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The Overcomers podcast interviews people about overcoming adversity. We believe that adversity can become your advantage. We ask people to tell us how their past has built muscles instead of scars. The topics that we cover include abuse, addiction, incarceration, depression, anxiety, health problems, loss of income, loss of employment. Each person will share how they navigated these situations in life to become the Overcomer that they are today.
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Thursday Jun 09, 2022
Thursday Jun 09, 2022
A fitness, health, and wellness entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker, and philanthropist, Matt Espeut has had a strong influential presence in Rhode Island for the past 25 years. Espeut runs and manages the fitness studio, Providence Fit Body Boot Camp, where he leads a team of experts that shape individuals into the best versions of themselves. With the guidance and mentorships of various industry professionals, Espeut has and continues to expand his expertise in functional training, holistic nutrition, and strength and conditioning coaching. Apart from overseeing the day to day operations and coaching people of all ages, shapes and sizes at Providence Fit Body Boot Camp, Espeut volunteers as a coach for a high school football team, writes for various publications, and partakes in public speaking to educate and motivate individuals. Espeut strongly believes in giving back to the community by raising money for an array of local charities: Operation Stand Down, The American Cancer Society, The Autism Project, Teen Challenge, and many more. Espeut also decided to channel his passion into another platform; writing fitness lifestyle books. His first book, “Unleash Your Full Potential” is now available and he is currently continuing his writing with columns in regional and national publications.
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Carolin Hauser, German-trained Naturopathic Doctor, Humanistic Psychotherapist, and Family Constellations Facilitator, is the author of the Award-winning book Blossom – Your Seven Steps To Sexual Healing and creatrix of the Pleasure IQ and Blissful marriage Method. Carolin host's the bi-weekly Podcast how to make love last a show on Love, Sex and Spiritually. Carolin is an internationally recognized speaker and teacher on the subjects of spirituality, relationships, emotional healing and bonding based lovemaking, she combines her knowledge about energetic healing and conscious co-creation to help couples go from feeling frustrated stuck, and disconnected in their intimacy to feeling deeply connected excited, and fulfilled so that they can feel whole and fully expressed in life and are able to create honeymoon feelings that last. Her work is based on the intersection of cutting-edge intimacy advice and practically applied quantum physics and biology, and shows how each individual’s authentic and true self is the source of one’s own good – a place of unlimited abundance, creativity, courage, and joyful existence.
Thursday May 26, 2022
Thursday May 26, 2022
A 45 year resident of Sedona, AZ. Enocha Ranjita has found her passion and talents in the Transformational Healing Arts.
Twenty Five years ago, Enocha established a private healing Retreat Called Your Heart’s Home Sanctuary located in Oak Creek Canyon.
She recently expanded her healing art skills in the area of Conscious Death and Dying. She is now a certified Death Doula, Home Funeral Guide/Educator and Green Burial advocate. Her greatest privilege is to steward a precious piece of Mother Earth, guide people to wake up to who they really are and live a joyful life of service.
Her mission has always been to live Heaven on Mother Earth-HOME.
Thursday May 19, 2022
Thursday May 19, 2022
Lindsey and Anthony are certified personal trainers and nutrition coaches with over 30 years of collective experience in the health and fitness industry. Since 2020, they pivoted from coaching strictly on nutrition and fitness to focusing on helping clients in all areas of life. Becoming Strategic Nutrition and Performance Planners for sustainable results. They are also the Co-Owners and Inventors of StackTrax LLC, the world’s first detachable anchoring fitness system, which is changing the way we all look at fitness equipment.
With everything Lindsey and Anthony have built over the years they partnered with Spartan Race in 2022 as their strategic planners for the community of racers preparing for races and who tackle the course on race day, creating connections, better customer experiences, and a stronger community of Spartans who are helping rip 100 million people off the couches to live a happier and healthier life.
Thursday May 12, 2022
Thursday May 12, 2022
Jeff Case is a Son, Husband, Father, Friend, Coach, Co- Author of 52 Amazing Journeys, Speaker and Overcomer. Franchisee of Journey 333 Horseheads. CPT- American Council on Exercise. Jeff’s purpose is to help encourage others to find their purpose.
Jeremy Purifoy launched his fitness career at Journey Fitness’ first location as a Trainer/Coach. He spearheaded the opening of the second location where he was first the facility director, growing membership from 0 members to over 300 coaching clients in five years. In 2019 he became the first Journey 333 franchise owner! His Journey Fitness Corning location is the most profitable location.
Friday May 06, 2022
Friday May 06, 2022
Andy Wales has been an art teacher for 35 years. He joined Journey Fitness in September 2020. Since then he has lost 60 pounds. He no longer has diabetes and is off all medications. Since this podcast was filmed he has retired from teaching and has begun an internship to become a coach at Journey Fitness. His God-sized dream is to help thousands of others make changes in their lives through exercise and nutrition to live better, feel better and look better.
Kelsey Burbank is a head start teacher with Family Enrichment Network in Owego! She loves teaching and doing all kinds of things with the kids in her classroom. She has been coming to Journey Fitness for a little over a year now and has loved every moment. She started her fitness and health journey back in November of 2020 when she started to have some health issues. She found out she had high blood pressure and was a type 2 Diabetic. Learning that type 2 Diabetes is reversible she started to work towards turning her life around. She is now in diabetic remission and getting stronger and healthier everyday.
