Carlie Socials
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Championing Life Socials
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Shelby Socials
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Failure and Rejection are two things we commonly avoid. 
But sometimes it isn’t about the overall outcome of a situation, but about the work that is being done within us every time we are told “no.” Every time you face failure or rejection, you learn so much more than you would have ever learned if God would have just given it to you. And sometimes it takes being on the outside of the situation, years later, to be able to reflect and connect the dots. What hurts like hell in the moment might be a part of your calling.

Championing Life Socials
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Shelby Socials
Website: https://www.shelbylentz.com/
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Caitlin Sackett is a young entrepreneur in New York City who has created a name for herself in personal training, performance arts, and general business. We discuss personal and professional growth, heartbreak, auditioning for Broadway, beauty standards, women in stocks, and so much more!

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Championing Life Socials
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/championinglife/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/championinglifepodcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChampioningLife

Shelby Socials
Website: https://www.shelbylentz.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shelby_lentz/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shelbylentzmusic
Twitter: https://twitter.com/shelby_lentz

Today I am bringing you James Grey. James is Georgia native currently living in Nashville Tennessee. He is musician, entrepreneur, and diverse individual. We talk about the music industry, self discipline, goal setting, stocks/investing, if college is the right choice for everyone, networking, different ways to educate and grow yourself, becoming an entrepreneur...so many amazing topics. He has a lot of great experience and I know you are going to leave feeling refreshed and motivated.

Checkout James
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/tweetbygrey

Championing Life Socials
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/championinglife/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/championinglifepodcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChampioningLife

Shelby Socials
Website: https://www.shelbylentz.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shelby_lentz/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shelbylentzmusic
Twitter: https://twitter.com/shelby_lentz

Sydney Weadock is 24 years old, living in the Columbus, OH area. She’s an elementary school teacher and loves going to work every day. She loves watching the world through her students’ eyes. She graduated in 2019 from Belmont University in Nashville, TN with a double major in communication studies and elementary education. Sydney’s life has been a rollercoaster of physical and mental trials and tributes. She recently learned that before she could love anyone else, she had to learn to love herself first. Sydney and I were roommates my sophomore year at Belmont University and we went through so much together just in that one year. We both were diagnosed with rare diseases the same year. She was with me through one of my lowest points and I am so grateful God placed her in my life when he did. When I asked Sydney if she wanted to come on the show to share her trials with her mental and physical health, as well as dealing with loss in the family, she was so open to being vulnerable. She even shares a tragic but life changing moment that happened for her as a teenager for the first time. I am so blessed we still have Sydney here today but I do want to give a trigger warning that we do discuss suicidal ideations and attempts in this episode. But I think it is important that we can be transparent about our lowest points and how we are working to overcome them. What you think you may know about someone is almost always on the surface, and there are so many people out there who are waking up to fight their own inner demons and battles. If that is you, you are not alone. I know Sydney is going to leave you feeling inspired and uplifted.

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Gaby Owens is our first guest on the show! She has spent most of her life as an athlete, leading to her love for fitness. She is a wife, mother of two, a physique competitor, cheer coach, and personal trainer. She has been involved with cheerleading for 19 years as both a cheerleader and a coach. During her time in cheering in college at Western Michigan University, she fell in love with weight training. She saw how weight and resistance training could change, not only how you feel and look, but also how you perform in athletics.

After graduating from WMU, she and her husband moved to Decatur, IL she began seriously looking into competing in physique shows. Since cheerleading was done, she felt like this was her next athletic endeavor. Her first show was in 2008 and she won the Novice class in Women’s Bodybuilding and took 2nd in the Open Women’s Bodybuilding class. She was hooked! With competing in physique shows, she has learned a great deal about science and the role nutrition plays in fat loss and muscle gain.

She has always enjoyed seeing people succeed which is why she has a passion for coaching her athletes and training her clients. Whatever their goal is, she is there to guide, encourage, and motivate them to be the bed they can be. She loves being the cheerleader along their journey of improvement.

Aside from her passion for fitness, she enjoys spending quality time with her family, summer days, the pool, and hiking.

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Welcome to the Championing Life Podcast!

The goal of this podcast is to help you discover your inner champion in your career, relationships, mental and physical health, and of course in crushing your goals.

I live by the mantra of the great Rocky Balboa "it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward."  And this is our foundation to the show.

I want to inspire you to become a champion in your own life embracing both the trials and triumphs that have made you who you are today.  We will talk about the highs, and the lows, of how to make this imperfect life perfect for you. Life is tough, but so are you.