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FitMama
by Jen Oliver
Being a FitMama all begins with love. Loving self care for the body you have and strengthening your core from the inside out. Mind and Body inspiration, education and motivation for you to live a life you love in a body you love, for life!
Episodes
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Tracking and Training with Adriana Mastronardi (EP 140)
Hey Hey FitMama! Today I bring you the brilliant mind behind the podcast "A Cup of Dri, Adriana Mastronardi! In this chat we don't just talk about tracking macros (though we do…the what, how, when, why of it all) but we talking about feeling sexy as women as we age and how what we eat and what we...
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What is NEAT? (Ep 139)
Hey Hey FitMama! Today I have a brief solo episode to share with you the concept of NEAT (non exercise activity thermogenesis). What is it? How does it help us? How can we get more? What are some examples of NEAT and how do we incorporate these into our lives for the many health benefits...
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How to Prepare and Heal from a C-section with Janette Yee (Ep 138)
FitMama! If you are pregnant and may have a c-section (1 in 3 births end in this surgery) or you know someone who is or has had one, tune in now and share! Do not hesitate to pass this episode along or listen multiple times! Janette Yee (@askjeanette on Instagram) is spilling all the goods with…
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How to Nourish Your Family with Marni Wasserman (EP 137)
FitMama, I am so excited today to bring you one of my all time fave humans, author, coach, mom and my friend, Marni Wasserman of The Ultimate Baby Podcast with Marni Wasserman. Marni is a wealth of information and we talk about how we both used to be vegetarians, how her understanding and...
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What I Take In A Day (136)
As an extension of last episode (What I do in a Day) I take you through my current supplements and things I take in addition to my food and exercise that I talked about last episode. I share what I am doing in my current day to day and how things may change depending on the day. This does not...
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What I Do In A Day (EP135)
FitMama!! This episode brings you a glimpse into my life! I share my fitness and nutrition and recovery with you today. I share what works for me with my current life situation, my previous back injury and how it has influenced my fitness, mindset and health habits over the last 10 years since my...
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How to Love Your Body Through Fitness with Kate Laird (EP134)
Today you're in for a great episode with Kate Laird of Love Your Body Fitness. A boutique gym for live and online workouts that will remind you how good it feels to be you! Kate just endured a double hip replacement surgery and we talk about recovery (from birth or surgery!), pelvic health, safe...
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How to Foster Confidence and Resilience in your Child (EP 133)
FitMama, this is a treat today to have the Confident Teen Coach, Kristi Simons. This conversation will get you thinking and offer you some insight into your child or teen, as well as yourself! So often we don't know how to help our kids because we weren't taught the tools to help ourselves…
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How to Get and Stay Motivated (EP 132)
Hi there FitMama, I am so excited to talk to you about one of my fave topics which has been under some scrutiny in the last years regarding habit change and it's Motivation! It is a big topic and one that I go into at many angles. I share tips and ideas around getting to your "Why," which is the...
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How to Create Connected Relationships (EP 131)
Hey Hey FitMama, I have an amazing guest for you today; parenting and relationship coach, Diane Sorensen! Diane had gone on a personal development journey over 20 years ago when her daughter's mental health crisis had her looking at things differently. This opened up a whole new world to Diane…
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How to Manage Cravings (EP130)
Hey Hey FitMama, I have been having so many questions from my DMs asking about how to stop cravings for habits and foods that we want to stop doing. How do we stop! Well, managing cravings is easier than you think. It needs to start with wanting to change something that isn't working for you....
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How to Avoid Burnout and the Type A Trap (EP 129)
Hey Hey FitMama, I am so grateful to bring you my incredibly inspiring and informative interview with international keynote speaker, Erin Stafford. Erin shares with us what the Type A trap is and how to avoid burnout. This is a very real situation to consider when striving and driving forward in...
