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The PUSH Podcast
by PUSH Fitness
Cara Turnquist & Jill McLean of PUSH Fitness talk all things pre- & postnatal fitness, parenting stories, social justice issues and more! Are you ready? Let’s PUSH it!
Episodes
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The PUSH Podcast Season 3 Episode 4: On Body Modification
We make no secret of the fact that we are anti-diet culture. But, does that mean that we are anti-body modification? And what happens when one of our clients comes to us with a desire to change their body? Can you love your body and want to change it? Listen in are we discuss a listener question...
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The PUSH Podcast Season 3 Episode 3: Inclusivity In Large Gym Spaces with Matt Turnquist
You know those globo gyms like you see in the movie Dodgeball? Many times larger gym spaces like that are filled with toxic masculinity, racism, homophobia, ableism and the like. Matt Turnquist, general manager of Pursue Fitness in Springfield, Oregon sits and talks with us about ways that he is...
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The PUSH Podcast Season 3 Episode 2: What To Do When You've Done Harm
Wether we’ve been made aware of it or not, we’ve all unintentionally harmed someone. We that happens, it’s important that we steer away from becoming self defensive, lean into the discomfort and seek to understand how we can both take accountability and do better. In this episode we talk through...
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The PUSH Podcast Season 3 Episode 1: Seeking Inclusion In Fitness
We’re back, baby! After a hiatus, we are finally here with season 3 and we are excited! In this episode we talk about how the fitness industry has historically shaped and defined what our society views as “good” and “bad” bodies. Well…..we strongly disagree with their expectations and made up...
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The PUSH Podcast Season 2 Episode 23: Pro-Life, Pro-Choice & Texas
Content Warning: This episode tackles the topic of pro-life, pro-choice, abortion and the recently passed 6-week abortion ban in the state of Texas. We will be discussing personal abortion stories, miscarriage and more related to this topic. This episode is heavy. If these topics are triggering…
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The PUSH Podcast Season 2 Episode 22: Let's Talk About Sex, Baby! with Meaghan Thurston
Ever wonder what sex, purity culture and diet culture have in common? Check out our latest episode to find out! In this episode we sit down with sex educator and sex coach Meaghan Thurston to talk all things sex, body image, pursuit of pleasure and more! Listen to our latest episode now!…
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The PUSH Podcast Season 2 Episode 21: Pregnancy and Weight Gain
We’ve heard it time and time again. Our pregnant clients who have shared that they are terrified of gaining “too much” weight during pregnancy. But….how much is too much? In this episode as we discuss: Our personal pregnancy experiences and feeling of shame around our bodies The illusory effect…
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The PUSH Podcast Season 2 Episode 20: Special Guest Justice Roe Williams of Fitness For All Bodies!
We are so excited and honored to have Justice Roe Williams as a guest on this episode of the PUSH Podcast! If you've been listening for awhile you know that we talk about Justice in pretty much every episode. Justice is a Certified Personal Trainer, head coach at Kettlebell Justice, founder of…
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The PUSH Podcast Season 2 Episode 18: From "Trainer" to Trainer with Jen Borruso of Anchor Fit Club
“Fitness has no shape, fitness has no size, no gender, no age, nothing. It is for everybody.” - Jen Borruso of Anchor Fit Club Like many of us in the fitness industry, Jen started her fitness career with a company that claims to be “all about health”, but really isn’t. In this episode we talk…
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The PUSH Podcast Season 2 Episode 17: Protecting Your Joy with Julianne Jackson of Black Joy Oregon
Your health is about so much more than what your body looks like or the number on the scale. There are so many factors like your background, family life, trauma, how the society that you live in values you and so much more that is at play when it comes to overall health. Julianne Jackson of Black...
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The PUSH Podcast Season 2 Episode 16 - Fitness, Mental Health, Activism and More with Claire Snyder
We are beyond thrilled to share this episode with you where we sit down with Claire Snyder, a local activist and good friend to us here at the PUSH Podcast. In this episode we discuss: Claire’s lived experiences as a Black women in different fitness environments and in her community; How mental...
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The PUSH Podcast Season 2 Episode 15: Let's change the narrative - fitness is for every BODY! with Stacy Hobson
“What we’re creating here is what we never got ourselves.” - Stacy Hobson Stacy Hobson from SLH Fitness dives deep with us on this episode of the PUSH Podcast. Listen in as we discuss: Weight stigma in personal training spaces, medical biases & fatphobia How fitness doesn’t have one a look and...
