Move it Mama - The Sparkle Pod

Hello, welcome back to the sparkly pod. Thank you again for your support to our first member story podcast - you loved hearing some of Mel's story. Our next member podcast will be out this Sunday. Today's episode as you know is proudly (very proudly!) sponsored by our friends at Nothing Naughty - a reminder you can grab 15% off your first order with the code MOVEITMAMA15. We debrief the week that was - we start by checking in on Finish Strong: how we’re feeling, what we’re enjoying, and how it’s going so far. Jess shares her first go at reformer pilates and we talk about the very unimportant intricacies of Cup Day (Jess's first). We have a brief semi-uneventful chat with Nina, celebrate a hugely proud, milestone moment for Dan in the surf, and our resident sparkle spreader gets a little emotional. Grab a cuppa / get your mops out / lace up your sneakers - and join us for a good old catch-up (recorded on a Sunday instead of a Monday, full disclosure). Also, personal note from Jess - sorry about how much I can talk about a television show lol. To learn more about Move it Mama visit our website www.moveitmama.co.nz Join the Move it Mama app on the App Store here and the Google Play store here

This week we're chatting all things Finish Strong (we're officially underway!) and celebrating our very first challenge partner, Nothing Naughty! We're so excited about this partnership and so grateful to NN for their support of Finish Strong - our first in-app challenge of this type! We're on a big weekend debrief touching on all of it - from Lisa's first paddle ball experience, Halloween - the joy of it but also the semi-disgust in it (Leece doesn't do it) - and there is definitely some conflict in it for Jess, despite the fun that was had. Jess mentions a weekend of tension, a morning (or two) of yelling and a healthy dose of period-related emotions. We catch up on the kids' surf lifesaving, Lisa's latest attempt to turn a jog into a "yog", and tidbits of Nobody Wants This (the soundtrack is worth your time). A big thank you to your support to our latest bonus pod episodes - we're excited to share more from our members going forward and appreciate your downloads. Listen to the first few minutes of this and you'll get the Nothing Naughty discount code :) (MOVEITMAMA15) with love xx To learn more about Move it Mama visit our website www.moveitmama.co.nz Join the Move it Mama app on the App Store here and the Google Play store here

Hello everybody! Welcome to the newest side of The Sparkle Pod - our Member Story Series. First off the ranks is a North Island based, beautiful member of ours - who we've also both had the pleasure of meeting IRL - Mel. Mel has been with us and part of our community since pretty much day dot. She stumbled across Move it Mama on Facebook one day and has basically worked out with us 5x a week ever since (that's around 8 years now). Exercise has always been a constant in Mel's world: after the sudden and very tragic death of her brother, she found running. From there, Mel was into CrossFit for years and since having her two babies, Move it Mama has been her exercise. So much so that her children often now say to her, "you're stronger than you were when you woke up, Mum". We discuss it all today - from what that trauma and grief of losing her sibling has taught her, to life-long body image struggles, navigating the end of a marriage, life as a single mother and entering into a new, happy and content relationship four years ago with her now partner. We think you will love this open, real and vulnerable chat. Naturally you'll hear many side tangents along the way, along the lines of sluttier days, the nasty scales and dildos next to the bed. We hope you love this series. A big thank you to Mel - we are endlessly grateful for your vulnerability, as well as your support to all things Move it Mama. To learn more about Move it Mama visit our website www.moveitmama.co.nz Join the Move it Mama app on the App Store here and the Google Play store here

We're not ones to sugarcoat it: this week’s episode is a smidge less life-changing lightbulb moments and 1000% two sisters having a good old natter while running on average moods (nothing super new? lol). We chat a little about the recent hyper fixation, Nobody Wants This, on Netflix, Leece’s PMS-induced lacklustre mood, kids being a handful (why do they always seem to save their biggest performances for Mum?!), and our weekends spent soaking up family, friends, beach and pool time. We also talk a little about the upcoming Finish Strong challenge with nearly 1,200 people already enrolled! 🔥 We are SO excited to get this one underway and finish the year feeling strong and supported with you. Look out for the start of the challenge as this time next week we'll be underway. Is this our most riveting episode yet? Probably not. Are we keeping it real? Naturally. So pop yer jug on, lower your expectations and come join us. To learn more about Move it Mama visit our website www.moveitmama.co.nz Join the Move it Mama app on the App Store here and the Google Play store here

Surprise! We've been meaning to record a follow up Book Club chat for some time - excuse our tardiness, but here we are. A lot to dissect in this one and in fact a surprising underlying question being: do you classify reading on a kindle, skimming sections and or audio books as actually reading? We'd love for you to weigh in! We know and understand that many of you cuss, nod and yell at us along the way in these episodes so feel free to do that or better yet get up close and vocal in our DMs - we love it all!! Today's episode sees us re-capping what we've read of late, what we're currently reading and a bit about what's up next. A few throw away insults and a couple of innuendos to boot and there you have it - fun. Thank you for your listening! The books we discussed are listed here for your reference - My Friends, Frederick Backman Book : Bear Town, Frederick Backman, Book 2 of the series: Us Against You, Frederick Backman Wish you were here, Jodi Picoult The Off Campus series, The Deal and The Mistake Everything is beautiful and everything hurts, Josie Shapiro The Best Worst Thing, Lauren Okie Then She Was Gone, Lisa Jewell To learn more about Move it Mama visit our website www.moveitmama.co.nz Join the Move it Mama app on the App Store here and the Google Play store here

