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Tough Cookie Talks — 196 episodes · page 1 of 2
Our Own Version of Hot Girl Summer--17 Minute Voice Notes, Decoding Response Styles, Black Cats & Golden Retrievers with Christina Montalvo
Multiple Things Can Be True At Once--the Most Unique Takes On Ozempic I've Ever Heard with Paige F.
Celebrating 20 Years of Living In Chicago with Life Lessons & Lore
What We Get Wrong About Body Positivity: Debating Jillian Michaels with Paula D. Atkinson
The Grass Isn't Always Greener & Also I Need To Touch It--Life Updates, Career Pivots, Lazy Rivers, & Fire Horses
Everything Hurts & I'm Dying: Why Your Body Feels So High Maintenance with Dr. Jen Hosler
What To Do When You're Bored With Your Workouts
Matching Manicures, Mutual Aid, and Moving Your Body Through the Madness with Ashantis Jones
An Unhinged Pep Talk About Skinny Influencers, "Toned" Arms, and Why I'm Not Buying Into Any It
Loving Your Kids Through the Patriarchal Bullsh!t of Motherhood with Christina Montalvo
Did She "Let Herself Go?" Or Did She Let Herself HEAL?? Coming Back To Dance As A Grown Woman Who Eats Carbs and Lifts Weights
Our Rights Are Shrinking and So Are Our Bodies--The Rhyming Scripts of Diet Culture and Purity Culture with Anna Rollins
Touching Grass, Borrowing Lemons, Theatre Jazz, Floral Wallpaper, & Witchy Things (Because I Have Nothing To Say About Fitness or the News)
What Is No Kings? Building Strength in Community & Peaceful Resistance with Ishaan Srivastava *Bonus Replay!*
We Have To Save Ourselves (But We Don't Have To Do It Alone!) with Chelsea Laliberté Barnes
"No Excuses" is Lazy Coaching (Here's Why I Want To Hear Yours!)
Laughing So We Don't Cry: Beauty Standards, Millennial Youth, and the Aftermath of the Epstein Files with Dr. Melissa Cioffi
Does Wanting to Lose Weight Make You Fatphobic?
Why Your New Years Goals Didn't Stick (+ What We Need For Actual Progress)
She Quit Social Media For a Year! Real Life Off the Internet with Liz Brinkmoeller
Running My Mouth While I Still Can (We're Back For Season 4!)
Fundamentalism in Fitness and Escaping the Christian Patriarchy with Tia Levings (Best of Season 3 Replay!)
Are We Ever Fully Recovered? Embracing the In-Between In Eating Disorder Recovery with Mallary Tenore Tarpley (Best of Season 3 Replay!)
How To Reject Diet Culture, Fight Fascists, and NOT Repeat the Worst Parts of History with Jen Borruso (Best of Season 3 Replay!)
Exercise Swaps for when you Hate Lunges (Best of Season 3 Replay!)
23 Habits and Qualities of My Most Successful Clients (Best of Season 3 Replay!)
The Ozempic/Wegovy Conversation Continued: Important Questions To Ask Yourself Before Chasing a Weight Loss Goal (Best of Season 3 Replay!)
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ozempic/Wegovy but Were Afraid to Ask with Vinny Welsby (Best of Season 3 Replay!)
When You Can't Avoid the Stress: How To Stress Better with Erin Lingle (Best of Season 3 Replay!)
What Would Actually Make America Healthy Again: the Connections Between Healthism and Fascism with Ashantis Jones (Best of Season 3 Replay!)
The Truth About Toned Arms (Best of Season 3 Replay!)
The Real Reasons Intuitive Eating Isn't Working For You with Toni Rudd (Best of Season 3 Replay!)
Fitness Tracking: How To Enhance Your Workouts Without Obsessing with my clients Miranda & Steph (Best of Season 3 Replays!)
What Is No Kings? Building Strength in Community & Peaceful Resistance with Ishaan Srivastava
How To Keep Moving Even When Life Kicks You In the Ass (Fitness As a Hierarchy Of Needs) (Best of Season 3 Replay!)
Training To Be the Strongest Old Lady On the Block with Ali Kreider (Best of Season 3 Replay!)
Diet Trauma, Food Noise, Curious Nutrition, and Finding Your Food Voice with Julie Duffy Dillon (Best of Season 3 Replay!)
How To Protect Your Mental Health AND Resist a Hostile Government Takeover with Emily Decker (Best of Season 3 Replay!)
When Western Medicine Fails You but Wholistic Wellness Feels Like a Scam with Chelsea Clarke (Best of Season 3 Replay!)
Navigating Body Changes & Unrealistic Standards & Building Strength In Spite of It with Damali Fraiser (Best of Season 3 Replay!)
Surprising Reasons You Feel Pain & How To Fix It with Dr. Jen Hosler (Best ofSeason 3 Replay!)
Breaking Age & Body Barriers & Living Beyond the Binary with Maria Tate (Best of Season 3 Replay!)
The Power of Nature to Calm Your Nervous System with Kate Zanoni (Best of Season 3 Replay!)
After the After: What Really Happens After Years of Anti-Dieting with Christina Montalvo (Best of Season 3 Replay!)
