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2.32: Finding Health and Happiness on Your Own Terms with Lily Fontas

Release Date: 05/08/2018

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Welcome to the first official episode of my new podcast, Mind Climate!

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In this special finale episode, we talk about how we’ve grown this past season; with an eye towards how we can help other people through their own growth process, of course.

2.35: Using Restorative Justice to Heal Rather Than Punish

In this week’s inspired conversation, we reflect on our powerful interview with Jackie Rotman. Jackie is currently helping survivors of sexual harm and advocating for sexual empowerment for women.

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This episode involves a frank conversation about sexuality and sexual harm. While we feel it’s an amazing, and incredibly important conversation, listener discretion is advised.

2.33: A Marathon Versus a Sprint

In last week’s episode, we spoke with Lily Fontas; a wellness coach and educator who is on a mission to help women get strong, healthy, and happy on their own terms.

2.32: Finding Health and Happiness on Your Own Terms with Lily Fontas

Lily Fontas is a wellness coach and educator who is on a mission to help women get strong, healthy, and happy on their own terms. After burning out as a classroom teacher, she turned to bodybuilding and found a way to live a healthy life without dieting.

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Lily Fontas is a wellness coach and educator who is on a mission to help women get strong, healthy, and happy on their own terms. After struggling with a binge eating disorder and nearly burning out as a classroom teacher, she turned to bodybuilding for stress relief by combining strength training and positive reinforcement. She found a way to live a healthy life without dieting or deprivation and now she shares her expertise with women worldwide as an online coach.

In this episode, we talk about Lily’s personal journey, the importance of finding a balance between paying attention to what you put into your body but not paying so much attention that it becomes an obsession, why the diet mentality needs to go, and so much more. Enjoy!

What you’ll hear in this episode:

What Lily loves about what she’s up to now
Lily’s transition from being a kindergarten teacher to becoming a professional body builder
Why Lily feared losing her job when she took control of her health
Why it’s so important for Lily to help others become more fit
How the health and fitness industry isn’t designed to help people lose weight and keep it off
Finding the balance between focusing on the details of getting fit but not becoming too obsessive and adding extra pressure on yourself
Why the diet mentality needs to go
What Lily considers to be her biggest achievement and how she accomplished it
The biggest challenge Lily has faced while building her business
The importance of focusing on what you do want rather than what you don’t want
How weight lifting has reframed Lily’s view of failure

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