Today I speak with IFBB Bikini Pro Maddy Michielssen, the CEO of Mpowered Fitness, who earned her Pro card at 2023 Nationals with the Overall win. She grew up a Ballet dancer with the Orlando Ballet before quitting at the age of 15 and took up weight training & wakeboarding. After a major accident, she put wakeboarding to bed and got into college at the University of Florida. She began training clients then, but also battled with her own eating disorder. After moving home and graduating, Maddy was put on a SLEW of medications, each with side effects, which lead her to I began on the journey to studying nursing as well as functional medicine. At that same time, she hired a bodybuilding coach and competed in her first show, knowing the feedback would be to gain weight.

Fast forward 4 years and she was healthy, thriving, and growing her own functional prep/lifestyle coaching business, FREE from medications and with a CLEAN bill of health. Maddy now uses her knowledge to empower, inspire, and cultivate healing and growth in other women -- whether they want to compete, get off of medication, or reconcile their relationship with food.

TOPICS COVERED

-her journey to self-love

-leveraging bodybuilding to heal

-posing/lifestyle/contest prep coaching

-having a family of bodybuilders/wellness advocates

-trusting yourself

-moving past the scale

-shifting mindset of bodybuilding

-being gracious

-dating as a competitor

-female competition

-gut issues

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TIME STAMPS

1:00 introduction

7:30 getting into wakeboarding

10:30 healing eating disorder through bodybuilding

20:01 different approaches to tracking

30:05 positive reinforcement for negative actions

34:20 losing & finding your identity

46:35 beneficial habits

47:53 isolating in prep & dating

57:00 female competition

1:18:10 eating disorders and control

1:28:40 starting her business

1:34:35 how she works with clients

1:40:41 the biggest things people miss

1:47:17 changes in her last prep

1:51:20 advice for competitors

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