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Episode #64: Fitness and World Travel with Kathy Murray

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Kathy Murray is a certified personal trainer with over thirty years’ experience in the fitness industry. She is a graduate of The Ohio State University where she was a member of the 1983 National Cheerleading Championship Team. After college she competed in and won the United States Aerobic Championship in 1986 and spent the year traveling the world as a Fitness Ambassador and worked as a free-lance educator to teach fitness to European Instructors.

While in Munich, she coached the Munich Cowboys (American Football) Cheerleaders to six national titles in cheerleading and was head trainer/translator for the German Gladiators during a pilot TV show for the International Gladiators. Kathy has owned her personal training business Fit Bodies for 25 years and in 2022 co-authored the Audible book, The Munich Cowboy Cheerleaders based upon her true story of her time coaching the squad. She has recently released it in both paperback and ebook formats.  In her spare time she is a competitive triathlete which she has been enjoying for 20 plus years now.  She lives in Atlanta with her husband Lutalo, dog Mingus and cat Sassy.

We talked a lot about the impact of travel, experiencing other cultures, and learning languages, in addition to cheerleading and Kathy’s time as a coach.

Kathy’s Readings:

00:00 Start

08:40 The Competition Starts!

29:40 Speeding Ticket–AGAIN!

48:45 Conflict with Dad (or…Following Our Dreams)

Chris’s Cocktail Pairings: 

06:35 The Cheerleader

26:35 The Speeding Ticket

46:12 Grumpy Old man

Interview Highlights: 

20:15 Life Lessons from Cheerleading and Band

22:00 The Importance of Fitness and Other Thoughts on Exercise

35:50 Other Countries’ Attitudes Toward Foreigners and Americans

41:11 Overcoming the Language Barrier

54:20 Doing What You Love

55:54 Friendship with a Celebrity and Traveling the World

Visit our PATREON for our extended AFTER HOURS with KATHY MURRAY

COMING NEXT MONTH: 

  • Steve Downes, Irish author, poet, and children’s writer

UPCOMING EVENTS:

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We are branching out with shorter and more frequent videos in addition to our full hour monthly podcast. Alani Bankhead is our first guest on our new format.

As a special agent, Alani hunted terrorists, traffickers and spies. She has arrested pedophiles, run human intelligence operations against Al Qaeda in Iraq, commanded a unit in Kuwait, and was the senior bodyguard responsible for all bodyguard ops to one of the most senior Pentagon officials.

After leaving active duty, Alani worked for the world’s largest anti-slavery organization overseeing their Latin American investigations, operations, and law enforcement training focused on child sexual abuse and the child sex trafficking.

Despite these accomplishments, as a petite, 5’3” female who looked much younger than she was, she also struggled with Imposter Syndrome. Overcoming that, she has gone on to counsel others to overcome the same feelings. Her book The Least of Us: How Your Imposter Syndrome Points to Your Greatest Power came out a year ago and became a best seller.

Join in to see what drink is perfect for talking about Imposter Syndrome and hear Alani’s story.

IF YOU ENJOYED ALANI’S INTERVIEW YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE:

The Forty Thieves of Saipan

Sandy Hanna: First Row Seats to Vietnam’s Coup

How Bob Met Chiang Kai-Shek

UPCOMING EVENTS: Gabriel’s Horn is accepting submissions for its anthology NEW THEMES: MUSIC; FAITH

Laura will be at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, TN on October 26 and 27

See Laura’s recent interviews at Central Valley Talk and Rob andJoan Carter at INDIE NOVEL SOURCE

Find more about Alani at: https://www.mightysparrowcoaching.com/ 

Coming soon: Alani’s Humble Warrior podcast.

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