There are so many benefits to prevent instead of treat. We can prevent all the time, with exercise and putting quality nutrients in our body and surrounding ourselves in a positive environment.

The flipside is usually paperwork, doctors offices, waiting lines, medication and the side affects of it.

In this show I talk about why it's better to prevent and give you tips on how you can.

Improve Sleep with Shawn Stevenson is what's going on in this episode of Exploring Mind and Body. In this interview Shawn is going to offer all kids of valuable information regarding ways to improve sleep habits, quality of sleep and more all backed by research. And at the end of the show and this post I'll share at least 3 of Shawns best tips to improve sleep b ased around his book Sleep Smarter: 21 proven ways to a better body, better health, and bigger success.

Results are born outside of your comfort zone because when we become complacent, when we do the same activities, when we eat the same foods, day in and day out our body adapts to what we're doing. This is where muscle confusion comes in. We need to continue to change our methods so our body continues to stay confused which is where we find most of our results.

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Tracey Russell who is the author of the Best Green Smoothies on the Planet!  Tracey has an interesting story of how she got into making green smoothies and it all started off with her first of all not enjoying green, salads in particular and then experimenting with her own creations.  There is so much to take away from this book and interview but before we get into the show notes here is more about Tracy.

In this show I'm talking about the things we want in live and bring up the point, first of all we have much of what we want, and secondly, the bigger things in life usually come with some type of side affect.

So it would be a good idea to be careful for what you ask for. 

We all deal with controversy – just on different levels

·         Work place

·         Home

·         Friends

·         Sports

·         Social media

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This is just a quick ad for on air purposes only

We've all been stressed out in the workplace. We all know what it's like for our coworker or boss or customer to get to us and disrupt our day or life for a brief moment.

Those brief moments that cause us stress is detrimental to our health. So in this show I've put together tips to help you reduce stress in the workplace.

This show was actually cut out from show #79. I did a separate intro and extro talked about my thoughts about V Day. I also have a new Love Detox to share with you.

Seems a little crazy that over 2 years ago I have content to share with you.

I wouldn't say it's all that romantic, just remember this is my opinion which doesn't mean it's correct just mine.

Happy Valentine's Day to all you wonderful ladies out there! 

This is just a short Ad, one of our sponsors 'GDK Gravel and Sand' asked me to voice. 

Jamie Dee is all about living a healthy lifestyle as she leads by example. She tells us how to design a proper fitness program that specific to your personality and your needs.

A gripping testimonial of how David Gaynor naturally healed a tumor with raw food, propbiotics and digestive enzymes.  A must listen to! 

It's time we stop accepting so little out of ourselves and go after the life we're looking for!

Did you know the most successful people in the world have morning routines? Personally, the only time I have a set routine in the morning. I follow my morning routines religiously and recommend if you're looking for success you develop and stick to yours as closely as possible.

In this show, I welcome you into my morning routines and let you know how I wake up in the morning. 

What if we didn't have expectations in a given situation, what if we learned how to control our expectations?

Do we realize how expectations controls our emotions, how each situations is perceived and what we can do about it.

And how about ourselves, do we realize our expetations says more about us than it does about the external situation?

Releasing anger is such an important subject when it comes to reducing stress and our quality of life. Many of us carry around deep, deep anger for our entire lives. We could be mad at a parent a spouse, or a situation from years past. It's essential to our health to figure out how to release this anger and move on in our lives.

#1. Realize we aren't the victim

#2. Many times these things happen for the best

#3. Find ways to release anger

#4. There are no quick fixes 

There's a lot of women out there that still don't take their finances in their own hands, there's many men that do the same for that matter. But I really wanted to dig down to the root of the issue and find some financial freedom for women so I asked Barbara Stanny to come on and explain how she found her success.

Now Barbara has an incredible story where she basically was in fear of money and turned all that around by taking control of her finances, life and now teaching financial freedom from women.

Would you like to join me for a private group 14 Day #Stressdetox? We have recipes, meal plans and cover toxins you put IN your body & ON. This lifestyle meal plan is based around stress free plant based, whole food. The best part, it's PAY WHAT YOU CAN. What are you waiting for to restart this year? http://trueformlife.com/pay-what-you-can-stress-detox/

I'm pretty excited to have an interview with Ben Greenfield for this edition of Exploring Mind and Body. Ben is Author of the New York Times Bestseller “Beyond Training“, he was nominated by the NSCA as America’s top personal trainer, and in 2013, and was voted as one of the top 100 most influential individuals in health and fitness.

