Flex Your Heart Radio

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Calling out sizeism and negative self talk, anti-racist fitness, and giving it all away for free with Courtney Marshall Aug 04, 2017

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Welcome to Flex Your Heart Radio! This podcast is about body, fat and gender positivity, fitness, feminism, recovery, risk, and crushing it at life.

On this episode, we talk to one of my personal fitness heroes, Courtney Marshall!

Courtney is a former English and Women's Studies professor turned community-accountable feminist fitness instructor and personal trainer. Along the way she got interested in body positivity, but now she falls solidly in the fat positive camp- and she does think there's a big difference between the two. She is a member of the Body Positive Fitness Alliance and want to open a feminist fitness facility one day. She fully expects to go broke doing this work, because her goal is almost always to give it all away for free. She can't wait to tell you why!

In this podcast we discuss:

- How Courtney handles people food shaming themselves or shit talking their bodies

- What anti-racist, feminist fitness entails

- The joy of giving her work away for free, and how free access to fitness enriches the giver just as much as the recipient

and so much more!

You can find Courtney on her Facebook or Instagram, or email her directly at courtmars@gmail.com. ---

A very special thank you to our 10$ and 25$ level Patreon Patrons: Mickey Boille, Julia Gibson, Jordan Faulds, Andi Olsen, Aja Vines, Bianca Phillips, Sky Chari and Kelly Knight! I love you all.

If you like the podcast:

Support our Patreon! Leave us an iTunes review! Join our facebook group! Email us at flexyourheartradio@gmail.com! ---- And now for me! I wrote a graphic novel with my partner and it's on pre-order NOW. If you've ever wanted to read about my recovery from anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive overexercise, this is your chance. Buy today, get stoked, share with your friends!

You can follow me on Instagram

You can visit my blog

You can check out my amazing body, fat, and gender positive gym, soon to be open in Portland, Oregon

Hard Hitting Advice with Nicole J. Georges! Jul 28, 2017

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Welcome to Flex Your Heart Radio! This podcast is about body, fat and gender positivity, fitness, feminism, recovery, risk, and crushing it at life.

On this episode, we talk to Nicole J. Georges!

Nicole J. Georges is a writer, illustrator, podcaster & professor from Portland, OR.

Her Lambda Award winning graphic memoir, Calling Dr. Laura, was called "engrossing, lovable, smart and ultimately poignant" by Rachel Maddow, and "disarming and haunting, hip and sweet, all at once" by Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home. " Allô, dr Laura? was an Official Selection at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.

Nicole currently lives in between Portland and Los Angeles with her chomeranian best friend, Ponyo Georges.

Nicole has a brand new book out, called Fetch: Fetch: How A Bad Dog Brought Me Home and in celebration she answers listener questions of all stripes.

In this podcast we discuss:

- Relationships, polyamory, and big feelings

- Creative projects and focus

- How to make out with potential suitors

- Snacks

and so much more!

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A very special thank you to our 10$ and 25$ level Patreon Patrons: Mickey Boille, Julia Gibson, Jordan Faulds, Andi Olsen, Aja Vines, Bianca Phillips, Sky Chari and Kelly Knight! I love you all.

If you like the podcast:

You can follow me on Instagram

You can visit my blog

You can check out my amazing body, fat, and gender positive gym, soon to be open in Portland, Oregon

Health as a performance of beauty, thin privilege, and why dieting is a just plain bad idea with Melissa Fabello Jul 21, 2017

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Welcome to Flex Your Heart Radio! This podcast is about body, fat and gender positivity, fitness, feminism, recovery, risk, and crushing it at life.

On this episode, we talk to Melissa Fabello!

Melissa A. Fabello is a body acceptance activist, sexuality scholar, and patriarchy smasher living in Philadelphia. Currently, Melissa works as a Managing Editor of Everyday Feminism, the largest independent feminist media website in the world, and is a doctoral candidate in Widener University's Human Sexuality Studies program, where her research focuses on how women with anorexia nervosa experience skin hunger. Her body acceptance work focuses on making peace in eating disorder recovery, striving toward eliminating size stigma, and bringing a more radical lens to the mainstream body positivity conversation.

