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The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 33: Fundamental Movement Skills Part 3“If you really try to give too much instruction at this age, you can really cause a child to struggle later on. So, just being supportive and motivating them to do the best of their abilities is really what we're going for.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is a very intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. Fundamental movement skills are important through the ages of two to five. Children grow and learn through their own developmental exper...2021-08-3126 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 32: Fundamental Movement Skills Part 2“If I can feel them pushing down on my hands, if they're able to do it, when they're holding my hands, then we can kind of progress from there to kind of get an understanding of why they are struggling with doing it.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is a very intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In Part Two of the Fundamental Movement Skills Series, Karen and Farah discuss how to support children in their devel...2021-08-2430 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 31: Fundamental Movement Skills Part 1“As they [children] continue to grow, they keep building these little blocks on top of each one. And that's what enables them to be able to do these more complicated skills as they get older.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is a very intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In Part One of the Fundamental Movement Skills Series, Karen and Farah explain fundamental movement skills and their importance in a child’s growth. They explore how sibling...2021-08-1818 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 30: What Does Fearless Mean To You?“No matter how successful you are or whatever success means to you, you can always benefit from a mentor- learning and growing, there's always so much more to do.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is an intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. Fearless is a term we use in this podcast a lot - it’s one of our favorite things to ask our guests! From being fearless in the face of failures to being fearless in the...2021-07-0619 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 29: Understanding Different Types of Learning“If they're struggling to gain a skill, and you directly focus in a way that they learn really well, it might be a much easier way for them to at least understand what you want them to do, and then have a greater willingness to want to keep trying.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is an intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In an entertaining and informative episode, Karen and Farah talk about the different types of lea...2021-06-1523 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 28: Why is Mentorship SO Important“No matter how successful you are or whatever success means to you, you can always benefit from a mentor- learning and growing, there's always so much more to do.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is an intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. Having a mentor in the early stages of your child’s adolescence could phenomenally help their overall development. That is why in today’s episode, Farah and Karen speak about the importance of a mentor or...2021-06-0817 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 27: Stress Vs Stressor & What they do to us“No matter what struggle or challenge that we're going through, we will come out stronger on the other side.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is a very intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In today’s episode, Karen and Farah talk about stress and break down the various coping strategies for stress. While we as adults struggle to deal with everyday anxiety and express our concerns circling the same, we fail to notice that kids could experie...2021-06-0316 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 26: Cosmic Wisdom Coaching | Teen Specialist , Robin Wald“It’s okay to fail, you're learning. It's not about perfectionism, it's about bringing joyfulness to it.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is an intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In an enlightening conversation today, meet Robin Wald, an expert coach, teacher, and educator. Robin walks us through her fulfilling life journey into becoming a certified wellness coach for children and explaining her lessons. We learn new ways to impart courage in children to express and accept...2021-05-1146 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 25 What Fitness For the whole Child Actually Mean?“Leaving in the space and the opportunity to try everything so that they can learn what works for them is definitely what they're going to need.