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The PUSH Podcast Season 2 Episode 14: Embracing Your Body with Bee Decker
In this episode we are so excited to interview Bee Decker, our first outside guest interviewee on the PUSH Podcast! Bee, owner of Spill the Beans Etc and The Freckled Bee, shares her experiences about her relationship with her body growing up, her journey toward embracing her body and where she…
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The PUSH Podcast Season 2 Episode 13: Growing up in a diet saturated world with Cara Turnquist, co-host of the PUSH Podcast
In this episode Jill interviews Cara, co-host of the PUSH Podcast. Hear more about Cara’s story of growing up, how she made the transition from trying to conform to the thin ideal to the body liberation that she experiences today and how she can show up as her most authentic self in this world....
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The PUSH Podcast Season 2 Episode 12: Diet Unicorns...How Do They Do It?!
A diet unicorn. We can all visualize that person in our life that has lost weight by dieting and has kept it off. Or….so it seems. When we step back and take a look at the bigger picture, what are the things that we don’t see? What parts of the story are unknown? In this episode we break down all...
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The PUSH Podcast Season 2 Episode 11: "You're too big for him," and other diet culture nonsense with Jill McLean, co-host of the PUSH Podcast
In this episode Cara interviews Jill, co-host of the PUSH Podcast. Hear more about Jill’s story of growing up, how diet culture stole her life and how she continues to work toward breaking through to the other side.
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The PUSH Podcast Season 2 Episode 10: Are We Promoting Obesity?
Being trainers who firmly believe in health at every size we are no strangers to the backlash from folks who are immersed in diet culture and who are tied to the Western “ideal” when it comes to fitness. One of the questions we are asked is, “Are you promoting obesity then?” Short answer: Yes. ;)...
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The PUSH Podcast Season 2 Episode 9: How We All Can Create Safe Places for Fitness
Whether it’s a big globo-gym or a tiny boutique training studio, fitness spaces historically have not been welcoming for all people. In this episode we discuss and explore some ways that we can all work toward creating and cultivating fitness spaces that feel safe for everyone. Bonus material:...
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The PUSH Podcast Season 2 Episode 8: What to do about treats
Have you ever bargained with yourself over food? Have you ever binged on a food that you had been trying to limit yourself on? Have you ever used exercise as punishment for what you ate? If you’ve answered “Yes,” to any of the above you are not alone. We have all been wading in the waters of diet...
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The PUSH Podcast Season 2 Episode 7: Health is a social construct
“I don’t care how you look, I just care that you’re healthy!” Hmmm…..really, though? In this episode we tackle shame and stigma surrounding weight, what determine’s a person’s ability to be healthy and how society has created a hierarchy surrounding what “good” bodies should look like. Also, Cara...
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The PUSH Podcast Season 2 Episode 6: Eat Chocolate, Have Sex & Stick It to the Man!
In this episode we turn over our topic to you, our listeners. In this Q&A episode we answer questions about stalls in fitness progress, sugar addiction and more! Listen in as we navigate these topics while honoring yourself, your body and your pleasures in life. EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT: We are now…
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The PUSH Podcast Season 2 Episode 5: What if you want to change your body?
If you’ve been following us for awhile you probably know where we stand on diet culture and marketed weight loss programs. But, does this mean that we don’t think that you should lose weight? Is wanting to change your body bad? Listen in as we dive into this topic to learn more. References made…
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The PUSH Podcast Season 2 Episode 4: All About Body Privilege
What do we mean when we say that we have “body privilege?” In this episode we talk about what body privilege is, how we have experienced it personally and why it matters for us to examine our own body privilege in a continued effort to take down diet culture, the patriarchy, racism and more.…
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The PUSH Podcast Season 2 Episode 3: Instagram Drama, Food Pyramids & Diet Culture
We recently made a post on Instagram that ruffled some feathers. (We called it Trouble Maker Tuesday.) Pushing back against diet culture can feel very daunting, but we think it’s important. Calling these things out as we see them is one of the ways that we feel like we can inch toward changing…
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The PUSH Podcast Season 2 Episode 2: You Don't Owe Anyone Your Fitness
Whether it’s from the diet industry, the gym, your trainer or from within yourself the pressure to eat and look a certain way can be really intense. We’re here to tell you that you don’t owe anyone your fitness. Not even to us. In this episode we break down where this pressure comes from, the...
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The PUSH Podcast Season 2 Episode 1: Your Feelings About Your Body During COVID-19
It’s been an entire year since the world was turned upside down by COVID-19. Among many changes that we’ve been through, a lot of us have also seen changes in our bodies with some added weight. But…..what if that’s okay? Rebellious, we know. Listen in as we start off season 2 of The PUSH Podcast…
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The PUSH Podcast Season 1 Episode 14: Politics and Fitness....Do They Go Together?
