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Laura Jean Jane is BACK!    In this episode we talk about: How Laura was at risk for heart disease and diabetes and how she is no longer on that path We talk body confidence in the change in her wardrobe both ON and OFF stage.  Her confidence in her performances ON stage.  Personal Development and Laura's "Winning my Morning" routine.  Baby Steps: breaking things down so that you can accomplish them.  Perfectionism, comparison, and how there's no such thing as being perfect.    FIND LAURA FB: Laura J. Martin Insta: @laurajeanjane   LAURA'S DINNER THEATER - THE WASHINGTON COUNTY PLAYHOUSE: www.washingtoncountyplayhouse.com     _________________________________________   I need help with a super BIG project that I'm creating specifically for my Lovers. Please take 5-10 mins to complete the survey here: http://bit.ly/lybsurvey **** THE FIRST 50 PEOPLE TO COMPLETE THE SURVEY WILL GET SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL ONCE THE LYB SURPRISE HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED ****   Email LYB: loveyourboddcast@gmail.com   Tweet: @LoveYour

"Whatever your problem is, cosplay solves it." - Dylan Dozenfingers on the Cosplay and Disabilities panel.  Heather was out at New York Comic Con interviewing Cosplayers about how they feel inside their cosplays! As usual it was an incredibly rewarding and inspiring experience and we cannot wait to share the words of these cosplayers with you!  Be sure to check out the Love Your Bodd instagram account to FIND all of these cosplayers and put a VISUAL to their words.    Panel Recording: Cosplay and Disabilities: Incorporating Diversity and Accessibility into Costumes and the Pop Culture Scene: with Nathan Gonzalez, , Shanise Lawrence, , Joseph Munisteri, , Dylan Dozenfingers Stardust Megu The Lionheart   _________________________________________   I need help with a super BIG project that I'm creating specifically for my Lovers. Please take 5-10 mins to complete the survey here: http://bit.ly/lybsurvey **** THE FIRST 50 PEOPLE TO COMPLETE THE SURVEY WILL GET SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL ONCE THE LYB SURPRISE HAS BE

It's TRUE! Love Your Bodd is going on a brief hiatus while I work on creating some incredible content for you. Until then, I need help with a super BIG project that I'm creating specifically for my Lovers. Please take 5-10 mins to complete the survey here: http://bit.ly/lybsurvey **** THE FIRST 50 PEOPLE TO COMPLETE THE SURVEY WILL GET SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL ONCE THE LYB SURPRISE HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED ****   What to do while LYB is on hiatus: Follow LYB on Twitter & Instagram. I will continue to share the self love and body positivity vibes on there. As well as post quotes from previous episodes! Take this time to catch up on some previous episodes. I’ve recorded nearly 81 hours of content and it’s all available for you here. I’ve had some incredible guests this year so I encourage you to check them out. AND because of the courses I’ve taken - the gut health course and the AFAA group fitness certification - I’ve also learned and shared a lot about nutrition, weight, goal setting, and motivation. You can find

Hello, Lovers! Today on Love Your Bodd we have an interview with Sara Grey! She's the founder and CEO of WANNABE™, host of Power the Hustle Podcast, and she does so much more.    We discuss SO MUCH in this episode including Sara growing up an athlete and her different insecurities growing up. We also discuss her TRIUMPHS and how she was a struggling single mom with a newborn who got to law school and became a lawyer. We talk about her decision to ADD to her career and start her own business: WANNABE™. We also talk about what that decision was like for her and how messy it is and I LOVE everything she says when she talks about making it all WORK. We also talk about FEAR and how fear sometimes makes decisions for us but she gives some great advice about not letting fear decide. And then, one of my favorite things we talk about in this episode, we talk about how the fitness industry is an industry of insecurity and we have a really fascinating discussion on how to bridge the gap between shaming people's bodies b

