Carol Elizabeth is an inspiration as so many women can see themselves in her.  The life she is living now is what many want.  Her life was not always that way.  

In 2007 she was unhappy, un-healthy, in a failing marriage and uncertain of her place in life.  Her journey of self discovery through fitness and health has brought her to accomplish all that she has so far. Carol Elizabeth has since become a leader in the field of wellness, transformational work, self-love, and motivation.

As a successful wellness entrepreneur, network marketing professional, mother of 3 teenagers, and 2 time Figure world champion..  She offers a number of personal support programs of practical tools to promote sustainable health, wellness, and others that support financial freedom.

Through her coaching methods, and programs, she has helped countless people connect with their ME, transform their bodies, empower their minds, gain financial independence, and fall in love with themselves and their lives.

Throughout her career, Carol has been published in Oxygen Magazine, Inside Fitness Magazine, Prosper as well is the publication Pie Magazine.

She is also a motivational speaker who is sharing her story to inspire others. Carol has been immersed in personal development for the last 4 years and most recently has been trained privately by Rod Hariston, one of Tony Robbins head trainers. Her passion to help other extends much further than the physical side.

Her desire is to allow women to see their true potential in life and harness that SPARKLE that will help them achieve anything. She is a certified personal trainer and nutrition consultant.

http://www.carolelizabeth.com/

What we talked about in this episode:

• Why it's crucial to take inventory of the people you surround yourself with.
• Why others tend to embrace your lack of thriving.
• The importance of making sure you are part of a community that are going after the same goals as you
• Tips for moving through social pressure when making major life changes.
• How do you want to look at yourself years down the road?
• How to start taking responsibility so you can live the life of your dreams.
• Why putting yourself first isn't selfish.
• Why it's important to show your children that you value yourself.
• People who constantly put you down are not living in optimal happiness.
• Don't take advice from someone you wouldn't trade places with.
• People living a happy fulfilled life will never belittle anyone else's goals.
• How to write a vision cast for the future.
• Victim mentality is to blame, complain, and justify
• How to feel like you are worthy and enough just as you are.
• Why seeking outside validation out side of yourself may leave you feeling empty.
• Goals give you something to look forward to.
• Anything worthwhile requires consistent effort that includes your relationship, business, body and life.
• Empowerment starts with taking responsibility.

Joy Prouty is the Director of Education – Programming and Training for Zumba Fitness LLC.   She is also the Co-Developer of the Zumba Gold Program,  and was featured in the Zumba Gold Live It Up Consumer DVDs. 

Joy is a former Radio City Music Hall Rockette.   She is an internationally renowned fitness instructor, trainer and educator and has been known for her innovative teaching style and program development for over 40 years.  She served on the American College of Sports Medicine’s Summit Committee for 13 years, and was a member of ACSM’s Certification Committee for 7 years.   She was also a member of the Reebok University Development Team for 8 years focusing on Program development and International instructor training.

She and Josie Gardiner have co-authored several books, and 4 Harvard Medical School Special Health Reports, as well as choreographed and starred in over 25 video/DVDs.  Joy also co authored the Breast Cancer Survivor’s Fitness Plan and a 12 week Getting Started Program for Breast Cancer Survivors and used by the YMCA Pink Program.

Prouty is certified by ACSM as a Health Fitness Director and Health Fitness Instructor, by ACE, AFAA, AEA , and Welcoaches.

What we talked about in this episode:

• The life of a Radio City Music Hall Rockette
• What it was like to dance 365 days a year.
• Complete gratitude being able to dance for a living.
• How Joy evolved from being a dancer to her fitness career
• Joys career helped to get her through the loss of her husband at age 34.
• Joy was trained by Elizabeth Arden and then opened her own studios in 1980 closing them in 1995 to pursue other endeavors.
• She was fortunate enough to become involved early on with ACSM, ACE,IDEA, AFAA, Reebok, and Reebok University.
• Joy has always loved teaching and now mentoring.
• Joy said there is nothing better then sharing her passion.
• Joy is the director of programming at zumba at 76 years young
• Joy's daughter started the program zumbini, a zumba program for children.
• Programs my come and go but the foundation of how the body moves remains the same.
• Joy says be open to different forms of movement as long as its grounded and based on exercise science.
• The music, energy, fun, and exuberance of people is what helps makes a program successful.
• Happiness through the ages changes.
• Happiness is an inside job. It comes from the peace that is within you, finding what your passion is in life and  pursuing it. 
• Joy still has a 5 year plan and sets goals living her passion with purpose.
• A part of aging gracefully and happily is passing on the torch and mentoring.
• Create a legacy by living on through others.
• Joy has worked with many of the fitness greats. 
• Once Joy was carried across the stage by Richard Simmons. She said that they were about the same size.:)
• Joy is highly impressed by the talent of the up and coming fitness generation.
• Keeping a positive attitude begins with with a foundation of faith, family, and friends.
• Joy says it isn't over until it's over, you can still learn, share, and grow.
• Joys experience with the incredibly talented Beto, the creator of Zumba.
• Joys 3 simple truths: Be true to yourself, find your passion, and go out and give.