In this podcast we discuss:

- Thin privilege, and how it functions in our society

- Health as just another performance of beauty

- How body positivity cannot exist without feminism

- How and why dieting just doesn't work (and isn't very healthy)

and so much more! --- You can find Melissa on Twitter and Instagram at @fyeahmfabello and subscribe to her newsletter at melissafabello.com. ---

A very special thank you to our 10$ and 25$ level Patreon Patrons: Jordan Faulds, Andi Olsen, Aja Vines, Bianca Phillips, Sky Chari and Kelly Knight! I love you all.

If you like the podcast:

You can follow me on Instagram

You can visit my blog

You can check out my amazing body, fat, and gender positive gym, soon to be open in Portland, Oregon

Busting through stereotypes of gender, race, and religion in sport and life with Kulsoom Abdullah Jul 14, 2017

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Welcome to Flex Your Heart Radio! This podcast is about body, fat and gender positivity, fitness, feminism, recovery, risk, and crushing it at life.

On this episode, we talk to Kulsoom Abdullah of Lifting Covered!

Kulsoom Abdullah is a Pakistani-American competitive Olympic Weightlifter and was Crossfit Level I certified. She attended the University of Central Florida and received her doctorate in electrical/computer engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her website, LiftingCovered.com and Facebook page documents her experiences weightlifting in an effort to compete at U.S. national competitions. She advocated to compete in clothing that adheres to religious codes, opening the door for women from cultures around the world to compete and move beyond preconceived notions of gender, race, and religion. Her athletic feats and determination culminated in an invitation to deliver remarks following Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the U.S. State Department's Eid ul Fitr reception 2011. She represented Pakistan as the first female at the international level to compete wearing hijab at the 2011 World Weightlifting Championships. She resides in Atlanta, GA and is currently taking a break from major competitions but continues to train. She continues the cycle of empowerment by helping others and supporting relevant causes. In 2014 she was one of four women in The Pakistan Four short documentary - redefining what it means to be a Pakistani Muslim female, one of the recipients of the Georgia Influential Muslim Award and spoke on a panel at the Religion Newswriters Association. In 2015, she was also presented in a 2015 calendar of female South Asian American role models, "Saris to Suits Empowered", and she is on Team Shirzanan (Persian for "female heroes") as a spokesperson and role model. The team recently participated at RAGBRAI 2015 (The Register's Annual Bike Ride Across Iowa) to celebrate our Right to Ride. Currently, she works for ADP as a data scientist.

In this podcast we discuss:

- What it's like to go into the male dominated space of weightlifting and take up space as a woman

- Effective ways to lobby monolithic governing bodies

- Why she felt it was so important for those who want to weightlift competitively without the standard singlet uniform

- How she modifies her lifting to continue training during Ramadan

- Busting through stereotypes

and so much more! --- You can find Kulsoom on her website and Facebook Page, on twitter, and on Instagram. ---

A very special thank you to our 10$ and 25$ level Patreon Patrons: Jordan Faulds, Andi Olsen, Aja Vines, Bianca Phillips, Sky Chari and Kelly Knight! I love you all.

If you like the podcast:

You can follow me on Instagram

You can visit my blog

You can check out my amazing body, fat, and gender positive gym, soon to be open in Portland, Oregon

Total body liberation: an invitation to make your own damn rules with Jes Baker! Jul 07, 2017

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Welcome to Flex Your Heart Radio! This podcast is about body, fat and gender positivity, fitness, feminism, recovery, risk, and crushing it at life.

On this episode, we talk to Jes Baker of The Militant Baker!

Jes Baker is a Tucson blogger and author who is on a mission to turn our society's concept of beauty on its oppressive head as she knows for a FACT that every person in this world is worthy of respect and feeling valued regardless of their size, shape, shade, sex, ability, gender, age or health records.

Jes's blog covers a mixture of subjects ranging from the delightful to the uncomfortable. These topics include but are not limited to: notes on the hazardous journey of body acceptance, how to take boudoir photos, rape culture, reasons why you should get a million kittens, equality, feminism rants, why you don't have to be everyone's best friend, and general empowerment.