Hello - a few days late after our work trip to Auckland and here we are. We kick off with a recap of the Baby Expo: the highs (food), the chaos and the joy of reconnecting with old friends and so many of you amazing members in real life. Then it’s on to more food highlights and the details, because well of course. We chat bodyweight and loaded workouts, how each one fits, and why strength training is worth making room for. That leads us into our next challenge, Finish Strong, kicking off Monday 2 November. We break down what’s involved - 2x strength sessions following an upper and lower split, plus optional extra workouts, for 8 weeks up until 27 December - plus a few other exciting app updates you’ll want to know about (who loves a badge?). We talk a little about running 3km and why it has struck such a chord with so many of you. Whether you’re lacing up for the first time in years or coming back to it, we totally get why this simple goal feels more achievable and so good. Finishing off with a sparkle spreader of course - including a very special birthday shout-out to LJ FONG! 🎉 get those rubber gloves on gal (or pound that pavement) and get your earholes on it. Lotsa love xx To learn more about Move it Mama visit our website www.moveitmama.co.nz Join the Move it Mama app on the App Store here and the Google Play store here

Forgive us as we dive into this head first, accented and with some high level teen saga to offload (high level because we can't be rattling off all of the detail - we appreciate you'll understand). After offloading the biggest struggle at present we briefly talk to some trashy novels and a must watch trashy movie (hot dude). In otherwise exciting news, as of today, you can register yourself for our UPCOMING CHALLENGE. We're super pumped about this - our Finish Strong challenge will start on the 2nd November and we'll move together for 8 weeks. The purpose of this challenge is to FINISH STRONG at the end of the year - to end the year feeling awesome. We'd so love you to join us (free for members, options if you're not!) so go to our website for more info. We're otherwise ranting once again about EXERCISE in general, finding what works for you, the strength training info, the 3km JOG and all sorts of other tidbits like resilience and life being HARD! Nothing super unusual, in case you haven't picked up on that yet! Love you. We might be AWOL for one week as work takes us away, but WE WILL BE BACK! To learn more about Move it Mama visit our website www.moveitmama.co.nz Join the Move it Mama app on the App Store here and the Google Play store here

Back again - here there and everywhere as you've come to expect. We start with a rant about social media and the pain points of everything to do with it, motherhood confessions (that Jess is now over-analysing), parenting small children and parenting older children, coffee issues, a debrief from Leece after a few boujee nights away this past week and everything else in between. We look forward to our time together every week and we appreciate every one of you for downloading and listening to us rant. We joke at the end about taking a break from the pod but really, this is a valuable part to our week and we hope the same applies to you (even if we talk a lot of rubbish). We'd love to hear from you if you have any thoughts in this regard. Love and power to you, xx To learn more about Move it Mama visit our website www.moveitmama.co.nz Join the Move it Mama app on the App Store here and the Google Play store here

We had suggested we'd come back last week with a follow up episode but when we heard crickets and the week ran away with us we decided, we'll save it for Monday. We're glad we did as the chat seemed to flow today. We had few tense moments in the last week which we dissect on the pod. As you'll find out, it was nothing major at all and just goes to show we've got progress in some form. We talk about a fair bit today from an American intro and our love to the pets to sport injuries and infected toes, an article on black market peptides (we're not experts - we're just yapping about scenarios) to feeling flat and asking the question "is this it" to being sparky and reading spicy smut. Lots to cover and a few lols. We love you for listening. PS - regarding the peptide discussion, we are not experts on this topic and our discussion is just about the 'murky' nature of the discussion and the different ways people in our outer circles seem to be using them. The key point we missed saying is that black market peptides are unregulated and haven't been approved. A reminder too to only listen in on this if this is not a triggering conversation for you. To learn more about Move it Mama visit our website www.moveitmama.co.nz Join the Move it Mama app on the App Store here and the Google Play store here

Hello! Back to the mic after a week sat poolside in Fiji. We are feeling so blessed and grateful for the week we've just had. We honestly didn't think it would ever leave the group chat and in fact it barely even made the group chat because we were too superstitious to give it any air-time. There have been a few battles going on for the family and getting together for our first overseas trip together was literal heaven on earth. We know how lucky we are and we're feeling it, even if we're somewhat blue now that we've exited the buffet breakfast. In saying that though, the group chat now being open to any topic with zero superstition is one silver lining. Today we naturally chat high level about Fiji, as well as go over some other questions we received through social media. We feel we may hit you back with a follow up episode this week as we kind of feel the need to yap some more about the detail. Leece did a doozy and didn't bring in her laptop charger today so... be back soon! Love and appreciate your patience with us - xx To learn more about Move it Mama visit our website www.moveitmama.co.nz Join the Move it Mama app on the App Store here and the Google Play store here