Realistic & Holistic Wellness with Megan Caldwell
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Realistic & holistic wellness with Megan Caldwell, personal trainer and health coach, who helps busy moms prioritize self-care, move past overwhelm and exhaustion to find strength and confidence in both mind and body.
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Megan shares her journey of transitioning from a stay-at-home mom to an entrepreneur, running a fitness franchise for moms. Despite the success she found, she was burnt out, putting her own wellness on the back burner.
Recognizing the importance of holistic wellness – meaning it’s more than just fitness – she now focuses on five pillars of health: movement, hydration, nutrition, sleep, and stress management, because taking care of yourself, creating habits, and finding systems that work with you and the season of life that you’re in are critical to maintaining your physical, mental, and emotional health.
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Welcome everyone. I am here with Megan Caldwell. She is a personal trainer and a health coach who helps busy moms prioritize their own self care and find ways to truly feel like their best selves and every aspect of their lives.
00:46 As a wellness and empowerment coach, she helps her clients move past overwhelm and exhaustion to help them find strength and confidence in both mind and body.
00:55 Welcome Megan. Good morning. How are you? Okay, Megan. Let’s dig in here. What I want to do is start with your best story.
01:02 Tell me how we got to this point. Yeah, I find it so interesting. When we take a look at our own stories, each of us have our own stories.
01:09 I started in my professional career in education. So as a high school special education and math teacher, I was also a basketball coach.
01:16 Very engulfed in my career and loving it and had my first kid. And as those of us that are moms know, perspective change priorities change and my own health was suffering as I was trying to balance motherhood with balance and balancing career.
01:31 Brand new mom. I had actually stepped into a new role working at a university coaching and teaching teachers. And I got to a point where for the first time I really felt my own mental health suffer. I was having anxiety and panic attacks. And I got to a point where I said, I can’t do this anymore. So my husband and I picked up camp.
01:48 We were in Los Angeles and we moved up here to just outside Portland, Oregon, which is where we had family. And I said, I just want to be a stay at home. Just want to stay at home. I just want to raise this baby.
01:57 I just want to be a stay at home. I eat the hardest job in the entire world because I learned that I would not be my best self in that full time stay at home.
02:07 So four months after moving up here, I had the opportunity to own and operated a fitness franchise for moms called fit for mom.
02:14 And I took that on and I dove in and it was awesome. I could bring my kids to work. I ran the business out the whole my groove from a small thing into this great big entity here in Portland where at one point I had a team of 14.
02:25 I was nationally recognized by the organization. All these great things. And two more babies into that space while I was in that role.
02:33 This entrepreneurship and it was such an amazing season of my life. And from the outside, it looks like I had everything put together.
02:41 I had three healthy kids. I had a marriage. I had, you know, this really successful business and underneath the surface.
02:49 I was just pedaling constantly. I was putting my own wellness on the back burner again. And I hit burnout for the second time in my first two careers.
02:59 And I had women in the and asked me weekly, Megan, I don’t know how you do it. You’ve got it all put together.
03:04 And here I am leading these other moms and women and I’m saying, oh, yeah, I know it’s hard, but like I’m doing it and I’m leading.
03:11 And so it didn’t take me till I was about five years ago where again, I hit a low and I recognize this is not where I want to be.
03:17 I don’t want to be putting my kids on iPad so I can continue to serve others. I don’t want to be disregarding my marriage.
03:25 I want to feel good. And what does that even mean. So I got to the point where I’m I didn’t, I didn’t even know what I needed.
03:33 But what I learned is I needed to prioritize my own wellbeing first. I started seeing a therapist. But when I started taking care of my own sleep, my own fitness, my nutrition stress management boundary setting.
03:46 Time management, all these different pieces. When I started taking care of this, I was able to start to shift to see what does Megan need because I know I can be successful, but how can I be successful and also to care of myself?
03:57 Because I truly believe that when we as women take care of ourselves first, then we can serve better. Where this led to is I ended up selling my fitness franchise.
04:07 I recognized in my own journey and the work I was doing in the fitness space that wellness is more than just fitness.
04:12 So I truly believed when I was in the fitness franchise, that if women just came to my classes, like all the problems would be solved.
04:18 Everything would be good. You’re going to hit your goals and again through my own journey and just the work that I’ve done with women.
04:23 It is more than just fitness. It’s taking a look at our own holistic being, identifying what are our needs, what are our desires and then setting up sustainable habits to keep us feeling the way that we want to feel.
04:35 So a lot of it got me to this point on my own journey, again being in the fitness space and recognizing that movement is a piece of the puzzle.
04:45 But what else is needed here. So I now kind of preach five pillars of health. So movement and fitness is one piece of it.
04:53 Hydration kind of has its standalone pillar because it’s got such benefits and it’s one of those domino habits I call where when we have hydration in place.
05:01 And oftentimes other things on the place. Nutrition we’re taking a look at how we fuel our bodies rather than to pry our bodies.
05:07 We look at sleep. And then the biggest piece of the work I do in my coaching work across the board I’d say is stress awareness and stress management figuring out how we move through obstacles because we could have the best plan in place for fitness and nutrition.
05:20 And again, when your kid gets sick. When the life happens when you move it could all go out the window.
05:27 All of the things that you mentioned fitness, nutrition, hydration, stress management boundaries all those things. I love these because these when I was a coach this was these were all part of my program called results without restriction which was not about looking at what we can take away and what
05:44 We can force ourselves to do. But what are we adding what are we what are the things that are outside the gym or outside the kitchen that impact health and wellness.
05:54 So I love that that is is part of your program as well. I love that you include boundaries and time management because a lot of people do not recognize how those two things can impact your physical mental emotional health and that you are protecting your resources yo
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