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Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS3. EP. 10 - Going Forward w/ Host Sylvia PetroThis episode marks the end of Season III, and I'm taking the opportunity to reflect on the podcast's purpose and thank all of you for listening. I started this podcast to share the experiences of those on their lifelong health and fitness journey and to spread the knowledge of practitioners who can make that path a little easier.Looking ahead, I'm excited to share more about my wellness travel offerings and will be hosting interviews with guests who are also in the retreat space. I plan to host a group retreat of my own in the next...
2025-08-2405 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS3. EP. 9 - Restoring Vitality: Functional Medicine & Healing with Martin PytelaWelcome back to the podcast. In this episode, I speak with Martin Pytela, a functional medicine expert and metabolic typing coach whose mission is to “Restore Vitality to You and the Planet.” With over 12,000 clients coached and more than 60,000 students enrolled in his online courses, Martin shares his unique approach to healing, which blends physical health, emotional wellness, and spiritual insight.In our conversation, Martin discusses his personal health journey and how it led him to explore alternative approaches to healing. We cover a wide range of topics, including trauma recovery, stress and anxiety management, gut health, meta...
2025-07-0450 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS3. EP. 8 - Rethinking Health: A Conversation with Dr. Tom CowanWelcome back to the podcast. In this episode, I have a conversation with Dr. Thomas Cowan, a widely known alternative medicine doctor, speaker, and best-selling author of six books, including Human Heart, Cosmic Heart, Cancer and the New Biology of Water, and The Contagion Myth. With a background in both conventional and holistic medicine, Dr. Cowan offers a common-sense, deeply informed perspective on health, rooted in decades of practice, study, and lived experience. Dr. Cowan is a founding board member and current vice president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, and he advocates for whole-body wellness, regenerative agriculture, and res...
2025-06-0152 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS3. EP. 7 - Sarah Malone - Recognize. Release. Recover: A Guide to Freedom from Narcissistic AbuseIn this episode, I'm joined by Sarah Malone, owner of Spark: The Secret Place—a holistic healing collective dedicated to helping you overcome emotional, relational, and spiritual blocks. Sarah also appeared on TLC’s 90 Day: The Last Resort, where she helped couples navigate relationship challenges.The focus of this episode is on identifying the signs of narcissistic abuse, what steps to take to gain freedom, and the resources available to get help. Narcissistic relationships can follow us throughout our lives if we don't recognize the signs and break the cycle.As a clinical hypnotherapist and spir...
2025-05-0545 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS3. EP. 6 - Alessa Caridi - The Power Posture Pro + Founder of JōbuFITIn this episode, I have a conversation with Alessa Caridi, also known as the Power Posture Pro. Alessa is a master-certified Pilates instructor, functional fitness expert, and the founder of JōbuFIT, a workplace movement company dedicated to solving the aches, pains, and productivity challenges of the modern workday. Alessa brings a wealth of knowledge from her experiences of teaching Pilates on three continents, owning studios in two countries, and studying the healthy living practices of Okinawa, Japan—which is home to some of the longest-living people on Earth. She has distilled her knowledge and insights into practical tools for...
2025-02-0144 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS3. EP. 5 - Alternative Health & Wellness w/ Jared HeldtWelcome back to the podcast. In this episode, I speak with Jared Heldt, an advocate for alternative health, wellness, and biohacking. Jared is also the host of the Psynautical podcast and an author. As a practitioner and advocate of ancestral living and cutting-edge health strategies, Jared shares his first-hand knowledge on how we can optimize our physical and mental well-being through natural and non-traditional approaches. His podcast explores biohacking, mindset shifts, and integrating ancient health practices with modern wellness tools. Get ready our conversation to explore how you can take charge of your health in ways that go beyond...
2025-01-2031 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS3. EP. 4 - Optimizing Men's Health: The Pitstop App with Emmett KilduffIn this episode, I speak with Emmett Kilduff, a serial entrepreneur, finance expert, and the visionary behind the Pitstop app. Emmett’s journey began in the high-stakes world of investment banking at Morgan Stanley. Over the years, Emmett built a reputation for helping companies achieve transformative success. He is currently the founder and CEO of the Fortia Group, and Mergers and Acquisitions advisory firm.Now, Emmett is bringing the same strategic precision he brought to the business and finance world to men’s health and productivity through his app Pitstop, which focuses on physical and mental health, well...
