in order at the beginning of each week or month or day, so that you can continue to move towards your goals without distraction or deer-in-headlights stress.
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4 | Self Care Beyond the Face Masks
9 | Life Detox: The Clean-outs and Audits Worth Doing
18 | Food Dogma, Fear + Perfection [Part 2]: The Rules vs Sustainability
If you can’t do it perfectly, why do it at all? Well, let’s talk.
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Last week’s episode was Part 1 of this 2 part series, where we discussed why finding a diet that works for you can be hard when dogmatic beliefs about nutrition are being shared everywhere. The fear mongering out there is real, and the labels are holding us back.
So now that we know that a black or white approach to nutrition isn’t serving us, this episode explores how we can begin to tip our toe into the gray area in between.
The feeling that we must be adhering to a diet perfectly is another major pitfall to finding a happy place with food, and it’s getting in the way of eating in a sustainable way.
If you can’t do it perfectly, why do it at all? Well, let’s talk.
5 | Diets: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
17 | Food Dogma, Fear + Perfection [Part 1]: How the Labels Are Holding Us Back
BONUS 1 | Coffee Talk with Kristin Kaschak of The Girl With the Butter
Come hang out with us as we catch up, crack ourselves up, talk shop and generally just chit chat about life.
Bonus episodes are here!
My goal with bonus episodes is to break up the show with a little fun. Bonus episodes will vary in content (and length) but today we are getting started with a Coffee Talk Episode with my friend Kristin Kaschak of The Girl with the Butter.
Come hang out with us as we catch up, crack ourselves up, talk shop and generally just chit chat about life.
In this episode we chat about the CrossFit Open and muscle ups, what we’re up to next in the gym (read about The Bigness Project here), upcoming travel and vlogging, online shopping dilemmas, cooking, Nanos vs No Bulls, and then things get weird for our little comedy hour to finish things up.
17 | Food Dogma, Fear + Perfection [Part 1]: How the Labels Are Holding Us Back
The many labels in the nutritional world right now are taking over, and with them come dogmatic, and often fear-based, perspectives on what’s right or wrong.
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Ever notice how quickly a nutritional conversation feels a whole lot like discussing politics? Right or wrong, black or white, with very little gray area or NUANCE. With so many people clearly stating that *this* way is the only way to be healthy, no wonder there’s so much confusion about food out there right now.
Paleo. Plant Based. Keto. Vegan. The many labels in the nutritional world right now are taking over, and with them come dogmatic, and often fear-based, perspectives on what’s right or wrong.
Let’s talk about this hot mess, shall we?
Extra Reading + Listening:
Don’t Fall for This HUGE Nutrition Myth
The 4 Biggest Health + Fitness Myths to Stop Believing Right Now
How Paleo Changed My Life and Why I’m Not Paleo Anymore
5 | Diets: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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16 | How to Get Better at CrossFit (or Anything)
You're determined to get better, but how do you actually do it? This system will get you results (and not just in CrossFit).
The Open is over… now what? If you’re like me, you might be left wandering aimlessly in the gym after so many weeks (and months) of focused effort on prepping for, performing in, and recovering from the Open.
It takes a lot of mental, emotional, and of course, physical, capacity to go through that, and when it’s over, we’re all left wondering, what’s next? You know what your strengths and weaknesses are, so how do you get better?
In this episode I focus on CrossFit, but the truth is, this system works for ANY sport (and arguably, any discipline). If you are determined to get better but just aren’t super sure how to get there beyond keeping up with your regular routine, this show breaks it down for you.
What to focus on to deliver the biggest results across every modality, how to be an advocate for yourself, the things I wish *everyone* would remember when trying to PR, and a general step by step system to see results in the gym.
Mentioned in this show:
In Depth with Games Athlete Rory Zambard
Diets: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Problem with Progress That No One is Talking About
15 | On Judgement: How to Put Down the Gavel
People will love you, and people will hate you, and none of it will have anything to do with you.
People will love you, and people will hate you, and none of it will have anything to do with you.
The creepy mirrored funhouse that is judgement is a world that’s worth your attention. If you are someone who is constantly judging the way others are dressing, speaking, behaving, or otherwise living, chances are pretty good that you’re also being just as critical with yourself.
This episode is about how we can heal our relationships to ourselves, and be more happy, compassionate and at peace — not only with ourselves and our bodies — but with the world at large, through examining our judgements.