Social Media: Instagram and Facebook Joy Prouty, joyprouty.zumba.com

• Making New Years resolutions a lifestyle.
• When setting a goal, try not to have  the "its all or nothing" mentality.
• Give yourself a pass to suck until you don't.

Obi's Three Action Steps To Make New year's Resolutions A Lifestyle 

1. Being around people that actually support you and are like-              minded.

2. Writing down your goals on a piece of paper.

3. It's a marathon not a sprint.

• Everyone's DNA isn't the same, so in terms of what we can achieve it will vary: Ripped abs, tight hamstrings, or developed glutes etc.
• We all have our strengths and weaknesses.
• Focus on your strengths.
• Writing down your goals increase your chances of achieving them by 50%.
• Tracking your progress is important because it get addicting to see your results.
• If you don't see progress it's hard to stick with something.
• Tracking your progress also lets you know when you need to switch it up.

Sabotage looks like:

1. Your mother baking you your favorite triple-stack fudge brownies      though it's not your birthday.

2. Your significant other bringing you ooey gooey cheese pizza.

3. Friends inviting you on a multitude of wine outings.

4. co-workers egging you on "oh come on can't you just have a            little bit?" 

• I'ts okay to say no! Don't be food-shamed if you want to eat that or if you don't want to eat that.
• Obi Obadike is Steve Harvey's Personal trainer and Steve has gotten into phenomenal shape under Obi's tutelege. 

Obi's Tips on Achieving Higher Success

1. Creating relationships matter people have to want to work with you. People have to like you. Having a bad attitude gets you no where.

2. Laying down your ego, creating trust through your hard-work and integrity.

3. Doing everything you can to execute and get the job done. 

All Things Obi:

The Cut: Lose Up To Ten Pound In Ten Days And Sculpt Your Best Body Co-Authored by Obi Obafike and Morris Chestnut.

"60 is the new 40" Obi Obadike and Steve Harvey's new digital series to motivate baby boomers that your age doesn't have to stand in the way of being healthy and in your best shape ever.

Finally a brand you can trust. obistrong.com Obi has developed a new supplement line without all of the fillers, stimulants, fake sugars, low sodium, low fat, no  proprietary blends, and junk you might find out there in the land of supposed health supplements. No hidden ingredients in his new-line imagine that! Be sure to try -out his new product line at obistrong.com

Obi's handles:

Twitter: Obi_Obadike

Instagram: obiobadike

Facebook: @ObiObadikeFitness

Website: www.obiobadike.com

http://www.thecutbook.com/

Tiaja Pierre is a focus group participant in the book, The Cut by Morris Chestnut and Obi Obadike. She is also a Licensed Private Investigator who helps people of all walks of life. Tiaja is also part of Beauty Underground which you will see often at New York Fashion Week and Denver Fashion Week.  She is currently the titleholder as Mrs. Wash Park 2017 for The Mrs. Colorado America USA Pageant. She is also a former Ms. Fitness USA and Ms. Fitness World competitor.

In addition to being a working mother and wife, Tiaja is full of energy and is always willing to give a helping hand to all. She volunteers her time and gives back to the community by giving free facials to those going thru cancer, advocating for women and children and feeding the homeless, just to name a few.

Tiaja feels that no matter the challenge, with perseverance anything can be accomplished.

Tiaja’s handles:

Twitter: Tiaja_Pierre

Instagram: Tiajamaisondebeaute

Facebook: @thecut.tiajapierre

Lindsey Smith is the author, health coach, speaker, and food blogger behind Food Mood Girl. Best known for her books Food Guilt No More and Eat Your Feelings, Lindsey enjoys creating recipes that not only taste good, but help improve your mental and emotional well-being. Yes, that includes cookies, too. Lindsey spends her free time hanging in her hometown of Pittsburgh with her husband and adorable rescue dog, Winnie Cooper.

What we talked about in this episode:

• Reasons why we start to eat our feelings.
• Reclaiming what it means to be an emotional eater.
• In Lindsey's book she gives food solutions to eat according to your mood.
• She suggests creating a snack-attack station at home.
• When you are hangry you are depleted of nutrients.

