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Fit & Fearless

Grief and Exercise

Fit & Fearless

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Journalist, author and powerlifter Poorna Bell joins Tally and Vicky to share her story of how weight training and exercise has helped in dealing with the death of her husband. If you’ve been affected by anything we’ve been talking about then you can find information and advice at BBC Actionline. www.bbc.co.uk/actionline

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.0

Before we start, it's worth flagging that we cover some pretty heavy topics in this episode.

0:09.6

We realise it's a little bit different from what you might usually expect from the

0:12.7

Fitton Fillers podcast, and we wanted to tell you in advance, so if you're not in the

0:16.0

headspace for it today, then you might want to listen to one of our previous episodes.

0:20.0

This is Fitton Fillers from BBC Five Live.

0:30.0

Hi, this is Tally, and I am flying solo in the BBC London studio today, because Zanna

0:46.6

is in Patagonia at the moment, living it up, I'm sure.

0:51.2

But Vic, she is with me, she might not be with me physically, but you are with me in audio.

0:57.2

Vic, say hello from Sulford.

1:00.2

Hey, yeah, I'm in the Sulford Studios by myself, but I'm definitely with you guys in spirit.

1:05.2

We can see each other on camera, so we still got that connection.

1:09.4

So welcome back to the new series of Fitton Fillers with BBC Five Live and us the Girl Gains.

1:16.6

If you don't know, our thing is getting active, being healthy, eating well and having confidence

1:21.2

in your body.

1:22.2

And the reason we're going to all together today for this episode is because we've dropped

1:25.2

everything to be able to speak to today's guest, because she's amazing and has the most

1:29.5

incredible story to share.

1:31.1

And we're big fans, aren't we?

1:33.1

We have wanted to have Funa Belon for a while, and we have had admired her work from distance.

1:39.2

In fact, Funa is in the studio with me right now, so I'm going to fangirl about you just

1:43.6

for a second.

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