Show Notes:

• How Ben got into the Health and Wellness field
• His holistic background and how it was influenced by his wife
• Mushroom book Ben is reading and what's interesting about it
• What Ben's training philosophy is and how we works with his clients
• The Smoothie he was making during the interview and what was in it
• How you can research and improve your health through your own DNA and linking back to your ancestors
• The site Ben recommend to visit to check your DNA to help improve your health is DNA Fit

Let's talk about how to create a positive environment and the benefits of a supporitve inner circle! 

Here is a list of how to set goals and or resolutions.

• Let people know about your goals
• come up with more solutions than excuses
• Let your habits work for you
• Pay attention to your environment

In this show I talk about how to set and achieve proper goals.

Far too many of us aren't setting goals anymore and when they do they're so insignifant we can't fail. What's the point of setting a goal we can't fail?

Find something substantial, something that will awaken that inner giant in you and inspire your day!

On this show I wanted to talk about how I was able to extend a few pleasurable moments I had over the holidays with loved ones.

I link both Anxiety and Depression to living in the past and future when our answer is living in the moment. I truly believe we can avoid the slipperly slope of medication if we look to living in the moment instead of the past or future.

It means so much to have long time listeners and actually know about it. Dayna Holloway has been listening on and off to Exploring Mind and Body with her daughter Leah who also enjoys the show.  They get together for 'tea time', drink peppermint tea, listen to the show and talk about life afterward.

What a lovely story and what an advantage Leah has in life.

The main reason I wanted to talk to Marney was because she likes to talk about fun, and I'm all about fun. As much as my topics seem to be serious at times, I love to have fun and not only is this book fun but so is Marney.  Personally I think we as a society believe you have to be serious and stern, walk around in a suit with a straight face and go to meetings all the time to be successful.  I don't think that's true and I was so happy to hear Marney talk about her perspective of how you can find success while having fun as well.

During our interview Marney goes over how her book is separated into 3 major categories, Hop, Skip, Jump. She also picks one of her favorite 'exercise's from each chapter and explains how it can benefit your life.

I know it's not easy making decisions, I know most of us usually want someone else to decide, but I don't think we realize how important making decisions are.

First of all decisions form our destiny; where we work, our financial situation, our family, where we live. Absolutely everything is determined by the decisions we make. And we we stop making decisions, if we don't exercise our decision making muscle than we slowly have more and more difficulty making decisions for ourselves.

Holiday Health Tips is the topic on this episode of Exploring Mind and Body. Today I'm brought on weight loss expert Dr. Lori Semek who is America's leading expert in weight loss. She was named "Top 16 Health and Fitness Expert" by the Huffington Post, Health Expert of ABC's show 'Good Morning Texas', and best selling author of Fire Up Your Fat Burn.

I love Christmas, I really do. I love everything about Christmas besides all the electronics and expectations about gifts but I love the:

·         Advent calendars you get to open up each morning

·         Christmas trees

·         Music

·         The movies

·         Lights

·         Snow…I love snow on Christmas…about the only time I enjoy snow

·         I love the magic of Christmas – everyone in a good mood

I think a lot of people love Christmas as much as I do however, I also think this is the most stressful time of the year.These are the topics we'll cover in the show in which I'll give you suggestions on how better to deal with them.

·         Presents

·         Tree

·         lights

·         Family

·         Food

·         Finances

·         Driving Conditions

·         So many things to do, so little time

How to get em and how to keep em...

The topic on today’s tip is the stress we put on our bodies by highly processed food.

We put an incredible amount of stress on our bodies by eating highly processed foods. I’m talking about everything from breads and pastas to chips and crackers. It would be a good idea to remind ourselves that there is usually toxins in the form of sugar, food coloring, msg, fillers, additives and other preservatives in these foods to make them look good, taste good and keep the on the shelf as long as possible which rarely means they’re healthy for us.

When we consume these highly processed foods that contain a number of toxins we’re putting an enormous amount of stress on our bodies over all, and that’s not even to specify when we have digestion issues, more directly acid reflux or indigestion, headaches, allergies like nasal issues, out of the blue headaches, and even sleep issues.

