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Perfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!Help us Build Up YOUR Metabolic BlueprintIn this special season finale, Coach Jo and Coach Kim reflect on an incredible first season, expressing deep gratitude to their listeners for their engagement and support. From day one, their mission has been to create a space for raw, unfiltered conversations about health, nutrition, and fitness—without the guilt and shame often found in the industry. They’ve tackled everything from metabolism and stress to hormones and toxic diet culture, empowering listeners to take control of their long-term health with knowledge, not quick fixes.As they wrap up the season, the hosts explore The...2025-03-2421 minPerfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!HOW TO EAT LIKE A GROWN UPIn this episode, Coach Jo and Coach Kim ask the million dollar question: why do we eat like college students or unsupervised thirteen-year-olds? They tackle the issue of real food versus processed food and the easy fast food companies have created for our busy lives that do not help our bodies. Why do we reach for chips instead of chicken? And how do we start eating like grown ups? Coach Jo and Coach Kim get real about what’s in snack food, the allure of sugar, and why protein needs our full attention.Their co...2025-03-1030 minPerfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!DON'T YOU DARE HIT SNOOZE: The morning routine real talkIn this episode, Coach Jo and Coach Kim dive into the power of morning routines and how they impact productivity, well-being, and overall success. Each coach shares their personal struggles to create and maintain a morning routine and share strategies for how to make their mornings successful. This includes prepping the night before, not hitting the snooze button, skipping the doom scroll, and eating a healthy breakfast. They discuss how small habits—like drinking water first thing in the morning and planning the night before—can make a big difference in energy levels and focus throughout the day.2025-02-2425 minPerfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!TOXIC LOAD: Are you Puffy, Swollen, Inflamed, and Bloated?In this episode, Coach Jo and Coach Kim explore the critical topic of toxic load, which is accumulation of harmful substances in our bodies that can lead to inflammation, chronic illness, and many other health issues. They break down which kinds of substances are leading to these issues, what your body might be telling you about your toxic load, and how to reduce your exposure through small but powerful changes in your daily life. One of the main focuses is how the body naturally detoxifies through four main pathways: urine, feces, sweat, and breath. The coaches s...2025-02-1036 minPerfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!YIN & YANG: Why You Need Feminine Energy in a Masculine Gym WorldIn this episode, Coach Jo and Coach Kim dive into the profound importance of balancing Yin (feminine) and Yang (masculine) energies in health, fitness, and life. They explore how these complementary forces shape their personal and professional experiences, emphasizing the need to harmonize rest and activity. From the pitfalls of overly Yang-focused fitness trends like 75 Hard to the transformative power of embracing Yin energy, the coaches share candid insights and examples from their journeys. Coach Jo and Coach Kim encourage listeners to engage in self-awareness, blending strength training, cardio, and flexibility into routines and p...2025-01-2744 minPerfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!HORMONE HELL or HORMONE HEALTH?In this episode of The Iron Lab Podcast, Coaches Jo and Kim take a deep dive into the intricate world of hormone health by answering questions from their coaching program members. They discuss how hormones, including the over 50 types found in the human body, play critical roles in everything from energy and mood to metabolism and reproductive health. Listeners will learn about the distinct hormonal differences between men and women, the hierarchy of hormones, and how lifestyle factors such as sleep, stress, and nutrition directly impact hormone balance.The conversation also explores the nuances...2025-01-1351 minPerfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!New Year, Same Badass You: Say NO to Extreme and Yes to Routine in 2025Get ready to enter the new year with confidence. In this episode, Coach Jo and Coach Kim discuss setting realistic and meaningful goals for 2025, focusing on sustainability, self-care, and consistency rather than extreme resolutions. Each coach reflects on 2024, celebrating wins like maintaining training routines, setting boundaries, and managing personal relationships, while acknowledging challenges, such as burnout, managing tough times, and accepting changing bodies. The coaches share helpful insights on how to reach your goals and feel amazing in 2025, from tracking self-care metrics to building muscle for overall health to reframing experiences to find joy e...2024-12-3045 minPerfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!HOLIDAY SURVIVAL GUIDEIn this episode of the Iron Lab Podcast, Coaches Jo and Kim share practical strategies for navigating the holiday season while staying true to health and wellness goals. They dive into the importance of setting intentions, planning ahead, and making conscious