Ep. 805: Why You Feel Stuck Even When You're Doing the Work
Fit 2 Love Podcast with JJ Flizanes
Have you ever felt like you’re doing all the right things—vision boards, appreciation lists, meditation, inner work—and yet nothing seems to be moving? In this solo episode, JJ shares a deeply personal reflection on the space between where you are and the next version of who you're becoming. Sometimes feeling stuck isn’t a sign that something is wrong. Sometimes it means your container is expanding. Drawing from her background in fitness, manifestation work, and recent personal experiences—including a powerful birthday medicine journey—JJ explores why growth often feels...
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Ep. 804: Life After Betrayal
Fit 2 Love Podcast with JJ Flizanes
Register for the next free 14 Day Manifestation Challenge starting April 1st In this episode, JJ sits down with returning guest Lori Shelley, a coach who helps women navigate the emotional and practical aftermath of betrayal. Lori shares her background—from 12 years in financial planning (including training leadership), to 13 years at home raising her kids, to 13 years in HR—and how her own life experience led her to coaching women in midlife who are rebuilding after major relationship disruption. Lori opens up about discovering her husband’s long-term...
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Ep. 803: 3 Things to Focus on this Fire Horse Year
Fit 2 Love Podcast with JJ Flizanes
In this solo episode, JJ breaks down how to move through the powerful momentum of the Fire Horse year without burnout by focusing on just three aligned priorities. Rather than getting swept up in urgency, overcommitment, or scattered action, she shares how to use this high-energy cycle for sustainable expansion through identity, intentional creation, and body-led balance. This conversation is your reminder that success this year comes from congruence, not doing more. If you’re ready for guided support, join JJ’s free 14-Day Manifestation Challenge starting April 1st at...
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Ep. 802: Introduction to Human Design
Fit 2 Love Podcast with JJ Flizanes
In this episode, JJ Flizanes welcomes Erin Hines, a Human Design business coach (and repeat guest from West Coast Women Rising), to kick off a new series-style conversation on Human Design—what it is, why it’s gaining traction, and how it can help you better understand your energy, decision-making, and natural way of operating in life and work. What You’ll Learn What Human Design is and where it came from (a modern system developed in the late 1980s) How Human Design blends ancient and modern systems (astrology, I Ching, chakras + physics/biology concepts) The “science of...
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Ep. 801: Unique Gifts from Italy and Beyond
Fit 2 Love Podcast with JJ Flizanes
JJ welcomes Sheila Donohue for a conversation that blends entrepreneurship, lifestyle, and the art of curated Italian wines and foods. Sheila shares how her company, Verovino, sources small-batch, farm-made wines, olive oils, and specialty foods—many not readily available in the U.S.—and delivers them to both consumers and businesses across America. In This Episode Meet Sheila in Bologna: Sheila shares her life in Bologna, Italy, where she’s lived since 2001, and how Italy shaped her expertise and relationships with producers. What Verovino does: Verovino curates and imports...
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Ep. 800: Finding Purpose after Retirement
Fit 2 Love Podcast with JJ Flizanes
What happens when someone listens to every single episode of your podcast for over a decade? In this special conversation, JJ celebrates a major milestone by sitting down with longtime listener Vicki, who discovered the show years ago while walking through life’s biggest transitions — caring for an aging parent, navigating a demanding career, and eventually stepping into retirement. What unfolds is a heartfelt, real-life story about how small daily shifts, emotional healing, and consistent self-care can quietly transform your life. Together, they explore what it really means to: Find...
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Ep. 799: 5 Myths of Bipolar Disorder and Healing
Fit 2 Love Podcast with JJ Flizanes
JJ welcomes back Michelle Reittinger, author and host of The Upside of Bipolar, for a bold, hope-filled conversation that challenges common cultural narratives around bipolar disorder. Together, they unpack “myths” that can keep people stuck in fear and identity-based labels—and invite listeners into curiosity, root-cause investigation, and a more empowering view of symptoms, healing, and personal responsibility. In This Episode, We Cover · Michelle’s story: diagnosed in 1998, years of intensive psychiatric treatment, polypharmacy, and...
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Ep. 798: Healing the Abandonment Wound
Fit 2 Love Podcast with JJ Flizanes
What if the deepest wound you carry isn’t about what happened to you—but about whether you ever felt truly held by life itself? In this powerful and intimate conversation, JJ is joined by a longtime soul sister, healer, and registered nurse who shares a deeply transformative experience that healed a lifelong sense of abandonment—not just from people, but from God, Source, and existence itself. After more than 25 years of personal growth, spiritual practice, and emotional work, she realized there was still an existential fracture beneath it all: a quiet belief that life was not fully...
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Ep. 797: The Cost of Always Putting Yourself Last
Fit 2 Love Podcast with JJ Flizanes
In this solo episode, JJ explores a pattern she sees repeatedly in women who are deeply caring, self-aware, and ready for healing—yet hesitate when it’s time to invest in themselves. Drawing from real conversations with women who are caregivers, over-givers, people-pleasers, and survivors of illness, JJ unpacks the deeper truth beneath statements like “I can’t afford it.” This episode isn’t about money—it’s about self-worth, nervous system safety, and the beliefs that quietly keep women putting themselves last. Through the energetic lens of the Year of the Snake and the...
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Ep. 796: Homeopathy for Flu Season
Fit 2 Love Podcast with JJ Flizanes
JJ reconnects with longtime friend and homeopath Avghi “Avi” Constantinides (yes—at Trader Joe’s!) for a timely conversation on natural immune support during the holiday season and beyond. Avghi breaks down what homeopathy is, how it differs from symptom-only approaches, and shares her go-to homeopathic “flu season trio” that many of her clients use for prevention and support. The conversation then expands into entrepreneurship, education, and why responsiveness and follow-up are essential for building a sustainable, heart-centered business. In this episode, you’ll hear: How a...
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Darla LeDoux is a transformational retreat leader and bestselling author of Shift the Field & Retreat and Grow Rich. Founder of Sourced, she guides coaches, consultants, and healers to offer and deliver deep transformational work with their magical gifts – especially through groups and retreats. With a background as a chemical engineer at Procter & Gamble, Darla combines practical expertise with deep intuitive insight to help clients harness their Sourced Magic, the unique way Source works through them in service of transformation.
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JJ Flizanes is an Empowerment Strategist and the creator of the Empowering Minds Network. JJ Flizanes works with conscious, spiritual truth seekers who want to remove emotional blocks to success. She helps people identify sabotaging patterns and transmute struggle into joy. Through a series of clarifying exercises, she is able to curate a personalized roadmap to emotional healing. JJ is passionate about empowering people with the knowledge and awareness of how they can live the life of their dreams.
She is the Director of Invisible Fitness, a best-selling author of Fit 2 Love: How to Get Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually Fit to Attract the Love of Your Life and The Invisible Fitness Formula: 5 Secrets to Release Weight and End Body Shame. Named Best Personal Trainer in Los Angeles for 2007 by Elite Traveler Magazine, JJ has been featured in many national magazines, including Shape, Fitness, and Women’s Health as well as appeared on NBC, CBS, Fox, the CW and KTLA.
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