From Fitness Icon to Wellness Leader: Karena Dawn’s Journey

Screw The Clout

Bleav and Steve Stanulis

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5.0 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this inspiring episode of Screw the Clout, Steve Stanulis sits down with wellness entrepreneur, fitness expert, bestselling author, and Tone It Up cofounder Karena Dawn for a candid conversation about health, mindset, entrepreneurship, and personal growth. Karena shares the story behind building one of the most recognized wellness communities in the world, the lessons she's learned through success and adversity, and how fitness can become a powerful tool for confidence, healing, and self-discovery. The discussion explores the realities of entrepreneurship, creating meaningful impact, maintaining balance in a demanding world, and why true wellness goes far beyond physical fitness. Throughout the conversation, Karena offers practical insights on resilience, purpose, mental well-being, and living an authentic life. Whether you're an entrepreneur, fitness enthusiast, or someone looking to create positive change in your life, this episode delivers valuable lessons and inspiration from one of the leading voices in wellness today.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Screw the Cloud.
0:05.8	My name is Steve Stalueless.
0:07.5	I want to thank everybody for making us a top 10 podcast, both on Apple and on Spotify.
0:13.0	But it's not just because of my amazing voice.
0:16.0	It's the amazing guests we have on a continuous basis.
0:19.3	And yet we have another one today.
0:20.7	And I'm very excited to speak to her. Today on a continuous basis. And yet we have another one today. And I'm very excited to
0:21.9	speak to her. Today on Screw the Cloud, she's the founder of Tone It Up, a New York Times bestseller.
0:30.5	She's a wellness entrepreneur, a podcast host, and somebody who helped millions of women transform
0:36.5	not only their bodies but their mindset
0:39.0	and confidence wow that's pretty good uh welcome korena dorn korena thanks for joining us today
0:45.2	thank you for having me like i said i'm excited to be here that's pretty impressive korena
0:52.0	thank you i yeah it sounds very impressive. Sometimes I always have to like pinch
0:56.8	myself and be like, you did this. You came from that and you did this and you're still going.
1:03.9	Still here. Yeah, that's amazing. And you're going in today from obviously the West Coast. So
1:10.3	one of my favorite places in the world. So I appreciate it because it's probably what time is it there right now? Probably about nine, at 30-ish. It's 10, yeah. About 10 o'clock. 10 a.m. Yes. Yeah, it's always funny. I know when somebody is calling it from the West Coast, they're like, can we do one o'clock? I'm like, okay.
1:28.5	That's usually I didn't, I figure it out.
1:30.4	But let's get into it.
1:33.0	Let's get in some things because, like I said, you know, I always love having entrepreneurs
1:37.4	like yourself on the show.
1:39.5	And most of all listeners are entrepreneurs or artists or in this vein.
1:46.2	And they all like to hear everybody's story.
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