2024-12-0722 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS3. EP. 3 - Csongor Daniel: Bioenergy HealerIn this episode, I speak with Csongor Daniel, biotherapist, author, speaker, and coach.While Csongor Daniel’s teachings have healed more than a million people, he has no such ambitions for fame—he would rather teach many more to heal themselves and others. As the author of three books on Bioenergy Healing and a veteran of numerous lectures and seminars worldwide, Csongor can teach you how to feel energy easily and use it to reduce pain, promote healing, and live a healthy life. Would you like to know how he went from being a sickly child to not...
2024-11-0843 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS3. EP. 2 - Sarah Malone: Holistic Healer & TherapistIn this episode, I'm joined by Sarah Malone, owner of Spark: The Secret Place—a holistic healing collective dedicated to helping you overcome emotional, relational, and spiritual blocks. As a clinical hypnotherapist and spiritual teacher, Sarah uniquely blends therapy with spirituality in a refreshingly straightforward way. She gained recognition as a holistic therapist on a reality TV show and is the author of "Affirmations for a Peaceful Life." Featured in P.O.W.E.R magazine and Yahoo Finance, she also hosts her own podcast, Ignite the Spark Within. Known as “The Real Deal” in the healing community, Sarah leads...
2024-10-1037 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS3. EP. 1 - Wellness Travel: Blisstopia RetreatsIn this episode, I speak with Lana and Mark, founders and owners of Blisstopia Retreats in Peoria, Arizona. We discuss their many wellness services and offerings on their property designed for immersion into holistic wellness experiences. Blisstopia Retreats hosts their own retreats and collaborates with other wellness, health, medical, and professional practitioners to host retreats on the beautiful Blisstopia property.Blisstopia Retreats is 5-star rated on Google and highly recommended on Alignable. Their mission is to encourage people to embrace empowered, creative, and vibrant living through Yoga, Fitness, Meditation, Ayurveda, and various wellness activities. They do this...
2024-07-0246 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS2. EP. 7 - Fitness & Overcoming Life's Challenges w/ Lyn HepnerIn this episode, I speak with football coach Lyndon Hepner for a third time to see what he has been up to since we last spoke and to talk about his current goals. Lyn also gives insight on weight loss surgery, injury recovery, and his daily exercise and diet regimes. Lyn strongly represents someone who strives for lifelong fitness in the face of life’s many challenges. Through this interview, I hope listeners gain a perspective on how to see the pursuit of fitness as a stable healthy constant to adopt or stick to in lif...
2023-10-0825 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS2. EP. 6 - Effective Nutrition & 3 Actions for Success w/ Andy TravisIn this episode, I interview Andy Travis, founder and owner of Unshakably Fit, for a second time. This time, we will speak primarily about the nutrition guidelines Andy provides for his clients and that he follows himself. Finally, Andy will break down the three simple things his clients do for success.Andy's training program is guided by fitness fundamentals he has learned and crafted over the years and is driven by individual client data to create fully tailored routines.I sought out Andy to interview because I trained at one of his gyms, and there...
2023-09-1727 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS2. EP. 5 - Family Narcissism Unmasked w/ Lisa A. RomanoIn this episode, I speak with Lisa A. Romano about familial narcissistic relationships that can chase us throughout our lives if we don't recognize the signs and disengage from the cycle.Lisa A. Romano is a globally recognized life coach specializing in assisting wounded adult children to overcome the childhood emotional trauma that keeps them stuck repeating negative, self-sabotaging patterns in their lives. She is best known for her remarkable work in the area of adult children of alcoholic issues, codependency, and narcissistic abuse recovery.Lisa is also one o...
2023-09-0242 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS2. EP. 4 - Building Real Estate Wealth w/ James McDanielWelcome to another Fit Wallet segment of the Lifelong Health & Fitness Conversations podcast. The fit wallet series focuses on that other aspect of fitness in our lives, financial fitness.In this episode, I interview James McDaniel, a Texas real estate investor, who made his first successful property investment at just 19 years old. During this interview, James offers advice on ways to begin investing in real estate, his thoughts on the current single-family home market, his forecasts across the housing market, and his personal goals to build wealth in real estate.More About James McDaniel...
2023-08-2325 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS2. EP. 3 - How to be Unshakably Fit w/ Andy TravisIn this episode, I interview Andy Travis, founder and owner of Unshakably Fit. Andy's training program is guided by fitness fundamentals he has learned and crafted over the years and is driven by individual client data to create fully tailored routines.I sought out Andy to interview because I trained at one of his gyms, and there, I met a client of his who said his training enabled her to walk again. Now, how many trainers can you say have done that? Short answer: not many.Andy has 17 years of fitness education, and experience and...
