Hey guys it's Kristen here and I have a conversation plan for you guys today that is going to be so good because it's something that so many of us as women struggle with something that I have struggled with and that is just health and exercise from a biblical viewpoint,

understanding how to care for our bodies as women without obsessing over them.

We're going to get into all of that today and I'm so excited to introduce you to my guest,

Lainie Greer, who has 20 years of experience as a personal trainer.

She holds a bachelor's degree in exercise science and a master's degree in Christian leadership

and a PhD in systematic theology

and she's written a booklet called Be Well

learning to steward your body.

So Laney, you are the expert in this conversation today and there's just so many questions I have for you on a personal level that I'm excited to dig into, but I know this conversation is going to be, it's going to resonate with our community as well. So thank you for being with us today.

Yeah, thanks so much, Chris.

I'm excited to be here.

Okay, give us a little bit of your background,

like your personal journey with health and fitness,

how you got into all of it, struggles you face, just give us a quick

quick background on all those things.

Yeah, so it's been a long journey.

I grew up loving to work out and so knew that I wanted to be like a personal trainer to some degree and

started doing that in high school. My church had a gym so I would

unofficially train very brave people before really getting any expertise there and I love it.

Yeah, so so got like a it was like a six month certification where it was a six-month certification where it was a personal training school actually so I

went and did that I finished a college degree kind of in between all that while I was

training and focused on exercise science.

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