This is me talking about how I feel about airlines and airports.

There's so much junk on the market, so many toxins detrimental to our bodies, that only put stress on us so today I wanted to talk about a proper post workout shake and how to properly nutritionize your body so you can avoid those conventional substances.

In Alberta Canada we live in an area where we’re pretty much vulnerable to how much we can control in the winter time when it comes to weather. -32 degrees Celsius (-25 Fahrenheit) is a reality for us up here and could be a daily occurrence for long stretches at this time of year.  

With blizzards and cold weather, road conditions, along with tires and conditions of vehicles (although many times it doesn’t matter what type of vehicle you have) it seems like choice is taken from us at times (don’t get me wrong though, the ultimate choice to live here is ours).

There are times throughout the winter where we literally are not able to travel because it’s too dangerous, highways are shut down or we simply don’t want to leave the house. At times this makes it difficult to run a business, make it to work, or take the kids to school.

In the effort to #supportlocal and today being #SmallBusinessSaturday I walk into this one store and had an incredible experience. Beautiful store, tons of cool items, many #local and handmade items, and the service was exceptional.

Those big box stores (even though I know some are run locally) are usually filled with cheap items on sale that will break without much use, they’re cheap in price and quality, they’re made from somewhere around the world in likely difficult living conditions. And don’t get me wrong I support some of these and know owners that do their best to offer quality service and a service that’s hard to find otherwise. What I’m saying here is MOST of the time, those big stores have little customer service if any. Their main goal is to produce sales and that’s it.

In this show I talk about how small talk makes me terribly uncomfortable. It's not like I do it on purpose and it's not like I try to brush people off, it's simply who I am.

I don't think there's anything wrong with small talk, all I am saying is it's not for everyone.

I also talk about a friendly young gentlemen changed my entire day with his small talk, which actually made me rethink my almost anxiety towards it.

Farming food and healing is the title of this show and I brought on Seann Bardell on to talk about his experiences with each. I believe you'd be hard pressed to find a more traveled, educated man in these fields which is clear from all he's done and everywhere he's been.

What's great about this life is we get to choose what we want out of it. In this show I talk about how I formed my life and how you can too. I talk about the choices I've made and how I've been able to travel and see and do what I want.

The truth is we all control out own destiny and you believe you can have and do and be what you want, I believe 100% that we can.

Hope you enjoy the show!

I have a real issue with tipping for service because it seems like the price always goes up, then it seems like new places pop up with tip jars and expectations of giving more than you pay for.

Who decides, when will it end, feeling cheap and who's right.  I talk about it all right hiere in this show.  Hope you enjoy!

In this episode I talk about how there is a direct correlation between toxin, stress and not being able to sleep. So I offer tips on how to detox, reducse stress and sleep better. Some of these tips include:

• A short video
• what toxins to avoid
• where these toxins are found
• Improve sleep habits through habits
• Eating whole food to reduce stress on your mind and body

This show is a must listen to! And I'm serious about that, if you've enjoyed any of the past shows, you'll love this one.

Bhava Ram, actually healed himself from his death bed and tells exactly how through yoga, meditation and numerous other forms of self medication. None more powerful than his mantra given from his little boy when he said "Get up Daddy".

From the front lines as a war correspondent (reporter) to planning his death, Bhava openly shared what it took to be the man he is today. This is a gripping interview that I hope you take the time to listen to.

Alright so this show is called let them haters hate because there's always someone that will show their true colors from time to time and let them know how they really feel about you (and often your work).

I threw up this post not too long ago which received an incredibly positive response which also triggered a private message that was less than friendly, in fact it was downright mean.

One of the most frequent questions I'm asked from young entreprenuers is 'how do you deal with the negative people that come out'. So I thought I would address it here in this show and let everyone know how I deal with it.

I also talk about other types of failure and rejection and how I've dealt with that in the past and how I'll deal with it in the future.

On this show we have Jesse Hanson from the Helix Healthcare group on talking about a number of things all directed toward a more natural healing approach. From changing obsessive habits detrimental to your well being to the mind and body connection. Jesse shared a great interview we all could learn from.

One of my favorite quotes from Jesse is, 'labels are for cans not people'. He's actually from Southern California, has worked in treatments centers in Malibu and now lives Toronto.

