In Part 2 with body-positive trainer Sara Denny (@sara.denny1), we talk about why you don’t have to earn your food, exercise doesn’t need to be punishment for what you ate, and training can be about getting strong, capable and maybe a little jacked. Sara also gets into what happens when you talk about body positivity online and suddenly everyone with WiFi has an opinion about your body. Food isn’t a reward, exercise isn’t a punishment, and your body is not a public comment section. 💪

What happens when your body changes…and fighting it stops working?

We’re joined by body-positive trainer Sara Denny (instagram @sara.denny1) for a conversation about something so many women have been taught to fear: taking up more space.

Sara shares her own experience with medication-related weight gain and the mindset shift that followed. Instead of training to make herself as small as possible, she started asking a completely different question:

What if I trained for what my body can DO instead of what I want it to weigh?

We talk body positivity, weight gain, unlearning the pursuit of thinness, and why strength, function and feeling powerful in your body might be much better goals than chasing a smaller version of yourself.

And yes, sometimes the goal can simply be: get jacked.

Part 1 of our conversation with Sara Denny. 💪

Okay, we know the basics. Now we have questions.

In Part 2 with Melanye Goodhue from Pulse Wealth, we basically do what any reasonable women would do when given access to someone who really understands money: we pick her brain.

We get into the questions women actually have about building wealth, investing, financial independence, relationships and money, planning for the future, and what we should be doing with our money right now.

No judgment. No pretending we already know what all the acronyms mean. And absolutely no assumption that someone else is going to take care of our finances for us.

This is the money conversation we wish someone had sat us down and had with us years ago.

By this point, Rebecca was prepared to follow Melanye not only into a fire, but apparently into any financial decision she ever makes again (and hired her shortly before this episode aired!)