2023-07-2634 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS2. EP. 2 - 3 Tips to Show Up and WorkoutTip 1: Know the basics about the human body and why it requires regular exercise.Tip 2: Make your exercises and fitness goals interesting. Seek new tricks to teach your body.Tip 3: Warm up with something fun, or make your entire workout fun. Don't be so serious all the time; you'll burn out.Train a minimum of three days per week. However, for optimal fitness (depending on your goal), training five days per week with a well-thought-out exercise schedule tends to be more effective. And don't forget, your body requires daily movement.More...
2023-07-0807 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS2. EP. 1 - Welcome to Season 2!18 months after Season I came to an undeclared close, Season II has arrived!In this episode, I explain what I've been up to during my absence and what is to come with this podcast and LLAFIT's offerings to listeners and website visitors.Please visit LLAFIT.com or the LLAFIT Facebook PageWellness Group and Solo Travel Booking Site: TravelToRestore.comWellness Group and Solo Travel Facebook GroupSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/llafit-lifelong-health-and-fitness-conversations/donations
2023-06-1305 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS1. EP. 12 - Dr. Erin Gravelle - Working w/ a Life CoachIn this episode, I have a conversation with women's life coach Dr. Erin Gravelle. She has Bachelor of Arts in sociology and Women’s Studies from the University of Washington, a Master of Teaching from Seattle University, and she is a Doctor of Education, specializing in educational leadership, which she earned from Seattle University. For over twelve years, she dedicated her career to student education and mentorship. Now, Dr. Gravelle has transitioned her expertise and experience to her life-coaching practice, helping everyday women reach their full potential.Dr. Gravelle created The Best Life Blueprint Plan, which can be...
2021-10-2934 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS1. EP. 11 - Aesthetics & Reality w/ Sylvia PetroThis episode is an extension of the post “7 Reasons Why I Don’t Compete,” posted on llafit.com. This episode further exposes an aspect of the aesthetics world that isn’t talked about: the prevalence of women whose success relies on the knowledge and support of men. Instead, what is promoted on the platforms of those women are messages of empowerment and hard work – along with false claims of them being fitness experts who built their own bodies.If you enjoy the episode, please subscribe to this podcast.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/llafit-l...
2021-09-1822 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS1. EP. 10 - 7 Daily Habits - Habit 1: Breathe - w/ Momentum Strength & WellnessLLAFIT speaks again with Elise and Dan of Momentum, Strength & Wellness. In this episode, Elise and Dan detail their 7 daily habits and focus on their first daily habit: BREATHE. Elise and Dan explain what proper breathing is, how it benefits your body, and how to maintain the healthy habit of breathing well.Elise is a certified nutritionist and Dan is a Chek certified holistic coach. Together, they guide clients to reach their health and fitness goals through holistic nutrition and exercise programs.Topic BreakdownMSW's 7 Daily Habits - brief overviewHabit I: BREATHEMSW Services and...
2021-09-0325 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS1. EP. 9 - Olympic Hopeful + Personal Trainer Kellianne Van der moerIn this episode Olympic hopeful, Kellianne Van der moer, a rowing trainee and personal trainer shares her thoughts on the athlete mindset, athletic ability, public perceptions about how athletes should look, and how she defines fitness.Her favorite phrase to stay motivated is “If not now, when?”Follow Kellianne on instagram @kdog_stackin, read about her in The Sacramento Bee, and see her on the Next Olympic Hopeful.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/llafit-lifelong-health-and-fitness-conversations/donations
2021-08-2048 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS1. EP. 8 - Starting, Pivoting, and Maintaining w/ Sylvia PetroIn this episode, I will describe how I went from hating exercise and opted for extreme dieting to avoid it, to becoming a personal trainer and lifelong fitness practitioner. Starting was my first goal. Then pivoting my mindset, training, and where I sought information took me to the next level of maintaining fitness for nineteen years.Despite attempting to reshape my body starting at age 14, as stated in this podcast, I don't count that year as the starting year of my fitness journey. I officially set a goal and committed to a plan after I gave birth...
2021-07-2416 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS1. EP. 7 - Lost Episode: Juggling Health, Fitness, and Parenting w/ Coach Ashley Bradford of Faith Filled FitnessThis is a lost episode. Meaning it was recorded with the intent to be aired a while ago. However, we ran into some audio issues throughout the podcast, and Ashley and I could not meet up again to recreate our conversation. But, I think the audio challenges are fitting: as a single mom juggling so much in her life and yet still slaying challenges, scratchy audio is no match for the valuable information Ashley shares in this podcast. Real warriors and champions don't have privileges like the princesses all over Instagram and other social media platforms. Real warriors push...
