Hey, it's Wendy!

And it's Jess and you're listening to the Food Heaven Podcast,

your online resource for delicious and nutritious living.

Hey everyone! Thanks so much for tuning into another episode of the Food Heaven Podcast with Wendy and Jess.

Today we have Les Alford joining us. Les is the personal trainer and fitness coach behind the

balanced berry. She helps women build confidence and positive body image through

stream training and self-care strategies that are doable, approachable, and easy to fit into a

busy schedule. Yes, and I actually did Les's personal training program and I loved it.

I was like emailing her because it was so good and it was exactly my style.

And the funny thing is that we are in one of the same entrepreneur groups and she did a webinar

about her fitness program. And so I signed up to watch the webinar just to see how she did her

webinar and I had no intention of signing up for the program but it was I just loved her style and

energy so much that I was like oh my god I have to do this program. So we're super excited to

talk to you today. Welcome to the podcast Les. Thank you. I am so excited to be here.

Yay we're so excited to have you. So let's get right into the basics. Tell us a little bit about

how you got into fitness. So growing up I was always pretty active. I always

you know participating in sports and things like that but I was never like a star athlete by

any means and so by the time I got you know how to type one out of organized sports like working

out was not on my radar at all. I wasn't until like my graduated college I had my first corporate

internship and it was my first time kind of sitting in one spot all day sitting at a death

fall day and I just realized I felt like total crap sitting in one spot all day and I thought okay

if I'm just gonna rest in my career doing this I need to like start doing something to help myself

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