The Bledsoe Show w/ Brooke Ence: How I've Learned to Love Myself #72
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Brooke Ence is an elite CrossFit athlete, a movie star, a social media star, and owner of ENCEwear, an apparel brand. Resilient, relentless and real, Brooke is a Utah native, who was raised by two hard-working and driven parents. She grew up doing gymnastics, softball, swimming and dance alongside her three older siblings.
Fast-forward to 2015, Brooke placed 1st in the CrossFit California Regionals, and went on to place 14th at the 2015 CrossFit Games in her rookie year. Since then, Brooke's built a following for her reputation as an elite competitor and her passion for inspiring others to achieve their goals.
No stranger to adversity, Brooke's returned to elite competition this year after undergoing spinal surgery in March 2017. Beyond the box, 2018 is set to be a big year for Brooke.
Building on her breakout appearances as an Amazon woman in the blockbuster Wonder Woman and Justice League films, she's already been nominated for a Shorty Award, launched her own apparel brand, ENCEwear, that nearly sold out its launch collection in 24 hours, and is partnering with Paleoethics to debut her own protein line.
In this episode, Brooke opens up about her childhood and overcoming insecurities. She takes us through her experience growing up LDS Mormon, how she got teased as a child for having bigger biceps than boys, how she overcame an injury both physically and mentally, and much more.
Enjoy!
-Mike
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Bloodsauce show this your host Mike Bletsow in today's guest is Brooke Ants |
| 0:05.2 | You're gonna really like this one. We dive in deep really quick. We get to know her very well |
| 0:11.5 | Before we go any further |
| 0:12.8 | I'm coming to the east coast doing a tour |
| 0:15.6 | May 26th, North Carolina June 2nd Richmond, Virginia and June 9th Boston, Massachusetts |
| 0:21.5 | I'm doing a seminar in each one of those locations and I don't know when I'm gonna hit the east coast again |
| 0:27.6 | So I'm only doing those three and then I'm gonna go back to the west coast and it might be six months |
| 0:32.5 | It might be six years. I don't know so if you want to meet up in person |
| 0:36.2 | Definitely get signed up for one of those seminars go over to the shrug collective |
| 0:40.4 | Dotcom and go over to the events page. So shrug collective dot com hit the events button |
| 0:45.9 | You can see all the stuff that's going on you can see what we have and |
| 0:49.7 | Yeah, sign up get it done. I have an update on the strong coach |
| 0:54.0 | So if you listen to last week's episode then you know that I launched a |
| 0:59.5 | Beta program for the strong coach program |
| 1:02.0 | so this summer I'm taking five people through the program and |
| 1:06.2 | If you didn't sign up already you already missed it however |
| 1:09.2 | There's the beta program which means there's gonna be and there's gonna be the official launch that happens and two or three months from now |
| 1:15.3 | So if you want to make sure that you're getting |
| 1:18.2 | All the updates about that you want to fill out the survey |
| 1:21.2 | Go ahead and start getting into the system so that when I launched that you are first in line to do that |
| 1:27.1 | Go over to the strong coach dot com and hit that application button |
| 1:33.2 | Yeah, so this is if if you're like me and you know |
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