Hey, Lovers! Heather is back in an all new "Note to Self" episode of Love Your Bodd where she breaks down 5 things you can do to help you feel more motivated!    1. Play that funky music!      2. Be kind to yourself.     3. Envision how you will feel once it gets DONE!     4. Take it slow. Baby Steps. Habit Hacking.      5. Don't be afraid to ask for help.      All points go into more detail in the episode.        **Note: Heather is not a registered dietitian, medical professional, or nutrition expert, please seek professional help if this is a real issue for you - https://bornthisway.foundation/get-help-now/         Love Your Bodd Stuffz   Email LYB: loveyourboddcast@gmail.com   Tweet: @LoveYourBodd   Instagram: @love_your_bodd   Facebook: Love Your Bodd   Find Heather @HeatherBoddy on Snapchat, Twitter & Instagram www.heather-boddy.com/loveyourbodd   GET HELP: Love Your Bodd is a proud supporter of the Born This Way Foundation - check out their resources page to get help for whatever issue you might b

This week on Love Your Bodd, Heather has a very intimate and candid interview with her “Big Baby Sister,” Hallie. Called so because she is so much taller than her older sister. These girls who were raised in the midwest and moved to opposite coasts - Hallie to California (LA) and Heather to NYC - discuss their upbringing and how their lifestyles changed moving to different cities. Together, Heather and Hallie talk about comments from family members on their body/weight, the problems with the “plus sized section,” Hallie growing up a “Tomboy," her sexuality, TACO BELL, and so much more.    Find Hallie: Instagram: @nothallieberry      Love Your Bodd Stuffz   Email LYB: loveyourboddcast@gmail.com   Tweet: @LoveYourBodd   Instagram: @love_your_bodd   Facebook: Love Your Bodd   Find Heather @HeatherBoddy on Snapchat, Twitter & Instagram www.heather-boddy.com/loveyourbodd   GET HELP: Love Your Bodd is a proud supporter of the Born This Way Foundation - check out their resources page to get help for whatever is

Welcome back, Lovers!  This week on Love Your Bodd, we are focusing on Forgiving Yourself for gaining weight.  It can happen for a plethora of reasons, and it's time to examine how you react to it, because we can be very unkind to ourselves when this happens.      5 ways to stop beating yourself up for gaining weight:    1 & 2: Examine your "whys"     3. Gratitude     4. Become a scientist     5. Forgive yourself      All points go into more detail in the episode.        **Note: Heather is not a registered dietitian, medical professional, or nutrition expert, please seek professional help if this is a real issue for you - https://bornthisway.foundation/get-help-now/     Resources to learn more about your body -    Books:   Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon   Body Respect by Linda Bacon   Body Kindness by Rebecca Scritchfield       Podcasts:   Food Psych by Christy Harrison   The Chalene Show by Chalene Johnson   Body Kindness by Rebecca Scritchfield       Courses:    The Body Love Course by Everyday Fem

Heather was OUT IN THOSE SAN DIEGO STREETS finding cosplayers to interview for this special San Diego Comic Con edition of Love Your Bodd! The group of people rallied up for this episode includes: a drag Poison Ivy, two She Hulks, a cosplay FAMILY, a curvy self-made DnD cosplay, a burlesque dancer who doubles as Psyloche, an all-to-accurate Harley Quinn, AND the perspective of a cosplayer who has Spina bifita - she dishes on all of the ins-and-outs of cosplay/comic con in a wheelchair!    Check out the cosplayers on the @love_your_bodd instagram account here!    Love Your Bodd Stuffz   Email LYB: loveyourboddcast@gmail.com   Tweet: @LoveYourBodd   Instagram: @love_your_bodd   Facebook: Love Your Bodd   Find Heather @HeatherBoddy on Snapchat, Twitter & Instagram www.heather-boddy.com/loveyourbodd   GET HELP: Love Your Bodd is a proud supporter of the Born This Way Foundation - check out their resources page to get help for whatever issue you might be facing -  https://bornthisway.foundation/get-help-now/

