Oh, hey there. Welcome to episode 162 of Harder to Kill radio. It's Fierce Love Friday, and I'm your host, Steph Godro. Thanks for hanging out with me today.

Ooh, we are almost at the new year, and let me tell you what.

Diete Talk has already started,

and this is going to be a five chilly show. So if you have

sensitive ears listening I suggest you get headphones you can pause but there will probably be a lot of

swear words on this show. I oh boy if you've seen the title it's called toning and this has come up

suit like so much in the last week or two and I think this is already on people's minds

and the purpose of this show is to sort of look at what are some of the

like the layers some of the reasons why this word is so popular why don't we want

to talk about being strong like God forbid our muscles get any bigger like why are so many of these things tied up together and

So I'm gonna take a look at that today. I don't have a script for this show, which you'll probably figure out pretty quickly.

But I do have some strong feelings on it and as a strength coach as a nutrition professional

I'm always trying I'm always walking that line between like I want to help you achieve what you want to

achieve and also like there's some things that we just need to clarify if we're

going to have a conversation where everybody's on the same page and there's just a lot also

a lot of shit that gets repeated that's just not correct. It's not even like a difference of opinion, it's just not correct and

then there's a lot of stuff that is a difference of opinion. So the saying that

always pops into my brain and I fight this battle all like it is always

going on inside of me and I expressed this to Dave Delanabe the other day in an email.

I was like, you know, I'm constantly feeling I'm walking this line between,

like I'm here to help you walk your own path and like figure out

what's going to work for you and yet there are some things that are just they're

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