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14 | Cut the Crap, Face Your Fears + Love Your Life with Lauren Zander
Edit: “You aren’t afraid of the thing you think you’re afraid of, you’re afraid of what the fear is asking you to look at” is a quote from Shelli Varela. I forgot to give her credit for that line.
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14 | Cut the Crap, Face Your Fears, + Love Your Life with Lauren Zander
Living an authentic life, facing up to your internal dialogue and bad habits, failure, dreaming big(ger), and so much more: this interview with Lauren Handel Zander has allthethings.
Living an authentic life, facing up to your internal dialogue and bad habits, failure, dreaming big(ger), and so much more: this interview with Lauren Handel Zander has allthethings.
Her book, Maybe It’s You, instantly became one of my all time faves, and her no BS style is sure to inspire you to investigate the ways in which you might be getting in your own way of living the life of your dreams.
Some of my favorite lines from this interview:
“If you have no tolerance for failure, you don’t get to win”
“The minute you say ‘I’m not changing this’, you actually get that you could”
“We need to break into our own mainframe”
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13 | The Art of Giving 100%: Why Comparison is the Thief of Joy
Why is unapologetically delivering 100% effort so damn hard for us to do?
A workout. A competition. A presentation. Any time we’re put to the test, why are we SO quick to point out the 37 ways in which we could have done better? Why do we immediately list all the ways in which we were disadvantaged, or that our competition had some distinct advantage that we didn’t have?
Why is unapologetically delivering 100% effort so damn hard for us to do?
With the Open in full swing, this is an especially important time to consider these questions, and more importantly, make an honest effort to rewire this tendency.
This episode is about how owning our vulnerability and being unapologetically proud of our efforts will make us better athletes, businesswomen, partners, friends, and overall happier people.
Episode is adapted from this original blog post.
Read my CROSSFIT OPEN MANIFESTO for more mindset tips.
12 | F**k the Scale: 10 Ways to Measure Health Beyond Body Fat
We need to stop conflating thinness or leanness with health, because the truth is, health comes in every size, shape and form. Here are 10 alternate ways to track your health.
Is there anything that the average American woman fears more than the bathroom scale? This tiny little piece of plastic has the power to make us feel happy, devastated, confident or ashamed, and even when we don’t want to be swayed by it, we are.
Beyond the scale impacting our mood, one of the biggest fallacies about the number flashing back at us is that it is a reflection of our HEALTH. And just isn’t that simple.
We need to stop conflating thinness or leanness with health, because the truth is, health comes in every size, shape and form.
This episode has 10 alternate ways for you to consider your health to help you drop the obsession with the scale and focus on the things that actually matter.
EXTRA READING:
Instead of Chasing a Goal Weight, Try This
11 | The CrossFit Open: How to Prep, Eat, Recover + Master Your Mindset (And Yes, You Should Do It)
Tips for recovery, nutrition, and mastering your mindset to crush the CrossFit Open!
The Open is here this week! Are you already freaked out about having your whole gym watch you try to get one double under or one muscle up for 12 minutes straight?
Not exactly sure how to eat to perform? Curious how you can get the edge? Terrified of coming in dead last?
Let’s chat.
This episode is all about how to make the next 5 weeks of CrossFit both your most competitive and your most FUN.
How to eat, how to train, best recovery tips, and of course, how to master your mindset to ditch Comparisonitis and use nerves to your advantage so you can crush each WOD and feel proud of your effort.
Best of luck to you all, my the WODs be every in your favor!
LINKS:
10 | 5 Tips for Getting Sufficient Protein Every Day
How much protein do you really need? Why? How do you get it all in? I break it all down here.
If you’re looking to drop body fat, decrease your cravings, build lean muscle mass, level out your blood sugar, feel more satiated after meals, perform better in the gym, shift your overall body composition, or pretty much make any change to your health, body, or performance, upping your protein intake is probably the answer.
In this episode I explain why protein is so important for everyone from the athlete to the less active, what the true recommended daily intake looks like, and then tips for getting it in every day.
LINKS:
How Much Protein Should I Be Eating?
Macros 101: Everything You Need to Know
9 | Life Detox: The Clean-Outs + Audits Worth Doing
When you hear “detox” you probably think of a 5 day juice cleanse, but that’s not the kind of detox we’re talking about today.