Mostly, Jes just wants The Militant Baker to be a place in the blogosphere that offers fresh and colorful perspective on what is presented as normal to those immersed in our gender bent, body loathing society.

She believes in the importance of body autonomy, ALL CAPS, self-love, mental health, strong coffee, and even stronger language.

In this podcast we discuss:

- Making the shit you're passionate about your full time job

- How the internet is inherently dehumanizing

- Dealing with haters and trolls of all kinds

- Removing ourselves from the concept of self love to seek total body liberation

and so much more! --- You can find Jes on her website The Militant Baker, on her Facebook, on her Instagram, and her twitter. ---

A very special thank you to our 10$ and 25$ level Patreon Patrons: Jordan Faulds, Andi Olsen, Aja Vines, Bianca Phillips, Sky Chari and Kelly Knight! I love you all.

If you like the podcast:

You can follow me on Instagram

You can visit my blog

You can check out my amazing body, fat, and gender positive gym, soon to be open in Portland, Oregon

You can email me with podcast questions or inquiries about coaching (olympic lifting, power lifting, interval training, etc.) at Lacy@liberationbarbell.com. I currently have space for private, semi-private and group class clients. ---- Intro/outro song: outta me by Bikini Kill Keywords! Body Positivity, Fat Liberation, Trolls, Self Employment, Self love

Coming out as trans: from friends, to parents, to your job, and to the world with Kaig Lightner! Jun 30, 2017

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Welcome to Flex Your Heart Radio! This podcast is about body, fat and gender positivity, fitness, feminism, recovery, risk, and crushing it at life.

On this episode, we talk to Kaig Lightner of Portland Community Football Club!

Kaig holds a USSF National 'C' Coaching License. He has been coaching and working with youth for over 16 years. In 2005 Kaig moved to Portland where he was the Head Coach of a U12 girls team and Co-Coach of a U15 girls team at Eastside United FC (now Eastside Timbers). During his time at ESUFC he also ran the speed and agility clinics and was the director of the U6-U8 Developmental League. He left ESUFC in 2007 and returned to coaching recreational teams for Laurelhurst Soccer Club. It was also during this time that Kaig decided to begin the process of transitioning from living as female to living as male. This was a challenging and also incredibly rewarding process for him. In 2007 he also co-founded Transactive, a non-profit that serves transgender children, youth and their families.

In May of 2017 Kaig came out as trans to the youth he coaches, and the story went viral. His kids reacted with curiosity, kindness, respect...and most of all just wanted to know how old he was. Watch the video here.

In this podcast we discuss:

- Sport as a tool of communiction, connection, and healing. - The importance of providing access to sport (specifically soccer!) despite income level. - What it's like to grapple with gender identity, both as a child and as an adult. - Coming out as trans: from friends, to parents, to your job, and to the world. and so much more! --- You can find Kaig on Facebook and at Portland Community Football Club. ---

A very special thank you to our 10$ and 25$ level Patreon Patrons: Andi Olsen, Aja Vines, Bianca Phillips, Sky Chari and Kelly Knight! I love you all.

If you like the podcast:

You can follow me on Instagram

You can visit my blog

You can check out my amazing body, fat, and gender positive gym, soon to be open in Portland, Oregon

You can email me with podcast questions or inquiries about coaching (olympic lifting, power lifting, interval training, etc.) at Lacy@liberationbarbell.com. I currently have space for private, semi-private and group class clients. ---- Intro/outro song: outta me by Bikini Kill Keywords! gender, transitioning, coming out, trans, F2M, trans man, soccer, accessibility

Vegan, Feminist, Punk and Queer Eating Disorder Recovery with Dr. Raechel Jolie Jun 02, 2017

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Trigger warning for this ep! Raechel and I have some real talk about our eating disorders! Feel free to skip this ep if that's not going to work for you and your recovery. <3 Welcome to Flex Your Heart Radio! This podcast is about body, fat and gender positivity, fitness, feminism, recovery, risk, and crushing it at life.