Signs of being hangry:

1. Low blood sugar 

2. Hormones feeling out of whack 

3. Fight or flight mode has kicked in.

4. Brain fog not thinking clearly

5. Shaky

6. Hypoglycemicia

7. Nothing satisfies you

Common Reasons for Emotional Eating:

1. Stressed out

2. Bored

3. Being Unprepared

4. Dieting trends

5. Seasonal Changes

6. Ancestry

Tips to Combat Emotional Eating

• Feel the feelings you have.
• Go To a space to process your feelings
• Talk to a therapist.
• Stop and ask yourself, what are you really hungry for?
• What do you need emotionally?
• You need to address your feelings.
• Recognize self sabotage.
• Allowing yourself to feel feelings good or bad.

Sabotage:

• Things could actually be going well but you either feel uncomfortable with that or unworthy of that, so you sabotage it.
• Trauma triggered within us that occurred at the weight we were at before..such as sexual assault, post traumatic stress, eating to hide or cover up the shame.

Self Sabotage Tips:

If you have suffered some sort of a trauma: Seeking out counseling, talk Therapy, a holistic health coach, and or a naturopath can be healing in these situations.

Half the battle is recognizing when you have a problem.

Dropping the stigma around needing help and taking the necessary steps to get it.

Briging your body and or hormones into balance.

Getting proper sleep.

www.hormonehoroscope.com

Letting Go of Food Guilt:

• Shifting the way we think and feel about food.
• Being able to go into eating food with a healthy mindset
• Setting yourself free from a deprivation mind-set.
• Letting go of judgement around food.
• Looking at food as food neither good nor bad.
• Savoring your food.
• Planning a treat or cheat.
• Crowd out unhealthy choices by eating more healthy filling foods.
• Educating yourself in the kitchen.
• Having fun around food.
• Self Acceptance.
• Hiring someone to help you navigate.

Cravings

• Cravings are the gate-keepers to what your body really needs
• When your craving something sweet it might mean you need less stress, more sleep, balance, maybe less red meat. Nutrients you may need are fresh berries and more leafy greens
• When craving caffeine you may need energy and need to incorporate it through the foods you eat.
• When feeling overly stressed  you may need to start including foods that are grounding like turnips, sweet potatoes, or carrots.
• Lindsey breaks cravings down in her new book Eat Your Feelings be sure to check it out anywhere books are sold.

Social Media:

Lindsey Smith HHT

Website:

www.foodmoodgirl.com

Follow Linda on Social Media @ Chickfitstudio on Facebook Instagram and Twitter and my website is www.chickfit.me

Social Media- Elaine www.JackLanne.com

Facebook - Elaine or Jack Lanne

Before Jillian Michael's, Tony Horton, Kasiafit, Denise Austin, and Jane Fonda there was Jack the pioneer and "Godfather of Fitness", He is responsible for many of the fitness staples in the industry today some of which are the; protein bar, protein shake, leg extension, leg curl, cable pulleys, and so much more. Learn all about the making of this fitness icon and the wife beneath his wings, Elaine . She is 91 and rocking her age and still lectures all over the country.

I love, eat, and breathe fitness, so I was beyond honored to interview The First Lady of Physical Fitness, Elaine . She is the wife of fitness legend Jack .

I'm not going to lie.   I got pretty teary-eyed when I was preparing for this podcast about Jack and Elaine . Together they have created the most amazing legacy that we all still benefit from today. You know what they say; behind every great man is an incredible woman. 

Elaine is nothing less than incredible! At 91 she puts us all to shame.  Elaine does full push ups, takes no medication, and is as sharp as a tack. In this episode we talk about how Elaine, the then smoker and donut lover, met Jack, The Godfather of Fitness and he changed her life forever.  Jack also had a life-changing event happen to him; perhaps that was why he was so interested in making an impact in other people’s lives.  Jack was ill as a teen and his entire life was changed from a lecture by Paul Braggs of Braggs Aminos. This was a lecture in which Jack was almost turned away because it was sold out. Paul made room for Jack and his mother right up front. Talk about divine intervention.