In this post I really wanted to give Derek Jeter his due. He's a professional baseball player that recently ended his career and will go down as one of the best players that ever played the game.

I very much disliked the Yannkees for most of my career but it's worth noting that Jeter did an incredible job or representing a hero we could actually look up to.

Maybe someone from back in the day where kids really looking up to sports figures and had good reason to.

We simply don't have the figures we used to and people to look up to like we did in the past and like children could and should of Jeter.

So, many of us at least in Canada just finished with Turkey Dinner and our wonderful holiday of Thanksgiving! Which means many people are feeling guilty, bloated, and far off the tracks of how well they were just doing. It doesn’t matter how well we plan or how strong we try to stick to our guns, at times we completely fall off the wagon and need some help getting back on track so why not look to detox after the holidays.

In this show I'm talking about how to gain energy naturally.

The main topics I cover are:

• Environment
• Stress
• Thoughts, words and actions
• And Food!

In this show I'm talking about an experiement on my own body to actually gain weight instead of lose weight. As you'll hear I do the exact opposite of what I teach for weight loss/healthy lifestyle which is precisely what most people do all the time and can't figure out why they're not losing weight.

Counting calories really is nonsense  for the simple fact that all calories are not created equally. Its time we pay attention to types instead of numbers.

This was actually my first experience as an Emcee. I put together this show to share with you all the inspiration and knowledge I gained from this weekend.  Hope you enjoy the show!

Unfortunatley Terry Fox isn't exactly a house hold name, well maybe if you live in Canada, but even then, I think many people don't really know his whole story.  This isn't so much a post about the Terry Fox story but more so why we don't pay more attention to positive news than negative.

Believing in yourself isn't the easiest thing to do. There is so much doubt, so much unknown. I'm not sure exactly where internal confidence comes from but I can tell you it usually doesn't come easy.  Believing in yourself or lack there of, has a lot to do with failure.  The fear of failure controls so much. Many of us are simply afraid to fail to follow our dreams.

Will Quijada joins me today on Exploring Mind and Body, who is a fitness trainer and gym own, and also has an interesting story of how he became a Muay Thai Champion who represented Canada in Russia.

So I’ve had big names before, maybe none bigger with 2 million copies sold by Mr. Wheat Belly. He’s changed the industry in many ways, changes many lives as well.

I’m not one to say ‘stay away from wheat’, and as you’ll find out Dr. Davis isn’t exactly saying that, he’s saying because the industry has changed so much, it would be a good idea to not only consider what you’re putting in your body but the source as well.

Pushing your limits through 56 km’s in 3 days and some of the most intense hiking I’ve ever done, which matched the most incredible scenery I’ve ever seen, equals what could be the most physically and mentally challenging weekend I’ve experienced.

I know there's a number of young mothers out there looking for information on how to help raise your children in a healthy manner.  Who doesn't want to give our youth an advantage at living a healthier lifestyle?

I asked Janabai Amsden who is the own of Rawvolution which is a raw food restaurant in Santa Monica California to come on the show and share some tips on how to raise healthy children from the get go!

She offers tons of tips from dipping her finger in Saurkrout juice to having 'herbal tea time' with her toddlers. Some easy tips to follow that we'll wonder why we didn't think of it ourselves and other advice we could all use

I recently had a wonderful conversation with Laura-Jane who is known in the internet world (do to her incredible website) as the Rawtarian.

She talks about making it simply to start eating vegan, raw food and even offers some simple recipes to share with us.

This interview is with founder of Primal Blue Print Mark Sisson.

Mark's health philosophy?

Really, my health philosophy is surprisingly simple. I follow a diet based on an understanding of evolutionary science. I think it’s more important to eat, move, and live according to how humans are designed and not according to society’s artificial developments of the last 100 years. Fortunately, this type of lifestyle is not only incredibly healthy, it’s quite simple.

In a nutshell:

• Fresh, nutrient dense, high antioxidant, preferably locally grown/naturally raised food choices
• Daily activity – whether it’s the gym or a walk along the beach, it all counts
• Plenty of quality sleep, sun exposure, play, and intellectual stimulation
• Avoid all sweets and sweetened beverages. Once you break free, they lose their allure
• Time for fun – don’t take anything too seriously
• Ethical behavior – because what goes around comes around
• Taking responsibility for yourself and your life – openness to new things and ideas

This is another short blog post from facebook.com/trueformlife

I talk about improving your quality of life through taking baby steps. Many times we think we have no time, we have no energy, we have no resources when all the while if we change our mind set, if we look at life just a little differently we can make a difference in our lives.