On this episode, we talk to Dr. Raechel Anne Jolie of Feminist Killjoys, PHD!

Raechel Anne Jolie is a working-class-raised queer femme with a PhD in Media Studies and Feminist/Critical Sexuality Studies. She's been teaching college classes in media and gender studies for ten years, and teaching yoga for five. She's currently transitioning out of full-time academic employment to focus on her non-academic writing, anti-oppression training and consulting, and her podcast Feminist Killjoys, PhD, which she co-hosts with Dr. Melody Hoffmann. She is also an Aquarius, a cat-mom, and a long-time vegan.

In this podcast we discuss:

- Queer punk radical eating disorder recovery - Veganism and eating disorder recovery - Tactical tools for healing - Coded diet industry talk, orthorexia, and healthism and so much more! --- You can find Raechel at: on her personal Instagram On her podcast's Instagram On Twitter, both personal and podcast and at: www.feministkilljoyspodcast.com www.raechelannejolie.com ---

A very special thank you to our 10$ and 25$ level Patreon Patrons, Bianca Phillips, Sky Chari and Kelly Knight! I love you all.

If you like the podcast:

You can follow me on Instagram

You can visit my blog

You can check out my amazing body, fat, and gender positive gym, soon to be open in Portland, Oregon

You can email me with podcast questions or inquiries about coaching (olympic lifting, power lifting, interval training, etc.) at Lacy@liberationbarbell.com. I currently have space for private, semi-private and group class clients. ---- Intro/outro song: outta me by Bikini Kill Keywords! eating disorders, recovery, orthorexia, anorexia, compulsive exercise, punk, veganism, fitness, yoga, weight gain

Getting shit done no matter what: a kick in the pants with Jessica Abel May 26, 2017

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Welcome to Flex Your Heart Radio! This podcast is about body, fat and gender positivity, fitness, feminism, recovery, risk, and crushing it at life.

On this episode we talk to cartoonist, radio maven, and productivity expert, Jessica Abel!

Jessica Abel is the author of Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When You're Drowning in Your Daily Life , the graphic novel La Perdida (winner of the the 2002 "Best New Series" Harvey Award), Trish Trash: Rollergirl of Mars, as well as two collections of stories from her omnibus comic book Artbabe, and the graphic documentary (and podcast), Out on the Wire, about how the best radio producers in the world use story to keep us listening.

Abel and her husband, the cartoonist Matt Madden, were series editors for The Best American Comics from 2007 to 2013. Together they've authored two textbooks about making comics, Drawing Words & Writing Pictures and Mastering Comics. Her latest comics series, Trish Trash: Rollergirl of Mars, debuted in November 2016. Abel recently returned from a four-year residency at the Maison des Auteurs in Angoulême, France to take up the chair of the Illustration Program at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She lives with her family in Philadelphia.

In this podcast we discuss:

- Working your creative practice into your busy life, no matter what!

- Procrastination and anxiety, and how the two are intertwined

- The importance of having one solitary big goal

- Saying no to things that don't help you say yes to your larger purpose

and so much more!

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A very special thank you to our 10$ and 25$ level Patreon Patrons, Bianca Phillips, Sky Chari and Kelly Knight! I love you all.

If you like the podcast:

Support our Patreon!

Leave us an iTunes review!

Join our facebook group!

Email us at flexyourheartradio@gmail.com!

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And now for me!

I wrote a graphic novel with my partner and it's on pre-order NOW. If you've ever wanted to read about my recovery from anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive overexercise, this is your chance. Buy today, get stoked, share with your friends! and now....

You can follow me on Instagram

You can visit my blog

You can check out my amazing body, fat, and gender positive gym, soon to be open in Portland, Oregon

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Intro/outro song: outta me by Bikini Kill

Heaing from the trauma of colonialism, eurocentric beauty ideals and disordered eating in communities of color with Gloria Lucas May 19, 2017

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Before we start! Hey! I wrote a graphic novel with my partner and it's on pre-order NOW. If you've ever wanted to read about my recovery from anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive overexercise, this is your chance. Buy today, get stoked, share with your friends! and now.... Welcome to Flex Your Heart Radio! This podcast is about body, fat and gender positivity, fitness, feminism, recovery, risk, and crushing it at life.

