Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostas, Sarah Nicole,

and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or

something like that. So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital

space together. Hi. Hey. Oh my gosh. I just sewed up at your door. I know. I'm so excited that you're here.

Landed in L.A. came and rang your doorbell. Yeah. Maybe we should tell everybody who you are. So I am Brianna Christine.

Yeah, you are.

I am the founder of Bikini Body Mommy, which has become like the biggest faux pa and misnomer

for so many people out there in the public realm because they associate bikini bodies

with people who are fitness models

and size zero people. Yeah, and I love that. So just a little bit of backstory for everyone who's

listening five years ago or so, maybe even six now. Gosh, this is scary. When I was in the beginning

stages of my own weight loss journey, I was just like running on a treadmill

and so frustrated by the fact that I didn't feel connected to my body. I didn't really feel excited

about fitness. I kept trying to do these like DVDs that people were doing and it just never

connected on any sort of level. And there was somebody who actually lives in like Utah or something

who posted a recipe of yours one day.

And when I went to your page, you were living in Toronto at the time. And I was like,

oh my gosh, there's someone inspiring who's had somewhat of a similar story to me.

You had had the three kids. You had like done this postpartum like transformation. And I was

just like, oh my gosh, and she's working out at home and I started

I quit everything else quit all the cardio started doing your workouts and it was the most empowering

shift in my personal wellness journey because I felt like I was suddenly not alone in my body

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