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The Best Shape of Her Life with Laurie LeBlanc

April 25, 2023 / Chris Brown / 2 Comments

Episode 129 – The Best Shape of Her Life with Laurie LeBlanc

Jill and Chris first met Laurie LeBlanc when she joined the Becoming Elli Facebook group last year.

She lives in Ontario, Canada and recently retired from a rewarding 35-year career with the Ontario Public Sector. For the last ten years she held various Deputy Minister positions, leading complex departments including the Ministries of Transportation, Training, Colleges and Universities, Municipal Affairs, Housing, and Aboriginal Affairs. She has been the recipient of several awards, including being named one of the top 75 alumni of Carleton University’s school of public policy.

While Laurie enjoyed her career, she is thrilled to now have the chance to enjoy all life has to offer. She has made her own health and wellness her new project. Vowing to be in the best shape of her life when she reaches 60 in two years, she bought a kayak, hiking boots, and a gym membership. She is slowly making progress.

A big part of her journey has been being more deliberate about how and what she eats and is having a great time exploring new cuisines. Laurie is not going through this journey alone. She is relying in particular on the support of her son and daughter-in-law and her enthusiastic dog Lexi.

We discuss:

Getting into the best shape of her life
Cellular health and the ageless method
Feeling stronger and more energetic
How she measures her progress
Kayaking, hiking, being in nature
Whole foods and different types of cuisine
Using the Alphabet, choosing a country and spices
Farm to table vegetables

Her go to recipe for Chicken Curry with lots of vegetables, chicken thighs, coconut oil, tomato sauce and spices.

Midlife Mastery with Linda Stephens

April 11, 2023 / Chris Brown / 0 Comments

128 – Midlife Mastery with Linda Stephens

In episode 128, Jill and Chris talk with Linda Stephens, a nutrition, health and fitness professional, whose primary focus is working with midlife women, over 40/50 and beyond to help them achieve confidence, exude sexiness and feel comfortable in their own skin again. Her motto is, “midlife should be the bridge to your new life.”

Linda has developed a comprehensive 6 week program taught virtually to women around the globe called “Midlife Mastery”. Linda guides women by educating them on how their bodies change in midlife. Women involved in the program learn cutting edge, science backed data for hormone balance, longevity, mood, libido and weight loss.

Linda holds her masters degree in nutrition, competed as an IFBB Figure Pro (IFBB stands for International Federation of Bodybuilding ) and is a National Academy of Sports Medicine NASM certified personal trainer. Linda writes for Livestrong.com, Darien Magazine, Muscle and Fitness Hers, Oxygen magazine and has contributed to Strong Magazine. She also has her own health and wellness channel on https://plus.muscleandfitness.com.

Linda is a midlife woman herself, a mom of two children, 18 and 21 years of age. She currently resides in Fairfield County, Connecticut and has for over 25 years.

We discuss:

Bone density, bio identicals and cardio vascular health
Changing body composition
Branch chain amino acids
Strength training and getting back to the gym after a break
Her 6 week program of Midlife Mastery available on line
Low inflammatory foods
Hormones, eating, nutrition, training for women after 50

Website: https://www.lindamstephens.com/
Facebook: LindaStephensFit
Instagram: @lindastephensfit
LinkedIn: Linda M Stephens

Bioedge link for 10% off: https://bioedgesciences.com/discount/LSTEPHENS
New Chapter vitamin link: https://www.newchapter.com/

Eat and Flourish with Mary Beth Albright

March 28, 2023 / Chris Brown / 0 Comments

Episode 127- Eat & Flourish with Mary Beth Albright

In episode 127, Jill and Chris talk with Mary Beth Albright, the author of Eat & Flourish, How Food Supports Emotional Well Being. She is a food expert with broad experience, from food attorney to being a finalist on Food Network Star, where she competed on Iron Chef America.

Her passion for good food grew from her mentor, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop who she worked with for 15 years. Afterwards, Mary Beth advised on food systems and managed a White House initiative. She completed L’Academie de Cuisine’s two-semester culinary course in Bethesda, MD.

