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Powerful Perspectives
by Savannah Kaminski and Julianna King
Welcome to "Powerful Perspectives," where strength, intellect, and life intertwine. Join Julianna and Savannah as they explore powerlifting, academia, books, travel, and more. Through engaging conversations, discover inspiring stories, thought-provoking literature, and thrilling travel tales. Get ready to be uplifted, motivated, and inspired. Tune in every week and celebrate the diverse power of perspectives!
Episodes
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Episode 49: A Sneak Peak into the Film Life with Savannah
Hello Hello everybody, after a very chaotic couple weeks, we are back with another episode! This week, Savannah and Julianna jump back into a little Q&A style episode as we hear a little bit of the inside scoop of Savannah's life as she begins her journey in film. While you listen, don't forget…
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Episode 48: Faking it Til you Make it -How to Approach Interviews Post Grad
Welcome back to another week with Powerful Perspectives! This week, Julianna and Savannah discuss interviews and how to bring confidence into the meeting room with you. Whether you are interviewing as a potential PhD candidate like Julianna or interviewing in a creative career field like…
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Episode 47: The Rise of AI and Making the Most Out of You Travel Points
Welcome Back to another episode of Powerful Perspectives!! Can AI be beneficial if used as a tool instead of a crutch? Savannah and Julianna tackle the question as they discuss the rising use of AI in the Industry today. Julianna also pulls out her financial queen hat (based on personal…
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Episode 46: Post-Grad Friendships and Breaking into the Film Industry
Savannah and Julianna talk about Savannah's recent adventures in breaking into the film industry. The girls also discuss post- grad friends and share stories on how they navigate long distance friendships. While you listen, don't forget to subscribe to our podcast so you don’t miss any new...
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Episode 45: New Gym Atmospheres (+ How to Approach Them)
In this episode of Powerful Perspective, join Julianna and Savannah as they discuss venturing into new gym spaces. In this week’s Entertainment Weekly, Julianna highlights the recent release of Night Agent Season 2 and how she has started a new Jennifer Lynn Barnes Series. Savannah discusses her...
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Episode 44: 2025 has been off to a wild start...
Welcome back to Powerful Perspectives! This week, Julianna and Savannah discuss what has kept them from the podcast, including two moves that mimic the experiences of Snow Miser and Heat Miser. Both girls discuss their experiences navigating the moves and challenges that have arisen during them....
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Episode 43: Roommate Tales
Julianna and Savannah are joined this week by Savannah's sister, Mackenzie, and her roommate, Paige. The girls all discuss stories from being roommates and tips for navigating roommate scenarios. Mackenzie and Paige are college students at Michigan State University and provide unique…
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Episode 42: Updates & Perspectives on Wicked
Welcome back to Powerful Perspectives! For something different this week, Savannah and Julianna discuss what they've been up to - traveling, saying goodbyes, and prepping for their moves. They discuss Wicked and their takes on the casting, storyline, etc. They also discuss 'We Live In Time' and...
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Episode 41: Warm Up Room Efficiency
Welcome back everyone! This week, Julianna and Savannah discuss their experiences in the warm up room of meets. They talk through what helps them to be efficient on meet day, what the difference is between a handler and game day coach, and much more While you listen, let us know if you'd like to...
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Episode 40: Ridiculous Powerlifting Meet Stories
Welcome back everyone! This week, Julianna and Savannah discuss their comical meet experiences - everything from hating on knee sleeves to spitting in a bottle - and share tips on what not to do. While you listen, let us know if you'd like to see a part 2. Don't forget to subscribe to our podcast...
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Episode 39: Getting Started in the Gym
In this week’s Entertainment Weekly, we discuss the mini-season of Nobody Wants This and what each of us has been up to over the past few weeks. We also discuss Julianna's experience with personal training her dad and the key aspects to training that anyone can apply. We also discuss how training...