In this episode of Love Your Bodd, Heather reflects on her experiences traveling this week and reminds herself to take better care of her body in her future travels.  She talks about the importance of hydration, the normalcy of bloating, and ways that you can/should incorporate movement into your travels to keep blood flowing in dat bodd.  She ends by talking about some fun and inspiring experiences she had that started with a CIZE class on the beach, and ended in a fully choreographed dance at the reception of her friend's wedding. Life is incredible.      Love Your Bodd Stuffz   Email LYB: loveyourboddcast@gmail.com   Tweet: @LoveYourBodd   Instagram: @love_your_bodd   Facebook: Love Your Bodd   Find Heather @HeatherBoddy on Snapchat, Twitter & Instagram www.heather-boddy.com/loveyourbodd   GET HELP: Love Your Bodd is a proud supporter of the Born This Way Foundation - check out their resources page to get help for whatever issue you might be facing -  https://bornthisway.foundation/get-help-now/   Wan

Hi Lovers! Megan Yelaney is BACK! YAY!! She's been on the podcast a couple times before - her first full episode is titled "Protect Your Mind" and in that interview we dive deep into her journey with exercise and becoming a health/fitness coach. In THIS Episode, we discuss the many ways her life has changed since then by having clients "Ditch the Diet" and find ways to eat that work best for them. One way she has done that is through incorporating Intermittent Fasting - which we discuss in minor detail. See reference links for more info.  We also discuss the THREE most common - and also most costly mistakes that people make when they decide to take on a new lifestyle -    3 Costly Mistakes People Make When Trying to Create a "Healthy" Lifestyle: 1. GOING ALL IN RIGHT AWAY: Having an "all or nothing" mentality inevitably ends up making you feel like a failure after the smallest human mistakes. Baby steps are the way to go.  2. UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS: Things take longer than you think they will. 3. TRY TO GO

Welcome back, Lovers!  In today's episode of Love Your Bodd you are going to hear from a body positive personal trainer named Jenna! She's been a personal trainer for 11 years but it hasn't always been so "body positive."  Jenna has a unique story of gaining weight to improve her health - both mentally and physically. As a personal trainer, she felt she needed to maintain a certain look: flat stomach, no body fat, size zero. Luckily, her discovery of Body Positivity opened up her eyes to a whole new world and way of living. She went from a size zero, miserable, living off supplements with no energy to a size 14/16, intuitively eating and moving, improved energy, and happily/healthily enjoying life.  Let's listen to and explore her story together.  Here is a call to action to all fitness professionals: WHERE are my true Body Positive fitness pros at?! Give Heather and Jenna a shout out so they can add you to their arsenal of warriors promoting body positivity in the fitness industry. Moving because you love it

HAPPY PRIDE EPISODE, LOVERS!    This episode comes in two parts: Part I is clips/blurbs from Previous Love Your Bodd guests, Love Your Bodd listeners, & Host Heather's friends and family on what PRIDE means to them and why it's important. Starting with a history lesson on The Stonewall Uprising and moving into some diverse opinions on PRIDE.  In Part II, Heather was out at NYC Pride interviewing Pride-goers about their experiences. It's a true celebration of representation for LGBTQ+ individuals!    Referenced in this Episode: Sylvia Rivera & Marsha P. Johnson The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative  American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Out of the Darkness Walks The Chipped Cup Dyke March   Resources: Gay Pride Event Calendar Planned Parenthood - Transgender Hormone Therapy  The Trevor Project The Human Rights Campaign Resources Find Your Local LGBTQ Center Love Your Bodd is a proud supporter of the Born This Way Foundation - check out their resources page to get help for whatever issue you