decisions about indulgences. Key tips include prioritizing protein at meals, opting for smaller portions, and engaging in family activities like walks to stay active. The coaches also highlight the significance of balancing movement with rest and recharge days, ensuring both mental and physical well-being during this festive but often overwhelming season. The discussion goes deeper into m...2024-12-1640 minPerfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!TAKE YOUR TRAINING UP A NOTCH: Do you really need a rest day, or are you just being a little bitch?In this episode of The Iron Lab Podcast, Coach Jo and Coach Kim dive into the art of balancing the time to push through and the time to pause in your fitness journey. They discuss how to recognize when to power through a workout and when rest is essential for long-term progress. By listening to your body’s signals—like mood changes, fatigue, or pain—you can make informed decisions that enhance recovery and prevent burnout. The coaches also explore strategies to break through plateaus, including various training routines and incorporating new methods, such as chan...2024-12-0228 minPerfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!THE SISTERS YOU WANT TO BE BFFs WITH - Consistency and DisciplineIn this episode, Coach Jo and Coach Kim chat about how consistency and discipline can make a real difference in personal growth and training. They emphasize the concept of “B minus work,” where the focus is on making progress without aiming for perfection. Coach Jo shares how she adjusted her workouts to avoid burnout, choosing quality over quantity. They highlight the importance of self-accountability and adaptability, comparing it to a sailor navigating ever-changing seas. They also introduce the “30 by 30 strategy,” encouraging listeners to commit 30 minutes a day for 30 days to a new habit. Coaches Jo and Kim remind us that rea...2024-11-1836 minPerfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!WINE, STRESS & SOFT TISSUE INJURIESIn this episode of the Iron Lab Podcast, Coaches Jo and Kim explore the profound impacts of wine, stress, and soft tissue injuries on fitness goals, especially for women aged 35-55. They explain how chronic stress raises cortisol levels, leading to fat storage and muscle breakdown, while alcohol worsens this effect by disrupting deep sleep and fat metabolism. Jo and Kim highlight how hormonal changes in this demographic contribute to soft tissue injuries like tendonitis and bursitis, emphasizing the importance of self-care and adjusting lifestyle habits to support long-term health and fitness.Our coaches...2024-11-0436 minPerfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!DEAD SIMPLE MEAL PREP FOR THE OVERWORKED AND OVERWHELMEDIn this episode, Coach Kim and Coach Jo dive into practical meal prep strategies for busy individuals. They emphasize the importance of planning meals around protein, keeping meal prep simple, and focusing on sustainable, realistic routines that are simple to start. By planning ahead, listeners can avoid impulsive, unhealthy choices and reduce stress around mealtime. Both Coach Jo and Coach Kim share personal stories of how their day spirals when they fail to meal prep. While acknowledging we’re all human, they encourage listeners to value their health and nourish their bodies while highlighting the...2024-10-2138 minPerfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!YOU KNOW WHAT TO EAT, SO WHY IS IT SO HARDHosts Coach Jo and Coach Kim explore the challenges of maintaining healthy eating habits. They highlight how the struggle is not about a lack of knowledge or awareness but stems from deeper issues, including stress, habits, and emotional triggers. They emphasize the importance of understanding these triggers, rewiring unhealthy habits, and setting up the right environment and mindset for success. Coach Jo and Coach Kim cover practical strategies such as mindfulness, cultivating awareness of thoughts, and gradually replacing old habits with new, supportive ones.Listeners are encouraged to prepare mentally and physically by being...2024-10-0724 minPerfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!FLY ON THE WALL CONVERSATIONS - DEEP DIVE FALL 2024In this episode, Coach Jo and Coach Kim get vulnerable in a deep conversation about the challenges of balancing busy schedules and personal well-being. Coach Jo discusses the impact of changing routines and schedules and managing emotions, while Coach Kim opens up about her emotional and physical struggles, particularly in the wake of family loss and the struggles of family members with mental health issues. You’ll hear each coach describe their strategies and tools for the shiting season, from practicing mindfulness to meal prepping to getting inspired by community support. Each coach shares her...2024-09-2355 minPerfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!THE PEPTALKGet ready for the pep talk to finally take action, start the thing, or quit the thing! Coach Jo and Coach Kim bring the inspiration, motivation, and tough talk we all need to get stuff done, stay focused, and take action that serves us rather than self-sabotages. Make sure to save, download, and bookmark this episode to return to any time you need a pep talk to do the hard but necessary things in this thing called life. Coach Jo and Coach Kim discuss the tough truths of letting go of perfection, choosing the