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Tara De Leon: Hot Mess to Hot (Healthy, On It, & Thriving) Mom

🎙️ This Week’s Guest: Tara De Leon Tara De Leon is a weight-neutral trainer who helps her clients build healthy habits — not chase smaller body sizes. From being named the National Strength and Conditioning Association’s Trainer of the Year (2024) to becoming a best-selling author of Hot Mess to Hot Mom, Tara has built an incredible career rooted in empowerment, authenticity, and joy. She’s now helping other trainers do the same — creating programs that emphasize confidence, sustainability, and a more balanced approach to fitness. In this episode, Tara brings humor, vulnerability, and real talk to the pod. You’ll leave feeling seen, inspired, and empowered to embrace health in a way that truly supports your life — not controls it. ✨ Connect with Tara: Instagram: @tara_de_leon_fitness 🎧 Listen to her podcast Wellness Rebranded on any streaming platform 📖 Grab her book Hot Mess to Hot Mom on Amazon

Gena Taylor: Overcoming Eating Disorders + Becoming "Fit Without Obsession"

🎙 This week’s guest: my business bestie, Gena Taylor! Gena is the owner of A Stronger Tomorrow LLC, and she’s a food freedom, fitness, and body confidence coach who specializes in helping perfectionist women heal food guilt and build a body they love — without obsession or restrictive habits. In this episode, Gena gets vulnerable as she opens up about her past eating disorders — from restricting food so much that she didn’t have the energy to walk up and down the stairs or even get dressed, to overindulging and gaining 50 pounds in a month. She shares it all — and how she’s worked hard to get to a place where she now lives “Fit Without Obsession,” treating her body and mind with love, grace, and kindness. 💛 ✨ Hope you enjoy this powerful, vulnerable and heartfelt conversation! ⚠️ Trigger Warning: This episode includes discussions of eating disorders. You can find Gena on instagram at @thefitbean_

Building A Diet You Love For Fat Loss

If the thought of eating chicken, rice, and broccoli makes you want to gag—but you’re trying to lose fat—this episode is for you! I’ve worked with dozens of clients, and every single one of them lost fat while following a diet tailored to their own preferences. In this episode, I’m busting the myth that there’s a one-size-fits-all approach to nutrition on your fat loss journey. I’ll walk you through how to create a diet you actually enjoy while still achieving fat loss. By the end of this episode, you’ll see that you don't have to eat rice cakes just because your favorite fitness influencer told you to and you indeed can still enjoy your favorite chocolate chip cookie. 😉 Hope you enjoy!

Bre Hershey: The Self-Healing Era — From Perfectionism to Peace

This week, my amazing client Bre joins me on the pod to dive into her journey over the past few years working together. From a time where the gym and food consumed her every thought… to now living in true freedom — rooted in self-healing, balance, and peace. Bre holds nothing back. She opens up about her initial hesitation to get help, struggles with body image, perfectionism, and all the messy and rewarding moments in between. This episode will leave you feeling INSPIRED, SEEN, and FIRED UP to keep going on your journey. I hope you love listening as much as I did recording. OH — and don’t forget to DM @breezibree on Instagram to bring her podcast back 😉 #doitanyway (you’ll know why after this epi)

Social Media is NOT Toxic... Your Relationship With It Is

In this episode, I talk you through how to cultivate a positive relationship with social media and curate your feeds to inspire and empower you rather than drain your energy or trigger a menty b during your lunch break. If you're someone who finds yourself stuck in the comparison trap, frequently doom scrolling OR feeling overwhelmed or put down when you check your social media feeds...this episode is for you!