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This week, Ashleigh speaks with the owner of \u201cthe world\u2019s deadliest thighs,\u201d Kortney Olson. You may have seen her viral videos, crushing watermelons between her legs and other awesome feats of strength, but there\u2019s more to Kortney than big muscles and a personality to match. Having struggled through disordered eating and addiction, it\u2019s been a long road to acceptance and perseverance for the woman who can now call herself an armwrestling champion, international bodybuilding competitor, motivational speaker, and entrepreneur (she\u2019s the founder of GRRRL clothing). We talk fitness, her explant experience, and how to re-wire our brains and our attitudes for positivity, happiness, and confidence. Oh, and watermelon-crushing, we talk about that too.\xa0\xa0

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Kortney is an Australian Women\u02bcs arm wrestling champion, Queensland state Brazilian Jiu jitsu champion, three time international bodybuilding competitor, author, TV personality, certified personal trainer and Olympic lifting and CrossFit coach.\u202f\xa0

If you think you\u02bcve seen Kortney before, it\u02bcs probably because you\u02bcve seen her smashing watermelons with her thighs on the Internet or TV or being described as the \u201cwoman with the world\u2019s deadliest thighs\u201d by Stan Lee, creator of Marvel Comics; a title she holds with pride.\u202f\xa0

She is also dedicated to empowering young people and women to be confident and strong and gain self-acceptance through her annual Grrrl Live events and her fast growing apparel company Grrrl.\xa0

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8 - 14\xa0 An intro to Kortney and her work\xa0\xa0

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14 \u2013 22\xa0 \xa0 \u201cGoals not controls\u201d Tools she uses to stay on track, how to avoid feeling like you and your work is \u201cnever enough\u201d and ways she\u2019s worked through a difficult past to find acceptance \u2013 and still working through it\xa0

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22 \u2013\xa0 29 Ashleigh asks Kortney about how we can all work to instill and encourage true confidence in women\u2014both young ones, and grown women who have had low self-esteem for most of their lives\xa0\xa0

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29 \u2013 41\xa0 Kortney tells us about her experience with implants and her subsequent explant surgery due to severe negative reaction; this leads to a larger conversation about the way we look at women\u2019s bodies in the fitness industry specifically\xa0

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41 \u201353\xa0 What Kortney\u2019s training currently looks like\xa0

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53 \u2013 61\xa0 How Kortney organizes her day and attempts to balance health and her many work projects\xa0

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61\u2013 1:06 How to persevere in your work despite criticism; how to avoid becoming sidetracked and crushed by other people\u2019s opinions\xa0\xa0

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1:06 \u2013 1:10 Kortney tells us what\u2019s next for her, and for us, including a watermelon-crushing strength program\xa0

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Visit grrrl.com and say hi on social media @kortney_olson and @grrrl_clothing\xa0

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Reach out to me on Instagram @themusclemaven to say hi and tell me what you thought of the podcast, head to ashleighvanhouten.com to sign up for my weekly health and fitness newsletter, and you can find me talking weekly on the internet via the Paleo Magazine Radio Podcast and as a co-host on Ben Pakulski\u2019s Muscle Intelligence podcast.\xa0\xa0

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Reach out to me on Instagram @themusclemaven to say hi and tell me what you thought of the podcast, head to ashleighvanhouten.com to sign up for my weekly health and fitness newsletter, and if you enjoyed the episode please share on social media and leave me a nice rating and review on iTunes!\xa0

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