Hello, everyone.

And welcome back to an all new episode of the Financial Confessions.

It's me, your host, Chelsea Fagan, founder and CEO of the financial diet and woman who

loves to talk about money.

And for those watching, you can tell I am in Los Angeles, sunny, relatively unwalkable

Los Angeles, and just really living, laughing, loving out here, getting all that

vitamin D, doing yoga, drinking green juice, swearing athlete, you're doing none of those things.

But when I came out to L.A., I thought, what are the industries and the inherent experts that I

really want to speak to? And obviously, acting was a big one that came up.

And we've been speaking to people about that.

But another one, as I jokingly alluded to in that intro,

is the fitness industry.

Now, when it comes to fitness and particularly

the context in which we often talk about it on TFD, we're often talking about fitness as a sort of nebulous marketing concept, which especially when it's marketed to women tends to be more about consumerism and quite frankly, the act of being thin rather than the act of being healthy in any meaningful way, let alone strong.

For many women, including a very close personal friend of mine, the transition away from

this nebulous and often destructive and above all, kind of impossible to achieve expensive

notion of wellness, was better replaced by focusing on how you feel in your body, what you're capable of accomplishing with your body.

And generally, I mean, let's be honest, the ability to lift heavy, which we all have to do every now and again in our personal life.

So I wanted to speak to someone who is familiar with these industries who has a lot to say on this topic,

but is really about that latter more holistic and quite frankly, less expensive version

of being healthy and fit. In her case, it involves quite a bit of weightlifting, which we'll

get into. But it's also about revolutionizing the way we think about these things, to what

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