Baby steps are steps are sustainable; if we do one thing at a time we can achive what we set out to.

This is an interview with Author Ron Garner where we talk about his new book Disease Free Revolution as well as what is the Alkaline and Acidic blanance in the body.

Here is a short blog post on perspective posted on True Form Facebook page

I'm talking about how perspective is really everything.  It can increase our quality of life or the opposite.  The way we see things is the way they are and if we want to make changes in our life for the better we need to start with perspective.

You know what’s sad, is that grown adults still bully.  What may be worse, grown adults allow themselves to be bullied.  I mean when you’re a child it’s hard to understand what’s right and what isn’t. Sure you’re uncomfortable but how can you do anything about it.  I mean, at times it feels like there are so many leaches in this world, people that want to suck the life out of you....

Overview

• Living a healthy lifestyle all the time
• Preparing a head of time
• Booking a kitchen
• Planning on farmers markets
• Look to places that are active, the beach, gym’s, yoga, walk, bike

Here is a short blog post from my True Form Life Facebook page about living your life like it's a vacation.

• if you structure your life like it's a vacation then what's the difference when you go somewhere else?
• Full post here

In this podcast I talk about overcoming being afraid to follow your dreams.  I go over my personal journal of my dreams and where I plan to be.  I hope this show inspires you to over after your dreams as I plan on doing.

So this is basically a trial run, I'd like to see if those that read my True Form Facebook page posts would like the option to listen as well as read.

I'd love to hear what you think if you're a regular reader and if you're a regular listener maybe you'd like to read and check out some of the pictures I post with each write up.

Alright so in this episode I want to talk about Complete Truth Protein, as you know they’re a sponsor of the show, you all get an exclusive discount, although I don’t know if I do a great job of letting you know I designed it.  I want to give you some background about it, I want to tell you why I designed and even how.  There are so many different type of proteins out there, why would I design my own?  I want to talk about these other proteins too and let you know how most of them do more harm than good.  I’m also going to tell you what it’s like to design your own product and bring it to market, what the health food industry is like and what direction we’re going with the company

• chili recipe
• injuries
• book dedication

• Local Chiropractic Michael Lentz
• How to start an exercise program

Living a Gluten Free lifestyle is a common topic that's growing daily.  We have more and more people gluten intolerant or being diagnosed with celiac disease so I thought today we could shine some light on the subject.  I brought Holistic Nutritionist Nicole Boisvert on the show to talk about living gluten free.  Topic covered:

• What is celiac disease
• What's the difference between celiac disease and gluten intolerant
• The biggest obstacle living gluten free
• eating out
• other tips and suggestions

• Brand New Detox
• Chaning your state
• Turkey Leftovers

Bikini Competition Interview

• Chiropractic Benefits
• Nutritional Benefits of a pumpkin
• Thanksgiving Thank You's

How to find your success?

• Before we can find success we need to define it
• What is success to you?
• What would make you feel successful?
• Write down what success is to you

Look to other areas besides just financial

• Personal, health, relationship
• Get in a routine
• Find success through what you do not the outcome

Equipment:

Debbie uses a Champion juicer, but says you get what you pay for.  You can buy a more expensive juicer or a lower end one.  Just remember, you don't get all the nutrients from the lowest quality types.

Wheat grass:

In how to juice Debbie also talks about how to grow and harvest wheat grass and finally how to use.  Great topic right here.  Debbie ends up freezing hers is coconut water.....how good does that sound!?

Fermenting Pulp:

So one of the biggest issues of why people don't juice is because of lost nutrients or wasted food.  Debbie talks about how she actually turns her pulp into fermented food.  I love talking about this subject so I'm glad Debbie gave us some advise on how to ferment our own food.

Vacuum Sealing:

Here is an interesting topic and way to preserve your juice so you can take it with you wherever you go!  Debbie talks about how she carries juice with her and how this process makes it easier so she's never without her juice.

