Working with the Hard-charging female client (interview with Alex Golodriga)

Working with the Hard-charging female client (interview with Alex Golodriga)

Author: Dr. Leland Stillman & Jim Laird January 31, 2024 Duration: 43:24

Working with the Hard-charging female client: (interview with Alex Golodriga)

https://www.instagram.com/alexfitmama

Alex Golodriga (formerly Alex Navarro) is a mom a health and fitness enthusiast who has a love for food, for lifting heavy things, flipping upside-down and for helping women uncover their limiting beliefs around what it means to be "fit".

To learn more about Alex
https://herbodysolutions.com/about/  

00:03 Attracting hard-charging female clients.

02:12 Balancing personal fitness with motherhood.

06:44 Learning about nutrition for babies and gaining new appreciation for moms.

09:01 Adapting self-care tools after having a child.

13:15 Understanding clients' motivations and providing tailored support.

15:30 Simplifying meals for efficiency is crucial.

19:12 Proper nutrition leads to feeling good.

20:53 Encouraging curiosity and open conversation with children.

24:37 Recovering from surgery and navigating health struggles at home.

26:39 Striving to regain functional strength and capability post-injury and preparing for a healthy pregnancy.

30:14 Learning from challenges and using them to help others.

32:00 Navigating emotions and challenges for personal growth.

35:40 Maximum strength requires less maintenance than people think.

37:27 Practical coaching for sustainable lifestyle changes.

40:56 Helping women identify and navigate different seasons in life.

42:46 Understanding priorities and trade-offs with clients.


Conversations about health can often feel abstract, trapped in textbooks or reduced to rigid protocols. Health, Wellness, and Daily Events breaks that mold entirely. Here, Dr. Leland Stillman and strength coach Jim Laird ground their expertise in the real world, using current events and everyday scenarios as a lens to examine well-being. Their dialogue is less a lecture and more a practical, often meandering exploration of how principles of fitness, nutrition, and mental resilience apply to the news of the day or the simple challenges of modern living. You’ll hear them dissect how stress from a headline might impact sleep, or how a common social trend relates to metabolic health, always weaving together physiological science with actionable conditioning advice. This podcast thrives on the spontaneous chemistry between Stillman’s medical perspective and Laird’s practical coaching experience, making complex topics accessible and immediately relevant. The result is a consistently engaging resource for anyone looking to move beyond generic advice and build a more robust, adaptable approach to their own health, understanding that true wellness isn’t separate from the flow of daily life but deeply integrated within it.
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