As Jack got older he wanted people to realize that age was just a number. He set out to prove it by completing surreal physical feats, one of which was his infamous swim from Alcatraz to the mainland with his hands and feet shackled behind his back towing a 1000 pound boat at 60 years young. Jack really stood in the gap as a pioneer.  He was responsible for so much of what we see today in fitness, from creating the selectorized weight machines, cable/pulley machines, and leg extension, to having the idea for The Smith Machine.  Jack and Elaine encouraged and introduced women to the weight room, back then they were of the thinking that women belonged in the kitchen and not in the weight room. The backwards thinking was that women would look like men if they weight trained.  Also the thinking in that day was men in sports shouldn’t weight train, because they wouldn’t be able to move as fast and if they were muscle bound and that it would slow them down. Jack ,The Godfather of Fitness, was amazing from the sheer feats of physical fitness he performed, to the machines he created that still we use today.  Jack was also responsible for creating the first protein shake and protein bar.  Jack was such a pioneer and an icon in the industry and his wife was right alongside him being on the air helping him do all that he did.  She is a fabulous lady and I am so inspired by her. I met her at the World IDEA Blog Fest and it was an instant connection. She was such a gracious lady.  I took a leap and asked her if she would do a Facebook live video with me and she did. It didn't take the first time so I had to get up the courage to go up and ask her again and she was such so gracious. We did it one more time and now I’m interviewing her for a second time on my podcast. ”Life favors the bold.”

1. Move it or lose it

2. Fruits and Vegetables cleanse the system.

3. Every cell in your body is continually changing. Your body is new      every seven years.

4. Why its important to have a good gut.

5. The effect of good microbiome and a great probiotic.

6. If you nibble all day long you never realize how much your              eating.

7. What your doing right now is walking and talking tomorrow.

8. A sense of humor is important to longevity.

9. Jack wanted to prove that if you take care of yourself it doesn't        matter your age

10. People are old because they're told their old.

11. ARC is Elaine's secret and mission in life. A-Attitude R-                    Resistance C Consistency.

12. Sign up for Maria's Schriver's Sunday Paper free.

13. A funny story of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jack working out.

14. Jack always said "If you do everything in moderation you can't          go wrong."

15. "It's not what you do some of the time that counts its what you          do all of the time that counts." Jack Lanne

16. When someone has a birthday Elaine has a piece of cake but            she says Jack was always very disciplined and never deviated.

17. At 91 Elaine is living strong lecturing and writing a new book.

18. The story of how Elaine met Jack and fell in love.

19. Face exercises to keep you looking young.

20. Why Jack wore ballet slippers and where he got the idea to              wear a jumpsuit.

21. Jack would say "all I want to do is help people help themselves."

22. What people don't know that don't know.

23. Humor is the best medicine.

Jill Griffiths is a certified personal trainer and group fitness instructor who loves sharing her tools to make fitness success a reality.  For the past 18 years she has had her hands in all things fitness from teaching Spin to Zumba to Yoga to creating Personal Trainer Led Bootcamps.  Her current success and focal point is her 8 week leaner and stronger program where she has produced amazing results with hundreds of people, by providing the correct tools and personalized nutrition needed to lean up all while gaining and maintaining strength and confidence.  

Jill’s past achievements include competing and placing in an NPC bikini competition, triathlon, running 4 Ragnar Relay’s, half marathon’s, and multiple smaller races.

Her current passion is Spartan Races.  She ran her first Spartan race in 2016 and has been hooked ever since.  In 2016 she earned her first Trifecta.  In 2017 she earned another Trifecta as well as a coin, which allowed her to compete in the Spartan World Championship race this past September against the top elite and pro female races of the OCR world where she proudly took 41st.  She is currently a Spartan Race Ambassador and loves every part of the OCR community.

Jill is also a mom to 3 kids, a wife, and a corporate personal trainer.  Her family life includes carpooling her kids to their many activities and standing on the sidelines cheering her kids on in whatever activity they chose to do.  Recently, their family bought a “fixer upper” and have been working together to demo the home and remodel it together.  She feels that having her kids work side by side her and her husband, will help them gain a better tolerance and drive to work hard to build their own future success. 

You can learn more about Jill and her programs on Instagram, Facebook and her website/blog.

• How fitness has evolved.
• Overcoming obstacles.
• Challenging yourself.
• Digging Deep!
• You can do it!
• Pushing past fear into the feeling of accomplishment
• The BEAST
• The SUPER
• The TRIFECTA
• The SPRINT
• The rope climb
• The spear throw
• The monkey bars
• Ring The Cowbell One More Time Blog
• How doing the Spartan Race gives you confidence.
• Your never too old to play.
• Mental mindset gets you through.
• Do your first race as a team.
• Race with someone in mind or a cause, it will give your race purpose.
• Our favorite and least favorite obstacles.
• Jacobs Ladder
• Ways to get your kids to trade in their devices for physical activity.
• Setting goals is what drives you forward.
• With patience and consistency you can achieve any goal.
• Don't be caught on the sidelines of life just wishing.
• My Navy Seal MountainTop Experience Blog
• How you can do a pull-up from beginner status.