Today I am honored to introduce you to Alex Allen.

We just met in person for the first time a few minutes ago, but I've followed Alex for a while and she is an absolute force.

My favorite thing about Alex is that she's willing to say things that likely won't be received well simply because it's the truth.

She's a fierce mental health advocate and

she has a tremendous platform educating both men and women on how they can improve their

relationship with food, get stronger, love their body, and live a healthy, meaningful life.

Alex Allen, welcome to the podcast. Thanks for having me. I'm so excited to be here.

Very excited to have you. I just start off with a couple of questions at the very beginning. Who are you? Who am I? That's such a deep question. It is. It is. I feel a lot of times people are just like, oh, I'm my job. And I am a online fitness coach who talks a lot about mental health, body image, relationship with food.

But deeper than that, like, I'm just a girl trying to figure out life, honestly, still.

I think that that's, like, the crazy part of it is I'm this person who started sharing my health and fitness journey online when I felt really lost, built a platform

because of it, and I'm still figuring out life. And that's honestly the content that I make.

I've been a trainer for a decade. And I talk a lot about fitness because it saved me. But I've

started to expand that to kind of everything else as well. So that's who I am. What does that mean it saved you?

When I was 18, my boyfriend passed away from a drug overdose and I ended up gaining a lot

of weight because I turned to like partying and drinking.

And I never really understood how to deal with difficult emotions.

And I finally found fitness.

I'm the person who failed P.E. in high school.

How does that happen?

You just don't go.

And so I wouldn't go.

And I ended up failing.

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