Hello and Happy Mindful Monday! 

On this week's episode of The Mindful Movement Show our guest, Jenna Crump, shares her story of growing up with a bipolar mom, living through divorce, getting married and divorced at a young age, and moving in with her best friends to create a village-style family structure. 

The episode offers very clear and inspiring examples of how breath-to-movement exercise can help develop flexibility in all situations. We also go deep on the questions of what it means to raise resilient kids who are self-aware, practice kindness and compassion, and embrace their own uniqueness. 

Jenna is the illustrator on our kids books, The Magnificent Blue Butterfly and Bodies of Water. She uses art and creative expression as an outlet and her talents are incredible. In the episode we discuss our future projects and the importance of putting out content that allows families to spend quality time together doing things that impart great lessons for our kiddos. 

If you're a mom or dad looking for inspiration, community, or accountability in the process of achieving your goals - consider joining the Mindful and Fit Family! We are a group of folks working to evolve and grow our health in holistic ways. We share struggles, accomplishments, and support one another to live in alignment. That way we can show up in the world in ways that are true to who we are at our essence and be the best people, partners, and parents we can be. 

Hey Mindful and Fit Fam! Happy Mindful Monday! 

This week it is our pleasure to have Kelly Young on the show. Kelly is a wife, mother of four kiddos, and an amazing fitness trainer and business owner. She owns and operates INERGY (an indoor fitness facility) while also offering her famous outdoor classes, known as Kelly’s Bootcamp. She has been in the fitness industry for 25 years and has a Master’s degree in Public Health. Her motto for her clients is “get what you came for.” She has always aspired to get people to exercise (especially those that wouldn’t otherwise), make it affordable, require accountability, and to have fun.

This week's episode is called Movement is Medicine. One of Kelly's mantras is "there isn't anything a good workout can't fix." She promotes working out to increase energy, promote community and learn to love your body. In the episode we discuss a bit about her upbringing and relationship to mental health, how she managed to grow a successful AND impactful business while juggling her own fitness and role of being a mom of four, and we give her the opportunity to showcase some of the wisdom and inspiration about the future of the public health situation in our country. 

Greetings and Happy Mindful Monday!

We are so excited to share another episode of The Mindful Movement Show with you this week. Episode nine features a dynamic conversation with our guest, Derek Jacobsma. In it, we discuss his journey of becoming, healing, growth and resilience. He vulnerably shares his story of turning pain into purpose and offers advice for those of you who might be struggling with identity crisis, illness or disease, or family issues. His journey is oner of navigating coming-out as a non-heterosexual man, being diagnosed with HIV, and leaving his comfortable corporate training position to start his own coaching practice. In the episode, Derek challenges you to develop greater self-awareness and set boundaries that enable you to flourish, grow, and thrive. In our conversation we go deep in explaining the role that shame, blame, and trying to fix others has in creating misery and unhappiness. We also discuss the ways in which mindfulness practice helps us attend to our feelings and emotions without fixation or attachment.

This episode is for anyone who feels stuck, finds it difficult to accept themselves, or who might need some inspiration for how to live fully without conditions or reservations. Derek’s journey is one that truly enables him to find the gift of each moment, because he has been confronted with the reality that life is precious. If you are a mom or dad who is caught up in struggle, drama, or emotional toxicity - really listen to the powerful stories Derek shares as a way to compel and empower you with the tools and skills to realize that all feelings and experiences are temporary and fleeting. The reality is, we all have the ability to grow through what we go through. Derek’s life is a testament to that reality.

About Derek:

Derek is a personal empowerment coach who helps people find their flow and do it everyday. He has great experience as a Corporate Trainer who created and facilitated leadership development programs to improve engagement and performance. He prides himself on helping people up level their performance over the longterm without sacrificing mental and physical health. He runs retreats to help you unplug from technology and plug into your health and wellness by teaching you the science and practices that can help you become the best version of you. Derek practices mindfulness meditation, breathwork, cold plunges, and other ways to help you leverage your breath to regulate your physiological and emotional states. He encourages clients to create community and connection, journaling, and reflection, and nature walks to remove barriers that might be blocking or holding you back and gain a sense of clarity and purpose to know where you want to go.

You can find out more about Derek and his incredible offerings here. 

Our hope is to collaborate with Derek to run a few retreats together in the future. Stay tuned for more information!

Greetings Mindful and Fit Fam! This week we have Ignacio Evans on the show. "Iggy" is a PhD Candidate in Communication at the University of California at San Diego. He is also a father, national championship debater and debate coach, and a shining example of wisdom, resilience and perseverance we can all learn something from. His professional expertise is in advocacy, diversity leadership and public speaking. He is an expert at building curriculum to meet students where they are and help them level up their performance and knowledge.

In this episode, we discuss his background and scholarship, specifically looking at his most recent presentation on black parenting and impossibility to explore the ways in which race implicates constructions of what it means to be a good or bad parent, and we dream about what it would mean to live in a world where everyone cared about black life with audacity and created moments and futures for and of black kids we care about. We also discuss gentle parenting and what it means to validate our kids' experiences and allow them to have their own voice, how to confront generational trauma, and so much more. 

We highly encourage you to tune in or share this episode with anyone who desires to better understand how race operates in parenting. The truth is, educating yourself and gaining awareness plays an important part in creating a future that is more peaceful and equitable. 

You can find Ignacio on social media, here. 

His email address is: igscorner@gmail.com 

Happy Mindful Monday! We are excited to start the year STRONG with an episode featuring one of our mentors, Todd Durkin.

This year is a clean slate for us to carve out a path and pursue our dreams. Todd is a great example of how to pursue service-oriented leadership and has helped many people transform their mindset with his books, speeches, and fitness programs.