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is an intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In today’s episode, Karen and Farah break down the concept of the whole child and talk about the importance of social-emotional learning in children. Karen and Farah discuss why they believe that every feeling is a good fe...2021-05-0330 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 24 : Why Play is So Important?K & F_Play_Show Notes “Encouraging children to go outside in all weather builds resilience, but more importantly, it saves them from spending their life, merely tolerating the bad days in favor of a handful of good ones.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is a very intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. How can you make your children more adaptable to the different challenges that come their way? Sometimes, bad weather could be your child...2021-04-2013 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 23: K & F Our Values“If there was an opportunity for connection and understanding, there would have been an opportunity for inclusivity.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is a very intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. Today, Karen and Farah discuss the primary goals of their program- community and inclusivity, and also their shadow value of connection. They discuss today why connection happens when you believe in yourself and your dreams. This thought-provoking conversation draws parallels from Jim Collins’ book BE 2.0, where h...2021-04-1321 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 22: K & F Why“Your strengths have ultimately come from all the challenges that you've learned.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is a very intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In this episode, Karen and Farah open up about their “why” to start their podcast and certification program. We imbibe a lot of wisdom from Simon Sinek’s theory about building an infinite mindset and learn why it is inexplicably important to let your students and children know your struggles in life. Ka...2021-04-0618 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 21: The Founder of Move, Live, Learn, Dr. Amanda StanekAmanda Stanek Show Notes “It is also critical that kids learn certain skills within that grade three to five window or else it becomes a lot more challenging.” The purpose of the Student Fitness Experts Podcast series is to empower and educate anyone that works with kids, in a way that benefits the whole child to become successful, strong, and empowered young adults. Today, we are joined by Dr. Amanda Stanek, who talks to us about the huge role of PE and fitness in a child's life. If you have wondered how one coul...2021-03-301h 05
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 20: Educator, Coach & An Advocate, Akaylah Jaeke“One of the goals that we really wanted to do with this certification is to be able to give people the skills so that they can go and be successful.” The purpose of the Student Fitness Experts Podcast series is to empower and educate anyone that works with kids in a way that benefits the whole child to become successful, strong, and empowered young adults. This is a special episode of the SFE podcast. For a pleasant twist, we have our guest interviewing us today! In this episode, we are joined by Akaylah Jaeke, who help...2021-03-2347 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 19: Director of Physical Literacy for the Sport for Life Society, Drew Mitchell“If we close our minds to stuff we don't innovate, we don't grow.” The purpose of the Student Fitness Experts Podcast is to empower and educate anyone that works with kids, in a way that benefits the whole child to become successful, strong, and empowered young adults. Sports and fitness does not have to be forced upon kids. Do you struggle with getting your kids enjoy their sports and physical education hours? Lucky for you our guest today knows very well how to bring fitness into their happy curriculum and provide their mentors appro...2021-03-1650 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 18: Founder of Playocracy, Lynn Campanella“If recess is your break from work, that's when you should also be given a choice and allow yourself to pick what you would like to do.” The purpose of the Student Fitness Experts Podcast series is to empower and educate anyone that works with kids, in a way that benefits the whole child to become successful, strong, and empowered young adults. For today’s episode, we are excited to introduce to you Lynn Campanella, who’s the CEO and the Chief Play Officer at Playocracy, an organization that collaborates with schools to create a quality...2021-03-0947 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 17: Founder of KidTribe and Executive Director of Kiducational, Kellee McQuinnKellee McQuinn Show Notes “I'm a vessel. And I'm a translator, and I'm the best part of myself with kids.” The purpose of the Student Fitness Experts Podcast series is to empower and educate anyone that works with kids, in a way that benefits the whole child to become successful, strong, and empowered young adults. Have you ever thought about adapting yourself to suit your kids’ nature, or bringing them to learn in a language that fits them the best? If yes, then you’re in for a treat today! Join Karen Gilbert and Fara...2020-11-241h 05
