108: Be More, Not Less with Nia Shanks
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Tired of the never-ending obsession with losing weight? What would happen if instead of focusing on what you want to LOSE, you focused instead on what you want to GAIN? In this episode, guest Nia Shanks shares how to gain muscle and fitness through strength-training, and how to shift your fitness mindset from "not good enough" to a positive, confidence-boosting focus on all the amazing things your body can do.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast, episode number 108. |
| 0:07.5 | Welcome to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast, stories of vibrant women living happy lives. |
| 0:14.0 | And now your host, Jen Rideh. |
| 0:19.4 | Hey there, everyone, Jen here, and welcome back to Vibrant Happy Women. So glad you're here. So I have created a questionnaire and I need all of you listening to fill it out so that I can create content that will benefit your life. You can fill it out and it it's completely anonymous, at genridea.com |
| 0:40.2 | forward slash survey, S-U-R-V-E-Y, Genridea.com forward-slash survey. Guess what? When you fill it out, |
| 0:49.9 | you enter yourself to win a $200 gift card from Amazon. So again, that's at genriday.com |
| 0:56.9 | forward slash survey. I'm asking questions about what kind of topics you would like to listen to |
| 1:01.7 | in the future, a little bit about you, so I know who you are out there. Who is listening? |
| 1:07.9 | I have a hunch that most of you are women, but I could be wrong, but I want to know a little |
| 1:12.4 | bit more about you. Are you moms? Are you married? Are you single? Just things like that so I can |
| 1:17.0 | tailor the conversation to you. So one more time, fill that out today if you can. Hit pause now. |
| 1:24.4 | It shouldn't take you long. That's at genriday.com forward slash survey. |
| 1:29.4 | Last week I spoke with Courtney Donnelly all about creating a more vibrant home and building |
| 1:34.7 | your tribe of vibrant women. Well, I have something amazing coming that will help you to build a tribe |
| 1:41.0 | virtual or in person. Keep listening, tuning in to hear more details about what |
| 1:46.8 | is coming. In the meantime, I have some more great vibrant happy women content coming for you. |
| 1:53.2 | And for today's show, I'm talking with Nea Shanks all about weightlifting, which when I finish |
| 1:59.0 | recording this right now, I'm going to go do. I've been |
| 2:02.0 | weightlifting for over six months now, and I love it. And a lot of you think, oh, it's going to |
| 2:07.4 | mean I'm going to get bulky and I don't want to look bulky. Well, actually, that's not true. |
| 2:12.7 | It builds muscle mass, which burns more fat. It boosts your energy, it boosts your confidence, so many great benefits. |
| 2:19.1 | And that's what I'll be talking about in this episode with Nia Shanks. |
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