The Yoga Pants Podcast

18 - Building an Empire: Run Like a Mother with Megan Searfoss

Run Like a Mother started as a Mother's Day 5k in 2008. The founder, Megan Searfoss, expected 50 women to show up. She got 500! The race grew into another, then a series across the country. Megan went on to write the book See Mom Run, open two run specialty stores and manage her family's surprise health issue: Crohn's disease. 
In 2021, Run Like a Mother joined the ZOOMA family. Learn more about Megan's story - how she built the Run Like a Mother empire and why it was time to pass the baton!
Notables include:
There is beauty and power in Chasing Finish Lines.
There is also beauty and power in Chasing Your Crazy Idea.
Failing forward is a sound strategy.
Live for today!

Quick Lap - Mobility 101 with Coach Marcia Kadens

More Mobility videos for your viewing pleasure:
https://youtu.be/wumhuL7rfWA
https://youtu.be/Ts2cjlN0IN0

17 - Building an Empire: We are Stronger Together with Sarah Ratzlaff

Today we hear from our own Sarah Ratzlaff about how she build the ZOOMA empire and why it was time to grow it. We also learn more about Nicole's Skirt Sports journey and why it was time to pass the baton. Skirt Sports became the first brand added to Sarah's Empire in August 2020. As of today, Sarah's vision to create an all-encompassing resource for active women includes:
ZOOMA: What you DO
Skirt Sports: What you WEAR
Momentum: What INSPIRES you
Run Like a Mother: How you CONNECT IN-PERSON
And more coming down the pipeline!
 

Quick Lap - Foam Rolling with Coach Marcia Kadens

A Foam Rolling video for your viewing pleasure here!
https://youtu.be/oertOEjng2g
 
 

Quick Lap - Dynamic Warmups with Coach Marcia Kadens

More Dynamic Warmup Videos info here!
 
https://youtu.be/PPco7E7rAzQ
https://youtu.be/aiR1fG0r4As

16 - Gluteus Happiness with Personal Trainer Amy Connell

Happy glutes = happy life!
Today we bring Personal Trainer Amy Connell in to talk about the importance of, you got it, our butts! Specifically the SEVEN muscles that comprise our glutes. 
Notables & Takeaways:
Strengthening our butts may not change how they look (but they will be stronger and healthier) 😁
5 exercises for happy glutes: Glute Bridges, Lunges, Figure 4 squats, Standing leg abduction, Resistance Band Lateral Steps
Resistance bands are awesome and easy to use.
For more on Amy Connell, check out her website: https://www.gracedhealth.com/
Her podcast "Graced Health" is awesome and includes a conversation with Nicole here: https://www.gracedhealth.com/nicole-deboom/
Follow her on IG and FB at @gracedhealth
 
 
 
 

15 - To Accept & Forgive with Mindset Coach Melissa Wolak

Consider this scenario. Someone we love is blaming herself for a situation and using negative self-talk to punish herself. What do we do? Generally, we try to help her turn the situation around, see the positive and eliminate the negative self-talk. 
Why then is it so difficult to do that for ourselves?! We wouldn't talk to others that way, why do we talk to ourselves so negatively?
 
Today we have a conversation about the process of acceptance and self-forgiveness with Mindset Coach Melissa Wolak. Make sure you listen all the way to the end, there are some surprises in store!
 
Takeaways - the process of self-forgiveness
1) Ask yourself, "What emotions am I actually feeling right now?" Name them. This will help you accept.
2) Check in, "How would you talk to your best girlfriend?" Shift so that you are talking this way to yourself too.
3) Acceptance of where you actually are
4) Recognition: What was I actually trying to achieve?
5) Be patient. Compassion.
6) Check your expectations - think about your "should"

14 - You Ask We Answer

We're taking questions! From YOU! In our first installment of You Ask We Answer," we cover the following questions:
Race shirts 101: Do you wear it before you finish the race? Do you wear a race shirt for a race you didn't do?
To virtual race or not to virtual race - I'm not loving virtual races but feeling bad about that!
How do I fit in fitness when I’m managing my family?
Do you have tips for letting go of the day’s stress?
I’d love some ideas for healthy, easy to make food for busy women.
Takeaway: There are no bad questions, only the regret of not asking! Please email us at info@skirtsports.com, hit us on social media with q's or post them on podcast episode pages! 

13 - To Tuck or Not with Meredith Atwood

Meredith Atwood is a speaker, writer, coach, podcaster & more. Her work is about empowering women to change their lives and reach their goals.  But what she's currently making waves about is not the work she does with other women, but the work she has recently had done on her own body. 
After years of frustration with the loose skin on her belly (she calls it the "apron") due to childbearing and weight loss, she decided to have a procedure that included both a "tummy tuck" and ab muscle repair to bring her abs muscles back together. Her goals were not to look hot, although she admits this is a great side effect, but to kick some ass on the weightlifting stage. 
In true Meredith Atwood form, she has been open, vulnerable and honest about her journey. We decided it would be a perfect time to get her on the show to talk about our changing bodies, our rights to make our own decisions about our bodies, and how to deal with other people's opinions about our own decisions. 
You will learn about the actual process that Meredith went through, but more than that, this episode is about the ultimate goal we all hope to achieve someday: Love and acceptance of our own bodies - however we need to get there. 
Takeaways: 
1) Meredith Atwood is awesome and we're so happy to know her!
2) You CAN change your life, step by step, just keep showing up. Keep following a path even if you don't know what it is and look inside at what is happening in there. What are you covering up? Keep trying to solve that little by little. 
3) The minute you say, "I have got this," you need to turn around and dig back in because the universe is going to show you that you don't.
4) When you realize something is taking up too much negative headspace, that is the moment it is time to make a change.
For more Meredith Atwood, go to 
Podcasts: Same 24 Hours & Peaches Ain't Pink
Books: The Year of No Nonsense & Triathlon for the Every Woman
Coaching: All kinds! Including the speed coaching she talks about in this episode

12 - "What the Gut?" with Dr Kristin Reihman

Today we interview mystery illness doctor and lyme disease specialist Kristin Reihman about the importance of gut health. The first question she answers is, "Why should we care about gut health?" And then we are off to the gut races! This episode is so jam-packed with tough-to-find information about our own physiologies that you may need to listen more than once.
Takeaways from Dr Reihman - the 5 Pillars of Gut Health
1) Stress management: includes sleep, calming the nervous system and more
2) Don't put anything in your gut that your ancestors wouldn't recognize as food including artificial everything, food coloring, GMO's and more
3) Put whole, real foods, veggies and healthy fats into your gut.
4) Drink water. A good baseline is half your bodyweight in ounces of pure, clean water every day.
5) If you are called to try it, do an elimination diet. Take Dr Reihman's 6-week Boost Your Immune System Now course if you are called to it!
More on Kristin Reihman MD:
Link to her website & $5 off her e-book "Life After Lyme" which is so much more than a Lyme manual; it has valuable information for anyone looking for optimal health. Use code SHERUNSIT for $5 off!
Here is a link to a free copy of the Institute for Functional Medicine's comprehensive elimination diet, which is the basis of the diet Kristin teaches in her six week course, "Boost Your Immune System."
 
Here is the link to sign up for the free monthly "Fireside Chat" talks on a variety of heath-related topics with Kristin and Kristann Heinz, MD.