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!
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How to Love Your Body Through Fitness with Kate Laird (EP134)
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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 core fitness, mindset and so much more! Definitely vi…
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How to Foster Confidence and Resilience in your Child (EP 133)
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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 growing up. We talk emotional regulation, how to slow down …
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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 deep driver for your motivation. Motivation is an ins…
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How to Create Connected Relationships (EP 131)
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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 that led her to become a coach and certified hypnothera…
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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. Spending too much money? Eating foods that are not servi…
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How to Avoid Burnout and the Type A Trap (EP 129)
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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 this life we live as FitMamas! Erin has an assessment…
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How Coaching and Therapy are Similar and Different (EP 128)
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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 clients as a coach and I share some ways we work together …
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How to Love Your Skin with Dr. Jen Newell (EP 127)
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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 obliterate the mainstream habit of marketing beauty by …
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How to Explore our Addictive Behaviors (EP126)
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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 they did in the past but they no longer do. Take stoc…
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How to Feel Safe with Laurie Anne Briere (EP125)
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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 the body’s primary language, the language of sensation…
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How to Explore the World: Travel, Retreats, and Traveling with Kids (EP124)
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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 our pics from Taj Mahal, Melbourne, Sydney for New Yea…
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How to Ditch the Stigma of Separation and Divorce (EP123)
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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 mission to normalize separation and bring some levity …
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How to Learn From Toddlers with Dr. Hasan Merali (EP122)
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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 successful way of life. While this sounds funny and ado…
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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 entertainment and also parenting consciously while finding he…
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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 she has been loving it! We got so caught up talking …
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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 (iykyk)! Alla and I have a great chat about what she…
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How to Regulate Your Nervous System - Take Off the Hats! (EP118)
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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? Because it feels so much better! We can actually resp…
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How to Hold Space With Boundaries (EP117)
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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 an empty cup. This can be so easy to do and I feel l…
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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 helped me come out the other side. I share my experienc…
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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 FitMama Way book and what it means to me to be a FitMama…
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Episode 114: Wild Women’s Wisdom with Dr. Michelle Peris
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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 Collective. This community medicine initiative invol…
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Episode 113: Vaginal Self-Care with Kate Roddy
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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 and pelvic floor physiotherapist and creator of The …
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Episode 112: Create Calm: The Professional Guide to Overcoming Anxiety with Dr. Katie Thompson Aitken, ND
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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, but a transient state. There are some things that peop…
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Episode 111: Cottage Cheese Thighs with Jenn Sadai
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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, the scale played too much factor in how she was livin…
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Episode 110: That Sex Episode with Alexa Martinez
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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 their sexual expression and helps them discover what…
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Episode 109: Orgasmic Enlightenment and Vaginal Weight Lifting with Kim Anami
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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, frustration, depression, and behaviors like overeating. Se…
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Episode 108: Benefits of Orgasms (and how to have more)!
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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 ways to look at the things we see in the mirror. Some n…
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Episode 107: The Ultimate Home Birth with Marni Wasserman
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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 things panned out just as she had hoped for. It’s natur…
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Episode 106: Demystifying Miscarriage and PMS with Dr. Jordan Robertson
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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 finding solutions for herself and her patients. As a Naturo…
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Episode 105: What’s a Doula with Christa Ardelean
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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 Ardelean is a birth, sibling, and postpartum Doula and …
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Episode 104: Simply Synced with Jenn Pike
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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 and how you can modify your lifestyle and behaviors fro…
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Episode 103: Eat Without Pain featuring Dr. Kim Bretz
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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 of “IBS” and irritable bowels, I know the pain one can…
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Episode 102: Chakra Talk with Jummee Joy
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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 Chakra – Neutral We dive deeply into this episode into th…
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Episode 101: A Purpose Driven Life with Dr. Meghan Walker
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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 family healthy and ready for anything, her checklist of s…
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Episode 100: Intimacy and Honesty with Chris Oliver
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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 safety and love in my life such that I could blossom …
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Episode 99: What I Learned at our Tantra Yoga Retreat Part 2
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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 so safe and I am so grateful for him! We are wired as…
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Episode 98: All things Immunity with Lisa Dowling
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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 shares with us what she did when she thought she had…
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Episode 97: What I Learned at our Tantra Yoga Retreat Part 1
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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 profound. Today I dive right into howTantra really is about b…
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Episode 95: Is it a holding pattern or meant to be?
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Episode 94: The Ultimate Journey with Marni Wasserman
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Episode 92: Courageous Living with Maggie Chilton
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Episode 91: Daily Routines for the 2020 WIN
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Episode 89: Mindset Mastery with Dr. Shyamala Kiru
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This episode is chalk full of incredible dialogue about relationships, communication, and mindset! We dive deep FitMama. Dr. Shyamala has so many great explanations, examples, and evidence she shares around the idea of high-performance relationships, what they are and how to have them in your life. Would you say your relationships can be considered…
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FitMama, I jump into this one head first asking where in your life you are wanting to take a stand for yourself. I truly believe we are not taught to do this and not taught that it is ok to stand for what we truly believe in, or what’s best for ourselves. I was always worrying what other people would think of me if stood up for something I believed…
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Episode 87: Pilates, Pelvic Floor and Pregnancy with Nikki Bergen
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This week’s guest is Nikki Bergen, Pilates teacher and creator of The Belle Method and the Bump Method. We talk about societal pressures for moms and women, and how she went from being a dancer to being a international sought after fitness expert focused on safe, effective core workouts during pregnancy and postpartum. She begins her Pilates work w…
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I chat about the where, when, how, what, who and WHY in this episode all designed to help you with your own personal busy mom workout schedule. I share the 3 most important things and discuss them in detail, things such as: What does a home workout involve? How do I choose strength or cardio, which one is better? What other aerobic things can I do,…
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Episode 85: Restoring Your FAITH with Dr. Marisol, Queen of the Thrones
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What an honor to have with me on this podcast, Dr. Marisol, Naturopathic Doctorand poop expert helps us understand the role of the gut, hormones and overall health in this detailed episode. She shares with us the ancient practice of using a Castor Oil Pack and she goes into all the benefits of Castor Oil topically and the use of her organic cotton …
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