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Episode 38: Perspective Shifts from High School to Now
Hello everybody and welcome back! This week, Julianna and Savannah spend time discussing their own takes on the changing seasons as well as movies and shows they're excited to watch. The majority of the time, they discuss how their definitions of success has changed from high school to now. Both...
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Episode 37: Chasing Joy, Not Just Goals
Welcome back everyone! This week, Julianna and Savannah talk a little bit about their current entertainment including The Grandest Game and Monsters. For this week's main topic, we discuss the concept of looking for the everyday joys in life and the process and not solely focusing on the end…
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Episode 36: Where We've Been & Gender in Powerlifting
Welcome back, everybody! We missed everyone dearly. This week we play catch-up as we discuss some of the highlights of our month-long hiatus. Who knew so much could happen in a month? This includes some fascinating life updates and an insight into what we learned throughout the process. We also...
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Episode 35: Powerlifting and Life Goals
This week on Powerful Perspectives, Savannah and Julianna discuss powerlifting goals and how they apply to life goals. They spend time discussing how to break down big goals and work towards them, even if not perfectly. They also spend time talking about recent music releases, and what has been...
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Episode 34: Ebbs and Flows of Training
Welcome back, everyone! This week Julianna and Savannah start off by discussing their current audiobook and reading adventures. If you're squeamish about blood or zombie discussion, be warned. For this week's main topic we discuss what we're currently up to training wise and how important...
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Episode 33: Finding Yourself in Your 20s
Welcome back everyone! This week Julianna and Savannah hop right into sharing what's going on in their lives. They share a bit about their current move and career aspirations. The two goes go into depth on 'callings' and more. Before ending off, they share their recent movie favorites for...
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Episode 32: Grieving and Powerlifting
Welcome back everyone! Savannah and Julianna are back this week to discuss the presence of grief in powerlifting. They discuss their own experiences, things they have seen and helpful tips to work through these feelings. Don't forget to subscribe to our podcast so you don’t miss any new episodes,...
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Episode 31: IPF World's Recap
Welcome back to Powerful Perspectives. This week, Julianna hosts the episode to talk about the 2024 IPF Open World Championships. She spends time recapping the mens' and womens' classes as well as some notable stories from the meet. Let us know what you thought about the episode! While you…
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Episode 30: Florence & Barcelona Travels
Welcome back to the Travel Tales! The past couple weeks, Julianna and Savannah traveled to Europe. In this episode, the two girls recap their travel journeys to Barcelona and Florence and provide tips on European travel. Some places mentioned: Barcelona: Cantina Machito, Tosca Del Carme Florence:...
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Episode 29: Engagement & Travel Tales
Welcome back from a long hiatus! On this podcast, Julianna and Savannah recap their latest adventures to Italy and Spain with a fun announcement and recap of Julianna's engagement! Listen in to hear about how Julianna was proposed to. Don't forget to subscribe to our podcast so you don’t miss any...
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Episode 28: Heat & Lifting in the Summer
Welcome back, everyone! In this week's episode for our Entertainment weekly discussion, we talk about round 2 of NF concert, the new Billie Eilish album, and the star of the show sourdough bagels. For our main topic today (with a few tangents) we talk about the road bumps lifters tend to run into...
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Episode 27: Social Life and Powerlifting
Happy Tuesday everyone! This week's entertainment covers everything from wedding dresses to the Kendrick vs Drake beef. For the main topic, we discuss how to balance being a powerlifter with an active social life. It can be hard to schedule in having fun when you are always worried about your…
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Episode 26: Five Unsexy Habits To Boost Your Powerlifting Total
Welcome back! For this episode’s entertainment weekly we discussed Julianna's recent viewing of Challengers as well as Savannah and Julianna's viewing of Anyone But You. The main topic today discusses 5 habits that we believe are 'unsexy' or rather, not popularly discussed or acknowledged that...