Mary Beth is a writer and editor at the Washington Post. She is also a frequent panel moderator, including for the U.S. State Department and the Smithsonian, and her food-judging expertise is sought regularly, including the time she ate 2,000 foods in three days to judge the Outstanding New Products Awards. She is an elected member of Les Dames d’Escoffier, an esteemed group of women in the culinary professions, which counts Julia Child among its alumnae.

We discuss:

How food affects emotions
How emotions affects our food choices
Making better choices when you are under stress or feeling depressed
Pleasure and eating
Foods that support emotional well being
The American Gut Project
Tips to increase pleasure around eating
Why eating with others is good for you
How to easily add a more diverse variety of food into your meals
Recipes

Links:
Instagram: Mary.Beth
Twitter: MaryBeth
Website: MaryBethAlbright.com
Her book: Eat & Flourish, How Food Supports Emotional Well-Being

Small Simple Changes with Hope Zvara

March 14, 2023 / Chris Brown / 0 Comments

Episode 126 – Small Simple Changes with Hope Zvara

In episode 126, Jill and Chris talk with Hope Zvara, a yoga, movement, and lifestyle expert and CEO of Mother Trucker Yoga. She has helped change thousands of lives over the last 20 years using her simple step-by-step strategies and what she calls her “yoga toolbox” encouraging others that they can feel better wherever you are with small simple changes.

She helps truck drivers go from a sedentary lifestyle to feeling good again with small simple changes from the cab of the truck. Although she works with a lot of men, she spent the first 18 years of her career working with women between the ages of 45-65. And now, even though women only make up 10% of the trucking industry, they are her loyal clients.

“Showing drivers how they can take care of their bodies, minds, and spirits with small simple changes they can apply to their day every day while living over the road is a huge win for them. With the right tools and strategies, fitness at any age does not have to be complicated. And if women can take their health back from the cab of the truck- then the everyday women can do anything!”

We discuss:

How she helps people who work in small spaces with limited mobility during working hours.
Tools she has developed for those with aches and pains
Advice for traveling: how to stretch before, during and after a long trip
Tools for women over 50 – improving your fitness a few minutes at a time
Hope’s 15 minute wellness method
How she helped one of her clients who lost over 100 pounds, quit smoking and now cooks healthy meals – in the cab of her semi truck.
Hope’s guide to eleven stretches you need to feel good again. Her one minute video of seven of them and Simple Strength training blog post.
Stiff Mother Trucker – her special pain relief cream – 100% natural, paraben-free, gluten- free, sulfate-free and artificial dye free

Links:
Her Mother Trucker Yoga website
Facebook
Instagram
LinkedIn

Food Confidence with Danielle Omar

February 28, 2023 / Chris Brown / 0 Comments

125 – Food Confidence with Danielle Omar

In episode 125, Chris and Jill talk with Danielle Omar, an Integrative Culinary Dietitian, lifestyle medicine expert, herbalist, and best-selling author of the Super Green Smoothies cookbook. A passionate food and nutrition educator, her expert advice has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Buzzfeed.com, Fitness, Shape, and Women’s Health magazine, as well as national television, including The Food Network and NBC Primetime.

Through her group-focused nutrition programs and private coaching practice at foodconfidence.com, Danielle has supported thousands of busy women on their journey to becoming their healthiest self.

Her unique approach blends 20+ years of practice-based evidence with nutrition science, positive psychology, and the power of self-regulation. Danielle believes strongly in the heart-mind connection and our innate ability to create harmony in our mind, our emotions, and our body.

We discuss:

What is Metabolic Mastery
Helping people with weight loss
Advice on meal planning
How do we figure out what foods to eat
Getting over perfectionism
Reducing inflammation from foods
Gut microbes and prebiotic foods
How she helps clients to think about food by not demonizing food
The importance of a variety of foods
How to change behavior around how and what you eat
Reducing stress and improving sleep
How to nourish yourself for a healthy weight
Her cookbook of Super Green Smoothies
Her Facebook community group

Links:

Her extensive index of recipes.
Facebook private food confidence community group
Metabolic mastery wait list
Danielle Omar on LinkedIn

Instagram

Champion Race Walker Yolanda Holder

February 14, 2023 / Chris Brown / 0 Comments

Episode 124 Champion Race Walker Yolanda Holder

In podcast episode 124, we talked with Champion Race Walker Yolanda Holder. We heard her interviewed on a podcast a few years ago and were so amazed by her that we’ve wanted to have her as a guest on our podcast ever since.

