Using Fitness To Find Your Confidence w/ Ashleigh Van Houten
Fuel Your Strength
Steph Gaudreau
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
After a whirlwind career in publishing and marketing, Ashleigh Van Houten managed to combine her passion and persistence into a job that she loves. A writer for Paleo Magazine, two-time podcast host and strength trainer, Ashleigh knows the power of perseverance and is here to help you develop your skills so that you can make the best out of any situation.
Love Of Learning & Confidence Building
Ashleigh believes in the importance of enabling yourself as a strong, confident and independent woman. A lover of the journey of education, Ashleigh has an amazing ability to take every experience as a learning opportunity and still finds the joy in learning something new every day.
Attracted to all things strength and fitness, Ashleigh is here to highlight how you can use fitness to find your confidence and the importance of bringing new perspectives and voices to a stagnant sphere. You owe it to yourself to find ways to develop your skills, find a path that works for you and have fun learning along the way.
How do you feel like your skills are interested are discussed in the health and fitness industry? Share what you would love to see more of in the comments on the episode page!
On Today's Episode
- How to approach physical training scenarios with more knowledge and confidence
- Why you should be focusing on the process more than the outcome
- Learn the benefits and drawbacks of the working for yourself lifestyle
- Takeaways of the life lessons learned through Jiu Shih Tzu and other training methods
- Exploring the need for more diversity in fitness and health podcasting
Quotes
"I'm very much like look, this is the situation, am I going to just be pissy about it, am I going to sit here and wish it was a different way, or am I going to approach it like what can I get, how can I benefit from whatever the situation I am in?" (17:28)
"I've always been fascinated by what people can do when they like something and they train hard. What physical feats we are capable of, I think it is so fun to watch, it's so attractive and it's so interesting." (27:45)
"It's really just about finding the joy in learning and confidence-building, because that's what life is, it's a learning process." (31:39)
"Nothing feels better than throwing a good punch. You gotta try it!" (46:49)
"There's always room for more perspectives and voices and ideas and opinions. And that's what I want to help facilitate." (53:14)
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| 0:00.0 | This is Harder to Kill Radio, a weekly podcast where we explore what it takes to build unbreakable humans |
| 0:08.0 | through fitness, nutrition, and mindset. I'm your host, Steph Godro. My mission in life is to help women build stronger bodies and resilient |
| 0:18.8 | minds so that they begin to embrace and really own their inner power. |
| 0:24.6 | The vision I have is that one day, |
| 0:26.9 | girls will grow up into strong women who appreciate their bodies, |
| 0:31.1 | know their worth, take up space, and live bigger, without the pressure of impossible to fulfill |
| 0:38.1 | bullshit societal standards. |
| 0:40.7 | That is what it means to be harder to kill. |
| 0:43.0 | This podcast is one way to explore these issues, |
| 0:47.0 | and you may not always agree with the viewpoints presented here, |
| 0:50.0 | but I can guarantee one thing. It will make you think. I'm here to lead a community of women and then we need you two who are ready to define what it is they truly want from their lives on their terms. |
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| 1:17.0 | And also be sure to tune in to my weekly companion show, Fear's Love Friday, every Friday. On that note, let's do this. Well, hey there, welcome to episode 231 of Harder to Kill Radio. I am Steph Godro, your host. |
| 1:49.0 | Thank you so very much for spending a little bit of your day with me today. It is Tuesday, which means I bring an |
| 1:56.7 | expert guest onto the show and we dive into what they are doing in the world, why they love doing it, and any tidbits, any |
| 2:06.6 | teachable moments, lessons that they can pass on to you through their work. |
| 2:11.6 | Today I'm welcoming Ashley Van Houghton to the show. She has two |
| 2:15.3 | podcasts and she is podcasting in a really a male-dominated space in fitness and I'm |
| 2:21.7 | really excited to dig into that with her. |
| 2:24.3 | She's sharing with us her wellness journey, what that's been like, |
| 2:27.8 | why strength is so important to her and strength training and what that's |
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