SISTERHOOD OF SWEAT - Motivation, Inspiration, Health, Wealth, Fitness, Authenticity, Confidence and Empowerment

Melissa T. Shultz​ has written about health and parenting for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Readers' Digest, AARP’s The Girlfriend, Next Avenue, NBC’s Today.com and many other publications. She is the author of From Mom To me Again (How I Survived My First Empty-Nest Year and Reinvented the Rest of My Life) has some solutions for those left with an empty nest, how to survive and thrive. Nothing prepares you for your children leaving the nest.

Today’s episode is a little different, because I am being interviewed by Kim Peek on Power Up Your Performance Podcast. Kim created Power of the Run and is a breast cancer survivor.  Our episode was all about Obstacles being opportunities in disguise. I tell my back story and a deep realization I had on the eve of stepping into my why and greatest dream.

Sometimes it can be hard to navigate the ever-changing world of health and fitness. Today we give you some tools to help you filter out the most important tips. So I am super excited to introduce to you our guest this week Dr.Fred Pescatore. Dr. Fred is a NYT best selling author of The A-List Diet,The Hampton's Diet, and Feed Your kids. We talked about Alzheimer's, Allergies, Asthma, and Aging.

Do you struggle with adversity? Do you feel like you are out of control over your circumstances, and the events that happen in your life? If so, you are not alone. The age of social media often causes us to play the comparison game which forces us into a dark place where we start to just pretend to be someone we are not in order to look better to the outside world

Do you struggle with making time for workouts and maintaining a positive attitude with your health?  Have you considered pilates but just don’t know if it’s the right fit for you? Maybe you’ve struggled with a past injury or soreness with past workouts.  There is a solution and you don’t have to hate your workouts or spend hours sweating your butt off in order to get healthier and in better shape.

Have you ever looked back over your life and realized a lot of the things that seemed to suck at the time actually brought you closer to your greater purpose?  What if everything happened for a reason? Every hardship you go through can be bringing you through the fire fine-tuning you for your greater purpose. The hardships I once cried about, I celebrate now.

Do you struggle with taking pride in yourself? Do you feel like you should or shouldn’t have pride? In this episode we dive into the importance of how we carry ourselves and how we have pride in the way we look and feel. But even on a deeper scale than that, how do we get to that point? It takes being introspective and really discovering our deep thoughts and feelings on different issues.

Drinking alcohol is portrayed as tons of fun, socially acceptable, and the norm. But should it be the norm? Do you struggle with alcohol? Maybe not on a deep level to where it affects your day to day activities, but enough for you to notice some differences in your performance at work and everyday life? Does giving up alcohol mean no more fun in life?

Do you struggle with how to reveal your authentic self?  It’s easy for us to hide behind our insecurities or fears and not step out into the things we know we are called to do.

Do you struggle with feeling stuck and trapped where you are? Are you so focused on the possibility of failure that you can’t see how to make that first step? Many of us hold back from pursuing our dreams because we don’t want to take the risk of failure. But is the risk of never changing an even bigger risk?

In this episode I talk about my own struggle about opening a gym and the fears and doubts that I had as I second guessed myself. I realize that we all have big plans and dreams, so how do we turn those into a reality rather than just sitting on them?

Kristi Dosh, public relations expert, shares with us how to confidently step out into what we want to do and establish ourselves as experts in our field.  From how to start getting blogs linked to major sites, to podcast interviews, and more, she tells us how to start right where we are and put in the work to reach our goals

Do you struggle with people pleasing? Have you found yourself constantly doing things you don’t want to do for fear of disappointing others? We’ve probably all experienced that fear of letting people down from time to time. But are we doing ourselves along with others a disservice by giving in and not setting boundaries?

Do you feel afraid of something?  I mean something that just terrifies you to the core?  Is it something that you want to do but just can’t bring yourself to do because of the fear?  Let’s face it, we can get so stuck in one place because we are crippled by fear. Whether it be of others opinions or something on a deeper level that we carry inside.

Have you ever experienced a time in your life when things seemed to be going right, and then trauma hit?  We’ve probably all experienced rough patches from time to time. Our guest this week, Amberly Lago dives into her journey through a horrific motorcycle accident which resulted in 34 surgeries and a coma which would forever change her life.