h...2024-09-0923 minPerfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!WHAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT MACROS - Food as a set of instructions to your bodyIn this episode, Coach Jo and Coach Kim discuss the importance of macros (aka macronutrients) and how they affect our overall health. They start by giving listeners a basic overview of the three types of macros: protein, carbs, and fat and the vital role each plays in our body, including breaking down popular myths and misunderstandings about each macro. Then, Coach Jo and Kim get into the exciting facts about how macros communicate with our bodies, brains, and hormones—everything you didn’t know about macros but will be so happy you learned! Coaches Jo an...2024-08-2627 minPerfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!CHOOSING CHANGE: WHEN'S YOUR NEXT SHIFT?Join Coach Jo and Coach Kim as they delve into the struggles and strategies for navigating life’s challenges. You’ll learn basic tips that make self-awareness, self-care, and embracing personal responsibility both possible and manageable. They stress the importance of taking control of one’s thoughts and beliefs to achieve personal transformation and create a fulfilling existence. Highlighting time management, consistency, and accountability, both Jo and Kim share their personal journeys, offering valuable insights into overcoming obstacles and evolving into a better version of oneself—You 2.0. Listeners will hear compelling stories of resilience and perso...2024-08-1238 minPerfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!OUR PHONE ADDICTION In this episode, Coach Jo and Coach Kim dive into how social media and phone addiction affect our mental health, creativity, and relationships. They share personal stories of their own struggles with phone addiction, highlighting how it often leads to wasted time, shorter attention spans, and negative feelings from constant comparison. They emphasize the importance of setting boundaries to protect our mental and emotional well-being and offer practical tips for unplugging and creating space from technology. The conversation also touches on finding a healthy balance between technology use for work and personal growth.Jo a...2024-07-2944 minPerfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!BITCH GOTTA MOVE In this episode, Coach Jo and Coach Kim delve into the metabolic health crisis, emphasizing its roots in diet and lifestyle factors affecting both adults and children. They highlight the critical role social support plays in maintaining a health and fitness journey and underscore the importance of muscle mass for both metabolic and mental health. They stress that strength training is particularly essential for aging adults and share personal experiences of making time for exercise despite busy schedules, emphasizing the importance of prioritizing fitness for long-term health goals. Coach Jo and Coach Kim explore th...2024-07-1536 minPerfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!MAKING PEACE WITH THE MIRRORIn episode three of Iron Lab’s Perfectly Unfinished Conversations podcast, Coach Jo and Coach Kim discuss the dangers of perfectionism, our relationship with mirrors, and its impact on self-worth. From cultural expectations to social media pressure to generational attitudes, both Jo and Kim unpack their hang-ups about body image. By sharing impactful childhood memories and discussing the negative effect these experiences have had on their perceived self-worth, they give listeners practical advice for pushing past the negativity and learning how to love and look after themselves on a daily basis. Listeners will hear abo...2024-07-1540 minPerfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!SUGAR COATED LIESIn Iron Lab’s Perfectly Unfinished Conversations second episode, hosts Coach Jo and Coach Kim tackle the topic of habits that are no longer working for them. Amidst all the diet dogma floating around the internet, they address commonly-held beliefs and habits that aren’t serving the purposes we want them to. They break down why those habits don’t work and then discuss what does work, and things that we should consider replacing the old habits with.Coach Kim and Coach Jo list habits we are very fond of because of routine or comfor...2024-07-1550 minPerfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!INTRODUCTION TO THE PODCASTWelcome to Perfectly Unfinished Conversations, an Iron Lab podcast, with hosts Coach Jo Churchill and Coach Kim Berube. This inaugural episode is all about getting to know the hosts, what Iron Lab is about, and why the Perfectly Unfinished Conversations podcast exists. Coach Jo and Coach Kim take us into their world, showing us how they built Iron Lab and inviting us into their minds and daily lives so we can know them better, and through them, learn about ourselves.Coach Kim and Coach Jo come from wildly different backgrounds in terms of athleticism a...2024-07-1525 minPerfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!Trailer: Perfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!The Iron Lab Podcast: raw, real, unfiltered, unfinished conversations about trying to EAT, SLEEP, TRAIN and LIVE a messy, imperfect life. Support, accountability, fun and authenticity.Contact Joely Churchill and Kim Berube | Iron Lab: Website: IronLabLacombe.comInstagram: Iron.Lab.LacombeFacebook: IronLabLacombe2024-05-2701 min