What's going on you guys? Welcome back to Embody Radio. I'm your host Emily

Duncan. This week's episode is a long-awaited one, especially for me just as the

host. So today's guest, Alyssa O'Lenic my goodness I do not have enough good things to say

about Miss Alyssa O'Lennick first of all she is a brilliant brilliant woman

within the fitness industry she is a brilliant, brilliant woman within the fitness industry.

She is currently in grad school, so she is somebody that shares similar ideologies as me as

far as the importance of science-based fitness practices.

She's also just extremely sassy,

and I absolutely love that.

She is not afraid to call out the BS within the industry and then also educate

using her scientific background I think that's a really important thing you know we

can't just call things out and then not try to better the situation you know that's not a productive

use of time and that's just like idle chatter right but Liz is using calling things

out as an opportunity to educate.

She's not afraid to poke fun at bad trends within the industry.

She's not afraid to make herself look a little silly to call something out within the industry.

She's just not afraid to be herself in all ways.

And I think that's something that's really awesome

and really rare and just really powerful.

So we're going to do a lot of talking about her, her

background, kind of how she got into the whole science-based fitness thing, what

she is learning about in grad school, kind of her path as far as all of that is concerned and

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