If you’re a mom or dad looking to connect with your kids, this episode is for you. If you’re a parent struggling with work-life balance, this episode is for you. If you’re struggling with depression, anxiety, or mental health, this episode is for you. If you’re looking for more inspiration to move your body and overcome stagnation, this episode is for you. If you just want to start the year with a loving, heartfelt conversation - this episode is for you.

In this episode we cover the best practices for confronting your demons and overcoming your challenges. We talk about the importance of monitoring your self-talk, learning and practicing self-compassion, and growing through the inevitable storms in life and making pain your purpose. Todd talks about the importance of being led by our dreams and not pushed down by our problems, and living a life worth telling a story about.

We go deep with Todd’s family background and relationship with his father, who he considers his greatest mentor and best friend. Todd describes the twists and turns of his relationship with his dad and the importance of forgiveness and softening ourselves to embrace loving kindness and compassion.

One of the greatest lessons we learn from this episode is the importance of TIME. Todd describes his dad softening and becoming a more loving and gentle version of himself in the face of his heart attack because he realized he was living on borrowed time. But the reality is, we are all living on borrowed time. All we have is this moment and how we choose to spend time is directly connected to our levels of joy, satisfaction, growth, and purpose.

We go over the best ways we can balance our professional commitments and our family time, discuss the importance of sharing love, light, and inspiration in a time where the world so desperately needs it.

ABOUT TODD:

Todd is husband and parent of three amazing young people, Luke, Brady, and McKenna. He is also an internationally recognized author, speaker, and strength and conditioning coach. He was a trainer on NBC’s Strong, has been featured in Men’s Health, the New York Times, and he’s an Under Armour Sponsored Athlete. He has been behind the scenes working with some of the greatest professional football players of all-time, including LaDanian Tomlinson, Drew Brees and Darren Sproles.

Hello Mindful and Fit Fam! We hope you are recovering from the hustle and bustle of the holiday. On this weeks episode of The Mindful Movement Show we talk best practices for healing and growing as a parent, partner, and professional with our guest Kelli O'Brien Watson. If you're looking to heal - from the pandemic, a divorce, or struggles in your personal or professional life - this episode is for you! If you're someone looking to grow a business, write a book, or become a more present and emotionally attuned parent or partner this episode is a must watch/listen. 

Our conversation begins by discussing her background, upbringing, and process of becoming as a parent, entrepreneur, and coach. Then we discuss some of her struggles in life and love where she reveals tools and strategies she used to learn how heal and grow. Finally, we discuss her views on spirituality, family, and her insights on the ways in which we can practice consciousness raising to grow the mindful movement around the globe.

About Kelli: 

Kelli is a best-selling author, coach, presenter and the owner of Studio 8 Academy, an online holistic wellness education center. She is also the co-founder of Scriptor Publishing Group, Inc., a publishing company dedicated to helping inspire people to share their stories and publish their books.

Kelli holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling Education and certifications in Personal Training, TRX and Youth Fitness. She is the author of Kelli’s Quips: Happy Thoughts for Busy People and Finding My Way Back to Me: A Journey of Self-Discovery. She has also co-authored several books, including, most recently, the Amazon best-seller, Author University.

She is a Platinum Level Coach for the Todd Durkin Mastermind Group and the VP of the Impact Coaching Certification Program where she provides business and personal development coaching for professionals around the world. She also runs a life coaching program called Finding My Way Back to Me, and hosts a podcast called It Just Takes One.

On this week’s episode of The Mindful Movement Show we feature a deep conversation with Larry Hagner. Larry Hagner is a husband, father of four boys, and the founder of the Dad Edge Podcast and Movement. His mission is to empower men to live and lead legendary lives. He accomplishes this objective by offering skills, tools, and community to create legendary marriages, epic connections with their kids, master their personal finances, optimize their health.

If you feel stuck; perhaps you’re numbing out, running away from your problems, and not being the role model your kids deserve - this episode is for you. If you desire to improve, grow, and change to become the best version of yourself as a person, partner, and parent - this episode offers very real tools to do so.

Our conversation with Larry goes deep, as he describes the challenges he faced growing up without a consistent presence from his father. He paints a picture of what it was like to have a revolving door of men in his life, and describes the tools he learned along the way to overcome abandonment issues. 

Larry talks about how his rock bottom moment compelled a journey to become an emotionally aware and available partner and parent. He tells a vivid story of how he put in the work to evolve and grow his skills as a husband and father. He illustrates the importance of viewing fatherhood as a journey that takes practice. In the conversation, Larry offers some really important ways to continually learn and grow as a person, partner and parent.

If you’re interested in learning ways to improve your relationship with yourself, your partner, and your kids please tune into this episode. Larry offers some incredible advice for enhancing intimacy, emotional awareness, and communication skills. He also goes over the benefits of leaning in, being vulnerable with your partner, and co-creating a code of conduct to grow your connection.

The reality of any relationship is - change is inevitable. In order to create a fulfilling and satisfying relationship with your partner or your kids, it takes work. In order to do the work, it is important to have mentors, be in community, grow your skills, and put them into practice. You do not have to be in a place of stagnation any longer. We hope you can use the information and inspiration from this episode to level up as a dad and a partner to your spouse.

So many men struggle in silence. Tony and Larry discuss some of their deepest struggles as fathers as a way to prove to you that you are not alone. They have both had suicidal thoughts and needed others to help them out of their painful situation.

So if you are reading this and are struggling,  please know you are not alone in your pain. We hope you resist the temptation to make a permanent decision in the face of temporary struggle. We also hope you can have the courage to reach out to folks like Larry or us to build a community. Your life is valuable and you are not a burden. Please consider sending us a DM or reaching out on social media if there is anything we can do to support you in your path.

The end of the episode is a powerful display of human emotion - and we hope you watch the whole thing!

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