Katie Austin: Moving For Your Mind
The Squeeze
Taylor Lautner
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Tay is joined by fitness entrepreneur, model, and creator Katie Austin! Katie opens up about how anxiety played a major role in her decision to step away from competitive sports and what that chapter of her life really felt like. She shares how her relationship with fitness has evolved over time, shifting from working out for weight loss to moving her body for her mental health, and why finding workouts you can actually stick to, even if it’s just walking, matters so much. Katie also talks about what it’s like when fitness is such a big part of her career, how she makes time to work out for herself, and the story behind landing her Sports Illustrated and the friendships she’s formed with the SI girls along the way. She also gets real about setting boundaries with social media, her journey to finding the right therapist, her Katie Austin Fitness app, and one of her favorite forms of self-care!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:04.2 | Hi, I'm Katie Austin, and here's why I should be an essay swimsuit. |
| 0:09.5 | And I did this every year until I got it, which is, if you think bad, like, |
| 0:13.6 | ooh, Katie, you're really posting it to the public here. |
| 0:15.9 | Illusional confidence, by the way, absolutely delusional, because I was like, year four, |
| 0:20.0 | I'm going for again in 2020 I filmed |
| 0:22.6 | my audition tape for the fourth time and thank God I was surrounded by my best friends and they were like |
| 0:26.9 | post it I first heard back in March that I got it was on other castings I have 22,000 girls it got narrowed down to |
| 0:33.4 | 15 and then they picked two girls your body being looked at even more so how was that for you |
| 0:39.5 | kind of put that on myself because I'm in the fitness industry yeah where in this weird |
| 0:44.3 | subconscious way my product is me and it's like this weird mental that's f up you're not |
| 0:50.8 | valued by your looks your your worth is not based on that at all. I have really |
| 0:54.7 | learned that my worth goes so much beyond what I look like. |
| 1:19.7 | Lemon drops. We are back with another episode. I am so excited for this girl chat. Also, do we like lemon drops or should we switch to Mr. Fantasy set about calling our lemon drop |
| 1:25.5 | squeezies instead? I kind of like squeezes, but maybe we |
| 1:29.4 | interchange with them. But anyways, today's episode is such a fun chat. I sit down with Katie Austin, |
| 1:35.9 | who is a fitness entrepreneur, certified personal trainer, sports illustrated model, and digital |
| 1:41.1 | creator who's built a career around making movement feel approachable and |
| 1:45.3 | sustainable. She grew up in a family where fitness was a big part of everyday life, but over |
| 1:49.9 | time, she's worked hard to carve out her own path and wellness space. Katie opens up about |
| 1:55.4 | how anxiety played a major role in her decision to step away from competitive sports and what |
| 2:00.5 | that chapter of |
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