Thursday May 05, 2022
Thursday May 05, 2022
Andy Wales has been an art teacher for 35 years. He joined Journey Fitness in September 2020. Since then he has lost 60 pounds. He no longer has diabetes and is off all medications. Since this podcast was filmed he has retired from teaching and has begun an internship to become a coach at Journey Fitness. His God-sized dream is to help thousands of others make changes in their lives through exercise and nutrition to look better, feel better and live better.
Kelsey Burbank is a head start teacher with Family Enrichment Network in Owego! She loves teaching and doing all kinds of things with the kids in her classroom. She has been coming to Journey Fitness for a little over a year now and has loved every moment. She started her fitness and health journey back in November of 2020 when she started to have some health issues. She found out she had high blood pressure and was a type 2 Diabetic. Learning that type 2 Diabetes is reversible she started to work towards turning her life around. She is now in diabetic remission and getting stronger and healthier everyday.
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Curt Tucker is an entrepreneur, evangelist, and encourager who is husband to Rachel of 16 years, father of 4, and founder of Gym Growth Experts a Marketing and Sales Coaching company focused on helping Gym Owners grow and scale their training businesses. As a Multi Club gym owner and Business and Life Coach, He is passionate about seeing Entrepreneurs and Gym Owners build the business and life they desire. One that is Winning in every area, resulting in what He likes to call the Champion Life!
Thursday Apr 21, 2022
Thursday Apr 21, 2022
Janice Bennett
After several short starts and stops with Journey Fitness (and fitness in general) over the last 5 years, Janice Bennett finally decided to get serious mid-July 2021...weighing in at 167 pounds. Today she is 27 pounds lighter, at 140 pounds, and continues to get stronger and fitter. Simple tasks are no longer a burden for her. She works at Guthrie in Training and Development, is married with 3 kids, and enjoys camping and all fun activities in the great outdoors of God's creation. Her fit-fam at Journey Fitness is also a blessing to her.
Dana Comstock
Dana is a 43 year old wife, mother and Occupational Therapist! She joined Journey Fitness during a 3 week challenge that ArnotHealth was having in October of 2017 and she hasn't turned away since! She is proof that with hard work and consistency, you CAN achieve your goals! She reached a 20 lb weight loss within 5 months of joining JOURNEY. And since then, she has lost 10-15 more but has also increased muscle mass and GAINED confidence! It’s not been a fast sprint for her, but a steady pace, which has been challenging but she KEEPS SHOWING UP which is the most important thing to do!
Curtis Cook
Curtis Cook started Journey about 7 months ago. He has made this a life choice. Starting out he was never a very fit person. He started his journey because of how he was feeling. Chronic pain/aches due to his weight and physical health not being what it should be. He now feels 100% better after 7 months of giving his all. (All In). His sleep, pain, endurance, general all around is better. Journey has helped him reach farther in accomplishing new and more goals that he is able to set for himself everyday. If he were to give advice to anyone it would be that if you are feeling any way close to what he was feeling, step out of your comfort zone and act without thought. Find a time and just show up.
Ariana Deming
Ariana has lived with Multiple Sclerosis (potentially disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord that can cause problems with vision, balance, muscle control, and other basic body functions) since she was 15 years old. If it wasn't for the medication she is on now, she wouldn't be able to workout as much as she does! Coming to Journey Fitness has changed her life!
Jillian Mastronardi
Jillian is a PreK teacher and is 47. She is married and has one son and a step daughter. She got her start with exercising/sports in second grade, so being in shape was just a natural thing. After having her son, the sports stopped and she gained weight. She did yo-yo dieting and did some exercising on her own, but nothing seemed to work. She struggled with not eating enough. So in May of 2019 she started a teachers challenge with a friend from school at Journey. She lost 20 pounds in a little over 3 months and then another 20 pounds to meet her goal. She has been going to Journey Fitness for almost 3 years and even sticking with it through the pandemic, either doing outside or virtual workouts. She isn’t going to say it was easy, you have to put the time in, work hard, have the right mind set, and trust your coaches and most importantly yourself.
Kristen Swonger
Kristen is a 42 year old mom of 2, a full time chemistry teacher at Columbia City High School and suffers from Lupus, Celiac disease and Stage 1 CKD. She joined Journey in March of 2021. She knew something had to change. She needed to get healthy for her family. One year later, she’s still going strong. She has completed 2 DEKA events and hit her 20 pound weight loss goal in August 2021. She loves Journey so much, she even got her husband to join her.
Andy Wales
Andy Wales is an active member at Journey fitness. He’s a busy teacher and family man. With the help of the coaches at Journey fitness he has changed his life through fitness at the early morning workouts. He lost twenty pounds – and then forty more. He has reversed his diagnosis of diabetes – he no longer has it! He is off all the medications he used to be on for health issues.
Kristan Wales
Kristan is a wife, a mom, a grandmother and an active member at Journey Fitness Sayre. Her motivation for losing weight was to feel better and look better. Ironically, having chronic pain was one of the things that kept her from exercising, but after consistently training with Journey for over a year, she says her pain has definitely lessened. Kristan loves the high energy and motivation that the coaches offer and encourages people to get out of your head and stop listening to your negative self-talk. When you can’t pull yourself out of a pit, Journey’s coaches are there to help you out and lift you up.
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Andrew Simpson is a husband, a father, a Founder of a company called Player’s Fitness and Performance, and the creator of the Winning Athlete Formula. A system that helps kids and adults alike become high-performing leaders without sacrificing values, health, or relationships along the way. He is also the author of a best selling youth sports book called The Youth Truth: a movement helping parents and coaches build true champions in today’s crazy youth sports world.