Tradwives, Influencer Grifters & the Wellness to Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory Pipeline with Jo Piazza (Best of Season 3 Replay!)
BRB I'm Hurkle Durkling (Season 3 Finale!)
Fundamentalism in Fitness and Escaping the Christian Patriarchy with Tia Levings
Are We Ever Fully Recovered? Embracing the In-Between In Eating Disorder Recovery with Mallary Tenore Tarpley
How To Reject Diet Culture, Fight Fascists, and NOT Repeat the Worst Parts of History with Jen Borruso
The Ozempic/Wegovy Conversation Continued: Important Questions To Ask Yourself Before Chasing a Weight Loss Goal
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ozempic/Wegovy but Were Afraid to Ask with Vinny Welsby
When You Can't Avoid the Stress: How To Stress Better with Erin Lingle
What Painting My Deck Taught Me About Life and Fitness
What Would Actually Make America Healthy Again: the Connections Between Healthism and Fascism with Ashantis Jones
The Truth About Toned Arms
The Real Reasons Intuitive Eating Isn't Working For You with Toni Rudd
The Cookbook Photoshop Scandal You Didn't Know You Needed To Hear About
Fitness Tracking: How To Enhance Your Workouts Without Obsessing with my clients Miranda & Steph
How To Keep Moving Even When Life Kicks You In the Ass (Fitness As a Hierarchy Of Needs)
Training To Be the Strongest Old Lady On the Block with Ali Kreider
Dealing With Vacation Body Image F*ckery
Diet Trauma, Food Noise, Curious Nutrition, and Finding Your Food Voice with Julie Duffy Dillon
How To Protect Your Mental Health AND Resist a Hostile Government Takeover with Emily Decker
How To Feel Less Sh!tty About Your Body By Cleaning Out Your Closet
When Western Medicine Fails You but Wholistic Wellness Feels Like a Scam with Chelsea Clarke
Navigating Body Changes & Unrealistic Standards & Building Strength In Spite of It with Damali Fraiser
Surprising Reasons You Feel Pain & How To Fix It with Dr. Jen Hosler
The Truth About Why I Quit Teaching Yoga with My Sister Kristi
5 Ways "Unprecedented Times" Are Affecting Your Health & What To Do About It
Spite Joy, Red Lipstick, and Strength As Resistance in a Dystopian Hellscape
Breaking Age & Body Barriers & Living Beyond the Binary with Maria Tate
The Power of Nature to Calm Your Nervous System with Kate Zanoni
After the After: What Really Happens After Years of Anti-Dieting with Christina Montalvo
6 Journal Prompts for When You’re Not Into Resolutions but Value Personal Growth
Ins & Outs of the New Year
Exercise Swaps for When You Hate Lunges
41 Lessons I've Learned as an Anti-Diet Personal Trainer (For My 41st B-Day!)
23 Habits and Qualities of My Most Successful Clients
How Do I Nutrition? Wellness Without the Weird Shit with Eleni Agresta-Levine and Ashantis Jones
How To Avoid Black Friday Buyer's Remorse (For Fitness Things & All the Things)
All Things ADHD with Britt-Marie Sivertsen
WTF Are We Gonna Do Now??
Tradwives, Influencer Grifters & the Wellness to Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory Pipeline with Jo Piazza
When Wellness Turns Toxic: Thriving Without Striving with Paula Freedman-Diamond, Psy.D
Election Season Survival Guide
You Think You Know but You Have NO Idea--Travel, Training, and Typhoid Fever with Holly Myers
FINALLY Back for Season 3!
The Intersectionality of Cowboy Carter with Ashantis Jones (Bonus Episode! Part 2)
The Intersectionality of Cowboy Carter with Ashantis Jones (Bonus Episode! Part 1)
Body Image Beyond the Basics with Summer Innanen (Best of Season 2 Replay)
When Your Family Ditches Diet Culture With You: A Candid & Delightful Convo With My Sister Kristi (Best of Season 2 Replay)
Can We Stop Saying "Tone" "Sculpt" "Shape" & "Lift"? Busting Through Barre BS with Maya Bryant (Best of Season 2 Replay)
Your Science Means Nothing Without Empathy (An Open Letter To the Instagram Gym Bros) (Best of Season 2 Replay)
Maybe Cardio Isn't So Bad After All. . .Running Without Running Yourself Into the Ground with Liz Brinkmoeller (Best of Season 2 Replay)
You're NOT Going Insane. Regulating Your Nervous System & Perimenopause with Diana May (Best of Season 2 Replay)
Self-Trust, Joy, Ease, and Unapologetic Queer Shit with Shohreh Davoodi (Best of Season 2 Replay)
The Conversation You Didn't Know You Needed To Hear--Navigating Tough Transitions and Making a Comeback with Laura Jawad (Best of Season 2 Replay)
Is This Actually Healthy?! Navigating Weight Gain + Intuitive Eating with Naomi Katz (Best of Season 2 Replay)
When You're a Badass but You're Tired: The Conversation We Almost Cancelled with Holly Myers (Best of Season 2 Replay)
What Does Fitness Without Diet Culture Look Like for YOU? With Ashantis Jones (Best of Season 2 Replay)