Episode 43: Getting the Message Out around Social Justice and Body Acceptance with Chantal Roche

Chantal Roche lives, breathes and inspires hope in every person she connects with. In her role as the Diversity and Inclusion Manager for the United States Tennis Association of New England, she’s working tirelessly to fulfill the USTA’s mission: To make tennis look like America. 

Changing the ethos of tennis is no small feat, and the USTA is up for the challenge by offering tennis to a variety of socio-economic communities, including more people of color and welcoming all abilities onto the tennis courts. 

Chantal offers advice on combating racism and creating real social change: 1. Talk openly to friends and family about racism and acknowledge why incidences are wrong. 2. Seek out the diversity and inclusion manager at your place of employment and ask what changes are being made. 3. Check in with your BIPOC friends after incidents like what happened at the Capitol.  4. Look within and educate yourself around the history of BIPOC oppression and racism.  

The National Junior Tennis and Learning network supports over 250 nonprofits to bring tennis to over 160,000 under-resourced youths each year. You can learn more and support NJTL here. 

Connect with Chantal on Linked In. 

Episode 42: Choosing Food Liberation over Fear of Weight Gain with Iris Higgins

In what seems like a different lifetime, Iris Higgins was a weight loss coach for a large commercial weight loss program. While eating less than 1,500 calories a day, she was coaching women to lose weight and also bingeing regularly.  

One day, she had a thought that changed everything. She decided that she would rather gain weight than be obsessed with food for the rest of my life. 

Eventually, when it came to her body, Iris realized that  “this is who I’m going through life with, we might as well be best friends.” 

Iris and I also talked about the incident on Capitol Hill and how to navigate situations of violence and racial injustice, we need to come from a grounded and centered place, fat phobia, raising our children to be intuitive and mindful eaters (even with food sensitivities), and Iris’ upcoming nourishing bodies program. 

Iris Higgins, MA, Cht, has been providing coaching and hypnotherapy for womxn for the past 10+ years. Her mission is to help others unlearn old, limiting stories, and create and live out new ones that make personal wellbeing and happiness a priority. She specializes in working with entrepreneurs facing burnout, parents of transgender and gender diverse kids, and individuals with chronic illness. 

You can download her free 10 minute guided meditation to help you prioritize your to-do list at www.irishiggins.com.

Episode 41: Getting to Know Your True Self so You can Love Yourself with Tracey Miller

The moment that Tracey Miller started to notice how food made her body feel, and how food impacted her thoughts and her emotions was the moment her life began to change.

Before that, she just wanted her health problems to go away with a quick fix. Her health journey helped her discover how important it is to understand ourselves so we can be compassionate and courageous when honoring our bodies and our vitality.

Listen in! 

Join Tracey and a panel of expert speakers on Cultivating Wellness from Within, a virtual women’s retreat on January 9th and 10th. This is a forum, a space for conversation, and an invitation for dialogue on self-awareness, self-trust, and self-love.  

www.adventureswithin.us

Check out the Women's Wellness Exchange, the first national business directory for women in wellness.

Learn more about Tracey here and check out her book “This is Me” 

https://traceymiller.co/