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 16: Creator of Award Winning Kids in Motion show: Dance Movement and Yoga Expert, Julie MarkovitzJulie Markovitz Show Notes “I believe that through movement children grow and you, you can really honor the whole child through dance and movement.” The purpose of the Student Fitness Experts Podcast series is to empower and educate anyone that works with kids, in a way that benefits the whole child to become successful, strong, and empowered young adults. In today’s remarkable episode, we have with us the very gentle Julie Markovitz, who is an experienced preschool teacher, Children's Programming Creator and Certified Yoga/ Qigong/ Meditation/ Reiki Practitioner. Julie shares with us the be...2020-11-1744 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 15: National Facilitator for Welcoming Schools, Associate Editor at WeAreTeachers & Bullying Prevention Educator, Kimmie FinkKimmie Fink Show Notes “I think it’s very important for coaches and all caring adults to know who is safe to talk about the child’s identity with.” The purpose of the Student Fitness Experts Podcast series is to empower and educate anyone that works with kids, in a way that benefits the whole child to become successful, strong, and empowered young adults. In this episode of the SFE Podcast, Karen Gilbert, alongside her co-host, Farah Zweig, interviewed veteran educator and Associate Editor of Branded Content at WeAreTeachers, Kimmie Fink. With Kimmie as our s...2020-11-0358 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 14: Certified Trainer in Conscious Discipline. Ida BauerIda Bauer Show Notes “When you bring your best to a situation, the outcome is always better and conscious discipline teaches us how to do that.” The purpose of the Student Fitness Experts Podcast series is to empower and educate anyone that works with kids, in a way that benefits the whole child to become successful, strong, and empowered young adults. In this episode of the SFE Podcast, Karen Gilbert, alongside her co-host, Farah Zweig, interviewed a Certified Conscious Discipline Instructor, Ida Bauer. Ida Bauer, in today’s podcast, talks about “Conscious Discipline” and how it...2020-10-2747 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 13: Co Founders: viral anti-racist allyship resource, Justice in JuneJustice in June Show Notes “Inclusion is where you take this to the next level and you’re listening, and you’re learning and you’re uplifting those who don’t tend to always get the opportunity and that space.” The purpose of the Student Fitness Experts Podcast series is to empower and educate anyone that works with kids, in a way that benefits the whole child to become successful, strong, and empowered young adults. In this episode of the SFE Podcast, Karen Gilbert, alongside her co-host, Farah Zweig, interviewed Bryanna Wallace and Autumn Gupta, who are the fo...2020-10-2056 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 12: Word artist/ storyteller/ published author/ musician founder/ Director of Creative Learning Place Inc. Karan GoldenKaren Golden Show Notes “Don’t worry so much about the race because it’s not important. What really is important is living in the moment and finding the positivity in life right now.” The purpose of the Student Fitness Experts Podcast series is to empower and educate anyone that works with kids, in a way that benefits the whole child to become successful, strong, and empowered young adults. In this episode of the SFE Podcast, Karen Gilbert, alongside her co-host, Farah Zweig, interviewed Karen Golden, a professional storyteller, arts educator and community activist. With...2020-10-1341 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 11: Host & Editor of Homeschool.com, Jamie GaddyShow Notes: “The point of learning preferences is to be able to customise and make for your child a unique learning situation that really fits them and their needs and motivates them.” In this episode of the Student Fitness Experts Podcast, Karen Gilbert, alongside her co-host, Farah Zweig, interviewed a Licensed Professional Counselor and editor of the website “homeschool.com”, Jamie Gaddy. Our guest Jamie throws light on the huge positives that home-schooling offers and how children can enjoy learning whatever they love to, relaxed and unrestricted. She shares her personal experience home-schooling children...2020-10-0632 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 10: Child Development Specialist & Therapist, Dr. Siggie Cohen.Show Notes “The idea that we want to present to children is not necessarily that everybody is going to get it the same way, the same time, that it is a personal kind of learning, it is learning so we can open our mind, that we are learning so we can feel good about ourselves.” The purpose of the Student Fitness Experts Podcast series is to empower and educate anyone that works with kids, in a way that benefits the whole child to become successful, strong, and empowered young adults. In this episode of the SFE...2020-09-291h 00
