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You're listening to the Wellness Herway podcast. I'm your host, Gracie Norton, and I'm so

excited to provide you with the space where you get to shape what wellness feels like to you.

Wellness Her Way is where we make a home of our body, mind, and soul, instead of jumping on

trends for short-term results.

We've got one body. We're going to nourish it, love it, respect it, and embrace it through all

its forms.

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Wellness Her Way.

Today we are with the beautiful Francesca Martinez.

Hello.

She's a functional movement coach and I found her Instagram and I just love the way whenever

she's sharing her workouts, that she is so playful with her movement. And you can tell, like,

you're someone that loves exercising, but it, like, it fuels you. I can see that you have this,

like, energy in this light versus, like, a lot of people look at it as a chore. So I feel like

there's probably so much you've learned over time of, like, how to get to get to that place

where it is something that's, like, playful and something to explore instead of it being a chore.

But I want to first just know a little bit more about you and learn about your personal movement journey.

Was it something that has always come to you naturally or is it something that you've kind of like learned to develop habits over time?

I think I've always been an active person. People said I had like ADHD when I was a kid. I was like bouncing off the walls. So I think I'm a little bit more on the high energy side naturally. So it's always been a good outlet to just get out my energy. But it's definitely been like an evolution over the years. Kind of like started out with dance and rollerblading and then like slowly phased in and out of different hobbies. What kind of dance did you do? Oh my gosh. Ballet was like my forte messed around with contemporary. I remember trying out jazz as a kid. And since we're talking about joint health and mobility, it hurt my ankles so bad as a kid.

So I should have foreshadowed. You would have thought it would have been like ballet because you're on like, you know, whatever point shoes. Mm-hmm. But yeah, like all the moving around with the ankles for jazz was like a whole debacle. So I gave that one up real quick. But I would say loved modern too. Totally forgot about modern. Yeah. I danced a little bit when I was younger.

My mom used to own a dance studio.

No, maybe.

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