The Yoga Pants Podcast
63 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 207 ratingsWelcome to The Yoga Pants Podcast. We’re your hosts Sarah Ratzlaff and Nicole DeBoom. We are two successful female business owners who have found strength, confidence and community through fitness and want to share that gift with you. Join us as we talk about what REALLY matters to active women.
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13 - To Tuck or Not with Meredith Atwood
March 12, 2021 11:00 - 51 minutes - 29.3 MBMeredith Atwood is a speaker, writer, coach, podcaster & more. Her work is about empowering women to change their lives and reach their goals. But what she's currently making waves about is not the work she does with other women, but the work she has recently had done on her own body. After years of frustration with the loose skin on her belly (she calls it the "apron") due to childbearing and weight loss, she decided to have a procedure that included both a "tummy tuck" and ab muscle rep...
12 - "What the Gut?" with Dr Kristin Reihman
March 05, 2021 11:30 - 1 hour - 36.1 MBToday we interview mystery illness doctor and lyme disease specialist Kristin Reihman about the importance of gut health. The first question she answers is, "Why should we care about gut health?" And then we are off to the gut races! This episode is so jam-packed with tough-to-find information about our own physiologies that you may need to listen more than once. Takeaways from Dr Reihman - the 5 Pillars of Gut Health 1) Stress management: includes sleep, calming the nervous system and mor...
11 - The Eating Confessional
February 26, 2021 11:00 - 49 minutes - 28.4 MBWe wrap a lot of emotion around our food, and we often tie negative emotions to our food journeys. We are starting a series on Eating & Nutrition that starts with our own food journeys. In this episode we open up about our relationships with food and how what we put in our mouths has impacted our health, self-esteem and more. We also recognize that many people suffer from disordered eating of all kinds. Our goal is not to minimize anyone's struggles with food, but to normalize that we both...
10 - Behind the Skirt: What it Takes to Run a Women's Activewear Brand
February 19, 2021 12:00 - 56 minutes - 32.5 MBFrom the outside, beautiful, great-fitting women's active apparel suddenly appear on an energetic, inclusive website. It's like magic - or is it? For 15 years, Skirt Sports was owned and operated by Nicole and her team. In September 2020, ownership was passed to Sarah who has experience running a women's event business but no experience making women's apparel from the ground up. Fortunately she is surrounded by much of the same team that was on board prior to the baton pass, and even more ...
9 - DIY Guide to Getting Faster
February 13, 2021 04:20 - 1 hour - 34.4 MBLots to absorb in this one! There are some proven ways of getting faster and we share some great tips in this episode! Takeaways: 1) If you want to get faster and you have the means, get yourself a coach, guide or mentor. 2) In order to get faster, you need to do a lot of your training much slower and a small amount of training way faster. It seems counterintuitive 3) You can't jump right into going faster. You need to do some work first. Good form and Strength work need to be in place ...
8 - What the Heck is Mindfulness?
February 05, 2021 11:01 - 37 minutes - 21.7 MBWe've all heard about it, but most of us don't know what the heck it is. Today we talk all things MINDFULNESS with guest Adina Crawford. Adina is a mindfulness coach who teaches "Mind, Body & Breath Through Mindfulness." Adina shares some insights and tips into how you can practice mindfulness daily and how it can change your life. Takeaways: 1) Mindfulness is connecting with yourself, connecting with your breath & being present. 2) It's important for us to do it because it decreases str...
7 - Keep Showing Up: The Power of Persistence
January 29, 2021 12:00 - 44 minutes - 25.5 MBPersistence = one of the traits that successful people have a lot of! We talk about what it means to have persistence, why it's important to "KEEP SHOWING UP," and how motivation and habit play a role in the positive benefits of being persistent in your approach to life and business. Sarah's Takeaways: 1) There is incredible power in showing up and being present. 2) When things are uncomfortable, but you've made a decision to push through them, that is when you will truly be tested and y...
6 - Honor Thy Recovery with Coach Marcia Kadens
January 22, 2021 14:41 - 48 minutes - 27.6 MBMeet Coach Marcia Kadens who joins us today to share insights about the most often overlooked component of training - RECOVERY. There is lots to take away in this episode including a list of recovery tools, how to use them and how our recovery needs change through our lives. Sarah's Takeaways: 1) Listen to your body. 2) You will get in better shape when you let your body recover properly. 3) Recovery can be active. 4) If you're going to commit to the training, you need to commit to the...
5 - The Power of Habit
January 15, 2021 12:00 - 49 minutes - 28.1 MBCoffee & Bacon & Avocado! That's where the subject of today's conversation started. We were talking about cravings, about things we love, guilty pleasures, whatever you want to call them. Then we realized that it may be more powerful to talk about the behaviors behind these cravings instead of spending 45 minutes salivating and getting ramped up on caffeine! Habits, good and bad and every kind in between, make up pretty much every action we take throughout our days. We talk about the Hab...
4 - Chasing Happiness
January 08, 2021 13:00 - 44 minutes - 25.3 MBThe pursuit versus the reality! Sarah & Nicole hash through the concept of happiness and found themselves down all sorts of rabbit holes including The Jonas Brothers ("They're grown now." - Sarah), the opposite of happiness (depression), tips to increase your happiness and many more holes like these! Sarah's takeaways are based on the 4 things that are required for happiness/longevity per Blue Zones research. When you have all of these, you are on the right track to happiness. 1) Someone ...
3 - How to Make a Mantra for 2021
January 01, 2021 18:05 - 59 minutes - 33.8 MBNicole leads Sarah through a basic mantra and goal-setting session - perfect timing for the new year. Sarah's mantra developed in a 5 minute session --> Embrace ME so WE can be stronger. Takeaways: 1) Goals are important. 2) Goals can change. 3) It is important to align those things that bring you joy with the things you are going after.
2 - Best of 2020
January 01, 2021 18:01 - 44 minutes - 25.6 MBEven in the worst year many of us can remember, the best can still rise to the surface. Takeaways: 1) Something beautiful can come from sh*t. What is your "lotus flower" of 2020? 2) In the worst year, there are still good things. 3) You can have a little bit of all of it. Slow down. Restabilize. Bring in more family time.
1 - The Sarah & Nicole Story
December 31, 2020 15:40 - 42 minutes - 24.3 MBToday's episode kicks off the new She Runs It Podcast. Sarah and Nicole share some of the stories that shaped the paths to where they are today. Where is that exactly? Sarah recently became the new owner of Skirt Sports, athletic apparel for women of all shapes, sizes, ages and abilities, when Nicole passed the baton to her in August 2020. Nicole recently became unemployed as she ponders her next journey! Listen to their highlight (and lowlight) reels as they roll along.