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How Coaching and Therapy are Similar and Different (EP 128)
Hey Hey FitMama, today I am sharing some facts and opinions comparing and contrasting therapy and coaching. Have you ever worked with a coach or therapist? I share some benefits to each modality and how I have used both at different times for different purposes. I love the work I do with my…
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How to Love Your Skin with Dr. Jen Newell (EP 127)
FitMama! On today's episode I have the brilliant Dr. Jen Newell. Dr. Jen is a seasoned skin strategist who adores addressing dermatological concerns. She offers next level support for patients by resolving their skin issues from both the inside out and the outside in. In addition, she wants to...
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How to Explore our Addictive Behaviors (EP126)
Hey FitMama! I am here for you today with some real talk on habits and behaviors in our regular routine and looking at: What are they and how do they affect us (Shopping, drinking, gambling, coffee, procrastinating etc) Are they giving or taking from us? (Which one more?) Do they serve us? Maybe...
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How to Feel Safe with Laurie Anne Briere (EP125)
Hey FitMama! I am super excited to bring you one of my fave teachers and practitioners on this planet and that is Laurie Anne Briere! Laurie Anne is a somatic practitioner, Transforming Touch® therapist, and student of Somatic Experiencing®. Her mission is to support humans in reconnecting with…
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How to Explore the World: Travel, Retreats, and Traveling with Kids (EP124)
FitMama, Hola! I have spent more than half of last month traveling and in this episode, I share my experiences and my story of traveling around the world with my kids when they were 2&4 years old. We shared all our pics and still continue to on our instagram @theoliverstravel where you can find…
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How to Ditch the Stigma of Separation and Divorce (EP123)
FitMama, I have a treat for you today! I brought on the brilliant minds behind The Dirty Laundry Podcast, Co-Hosts Amanda Silver and Alex Howard are talking about all things separation and divorce. With a strong belief in ditching the stigma and bringing information to the masses, they are on a...
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How to Learn From Toddlers with Dr. Hasan Merali (EP122)
Hey FitMama, I am excited this week to bring you my interview with Dr. Hasan Merali, pediatric emergency medicine doctor and father. We covered lots of topics from his new book: Sleep Well, Take Risks, Squish the Peas, which is all about secrets from the science of toddlers for a happier, more...
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How and Why I love Elysia Rotaru (EP121)
Hey Hey FitMama you're in for a treat this week. I have my friend Elysia Rotaru, Actor, Producer and Voice over artist. She is so talented and while has been at it for so long she's just getting started in her career as a Mom of a 2, almost 3 year old. She is a wise, experienced woman in...
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How I Met my Mother (EP120)
Hey FitMama! This week I have a very special guest on the podcast, my very own FitMama!! It's the first time I have interviewed my mom on my pod and she's visiting me in LA from Toronto so I took the opportunity to do so. This week I have been doing live 60 minute breathwork sessions with her and...
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How To Quiet Run (EP119)
Hey FitMama, This week I am so grateful and excited to have an amazing guest on the show, Alla Shashkina, a running coach, fellow trauma informed breathwork facilitator and breath science practitioner. As you already know, I love breathwork, the science behind it and even taping my mouth to sleep...
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How to Regulate Your Nervous System - Take Off the Hats! (EP118)
Hey Hey FitMama, This week I am bringing to you some nervous system regulation wisdom! Jump into this episode for my tips and tools to get out of the sympathetic dominance many of us find ourselves in day to day and spend more time hanging out in your parasympathetic mode (rest and digest), why?...
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How to Hold Space With Boundaries (EP117)
Hey FitMama, I'm back this week with a solo episode all about how to hold space, not only for others, but for yourself as well. Often we are at maximum capacity in our time, energy and money available to give to others and yet we expect ourselves to be there for everyone and we end up giving from...
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How to Be a FitMama Forever (EP116)
In this week's episode I dive deeper into where I have been the last few years mentally, emotionally, relationally etc. I go into detail about the dark time in my life I have just come out, how I went through the stages of grief, what helped me both stay alive through this, and what eventually...