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 9: Licensed Professional Counselor & Registered Play Therapy Supervisor, Lisa Dion.“All play is an expression of something going on in the inside of a child.” The purpose of the Student Fitness Experts Podcast series is to empower and educate anyone that works with kids, in a way that benefits the whole child to become successful, strong, and empowered young adults. In this episode of the SFE Podcast, Karen Gilbert, alongside her co-host, Farah Zweig, interviewed a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Registered Play Therapy Supervisor, Lisa Dion. With Lisa Dion, today’s podcast has highlighted the importance of regulation in children and the role of play i...2020-09-2253 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 8: Lead for Special Projects and Campaigns with Physical & Health Education Canada, Ryan FaheyShow Notes: In this episode of the Student Fitness Expert Podcast, Karen Gilbert, alongside her co-host, Farah Zweig, interviewed an Expert & Leader in School Wellness and Physical Education, Ryan Fahey. Ryan enlightens the listeners by giving a useful insight into what the notions of Physical Literacy and Comprehensive School Health pertain to and how they can be incorporated in Physical Education in Schools. With the help of his diverse working experience in education, sports, and health sectors in different parts of the world, Ryan explains how to implement Physical Literacy in Physical Education, especially during...2020-09-1545 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 7: Parenting Coach & Licensed Marriage Therapist, Bette Alkazain.“The greatest gift we can give our children is the ability to cope with the inevitable difficulties of life.” On this episode of the Student Fitness Expert Podcast, Karen Gilbert, alongside her co-host, Farah Zweig, interviewed a licensed marriage therapist and family coach, Bette Alkazain. Bette shares a unique perspective on parenting and how parents can create safe environments where the child can reflect and grow into the best version of their unique self. Bette believes if the parent is lost in making the child happy, then the core job of parenting doesn’t happ...2020-09-0846 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 6: UCLA-Trained Pediatrician and Working Mom, Tanya Altmann.In this episode of the Student Fitness Expert Podcast, Karen Gilbert, alongside her co-host, Farah Zweig, interviewed a UCLA-trained pediatrician and working mom, Tanya Altmann. Dr.Tanya shares her best practices to restructure the school life of children and what role parents can play to empower their kids. Dr. Tanya also discusses the challenges schools have to face to prevent a sudden spike in cases. Tune in to learn more insights on the role of fitness for kids and the array of benefits that healthy eating offers. About the Guest: A UCL...2020-09-0835 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastEpisode 5 : Elite Parenting Coach & Early Childhood Consultant, Joshua CastilloShow Notes: In this episode of the Student Fitness Expert Podcast, Karen Gilbert, alongside her co-host, Farah Zweig, interviewed an Elite Parenting Coach & Early Childhood Consultant, Joshua Castillo. Joshua offers a unique perspective on how she helps parents traverse challenges with kids. Her diverse experience speaks volumes about her mastery in creating a deeper connection between you and your child. Today, Joshua shares her philosophies and work style she honed over the years to put parents at ease. Tune in to learn more. About the Guest: Joshua Castillo is...2020-09-0858 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastLearn why adults need to play more and why it is so important.In this episode Karen & Farrah interview Jeff Harry where they get a front row seat on learning more about the importance of play. Jeff shares some serious "aha" moments about what he wishes he knew when he was younger. For anyone working with kids, this is a must listen!2020-04-2622 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastContinuing The Fitness Legacy with Fitness Icon Elaine Lalanne aka “The First Lady of Physical FitnessElaine is 93 years young and a fitness rockstar who is still doing her daily pushups! Continuing Jack’s legacy, she shares how he inspired her to fitness while dishing candid advice and opinions as well as her own workout routine! Get motivated, stimulated and educated by Elaine’s captivating interview.2020-04-2632 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastLearn what a play expert does and why you want to become one!This is Karen’s first time speaking with and learning from a “play expert”). Curious as to what a play expert is? Karen was too! Farrah met Brian at a Play conference and has been eager to learn more ever since. This is a very fun and playful interview that will inspire you to find your inner child and get out and play! 2020-04-2625 min
The Student Fitness Experts PodcastSeason 1, Episode 1: Meet The Co-Hosts & Founders of Student Fitness Experts, Karen + FarrahCo-hosts Karen and Farrah introduce themselves and their business, Student Fitness Experts, and explain the goals and future content of the podcast series.2019-09-0829 min