There are a couple areas of life that benefit from regular editing— from our physical space and environment, to our social media and IRL social circles, and more.
Combing through these areas with a discerning eye can help us be more productive, more confident, less stressed, healthier, more empowered, and ultimately, happier.
Learn about my favorite (and the most instantly impactful) areas to regularly detox and how this practice can help you live a happier life.
8 | All About Supplements: My Personal AM, Workout + PM Routine
My personal daily supplement routine, plus an exciting announcement!
Creatine? Protein? Glutamine? Poutine? Maybelline? What?
I get asked all the time about my feelings on certain supplements, so today I’m doing a rundown of my personal routine: the vitamins and supplements I take every morning, everything I put in my pre-, intra-, and post-workout drinks, and my daily nighttime ritual with an important mineral.
My morning collagen smoothie I make everyday
SEATTLE CrossFit Open Workshop Event: RSVP here!
*Please note: this is not prescriptive and you should always check with your doctor before adding or altering any vitamins or supplements. What works for me may not work for you, and no, you do not need supplements to be a healthy person.
7 | I Gained 15lbs: What I Learned, What Surprised Me + What’s Next
Fully embracing the seasons of life is a huge part of what I preach, and in this episode I share how I’m not just talking the talk, but walking the walk.
It's no secret that my body has changed over the last 6-8 months: I've talked about it very openly on multiple occasions, in recent interviews, on my Instagram, and in these blog posts here:
In Defense of an Unbalanced Life
Today I'm unpacking the story a little bit to be able to share with you in more detail the things I learned, the things that surprised me, and the things I want to share with you, as you go through your own journey and experience your own seasons.
This episode is sponsored by THE NUTRITION LAB, my 6 week, in depth nutrition + mindset program designed to get you to a happy (and sustainable) place with food.
6 | Your Word Choice Matters
Word choice matters, period. We discuss the subtle but powerful ways we are selling ourselves short with the words we choose.
Whether we realize it or not, the words we use impact our mindset, our feelings about ourselves, what we believe we’re capable of, and more. How we talk about ourselves at work, to our partner, to our friends, at the gym, when we’re eating, etc, create a baseline and belief system that we operate from, whether we are aware of it or not.
We cannot change what we do not notice, so in this episode I’m sharing some of the biggest ways we are shooting ourselves in the foot, creating limitations, or otherwise selling ourselves short with our own word choice, and how we can instead use words to feel more confident and live bigger lives. Spoiler alert: YOU can hear you, so let’s talk nice, shall we?
5 | Diets: The Good, the Bad, + the Ugly
Or, maybe more accurately: “Diets: the potential benefits that we ignore, the ways they are frequently misused, and the ways in which they are full blown abused by most people”.
4 | Self Care Beyond the Face Masks
Bubble baths are cool, but this stuff is cooler.
Self care is trending right now and I'm A-OK with it. But I do want to talk about ways that you can support and care for yourself that are more way impactful than playing hooky and getting a mani.
I'm sharing 10 of my go-to strategies in this episode.
3 | Conquering Gymtimidation
We were all beginners, once, and we all have our shit weeks (and months).
Whether you're brand new to a fitness routine (hello New Year Resolution!), or you've been at it for a while, sometimes our own head gets the better of us. We fear looking stupid (being the new guy is tough!), we get caught up in competition, or we worry that the people around us are judging our bodies, abilities, and life choices while we work out.
This is an expansion off of a blog post I recently wrote that arms you with 5 steps to stop this insecurity in it's tracks and get you feeling GOOD in the gym. I hope you make it all the way to the end where I share a very important reminder.
2 | How to Actually Keep Your New Year Resolutions or Goals
Don't be a part of the statistics: hit your goals + keep your promises. Here's how.
2018 is here, and resolutions abound. The statistics don't lie: something like 80% of resolutions fall flat by February, and I don't know about you, but I find that kinda depressing.
I've found that there's about 5 big mistakes people make when setting their goals or intentions, and in this episode I'm breaking them down for you so that you won't be part of that statistic.
Make 2018 the year you actually accomplish everything you set out for!
SHOW NOTES
The Instagram post with the 5 questions you should ask yourself pre-resolutions.
The Four Tendencies Quiz and the accompanying Four Tendencies book that I highly recommend for lots more insight into how you work.