On this episode, we talk to Gloria Lucas of Nalgona Positivity Pride!

Gloria is a Xicana womxn and the person behind Nalgona Positivity Pride. Straight from the Inland Empire, the DIY punk community in Riverside taught her to organize and activate. Since the age of 18 she has helped form Ladyfest IE, IE Riot Grrrls, and Women of Color for Decolonization. In 2014, she founded Nalgona Positivity Pride, after years of dealing with the violent lack of women of color representation in the eating disorder awareness community. Like the chingona womxn of color that came before, she creates spaces for marginalized folks to support each other and heal from the trauma of colonialism, eurocentric beauty ideals and disordered eating in communities of color.

Gloria's work has been featured at the Huffington Post, MiTú , Bitch Magazine, and The Body is not an Apology. Her most recent project is Sage & Spoon, an online support group for indigenous people and people of color with eating problems. She lives in Los Angeles with her partner and their cats, Pepita and Mister Orange.

In this podcast we discuss:

- Historical trauma and colonialism, and the effects they have on eating disorders

- The lack of diversity representation in the body positivity movement

- Punk and eating disorders

- Healing vs. recovery

- How to have a self-care filled home based healing practice

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A very special thank you to our 10$ and 25$ level Patreon Patrons, Bianca Phillips, Sky Chari and Kelly Knight! I love you all.

If you like the podcast:

Support our Patreon! Leave us an iTunes review! Join our facebook group! Email us at flexyourheartradio@gmail.com! ---- And now for me!

You can follow me on Instagram

You can visit my blog

You can check out my amazing body, fat, and gender positive gym, soon to be open in Portland, Oregon

You can email me with podcast questions or inquiries about coaching (olympic lifting, power lifting, interval training, etc.) at Lacy@liberationbarbell.com. I currently have space for private, semi-private and group class clients. ---- Intro/outro song: outta me by Bikini Kill Keywords! body positivity, WOC, racism, sexism, colonialism, punk, body trust, feminist

Unlearning ancestral trauma, unabashed queer polyamory, and reconnecting with our bodies in times of depression and anxiety with Ev'yan Whitney May 12, 2017

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Welcome to Flex Your Heart Radio! This podcast is about body, fat and gender positivity, fitness, feminism, recovery, risk, and crushing it at life.

On this episode, we talk to sexually liberated woman, Ev'yan Whitney!

Ev'Yan Whitney is a writer, sensualist, and sexuality doula. She helps facilitate, educate, and hold space for women and femmes who are seeking to come into the full expression of their erotic selves. She's also the host of the Sexually Liberated Woman podcast, which is an ongoing sex-positive dialogue that highlights, celebrates, and encourages sexual liberation in all its forms. When Ev'yan is not writing or working on her podcast, she's helping women step out of sexual shame and into their erotic power via one-on-one coaching and intimacy counseling. You can find more about her work at sexloveliberation.com and see her brazenly celebrating her sexuality on Instagram at @evyan.whitney.

In this podcast we discuss:

- Unlearning ancestral trauma in order to tap into our sexual selves

- How non-monogamy helped Ev'yan to discover her true queer nature

- Reconnecting with our bodies in times of depression and anxiety

- Sexy selfies as a practice of taking up space!

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A very special thank you to our 10$ and 25$ level Patreon Patrons, Bianca Phillips, Sky Chari and Kelly Knight! I love you all.

If you like the podcast:

You can follow me on Instagram

You can visit my blog

You can check out my amazing body, fat, and gender positive gym, soon to be open in Portland, Oregon

You can email me with podcast questions or inquiries about coaching (olympic lifting, power lifting, interval training, etc.) at Lacy@liberationbarbell.com. I currently have space for private, semi-private and group class clients. ---- Intro/outro song: outta me by Bikini Kill Keywords! body positivity, queer, sex, wellness, health, orgasm, sensuality, depression, anxiety

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