In a totally raw, unplanned episode, Heather shares her "appearance based" struggles and how she has had to look at them from a place of acceptance instead of something she has to "fix." She also shares her biggest takeaways from the F.I.T.4ALL Fit Fest Panel on Body Positivity, Health at Every Size, and how they stay "F.I.T." by F.I.T4ALL standards.  And lastly, she shares her notes from Gabrielle Bernstein's talk at the PopSugar Playground event.    Mentioned on Today's Episode:  Lys's Love Your Bodd Episode #31 Adrenal Fatigue Fitspodcast   Mentioned on Instagram:  F.I.T.4ALL: @f.i.t.4all Akira: @prettybig5 @prettybigmovement Colleen: @leenahlovesherself Holly: @eating_peanut_better Deanna: @mizz_deegreen fitspodcast: @fitspodcast Gabrielle Bernstein: @gabbybernstein   Love Your Bodd Book Club??? Are we making this a thing guys? Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon  Gabby Bernstein Books!    LGBTQ+ Lovers! We want to hear from you!!!  Grab your phone and record a blurb for Love Your Bodd about what PRID

  This week's guest is Jess King! Coming at us all the way from PARIS! She’s one of the kindest women I've ever met and she has the ability to make deep connections quickly!   In the interview we talk about her relationship with Music and Fitness and how she is able to marry those worlds. We talk self awareness, meditation, getting over failures/hardships, and how to work hard but also go with the flow (of the universe). We learn all about some major setbacks that led Jess to create her blog: No Bubblegum, which then lead to the creation of her HIIT mind/body/heart workout TNL58'!     Jess' Mentions: Insight timer - a meditation app The wing - a home base & social club for women in NYC & DC     Find Jess on instagram: @jesskingofficial @tnl58 @no_bubblegum   Jess's Websites: http://www.nobubblegum.com/en/ https://www.tnl58.com/     Love Your Bodd Book Club??? Are we making this a thing guys? Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon  Gabby Bernstein Books!    LGBTQ+ Lovers! We want to hear from you!!!  Gr

This week's Love Your Bodd Guest is Sam Darby! She's a Body Image & Food Freedom coach and personal trainer who has struggled with diets, exercise, and a "fear of becoming fat."  She teaches women how to break free from dieting, quit the self-hatred and live a life full of happiness and abundance without guilt and food obsession. Brilliant!  In this Episode we talk about everything from Sam's Anorexia, to her obsession with trying new diets and workout programs, and follow her journey into Health at Every Size and Food Freedom. Which she totally discovered on accident while looking for the next big program that was going to give her that "dream body." Little did she know her dream body was there all along!    Find Sam Website: samanthadarbybreakfree.com Blog: samanthadarbybreakfree.com/blog Instagram: @iamsamdarby Free Guide, 5 Ways to End the Diet Cycle:  samanthadarbybreakfree.com/freeguide   Required Love Your Bodd Reading: Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon    LGBTQ+ Lovers! We want to hear from you!

Welcome back, Lovers! This week on Love Your Bodd, Heather interviews Brock J, a Cosplayer she met at New York Comic Con.  The first half of the episode focuses on cosplay and Brock’s upbringings in foster care. The second half of the episode dives DEEP into Brock’s fitness journey and his recovery experience after having his leg shattered in an accident.  Not only is he a cosplayer, he's also very into health & self-improvement. He has a deep connection to his body thanks to MMA and Yoga. His experience with yoga was transformative in helping him heal post-injury. He's also a competitive power lifter and a member of the US Coast Guard. Listen to hear all about his experiences and how they make him stronger every day!    Brock on Insta @xsilverxsurferx     Love Your Bodd Stuffz   Email LYB: loveyourboddcast@gmail.com   Tweet: @LoveYourBodd   Instagram: @love_your_bodd   Facebook: Love Your Bodd   Find Heather @HeatherBoddy on Snapchat, Twitter & Instagram www.heather-boddy.com/loveyourbodd       GET

