E50: The American Dream, Body Image, and Evolving Perspectives on Sex, Love, and Femininity, W/Anna Shostak

Anna Shostak is a health and fitness coach, personal trainer, and former “boss-girl” who is on a journey to rediscover her true self and authentic femininity after moving to New York from Ukraine with just one suitcase and $500 and spending a decade in survival mode. Now, Anna’s mission is to empower women with the tools and knowledge to feel good physically and mentally. She aims to inspire women to stand up for themselves in relationships and life, focusing on love and happiness and embracing their feminine power.

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In this episode:

•  Anna’s story of coming to the US alone at the age of 21 with just a suitcase and $500.
• Selling hot dogs and sharing a bed with a friend in pursuit of the American dream.
• Everyone hires a personal trainer for different reasons, and it’s not always for weight loss.
• Anna’s experience competing in bodybuilding and her relationship with food and her body.
• Pay just as much attention to your mental progress as your physical progress.
• Focus on the habits, and the body will follow.
• When you don’t know yourself, it’s hard to build any relationship with anybody.
• Today's society isn’t set up to support monogamy and a strong family unit.
• The evolution of perspective on sex and marriage.
• If you didn’t have a good role model for relationships, you have to seek out information to fill that knowledge gap.
• Our souls are lovable, but our ways of relating to one another are typically very dysfunctional and can make us a pain to be around.
• People don’t know who they are because they’re always on the go and never take the time to slow down and check in with how they’re feeling or what their body is trying to tell them.
• Building a relationship with God.
• Learning about boundaries.
• RC Blakes, Jr. on YouTube
• Book: *Letting Go* by David R. Hawkins.
• Book: *The Untethered Soul* by Michael A. Singer.
• Danny Morel's "Awaken"
• App for Breathwork: Open
• Rediscovering her femininity.

For all this and more, tune in!

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