Episodes
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Steph sat with Broadway Leading Lady, Emily Skinner, for an honest conversation about self-care, body image and how relationship to self changes over time. Emily Skinner is kind and genuine and opens up about how her journey with her body and how she cares for it has transformed.
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Steph chats with TONY Award winning actress Katie Finneran. Katie has starred in multiple Broadway shows. She's also an acclaimed Film & TV actress, most recently on The Gilded Age! Katie and Steph have been friends for years after initially meeting as fitness coach and client. Listen in as Katie shares her journey with strength training, body acceptance and her overall approach to a healthy lifestyle.
Follow Steph on Instagram at @leading_lady_fitness
This episode is produced & edited by Katie Rosin.
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Steph chats with Broadway Leading Man (and friend), Nick Cartell. Nick shares his journey with food and fitness and how he managed his relationship to both during the pandemic as well as in times of full-time performing. Nick will be heading out on the National Tour of Les Miserables as Jean Valjean, a role he played before the pandemic shut down theaters. Find him in a city near you soon!
Follow Nick on Instagram at @nickcartell
Follow Steph on Instagram at @leading_lady_fitness
This episode is produced & edited by Katie Rosin.
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Steph was joined by Broadway Leading Ladies, Jennifer Simard and Rashidra Scott, and Peloton's Christine D'Ercole at BroadwayCon earlier this summer. Listen in to this conversation around self-care, body image and self-talk. You'll also get of taste of Christine D'Ercole's "Wordshop" writing workshop.
Follow these guests on Instagram:
Steph Wilberding: @leading_lady_fitness
Christine D'Ercole: @imaicaniwillido
Jennifer Simard: @thejennifersimard
Rashidra Scott: @rashidra.scott
This episode is produced & edited by Katie Rosin.
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Steph chats with the amazing Andréa Burns about her journey with her body and food and fitness at all stages of her career. Andréa shares her journey with food and fitness and how it's transformed over the years depending on roles/shows. Burns shares her recovery journey with surgery during the pandemic and the wellness commitment she made with herself at the top of 2022.
Follow Andrea on Instagram at @theandreaburns
Follow Steph on Instagram at @leading_lady_fitness
This episode is produced & edited by Katie Rosin.
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Steph chats with Director and Choreographer, Josh Walden about their relationship to self and body and how it's transformed over the years. Josh recently made headlines as a member of the creative team at the Olney Theatre where a production of Disney's Beauty & The Beast gained national attention as it broke the stereotypes in casting. Josh and Steph also discuss Josh's coming out as non-binary and how it impacts and inspires their creative process and career.
Follow Josh on Instagram at @thejoshwalden
Follow Steph on Instagram at @leading_lady_fitness
This episode is produced & edited by Katie Rosin.
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Steph chats with Christine D'Ercole, an original Peloton instructor and World Champion cyclist. A graduate from Carnegie Mellon University, Christine has creative roots as an actor that inspire her work to this day. She is a motivational speaker and athlete. Her Wordshops span topics from body image to addiction and loss to corporate cultural growth and team building.
Steph and Christine talk extensively about the impact negative self-talk has on self-acceptance and specifically the journey actors have in relationship to their body and their work. This episode is not to be missed!
Steph and Christine will appear together at BroadwayCon 2022 in July in NYC.
Follow Christine on Instagram at @iamicaniwillido .
Follow Steph on Instagram at @leading_lady_fitness
This episode is produced & edited by Katie Rosin.
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Broadway Leading Lady, Nasia Thomas, joins Steph to talk about her wellness journey during the pandemic and how the time to "be still" helped navigate what her non-negotiables are for self-care and mental health. Nasia shares her experience in performing a live-stream production of The Last Five Years, shot in under a week during the pandemic. Steph and Nasia also talk about training for performance and the impact of the often used term "Broadway Body".
Nasia's Broadway credits include Caroline, Or Change, Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations, and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. She will be playing the role of Nettie in The Color Purple this summer at The MUNY.
Follow Nasia on Instagram at @nasiathomas .
This episode is produced & edited by Katie Rosin.
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Broadway, West End (and beyond) director and choreographer, Jerry Mitchell, joins Steph for a conversation about self-care, fitness and health during the pandemic. Jerry shares his journey with taking care of himself as a performer and how he was inspired later on by the team at Mark Fisher Fitness, where Steph and Jerry met when she was a coach.
Follow Jerry on Instagram at @jammyprod .
This episode is produced & edited by Katie Rosin.
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Broadway leading ladies, Elizabeth Stanley and Heidi Blickenstaff chat with Steph about their individual journeys with self, food and fitness. And they share their empowering experience of sharing the role of Mary Jane in the Broadway show JAGGED LITTLE PILL. You can keep up with both of them on Instagram:
Elizabeth Stanley - @el.stans
Heidi Blickenstaff - @heidiblick
Episode is produced and edited by Katie Rosin.
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Kathy Deitch is an actor, singer, activist and the host of Plus This! Show, a vodcast dedicated to ending body bias, here to help media, entertainment & fashion catch the eff UP.
Kathy and Steph chat about the history of fatphobia in America, the non-representation of different body types and sizes on Broadway and her journey with exercise and dieting to get cast as Elphaba. Tune into Part One for some incredibly informative content and listen through to Part Two when Kathy and Steph BELT TOGETHER!
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Kathy Deitch is an actor, singer, activist and the host of Plus This! Show, a vodcast dedicated to ending body bias, here to help media, entertainment & fashion catch the eff UP.