2021-07-0125 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS1. EP. 6 - Next-Level Financial Fitness for a Better Quality of Life w/ Kim D. H. ButlerFitness all around: mind, body, soul, and finances.Before LLAFIT.com, there was BrokeSingleMomFitness.com. Self-education through books banished poverty from my life. But I recently learned, after reading Kim D. H. Butler's books, that I still have a way to go to meet my ultimate financial goals. Through reading the 𝑩𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚 𝑴𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒔 Prosperity Economics book series, I found the tip of the ice berg to personal wealth. In this episode, Kim will impart some of this knowledge on listeners and provide resources on where you can learn more.Kim D. H. Butler, author and founder of the Prosperity Economics Mo...
2021-06-1832 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS1. EP. 5 - At-home Fitness w/ Coach Lyn HepnerI speak with 6A football Coach Lyn Hepner about his at-home workouts during the COVID-19 period. We cover how his at-home workouts compare to his previous training at a full-scale gym and his transition back to the gym. Lyn advocates for people to start working toward their goals NOW and to keep going. His motivational phrase is "What I want now can't override what I want most." Lyn is an excellent example of someone who has succeeded at dominating his health and fitness goals after decades of neglecting both—there are no excuses. Attack your goals NOW and...
2021-06-0325 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS1. EP. 4 - Nutrition & Exercise Misconceptions w/ Momentum, Strength & WellnessIn today's episode, I speak again with Elise and Dan of Momentum, Strength & Wellness, based out of Los Angeles, California. Elise is a certified nutritionist and Dan is a Chek-certified holistic coach. Together, they guide clients to reach their health and fitness goals through holistic nutrition and exercise programs. In today's episode, we talk about common nutrition and exercise misconceptions and the influence of celebrity in the fitness and nutrition industry. We’ll also get into the benefits of tailored programming.Topic BreakdownThe ScaleBMITraining CyclesNutrient TimingLow-calorie DietingCelebrity Influence in the Fitness IndustryUpcoming Services and Products D...
2021-05-2829 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS1. EP. 3 - Rethinking Nutrition & Exercise w/ Momentum, Strength & Wellness Holistic Lifestyle CoachingIn this interview, I speak with Elise and Dan of Momentum, Strength & Wellness, based out of Los Angeles, California. Elise and Dan have dedicated their lives to the study, exploration, practice, and application of all things wellness, doing so through continued physical, mental, and spiritual growth and well-being. Momentum, Strength & Wellness offers holistic lifestyle and nutrition coaching in-person, online, and on an app.Where to find Momentum, Strength & Wellness:Website: https://www.momentumstrengthwellness....Instagram: @momentumstrengthwellness Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvww... Exercise Guide: https://guide.momentumstrengthwellnes...App: Apple...
2021-04-3046 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS1. EP. 2 - Weight Loss at Any Age - Interview w/ Coach Lyn HepnerIn 2016, after decades of being sedentary and eating unhealthy foods, Lyndon decided to lose excess body fat, change his eating habits, and, in turn, change his lifestyle. He succeeded. In this interview I talk to Lyndon about his decision to adopt a healthful lifestyle, how he did it, and how he stays on track. Lyndon is a 6A football coach and history teacher in Oklahoma.You can follow Lyndon Hepner on Instagram @lynhepner.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/llafit-lifelong-health-and-fitness-conversations/donations
2021-04-2337 min
Lifelong Health & Fitness ConversationsS1. EP. 1 - Welcome to the Lifelong Health & Fitness Podcast🤸🏼♀️True Health & Fitness over Aesthetics! 🏋🏾♀️Welcome to the Lifelong Health & Fitness Conversations podcast. I'm Sylvia, fit mom of 19 years, former personal trainer, and advocate for true health and fitness over aesthetics.In this series, I interview professional trainers and coaches, gym owners, fitness gear creators, and everyday athletes who are committed to lifelong health and fitness. We focus on functionality, skill, and athletic ability over aesthetically geared training styles. We don't chase the shiny objects—the physiques of celebrities and Instagram fitness models. Instead, we advocate for practical, knowledge-based, and affordable nutrition and fitness practices that virtually anyone can...
2021-04-1600 min