Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black.

And I'm Laura Owens.

Joining us on this episode is Nutritional Therapy Consultant and fitness coach, Steph Steph Goddrow author of the new book

The Core 4 Embrace Your Body Own Your Power. And Steph's book features strength training workouts,

meal plans, journal prompts, and more to help you feel energetic, active, confident, strong,

resilient, and ready to change the world.

Steph, thank you so much for joining us today.

Oh, thanks so much for having me. I appreciate it.

Talk to us a little bit about your background and why you wrote the core for.

Yeah, it's kind of a long story, but I'll try to highlight the most important point.

You know, it's really a combination of personal experience and some of the things that I've

struggled with throughout my life, married together with my professional experience, and I had

a career change about 12 years into my first career.

I was a high school science teacher, taught chemistry and biology.

I always been a bit of a science nerd. And throughout my career. I was a high school science teacher, taught chemistry and biology. I always been a bit of a science nerd. And throughout my process, as I said, of sort of dealing with my own things that I

was really challenged with, with body image and having no body confidence and dieting and living and

dying by the number on the scale and exercising as a way to earn food or a way to punish myself for what I ate.

My sort of 10-year journey of coming to a much different place in my life, coupled with this career change that I made, really brought me to this point that I'm at today. And my

mission is really to help women, particularly women in middle age, just because I feel like that's who I

relate to, because that's who I am, is to help women really start to embrace these powerful, strong

bodies that they have and realize how very powerful they really are,

and that a perfect body is not the most important gift that we can ever give the world.

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