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Episode 25: Plateaus in Powerlifting
This week, Savannah and Julianna discuss the adventure that was listening to Taylor's newest album as well as some additional meet day coaching excursions. They provide their definition of what a plateau consists of and discuss the mentality and stress that can often be associated with plateaus....
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Episode 24: Meet Day Mishaps
Welcome back to the podcast everyone. This week, Julianna and Savannah do a brief recap of Collegiate Nationals. Fortitudo Fitness/The Strength Guys had a few athletes that Julianna went down to Atlanta to handle so we had a behind-the-scenes experience. For this episode’s entertainment weekly we...
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Episode 23: Ritualistic Lifting?
Happy Monday Everybody! Welcome back to the pod everyone. This week on Entertainment Weekly, Julianna and Savannah talked about movies such as ‘Miller’s Girl’ and the mini-seies ‘One Day.’ They discuss how soundtracks can affect the mood of a scene and how that can and will impact the viewing...
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Episode 22: Dating and Lifting
Hello all, Happy Tuesday! For this week's episode, we talk about an overlap of two very big aspects of life: dating and lifting. As gym rats, it can be hard to find the time to date and find people who understand how important training is in our daily lives. Julianna and Savannah discuss their…
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Episode 21: Gender Roles - Powerlifting, Society, and Literature
Happy Monday Everyone, and welcome back to another episode. This week we discuss a little different topic as we discuss gender roles throughout society. With our respective backgrounds in both the literature aspect and historical aspects of women and mental health, we dissect the societal…
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Episode 20: The Unique Culture of Powerlifting
Happy Monday everyone! For this week's entertainment weekly, we discuss a brief recap of PA nationals, which took place throughout last week. We also discuss the moving pieces that we believe some of the big names moving to PA will now bring into the sport. For our main topic, we talk a little…
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Episode 19: Let's Talk Business
Happy Monday, everyone! Let's get down to business. For this week's entertainment weekly we talk a little bit about how we have been occupying ourselves including an analysis of If We Were Villians by M.L. Rio and Julianna's concluding thoughts on The Truly Devious series by Maureen Johnson. We...
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Episode 18: Post-Meet Blues
For all of you who have been following along on our Full Send Prep Series, we are now bringing it to a close with a talk about Post Meet Blues. To kick off the discussion, we start by talking about some of the things we have been up to now that we have a little bit of extra time on our hands with...
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Episode 17: Meet Day Recap
Welcome back, everybody, to a very special meet recap episode! On this week's entertainment weekly we talk about our romcom movie of the week, Upgraded, and how it has compared to our previous romcom fails. We also discuss the Disney throwbacks we have been watching and the changes we have been...
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Episode 16: One Week Out, Tapers & Attempt Selection
Happy Monday everyone! We are officially one week out, and we are tired! For this week's entertainment weekly both of us spent a lot of time reading so we talked a little bit about our books of the week. Hopefully, if you get nothing else from this podcast you get some good book recommendations....
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Episode 15: Sheffield 2024 Recap
Happy Monday all! Big week for powerlifting as we had our version of the superbowl and our entertainment weekly. Sheffield 2024 In this week's episode we break down all the big events and our thoughts. 4:45 First off we breakdown the woman’s events. The woman’s event was probably the biggest due…
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Episode 14: Tales of Powerlifting Prep
Happy Monday, everyone! Happy 3 weeks out for us! :) To kick off this week's episode we start with our entertainment weekly involving a big announcement made by Taylor Swift at the Grammys. Something we were watching purely because we speculated there would be a big announcement. For all you...
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Episode 13: Things We've Learned
Happy Monday, Everyone! Hope all of the Detroit Lions fans are coping well (we are not). On today’s entertainment weekly section, Julianna and Savannah discuss a movie that fell a little flat along with some of their go-to favorites. For this week’s main topic, we switch it up a little from our...
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Episode 12: Levels of Powerlifting
Happy Monday everyone! On today's episode, Julianna and Savannah discuss Savannah's experience purchasing a new car and Julianna's struggle with registering for USAPL Nationals. For this week’s main topic, we discuss what to expect at different levels of powerlifting (local, national,...
