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You're listening to the Wellness Herway podcast. I'm your host, Gracie Noren, 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 have Anna with us.

She's a prenatal and postnatal exercise specialist.

Thank you so much for being here.

Thank you for having me.

I have to tell you, you're one of the guests that I have been the most excited about.

I found you on Instagram a few months ago.

I have seen all of your core exercises and I watched you train throughout your pregnancy. And I felt

empowered as a woman, not even, like I said, trying to get pregnant or have ever been pregnant

before. Yeah, I just felt so inspired by you. And you're one of the first experts I've seen really dive into

how important it is to make sure we're paying attention to our pelvic floor, engaging our core,

what that looks like, what that feels like, the difference it can make throughout, just like your

training in general, and then throughout your pregnancy and your postpartum training. So I am just so excited to

have you here. And I want you to start by talking a little bit about your story. After your daughter

was born, you started training as a birth dula. And then you decided to kind of merge fitness and

birth and motherhood. So kind of walk us through that evolution and that journey.

Well, prior to having her, I actually had been in health and fitness realm for years. That's actually how I met my husband.

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