What happens when a strong, healthy woman is still labeled “overweight”?

In this powerful and honest conversation, Robin sits down with her longtime friend Bridget Lolli, a wellness professional, strength athlete, and advocate for redefining health, to unpack the moment that sparked a deeper conversation about body image, BMI, and the messages women receive about their bodies.

After being labeled “overweight” in a medical chart based solely on BMI, Bridget began asking a bigger question: Are we actually measuring health, or just weight?

Together, they explore:

• Why BMI is an outdated and often misleading measure of health
• The cultural pressure for women to be “strong", but still small
• How strength training can improve metabolism, longevity, and injury prevention
• The impact of body image messaging on girls and young athletes
• Why female athletes often underfuel and fear building muscle
• How to advocate for yourself in medical settings
• And how to redefine health in a way that honors both body and purpose

This episode is especially meaningful for:
✔️ Women navigating midlife body changes
✔️ Anyone frustrated with the scale or BMI labels
✔️ Moms and granddaughters raising daughters in today’s body image culture
✔️ Women of faith seeking freedom from body perfection

Health is not a number. Strength is not a problem. And your body is not something to shrink.

If you’ve ever felt like your body didn’t “fit” the standard and need to be reminded that you are fearfully and wonderfully made, this conversation is for you.

Special Guest: Bridget Lolli is a public health professional, Certified Health Education Specialist, and School Wellness Coordinator for Columbia Public Schools with academic training in Nutritional Sciences, Nursing, and Public Health. She also holds a CrossFit Level I and Precision Nutrition coaching certificates, with over a decade of strength training experience.

Bridget is passionate about redefining how we measure health by challenging outdated metrics like BMI and advocating for more accurate indicators such as muscle mass, physical performance, and metabolic health. Her perspective is shaped not only by her professional background but also by her lived experience as a strength athlete navigating injury, recovery, and weight bias within healthcare.

Through her work in school wellness, youth athletics, and fitness, she focuses on helping adults and young athletes understand that health is not defined by thinness, but by strength, function, and resilience. Her recent social media post on muscle bias has sparked conversations about weight stigma, particularly its impact on women and youth athletes.

Bridget is also the co-host of the podcast The Crooked Compass.

https://www.youtube.com/@crookedcompasspod

What if the very things we try to avoid in life- the discomfort, the struggle, the seasons that feel too heavy- are actually the moments shaping who we are becoming?

In this episode, we explore Tapas, the third Niyama in yogic philosophy. Often translated as “heat” or self-discipline, Tapas invites us to stay present in life’s refining fires rather than running from them. It’s the courage to sit with discomfort long enough to discover the transformation waiting on the other side

Together we discuss:

• Why discipline isn’t about punishment, but about strength of character
• How crises can either break us down or break us open
• The role discomfort plays in spiritual and personal growth
• How faith, perseverance, and even ordinary challenges can shape us in powerful ways

Join us as we consider that the greatest growth might happen when we choose not to escape the fire, but trust it instead.

Some conversations don’t start with answers.
They start with a shift you didn’t see coming.

In this episode, Robin sits down with Ashley Gross Minor for a deeply personal and honest conversation about what happens when something that once felt foundational and sacred begins to feel messy and complicated.

Ashley spent more than a decade immersed in what many call the “K-World” of Kanakuk Ministries. She was a camper, leader, mentor, and believer whose faith was shaped in that space.

But recently, something changed.

After engaging with a widely circulated conversation featuring Elizabeth Carlock Phillips on The Shawn Ryan Show, Ashley found herself wrestling with questions she could no longer ignore.

This episode isn’t about proving facts or revisiting headlines.

It’s about what happens internally when new information collides with long-held trust.

It’s about the tension of holding both gratitude and grief. Of reconciling meaningful spiritual experiences with difficult realities. Of deciding what responsibility looks like when silence no longer feels right.

This conversation may challenge you. It may resonate with you. It may simply invite you to reflect more deeply.

(Listener discretion is advised as we discuss sensitive issues related to child sexual abuse.)

Special Guest: Ashley Gross Minor

Ashley Gross Minor is a wife, mom, and business owner whose life has been deeply impacted by her experiences with Kanakuk Ministries. In fact, she spent more than fourteen years deeply embedded in what many refer to as the Kanakuk “K-World.”

She was a camper. A staff member. A recruiter. A graduate of the Institute. A KLIFE director. A leader. A mentor. She sent children she loves to camp. She gave her life to Christ there at twelve years old.

For most of her life, this wasn’t just a camp. It was a spiritual home.

But recently, Ashley listened to a three-plus- hour conversation between Elizabeth Carlock Phillips and Shawn Ryan on The Shawn Ryan Show. This conversation deeply impacted her understanding of what has unfolded over decades within the organization. She joins Robin on this episode to discuss her personal experiences at Kanakuk and why she can no longer remain silent.

Show Notes:

The Shawn Ryan Show: Elizabeth Phllips- Camp Kanakuk: Exposing One of hte World's Largest Summer Camps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vQriYkW8KQ

Website Ashely mentions: https://factsaboutkanakuk.com/

Sexual Abuse Resources for the Columbia, MO area:

True North of Columbia (formerly Rape & Abuse Crisis Service / RACS)

• 24/7 crisis line: 573-875-1370 or 800-548-2480
• Services: confidential counseling, advocacy, support groups, legal/hospital accompaniment
• Serves Boone County and surrounding areas
• Services are free or low-cost for survivors.

SNAP – Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests

• Hotline: 1-877-SNAP-HEALS (1-877-762-7432)
• Peer support, advocacy, and referrals to therapists familiar with clergy abuse.

The Hope of Survivors

• National organization focused specifically on clergy sexual abuse and spiritual abuse recovery.

These organizations are especially helpful when you want a clinician who understands spiritual betrayal, faith injury, or church dynamics.

RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network)

• 24/7 hotline: 800-656-HOPE
• Online chat and local provider referrals nationwide.

Missouri Coalition / State Sexual Violence Network

• Helps connect you to community rape crisis centers and trauma therapists across Missouri.