Welcome to THE SLIMDOWN where Host Heather and her special Slimdown Co-Host Adare discuss body positivity and diversity in the media. Positives and Negatives.  THIS WEEK we talk about Hollywood and actors who drastically gain and lose weight to take on a role.  Join our discussion or add to it for future episode topics!! Use social media links below to connect.    Love Your Bodd Stuffz   Email LYB: loveyourboddcast@gmail.com   Tweet: @LoveYourBodd   Instagram: @love_your_bodd   Facebook: Love Your Bodd   Find Heather @HeatherBoddy on Snapchat, Twitter & Instagram www.heather-boddy.com/loveyourbodd     REFERENCED - RESEARCH ARTICLES AND LINKS:   Renee Zellweger/Bridget Jones  https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/renee-zellweggers-right-nine-stone-not-overweight/     Charlize Theron's Transformation for Tully https://www.etonline.com/charlize-theron-reveals-very-long-journey-to-lose-50-pounds-packed-on-for-tully-exclusive-100564     Actor's Transformations Slideshow https://www.etonline.com/slideshow/gal

Hello there, Lovers! This new episode of Love Your Bodd is focused on helping you get over those feelings of being overwhelmed. In life, in your job, in your relationship ... whatever it is you are going through, you can get through it! Here are the tips: Brain Dump! Get your thoughts out of your head and onto paper - dump it out! Then organize it, prioritize it, and schedule it!  Take a deep breath, focus on breathing and being in the moment.  Delegate what you can. Outsource.  Get an accountability buddy!  TAKE ACTION!  LET GO OF PERFECTION. Failure is always an option. Not that you should focus on failure - please don't focus on failure - just know that it's always a possibility. You can set yourself up for success, but you can never be prepared for every bad thing that could happen.    Love Your Bodd Stuffz Email LYB: loveyourboddcast@gmail.com  Tweet: @LoveYourBodd Instagram: @love_your_bodd Facebook: Love Your Bodd   Find Heather @HeatherBoddy on Snapchat, Twitter & Instagram www.heather-boddy.com

In today's episode, Heather reflects on an overwhelming feeling of loneliness & sadness that struck her this weekend. She could narrow the feeling down to several things but she wants to talk to you all ... and herself ... about how these feelings are normal. Feel the thing. Move on. Practice Gratitude. Let Go.    Love Your Bodd Stuffz   Email LYB: loveyourboddcast@gmail.com   Tweet: @LoveYourBodd   Instagram: @love_your_bodd   Facebook: Love Your Bodd     Find Heather @HeatherBoddy on Snapchat, Twitter & Instagram www.heather-boddy.com/loveyourbodd   Get Resources: Love Your Bodd is a proud supporter of the Born This Way Foundation - check out their resources page to get help for whatever issue you might be facing -  https://bornthisway.foundation/get-help-now/   Wanna become a Pop Pilates Instructor? Follow this link to find a training near you: https://www.poppilateslife.com/a/527/osBvwVQc   Outside of the US? Don’t worry you can get online international training here: https://www.poppilateslife.co

This week on Love Your Bodd we've got a LIVE recording of the Out of the Box Theatrics' Women in Theater Panel! This live recording was moderated by Love Your Bodd Host, Heather Boddy. She interviewed panelists Elizabeth Flemming, Amiee Turner, Sammi Cannold, Alex Chester, Awoye Timpo about their experiences being a woman in the theater industry.  Meet the Panelists: Sammi Cannold is a theater director whose recent credits include Ragtime on Ellis Island and Violet on a moving bus at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.). Sammi recently served as the associate director on the Broadway production of Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (dir. Rachel Chavkin) and is currently the associate director on In the Body of the World (dir. Diane Paulus/MTC) as well as Lempicka  (dir. Rachel Chavkin/Williamstown). Sammi has directed numerous concerts, workshops, and readings at A.R.T., 54 Below, Playwrights Realm, The Montalban Theater, New York Theatre Barn, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Don’t Tell Mama, and Primary St