Yolanda Holder, 64 years young, is a professional Ultra Marathon Walker. She’s a 2X Guinness World Record holder for the “Most Marathons Completed in a Calendar Years”, finishing 106 marathons/ultras in 2010 and breaking her own record in 2012 finishing 120 marathons/ultras. In 2019 Yolanda became the oldest person to earn a US Race Walk Centurion #94 by race walking 100 Miles in under 24 hours. (23:52:17).

Yolanda is a World & American 35K Race Walk champion, American 6 Day Race champion (413 miles.) She’s also the World Champion Pedestrian of the longest certified footrace in the world, the Sri Chinmoy Self Transcendence 3100 Mile Race, finishing in 51 Days, 17 Hours and 13 Seconds.

Yolanda is a wife, mother of two adult children, a grandmother, an inspirational speaker and author.

We discussed:

How she got started race walking
What race walking is
how does she train
Her thoughts on recovery
Dealing with the mental aspects of a marathon and ultra marathons
Her experiences while breaking World and American Records

Links:

Necessary Nutrition with Robin Allen

January 24, 2023 / Chris Brown / 0 Comments

Episode 123 – Necessary Nutrition with Robin Allen

Robin Allen is a nutritionist passionate about helping women over 40 understand the best practices for longevity. She is the founder of Necessary Nutrition, Inc and the creator of the Necessary Nutrition brand of Vitamin D3.

She received her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Las Vegas, Nevada (1996), and her Master’s from the University of Redlands (2001) and an additional nutrition certification from the Global College of Natural Medicine (2008).

Robin encourages people to see food and nutrition as the way to fight obesity, illness and disease. She has been featured on CNN Headline News, and countless other media outlets sharing her insight on food, nutrition and life.

We discuss:

Tips to address health and wellness
The best things we can do, nutritionally speaking, to support longevity and fight disease
How chemicals in food change the biochemistry in our bodies
How to decide which supplements we should be taking
Vitamin D and Vitamin K
The keys to her 10 day shred program
About her tower gardens – indoor and outdoor

Links:

Website: https://www.necessaryvitamind.com/
Her Tower Garden website: https://necessary.towergarden.com/aeroponics
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/robindeivyallen
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nessynutri/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/nessynutri/

Best Podcasts for Women Over 50 – Health and Fitness Category

January 14, 2023 / Chris Brown / 0 Comments

What makes a good podcast? Good sound quality, consistent publishing, relate-ability, great guests… these are all things that come to mind. Making a podcast that people find motivational and inspirational, well, to me, that makes a great podcast.

So you can imagine that finding out that our podcast was actually including by FeedSpot as one top women’s fitness podcasts (and they weren’t even talking about women over 50) was really exciting to me!

We recently mentioned that our podcast made the list for FeedSpot in the number two position for The 15 Best Women’s Fitness Podcasts for 2023.

The list is chock full of great podcasts and I decided to look at some of the other January lists to see what they are saying. Of course these lists are often changing and updating.

Right now Player FM lists our podcast as #3 in the Best Women’s Health and Fitness podcasts. I do think that the ranking shifts continually based on how often the podcast is updated.

One of the statistic that Jill and I heard was that the average podcast only launches 7 episodes before they give up.

Considering we just finished releasing episode #122, I don’t think we have to worry about that! I find that many of our guests also have terrific podcasts that I find very motivational and full of information. I love getting motivated and inspired by listening to a podcast while I workout or take a walk on the nearby trails.

The 55+ Life Magazine included our Fit Strong Women Over 50 podcast in their article in January 2022 called The Best Fitness Podcast for People Over 50.

I found a list from 2020 that talked about the best health and fitness podcasts for women, but many of the podcasts that they listed were hosted by men. I am wondering that perhaps more men create podcasts then women, but that is just a guess on my part. I guess it doesn’t really matter if it is hosted by men or women, right?

I’m just very happy that our podcast subscriptions continue to grow. If you enjoy our podcast, please tell a friend.

Wellness through Movement with Shebah Caragna - 122 podcast

Wellness through Movement with Shebah Carfagna

January 10, 2023 / Chris Brown / 0 Comments

Episode 122 – Wellness through Movement with Shebah Carfagna

In episode 122, Jill and Chris talk with Shebah Carfagna, an age-defying health, wellness and fitness professional with more than 27 years of training experience.