We were set to record on Wednesday, January 6, 2021. Hours before we were going to meet up news broke out that rioters stormed the Capitol in Washington, D.C. And we just couldn’t. We took a pause for a few days and then reconvened. In this episode we talk about our reactions to the riot, how our...
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The PUSH Podcast Season 1 Episode 13: You've Made it Through 2020
References made in this episode: Labor of Love: How Fitness Can Deliver an Empowered Birth PUSH Fitness Community Facebook group Our contact information: email: [email protected]/phone: (503) 383-1043 Study on the prevalence of diastsis recti
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The PUSH Podcast Season 1 Episode 12: Knocking Ourselves Off Of Our Pedestals
There are some commonly held beliefs about weight and fitness. Some of them, well, actually, most of them are pretty much diet culture propaganda B.S. In this episode we tell the real story of the hows and whys of our journey toward becoming personal trainers, what we’ve learned over the years…
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The PUSH Podcast Season 1 Episode 11: New Year's Resolutions - Helpful or Harmful?
The New Year is upon us, which means that we will soon be seeing a barrage of marketing from the diet industry selling their latest lose weight quick schemes. Where did New Year’s resolutions come from? Are they a good thing? A bad thing? Should I make a New Year’s resolution this year? In this...
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The PUSH Podcast Season 1 Episode 10: Fatphobia, Internal Biases & Lockdown #2
Diet culture, fatphobia and internal biases aren’t exclusive to the fitness industry. We also see it all of the time within the medical community both within ourselves and with our medical providers. In this episode we discuss: Body image, fatphobia and interactions with medical providers What...
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The PUSH Podcast Season 1 Episode 9: Mental Health, Racism, Fitness & How It All Ties Together
(Trigger warning: In this episode we discuss the events surrounding the death of Walter Wallace, Jr. who was shot and killed on October 26, 2020 by police officers in response to a call from his family for help regarding his mental health. ) According to the CDC mental health disorders are among...
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The PUSH Podcast Season 1 Episode 8: Fat Phobia, Racism and Diet Culture
We recently ruffled a few feathers with an Instagram post on how diet culture is rooted in racism. In this episode we dive in on how fat phobia and diet culture are directly linked to racism, how the pursuit of thinness doesn’t necessarily lead to health and ways to be open to self examination...
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The PUSH Podcast Season 1 Episode 7: How Your Body Affects Your Belief in Yourself
Think of a time that your body did something that you wanted it to do. Now, think of a time that your body didn’t do something that you wanted it to do. How did you feel about yourself during each those times? Chances are when your body is or isn’t able to do the things that you want it to do…
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The PUSH Podcast Season 1 Episode 6: Body Positivity and the Patriarchy
Did you know that diet culture has a direct tie with the patriarchy? Did you know that it has a direct tie with racism? Listen to this episode to hear more and to learn ways to smash the patriarchy by rejecting society’s imposed body and beauty standards.
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The PUSH Podcast Season 1 Episode 5: Our Take on the #NoExcuses Culture
You’ve seen it. You’ve heard it. You may have even said it. #NoExcuses is a rampant part of the fitness and diet culture. But, really….don’t we all have excuses? And isn’t that okay? Tune in as we unpack out thoughts on why we think #NoExcuses is a dangerous message to be sending to folks trying…
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The PUSH Podcast Season 1 Episode 4: Diversify Your Feed
In this episode we talk about our conscious decision to take a short break from social media, why we decided to do it, how we are doing it and share ways that you can diversify your own feed in order to make social media a healthier place for you to be. (Also included in this episode: a short...
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The PUSH Podcast Season 1 Episode 3: Racism & the Fitness Industry
What does racism have to do with the fitness industry? What is our responsibility as white women within this industry and as business owners? We talk about this and more in this episode of The PUSH Podcast. Resources discussed in this episode: When engaging in anti-racism work it is important to...
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The PUSH Podcast Season 1 Episode 2: Fitness & Your Pelvic Floor
What does your pelvic floor have to do with fitness? Listen and find out!
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The PUSH Podcast Season 1 Episode 1: Get to know us, your hosts!
Cara & Jill of PUSH Fitness share where they came from and how PUSH Fitness came to be.
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Cara Turnquist & Jill McLean of PUSH Fitness talk all things pre- & postnatal fitness, parenting stories, social justice issues and more! Are you ready? Let’s PUSH it!
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