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How to Be a FitMama (EP115)
Hey Hey FitMama, I am back! This week's episode is a solo cast with me, Jen Oliver sharing what's been going on since our last episode aired over 3 years ago. It's been quite the ride! I share some of my personal journey, what I have been going through and where I am heading. I recap The Love...
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Episode 114: Wild Women's Wisdom with Dr. Michelle Peris
This week's episode features someone who I know you will love! Our guest is Dr. Michelle Peris, ND! This amazing FitMama has 2 kiddos of her own and is changing the narrative for how we approach our health. Dr. Michelle Peris is the founder of a women's community health initiative called The Wild...
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Episode 113: Vaginal Self-Care with Kate Roddy
This episode is loaded with nuggets of wisdom for women at all stages of motherhood and for those who don't have children but still have a vagina! Join Kate Roddy and I as we chat Vaginal Self-Care and all the mind-body aspects of taking care of your own vagina. Kate Roddy is a veteran orthopedic...
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Episode 112: Create Calm: The Professional Guide to Overcoming Anxiety with Dr. Katie Thompson Aitken, ND
Hi, Fit Mama our guest on the podcast episode is Dr. Katie Thomson Aitken, ND, author of Create Calm: The Professionals Guide to Overcoming Anxiety. For Dr. Aitken, anxiety is not a fact but a response or reaction that occurs naturally to help and protect us. It should not be a permanent state…
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Episode 111: Cottage Cheese Thighs with Jenn Sadai
Jenn Sadai is a Canadian author and advocate using her talents and life experiences to inspire and empower women. Jenn discusses her book about self-love and body image entitled the Cottage Cheese Thighs. She shared her long struggles with body weight, eating disorders, and self-esteem. For her,...
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Episode 110: That Sex Episode with Alexa Martinez
Let's talk about sex FitMama! Get ready for this interview with one of my faves! Alexa Martinez is a sex, love, and relationship by design coach and sex coach business mentor on a mission to reform sex education and sexuality expression across the globe. She helps liberate people when it comes to...
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Episode 109: Orgasmic Enlightenment and Vaginal Weight Lifting with Kim Anami
Kim Anami, a sex and relationship coach and vaginal weightlifter, discusses the true power of sex and the benefits that come with being A Well-Fu*ked Woman. According to Kim, there is an epidemic of sexually unfulfilled females in modern times. These women express this as feelings of anger,...
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Episode 108: Benefits of Orgasms (and how to have more)!
Be prepared to get excited in this episode (I did!) Today I talk about edging yourself towards orgasms and the many benefits to doing so. Not only the orgasm itself but also all the "foreplay" that can go into it, solo or with others. In this episode, I talk a lot about body image and some new…
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Episode 107: The Ultimate Home Birth with Marni Wasserman
This episode with Marni Wasserman will inspire you and encourage you to dream big for your birth experience and stay the course when things aren't going according to plan. Marni takes us through her the end of her pregnancy and shares her home childbirth experience and the unexpected ways that...
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Episode 106: Demystifying Miscarriage and PMS with Dr. Jordan Robertson
Dr. Jordan Robertson had 3 miscarriages before she got was able to carry her first baby to full term and it was devastating, to say the least. She saw countless others go through similar experiences and as she started learning more about miscarriage and hormones she got clarity and started…
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Episode 105: What's a Doula with Christa Ardelean
Episode 105: What's a Doula with Christa Ardelean This week's episode will leave you feeling empowered about birthing. Pregnant women are consistently bombarded with fear messaging about the pain and suffering they are about to embark upon through labor, delivery, and raising children. Christa...