Shebah is well known for her commitment to her clients and their lifelong wellness journey.

Shebah has been a loyal fitness devotee for many years as a means to manage life stress and the responsibility of raising a special needs child. Realizing the importance of exercise as medicine for her autistic son and other special needs constituents, Shebah founded Panache Fitness Company in 2005 to offer these groups health and wellness opportunities.

Today, Panache Fitness Company offers traditional fitness services while still serving the needs of clients with specific health conditions and chronic diseases. Shebah encourages clients to think beyond their exercise program and to manage their habits to achieve a more healthy lifestyle and increased longevity. She has enjoyed significant success with her clients in both personal training and group classes.

Shebah holds professional fitness certifications: Spin, Pilates, BOSU, Boot Camp, TRX and Group Fitness and is the founder of the “AGELESS WORKOUT” presented by Panache Fitness Company. She is devoted to helping people achieve harmony between their fitness journey and a sustainable lifestyle.

We discussed:

What is a Sustainable Lifestyle
Developing her fitness company and having a flexible schedule
What she means by the ageless workout method
Her online classes where wellness through movement is stressed
The research she is preparing for the next publication of her book in the spring of 2023
How she works out and what her idea of a great workout is
Stumbling blocks to managing physical fitness and mental fitness
How she came back from a total hip replacement in 2018

Links to follow Shebah Carfagna:

Social media: @panachefitness
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/panachefitness/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/panachefitness
Website: panachefitness.com

End of 2022 with Chris and Jill

December 27, 2022 / Chris Brown / 0 Comments

Episode 121 – End of 2022 with Chris and Jill

In this episode, Chris and Jill reflect on 2022, books read, podcast guests interviewed and healthy eating tips mentioned throughout the year.

Some of the topics we discussed include:

- Eating fiber first, then protein, then carbs. So eating your salad or vegetables first makes sense, then the protein, and then whatever carbs you’re eating.

Glucose Revolution by Jessie Inchauspe

Jill recently read the book “Glucose Revolution by Jessie Inchauspe” and we talked about some insights that she learned from it.

Water? Before after during? Drinking water before a meal might help you eat less. I’ve read that drinking during or after a meal does not affect your digestive enzymes so it’s ok to do.
Not in the car, not in front of the computer (not with a fox, not in a box)
Mindful eating… chewing certain # of times
Pam Sherman – not looking at what you are taking away but what you are adding (healthy food first)
Idea of intermittent fasting
Food Prepping

We love this colorful food prep example that Nancy Gardner at NG Energy shared with us in the Becoming Elli private Facebook group.

Recipes with protein ideas, other fan favorites.
Rice and Beans being a complete protein
2 cups of veggies or fruit handy for the drive or when you’re feeling weak
Tofu – yes or no? How to make it more yummy
Protein powders that we like and how we eat them other than a protein shake

We also reviewed highlights from episodes in 2022 with inspirational guests:

You can listen to the Rock Climbing and Yoga podcast with Carol Simpson here. If you’d like to join our private Facebook group called Becoming Elli, please click here!

We were excited to learn that FeedSpot ranks Fit Strong Women Over 50 podcast as #2 for Best Women’s Fitness Podcast among the thousands of podcasts.

15 Best Women’s Fitness Podcasts

The best Women’s Fitness podcasts from thousands of podcasts on the web and ranked by traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. “Here are 15 Best Women’s Fitness Podcasts worth listening to in 2023:”

Thank you for telling a friend about our podcast. We know that is the #1 way people learn about our Fit Strong Women Over 50 podcast

Whoo Hoo!Ranked number two for best women’s fitness podcasts by Feedspot.

Some of the topics we plan to cover during 2023 (based on suggestions from Facebook Becoming Elli Group … plus what we like to cover)
• Pelvic floor exercises
• Hip and knee replacement
• Research on staying fit in 70s and 80s. There’s barely any research on this for women older than 50 so don’t know what we can find about this.
• Meal preps and recipes
• More ways to vary protein sources

What was the best thing you learned from the podcast in 2022? What are your fitness goals for the coming year?