Welcome to Empowered Radio.

I am your host, Emma Montgomery, an online nutrition and fitness coach and creator of Shred

with M. Each week we'll talk all things nutrition, training, and mindset. You'll be able to take my tips and strategies and apply what you learn to see results

with both your body and your mind.

So without further ado, let's jump into the episode.

Hey friends, happy Friday.

Welcome back. If you are new here, welcome. Tons of new listeners. I get

messages literally every day on Instagram, people telling me they just found the podcast or

thanking me for the podcast and that, you know, you've binge the episodes, which you guys have

no idea how amazing

that is when you tell me that. It makes me feel really good. I try to make them like short and

digestible, but always like packed with plenty of like information or knowledge. So I'm just super,

super happy that you guys are here and that you take something away from it and that you share

it with friends. So thank you for that. Before we get into today's episode, I do want to just put a

little plug out there that on Monday, the September shred, it's the last one of the year,

it opens for enrollment. So I'm going to put the waitlist

link in the description so that you guys, if you're not on the wait list, you can join that.

What that does is you will get an email and you will be the first notified when enrollment

opens. So you will still have to enroll when you get the email that says

Shred with M is open for enrollment, but you'll be the first ones notified so that you can jump in

there and register first. So I will link that in the description for you guys. Now on to today's

topic. Today's episode was actually inspired, triggered, brought on by an Instagram story that I was watching,

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