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Episode 11: Big Michigan Week + Competition Schedules
Happy Monday, everyone! Hope everyone in the northern states survived the first big snow of this year’s winter. On today's episode, Julianna and Savannah discuss Michigan’s big week full of snowstorms, a big University of Michigan win (Go Blue!), and the Detroit Lions playing in the playoffs. For...
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Episode 10: Setting Goals in 2024
Welcome back, we hope everyone had a great first week of the year. In this episode, join Julianna and Savannah as we talk about how to set and succeed at the goals you have for 2024. For this week’s entertainment weekly, the girls discuss their current show of the night which is Chuck, featuring...
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Episode 9: Mental Health & Lifting (ft. Colin Thompson of Never Too Late)
In this episode of Powerful Perspectives, join Julianna and Savannah as we introduce our first ever guest Colin Thompson - A fellow lifter and coach from F3 Fitness. . In this week’s Entertainment Weekly, we discuss Colin’s Roman Empire of entertainment. Which leads us to a discussion of his love...
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Episode 8: Gift Guide for Gym Rats & Gym Controversies
Mondays on repeat, now with video! In this episode of Powerful Perspective, join Julianna and Savannah to discuss gym controversies. In this week’s Entertainment Weekly, we discuss Tate McRae's new album and a recent Reel that blew up. We also highlight the Questions of the Week segment, where we...
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Episode 7: We're Back! New Format, Ballad, and Holidays.
It's been a long time coming, but we are BACK. In this episode of Powerful Perspective, join Julianna and Savannah as we discuss our little hiatus from the pod and all the new revamps we are bringing into the coming episodes. In this week’s Entertainment Weekly, we discuss the chokehold Ballad of...
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Episode 6: Coach-Athlete Relationships
Julianna and Savannah return to discuss all things coach-athlete relationships. Coming from both the coach and client perspectives, they discuss the importance of communication and connection within coach-athlete dynamics. Research referenced in the episode: Jowett, S. (2017). Coaching...
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Episode 4: Body Image & Powerlifting
In this episode, Julianna and Savannah dive into a popular topic in the lifting world: body image. Join us as we discuss our own journeys with body image and the changes we have made from the beginning to now. This also leads us into a discussion of the very non- linear journey many people will...
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Episode 3: New USAPL Rules & Powerlifting Federations
In this episode, Julianna and Savannah discuss new and upcoming rules that are being set in motion by USAPL. We discuss the pros and cons this new rule could bring to athletes in the upcoming years and how it may affect the powerlifting community as a whole. We also discuss the differences in...
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Episode 2: Our Journeys in Powerlifting
In this episode, Savannah and Julianna discuss how they become friends (spoiler alert: they were not fast friends initially) and dive deeper into their own powerlifting histories. Follow us on socials: instagram.com/savvy_lifts instagram.com/juliannaking_
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Episode 5: Post Grad + Upcoming Meets
Join Julianna and Savannah as they discuss their upcoming powerlifting meets and the mental and physical prep that goes into them. The discussion also takes a turn into their life post-grad and how they both navigated creating a space for themselves in a world outside of university. Follow us on...
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Episode 1: Introduction + Longevity
Welcome to Powerful Perspectives with Julianna & Savannah. In this episode, we begin with introductions and discussion on why we decided to start this podcast. Then, we dive into our main topic: longevity in strength sports. We discuss the importance of consistency and flexibility within...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to "Powerful Perspectives," where strength, intellect, and life intertwine. Join Julianna and Savannah as they explore powerlifting, academia, books, travel, and more. Through engaging conversations, discover inspiring stories, thought-provoking literature, and thrilling travel tales. Get ready to be uplifted, motivated, and inspired. Tune in every week and celebrate the diverse power of perspectives!
HOSTED BY
Savannah Kaminski and Julianna King
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