Kathy and Steph chat about the history of fatphobia in America, the non-representation of different body types and sizes on Broadway and her journey with exercise and dieting to get cast as Elphaba. Tune into Part One for some incredibly informative content and listen through to Part Two when Kathy and Steph BELT TOGETHER!
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Steph chats with Mark, her friend and mentor, about his pandemic journey as a human and owner of Mark Fisher Fitness in NYC. They both share thoughts on the effects of meaningful coaching and Steph recalls the moment Mark asked her to join the MFF coaching team.
Mark is the co-founder of Mark Fisher Fitness, one of the most unusual gyms in the fitness industry. MFF operates a physical location in midtown Manhattan and a fast-growing online “virtual” location. MFF was recognized as #312 on the 2015 Inc. 500 fastest growing companies in America, as well as one of Men's Health's "Top 20 Gyms in America."
With a reputation as the fitness home of choice for the Broadway community, Mark and MFF have been featured in Forbes, the NY Times, the NY Post, the Huffington Post, and the Wall St. Journal, among others. MFF has made waves in the fitness industry for its unprecedented success and unique approach to culture. Living their mantra of “ridiculous humans, serious fitness,” MFF provides progressive fitness protocols in a delivery system of subversive humor, fantastical imagery, and outrageous antics. They also inexplicably talk about unicorns, call their clients Ninjas, and treat fun, community, and personal growth as core values.
Like most successful gym owner-consultants, Mark holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre from Syracuse University.
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Broadway performer, Katie Webber, like many folks in the NYC theatre community, pivoted during the pandemic, turning her passion to purpose. Katie talks about her journey to healthful eating and how it led her to publishing two plant-based cookbooks during quarantine. Listen in as Steph and Katie talk about their food, binge eating and body image journeys. Katie returns to Broadway this fall in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. Check out her amazing recipes and order a copy of her cookbooks at www.katiewebbernyc.com . She shares her food ideas on her Instagram at @katiewebbernyc
Learn more about Steph and Leading Lady Fitness:
www.leadingladyfit.com
@leading_lady_fitness
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Broadway actor, Josh Lamon, and Steph have been training together during the pandemic. In this episode, Josh opens up about his journey with food, fitness and weight loss. He shares how this past year has given him space to explore what a truly sustainable practice with fitness and healthful eating can look like.
Josh is an award-winning actor who was most recently seen in The Prom on Broadway. He has a long Broadway stage history including Groundhog Day, Finding Neverland, Elf, Hair, andt Into the Woods in addition to numerous film credits including 30 Rock, Inside Amy Schumer, The Good Fight, and Deadbeat.
Be sure to check out Josh's podcast, "Josh Swallows Broadway" on the Broadway Podcast Network!
To learn more about Steph and Leading Lady Fitness:
www.leadingladyfit.com
@leading_lady_fitness on IG
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Marja Harmon and Morgan Anita Wood are currently in the cast of Hamilton, in San Francisco and Los Angeles, respectively. As members of the Leading Lady Fitness community, Steph has coached both of these women and witnessed their journey with self. In this episode the three women talk about how the pandemic disrupted our theatre community and what it's been like to discover some silver linings. Both women return to work this month and with that comes a myriad of emotions and excitement. Listen in for insight around navigating the world of the past 18 months and how they worked at prioritizing themselves.
Produced by Steph Wilberding and Katie Rosin.
Learn more about Steph & Leading Lady Fitness: www.leadingladyfit.com and @leading_lady_fitness.
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Jamie Greenberg is a celebrity makeup artist and a highly sought after beauty personality. Her work is seen on red carpets, advertisements, and entertainment throughout the year and is often featured in magazine editorials. In this episode Jamie shares about her journey with self-image, negative self-talk and what inspired her to have elective surgery to transform her body. Jamie's vulnerability on her Instagram page is what attracts her follows, but her sincerity (and expertise) is what inspires them on their personal journeys. Tune in and find out how how Steph and Jame first met 20 years ago in NYC!
Produced by Steph Wilberding and Katie Rosin.
Learn more about Steph & Leading Lady Fitness: www.leadingladyfit.com and @leading_lady_fitness.
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Rachel Bay Jones, actress and singer, has played the roles of Catherine in the 2013 Broadway revival of Pippin and Evan Hansen's mother, Heidi Hansen, in Dear Evan Hansen. The latter earned her the 2017 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Her career, on stage and screen has been a journey of leaving and returning. Steph and Rachel talk about the importance of how we see ourselves during those departures and returns...to career, but most importatnly to self. Rachel also shares the dynamic of raising a daughter in our current diet culture climate and how she was inspired (by her teenage daughter) to explore plant-based eating.
Produced by Steph Wilberding and Katie Rosin.
Learn more about Steph & Leading Lady Fitness: www.leadingladyfit.com and @leading_lady_fitness.
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Self-care, fitness and healthy eating is a journey. For Steph Wilberding, owner of Leading Lady Fitness in Los Angeles, the path hasn’t always been easy. In her new podcast, Steph and her guests from the entertainment and fitness community dig deep into their own relationships with food, fitness, and body image. Much like the non-judgmental gym environment that Steph has created, the LLF podcast provides a safe space to discuss the journey of self, as it pertains to self-care and holistic wellness.
Produced by Steph Wilberding and Katie Rosin.
Learn more about Steph & Leading Lady Fitness: www.leadingladyfit.com and @leading_lady_fitness.
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