This is the Shameless Mom Academy, episode 152 with Charmaine Ironside. Show notes for this episode

can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 152.

Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean, and I'm here to give you

and other passionate, dedicated moms the tools you need to bridge the gap between motherhood and living the life of your dreams.

I'm also here to help you be a little more shameless every day, because if you aren't building a life, you're extraordinarily proud of, what kind of legacy are you building?

So let's dive in.

Charmaine Ironside owns two successful fitness studios in Calgary, Canada with her husband Patrick. She also owns the Diet Dropout, a thriving online

coaching community where she helps women overcome challenges with weight, food, and supports them on

mindset and gets them on the road to living their best lives and

their best bodies.

She enjoys all the hats that she wears, including being a mom to two-year-old daughter

Kennedy, a wife to her incredible husband and an entrepreneur who is constantly looking

for ways to help people better their lives.

Charmaine is an eternal optimist who lives life to the fullest, takes responsibility for her own

joys and for her success. I always love a good convo with a fellow fitness professional for sure,

and I was especially excited to talk to Charmaine about her personal journey with dieting and

weight loss. As it turns out, we had a lot of similarities, a lot of parallels, and we both were

raised by moms who did a lot of dieting. We were both exposed to

dieting at a very young age and actually started our own diets at very young ages. And let's be

honest, when you are a little girl dieting before the age of like before you've hit puberty,

it can kind of mess with you for like a lifetime.

It gives you some self-image issues, and Charmaine and I both definitely fall into that camp.

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