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Corey and Christine discuss the crucial difference between weight loss and fat loss with guest Brenna Kennedy, focusing on strategies for women over 40.

🌿 Earthley creates truly natural, non-toxic herbal remedies made with simple, real ingredients you can trust.Use code ancestral10 for 10% off → https://www.earthley.com 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas What if the reason you can't lose weight isn't your willpower, but the wrong goal entirely? In this episode, Corey and Christine continue their weight loss series with Brenna Kennedy, a strength and conditioning coach who has spent over a decade in the fitness industry helping women, especially women over 40, break free from stubborn fat loss. Brenna grew up rough-and-tumble between two brothers in Oklahoma, started working in gyms the day she turned 16, and was three and a half years into a dietitian degree when a personal health crash sent her in a new direction. Navigating multiple autoimmune disorders of her own, she pivoted to exercise physiology, interned at Equinox in Boston, and eventually built her own coaching practice so she could help people the way the gym-floor model never let her. Together, they get into the difference almost nobody explains: weight loss means getting the scale number down, no matter where it comes from, while…

People in this episode

Hosts: Corey Dunn, Christine Muldoon

Guest: Brenna Kennedy

Topics covered

• weight loss
• fat loss
• fitness
• women's health
• nutrition
• exercise physiology

Keywords

• weight loss
• fat loss
• fitness coach
• women over 40
• exercise physiology
• nutrition
• autoimmune disorders

Sponsors

Earthley

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Equinox

Places: Oklahoma, Boston

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