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Episode 104: Simply Synced with Jenn Pike
This week's packed episode features Jenn Pike, a Functional Nutritionist and Medical Exercise Specialist who shares with us her simplicity style wisdom, sharing with us how being healthy and fit does not have to be complicated. Jenn shares the value of knowing what week of your cycle you're in…
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Episode 103: Eat Without Pain featuring Dr. Kim Bretz
This episode will have you asking some good questions about how you really feel when you eat. Before, during, and after. Dr. Kim Bretz, ND is a Naturopathic Doctor in Canada who is a passionate international public speaker and consultant on gastrointestinal health. As someone who knows the pain…
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Episode 102: Chakra Talk with Jummee Joy
Jummee Park, a spiritual feeder and medicine woman, shares the basics of what a chakra is and explains which colors are associated with each chakra. Root Chakra – Red Sacral Chakra – Orange Solar Plexus Chakra – Yellow Heart Chakra – Green Throat Chakra – Blue Third Eye Chakra – Purple Crown…
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Episode 101: A Purpose Driven Life with Dr. Meghan Walker
Our purpose, motivation, clarity, and direction in life are being confronted more than ever before during these unprecedented pandemic times. This week's guest, one of the women I admire most on this planet, Dr. Meghan Walker, talks to us about her personal motivations, how she's keeping her…
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Episode 100: Intimacy and Honesty with Chris Oliver
Welcome to our 100th Episode! In this episode, I invited my husband Chris on to have some open chats about the evolution of myself as Jen, wife, mother, and FitMama, particularly the last 15 years we've been together. I thanked him publicly for his strength, support, and for always creating such...
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Episode 99: What I Learned at our Tantra Yoga Retreat Part 2
FitMama, this episode is steamy and eye-popping! Tune in to hear my shares from tantra and my suggestions for ways you can connect more deeply with yourself and your "person." Safety is the key to pleasure IMO and I share all the details about why and how in this episode. My man has made me feel…
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Episode 98: All things Immunity with Lisa Dowling
This week's episode is interrupting normal content with THE focus of the times, the coronavirus and all things related. Lisa, a TCM practitioner shares her experience thinking she had the virus and was quarantined for 9 days. She has worked with thousands of patients over the last two decades and...
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Episode 97: What I Learned at our Tantra Yoga Retreat Part 1
What I learned at our Tantra Yoga Retreat Part 1of 2 Tantra is the art of conscious loving. My husband and I recently went on a retreat weekend to learn this art in more detail and it was very sexy. Being present was definitely one of the biggest takeaways and it seems so simple...yet is…
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Episode 96: Pelvic Health is VITAL!
I am so grateful this week's guest, Chana Ross is joining me. She is a pelvic health physiotherapist, owner of Vital Physiotherapy. She is an inspiration when it comes to helping women with everything related to their pelvic health. As we dive into the discussion about pain, incontinence…
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Episode 95: Is it a holding pattern or meant to be?
This week I go really deep into a place I haven't been before with this intimate episode of what being a FitMama means to me right now. Courage. Clarity. Confrontation. And then diving in even deeper to see what's really going on. What is the FEELING behind what your daily actions are about? What...
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Episode 94: The Ultimate Journey with Marni Wasserman
This episode will give you a peek into the life and experience of Marni Wasserman with her current pregnancy, how she got to where she is now as a co-host to one of the most downloaded podcasts in the health space. Marni is a Real Food and Real Life Nutritionist and Podcast Co-Host of The…
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Episode 93: Fasting 101
In this week's episode, I tackle common questions I get when it comes to fasting. Who is it for and who isn't it for? How do you do it? What is intermittent fasting? I talk about this and more around self-experimentation and practicing the practice of fasting that our bodies as humans were…
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Episode 92: Courageous Living with Maggie Chilton
This episode will have you feeling excited to live more courageously FitMama! I Interview Maggie and we get into the details of living a courageous life. Maggie is the mother of two boys and she shares her story with us in this episode. Maggie helps people live courageously through her…
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Episode 91: Daily Routines for the 2020 WIN
Daily Routines for the 2020 WIN Hey FitMama as we embark on a new decade we can look back and see that the last one flew by and so much happened! I jump into all these clichés and New Year's Resolution talk in this episode and give you a focus around ROUTINES. My TWO Day Goal Getting sheet sets…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Being a FitMama all begins with love. Loving self care for the body you have and strengthening your core from the inside out. Mind and Body inspiration, education and motivation for you to live a life you love in a body you love, for life!
HOSTED BY
Jen Oliver
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