Fruit/Veggie ratio:

80/20

Brian Leaf author of Misadventures of a Parenting Yogi opens the interview by talking about himself and how he bumped in to practicing Yoga.  I thought it was cool to hear Brian the #1 debater around which (not so cool) lead him to lead a very stressful life.  Which is when he found yoga, relaying that he fell in love at the very first class.

• I asked Brian if I haven’t fell in love with Yoga just yet, do I any hope to do so.  I think you’ll be surprised at what he had to say.  Honest and real, sometimes there are other things we love. Just because we don’t love one thing (in the case for me yoga), he says, I’m sure there are other things you love to do.
• I asked Brain how do you forgive and let go as a parenting yogi.  The answer was, to set this act intentionally, put it out there and receive.
• I loved how Brain talks about learning from our children.  I told him I have the pleasure of teaching a children’s fitness class and always come away with a lesson or story to share with others.
• Brain says we already know, naturally how to take care of our children.  He talks about trusting your intuition.
• We talk about how to listen to your children, how to address their issues and give them a voice too.

Life coach, fitness instructor, speaker and author Nathlie P joins us on Exploring Mind and Body to improve your life and talk about the following topics:

• Where did the 'Think Yourself Thin' idea come from?
• What is NLP?
• What are ways we self sabatoge ourselves and how do we prevent this?
• How can we reprogram our minds to think positively?
• Explain how there is positive intension behind all human behavior

In this episode I asked you, the listener to send in questions for me to read on air.  We had a ton of great questions.  Some of them include:

• Juicing
• Breakfasts
• positively influencing our children to eat healthy
• Diets
• Arthritis
• and more!

Today I’m going to talk about being grateful for what we have. This show was in part inspired by our last show #144, paradise in plain sight. I mean, so often we wish we had something, we talk about when we get older, or when we retire when or when we have this or that, when all the while exactly what we want is staring us in the face. Often we have everything we need, we even have everything we’ve ever dreamed of but we’re so busy wanting, we can’t see what’s right in front of us.

Have you ever felt like a book has found you for a reason, have you ever ran into someone that you felt like you were supposed to meet?  Well this this case I feel like both the book (Paradise in Plain Sight) and the author (Karen Maezen Miller) was meant for me to find.

This is my most candid interview to this point.  In fact, Karen and I didn’t officially open the show like I do, there’s absolutely nothing formal about the interview (except for intro, extro and sponsor mentions) but Karen and I talked and laughed and openly had a conversation about her book and life and everything else that come up.

Being Self Sufficent and Father's Day

Top 5 Tips to Plant Based Nutrition

1. Whole Food over Processed Foods 

2. Pick Plant-Based Foods

3. Stay Away from Artificial Substances

4. Beware of Sensitivity Aggravating Ingredients

5. Eat Local, and Non-GMO and Organic When Possible.

Lentz Chiropractic and being in a good mood.

Acceptance

Live it, be that

Show Notes:

Thomas Williams is an aspiring Olympian who trains at an elite level for his only goal of completing in the Olympics.

• You might be surprised to hear Thomas talk about how many hours he’s actually on the ice and how much time he puts in as a rising star.  They wake up very early, spend hours on the ice have a 15 minute break and the are back on the ice for a couple more hours.
• Thomas talks about nutrition and how he supplements his body with food.
• It’s quite shocking to hear how much it actually costs for Thomas to train full time and how difficult it can be to try and support yourself though this whole process.

Holistic pain relief is the topic on this episode of Exploring Mind and Body, and today I’m interviewing Dr. Heather Tick her book called Holistic Pain Relieft.  Now I must say to be quite honest with you I was a little weary picking up a book written by a doctor, I was expecting complicated details, explanations I couldn’t understand and more information about medicine than food and lifestyle. I couldn’t have been more wrong, and once I started reading it I couldn’t put it down. The title is really what got my attention, and after I started flipping through it and reading the content I was pleasantly surprised to understand that it was about food, lifestyle and even exercise. Holistic pain relief covers such a wide array of health issues, cures and prevention I couldn’t imagine someone picking it up and not getting something out of it.

Being Kind

My personal Guarantee

Thank you to store owners

Increasing confidence, True Health Matters, True Lifestyle Detox, Detox

• Tina Visser interview
• supporting local businesses

• Counting Calories
• Tuna recipe
• working together

The Benefits of Change

Fitness Competitor Melissa Hammer