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. On today's episode of the

Shameless Mom Academy, I'm interviewing Aaron Brown from I am Aaron Brown. Aaron is someone I have been

fan girling for a number of years now. So I came across Aaron Brown at a time when I was in

desperate need for different kinds of personal trainers in my life. So I've always been

surrounded by many personal trainers and professionals who I've highly admired and held in

high regard, but I was in a space of trainers who were all building businesses around helping women shrink.

And that was something that after I had Vinny, I was kind of over that. And so like if you want to

lose weight, that's great. I can totally help you with that. And I do that a lot with my gym in Seattle.

I help women meet their fitness goals and meet weight loss goals. But I also didn't want to just

have that be like the only

conversation that I was a part of. And I felt like even in my own life and my own journey with

weight loss after Vinnie was born, something I really struggled with was like, what if I just

don't want to shrink anymore? What if I don't want to lose my baby weight? And what if I'm just

okay with where I'm at? And where are the people who just support us women being cool and amazing

where we're at versus always hustling to get smaller and take up less space and shrinking?

And so I came across Aaron Brown on Facebook and I felt like everything she said just gave me

permission to be okay with where I was at. And I really,

really needed that. I didn't need anyone to tell me, like, how I could get a six pack after having

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