WW6: Mikilah Speer, CrossFitter, Coach, & Momma

en-usMay 26, 2016

Prokreate Radio

About this Episode

Mikilah, Joy, and Colleen were on a cosmic same-page for this empowered athlete conversation! Mikilah, mom to an 8 mo old is a competitive CrossFitter, coach, teacher, and new mom who shared her experiences with haters/negativity, fear, diet for pregnancy, feeding the starvation of postpartum with breastfeeding and exercise, and why coaches everywhere should learn how to train the pre & postnatal population!

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