Food, Fitness, Finance and Fun

Food

I am a Plant Powered Athlete

I have been a vegetarian for the past 36 years, a vegan for the past 3 years, and an athlete my entire life. Since becoming a vegan 3 years ago and finally giving up dairy, I have gotten stronger and faster as an athlete. I recover more quickly so I can train more, I don’t have the GI problems I used to have while training and racing, and I have lost weight, have overall more energy, and am … [Read More...]

Baby Steps: Love Yourself More

I have "struggled" with disorder eating and weight/body issues my entire life. Maybe not in the way many of you have, but in a negative way where I was in a cycle I never thought I would get out of. Over-eating and restricting with intense thoughts of hopelessness, weakness, worthlessness, and self-hatred woven in Every. Single. Day! I have worked on it like it was my full-time job for the … [Read More...]

Fitness

My Friends ROCK! – Sending Kir To Kona

A little over a month ago I qualified for the Ironman World Championships which take place in Kona, Hawaii on October 14th. Although I had been training hard and had a 2 year goal to qualify, I went through several life changes in the 4 months leading up to the race, which resulted in me having to use all the money I had been saving toward my trip the past 2 years in hopes and preparation of … [Read More...]

TOTALLY AWESOME Transformation: Dawn Ashcraft

I have worked with so many incredible women over the years, I wanted to show them off and share their experiences since they are all so different than mine. I am hoping I can help and inspire and motivate more and more people by shining the spotlight on these amazing women. This month’s shining star is Dawn Ashcraft. I met Dawn after the bulk of her weight loss/health journey. She came to me to … [Read More...]

Finance

One Day At A Time

I was chatting with a friend this morning and she asked how everything was going for me. My immediate reaction was “amazing” because quite frankly almost everything in my life is super amazing right now. But then I thought deeper into how everything was going for me in my life right now and although almost everything is going extremely well, there is one area in my life that I have been … [Read More...]

Dave Ramsey Baby Step 6: Pay Off Your House

Man! If only I learned how to handle my finances 30 years ago instead of 10, I would be in a much better place in my life. As it happened, there was no class in school on personal finances, and growing up poor taught me that as soon as you get money, spend it on something you want because you may never have that chance again. All this non-education growing up helped me go into debt often, buy … [Read More...]

Fun

How to Get Through a Hard Day

Today I had a hard day. I woke up anxious and overwhelmed after about 10 weeks of moving through life at 100% on hardly any sleep, living off of adrenaline and Shakeology. I have been too tired to focus on my businesses and making money, which in turn has left me dipping into my savings the past few weeks to live. This has created anxiety, which makes me eat more, which makes me feel sluggish … [Read More...]

Suck It Cosmo!

So today in my mailbox was an issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine. It was put in my mailbox by mistake as it had a neighbors name/address on the label. The cover was AMAZING and completely started to suck me in! Not only was it hot pink, there was a super sexy bad ass chick on the cover (Ruby Rose), the #1 way to tell if he is into you, “hot-body secrets”, and their biggest sex Q&A EVER!!! So … [Read More...]