Ep. 98 ft. Kelli Tennant - Leaving a Career Behind to Find Purpose, Heal Chronic Illness, & Put Yourself First (And Then Start A Podcast!)
The Balanced Blonde // Soul On Fire
Dear Media
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2018
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Jordan chats with her dear friend and mega inspiration (and a new podcaster herself), Kelli Tennant! Kelli is also a longtime survivor of chronic Epstein-Barr Virus, and has dealt with years of misdiagnoses and her illness getting in the way of her life time and again. Because of all she has been through, she’s one of the people that Jordan has been able to call at any time, no matter how sick she is herself, for support and compassion. On her new podcast The Platform, Kelli is offering that same support and love to all of her listeners – plus a whole lot of awesome stories from other inspiring women – so that we can all learn how to navigate perfectionism, health, criticism, success, and growth.
Kelli and Jordan chat about Kelli’s brave decision to leave her career in sports broadcasting to put her health first, what it was like to be struggling with an illness for years before finding the correct diagnosis, the relief of finding a community that can offer support and love, dating someone when you have a chronic illness, and how Ayurveda and functional medicine have helped Kelli heal in her journey.
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Resources:
- Check out thisistheplatform.com
- Listen to The Platform on iTunes
- Connect with Kelli: Instagram | Twitter
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome back to the Balance Bond podcast, Soul on Fire. |
| 0:18.9 | Or should I say welcome if this is your first time listening to the show. |
| 0:24.7 | I'm so happy to have you here, whether you have been here for all 98 episodes of the show, |
| 0:33.0 | or whether this is your first dip into the Balance Bond podcast life. |
| 0:40.5 | So you're in for a treat, whether you've listened before, or whether you're brand new. |
| 0:46.9 | Because today we have the fabulous Kelly Tennant, a dear friend of mine, a new podcaster herself at the platform podcast. |
| 0:59.7 | And just this incredible survivor of chronic illness, specifically Epstein bar. |
| 1:09.5 | But for many, many years she thought she had fibromyalgia, which you'll learn all about. |
| 1:15.2 | Kelly has also worked in television for many years. |
| 1:19.1 | And I keep joking with her that she's the first ever person to start a podcast, |
| 1:23.8 | who has already recorded 40 episodes before they launched. |
| 1:28.6 | So she's incredible, if that tells you anything about her work ethic, |
| 1:33.7 | which also bleeds over to who she is as a person and as a friend. |
| 1:39.0 | And then you kind of have a good look at who she is. |
| 1:44.1 | As we get into in this episode, she's just an incredible friend, one of those people that I can call at any time, |
| 1:52.3 | no matter how sick I am. |
| 1:54.2 | And she kind of knows what to do and what to say. |
| 1:57.8 | And I appreciate her so much. |
| 2:00.9 | We met through Orange Theory as both of our incredible boyfriend's work for Orange Theory Los Angeles. |
| 2:09.0 | But I won't spoil the story of exactly how we met, because it was really fun to hear. |
| 2:14.5 | In this episode that Kelly remembers her very first thoughts of me. |
| 2:19.0 | And I remember my very first thoughts of her. |
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