Today I am speaking with Brianna Battles, the Founder of Pregnancy and Postpartum Athleticism. She teaches fitness coaches and practitioners how to understand the needs of their pregnant and postpartum clients (and sometimes their own bodies) so they can go out and be the expert in their community. As a strength and conditioning coach, she realized there was a need for more resources for pregnant and postpartum athletes. She believes the biggest impact can be had when coaches are trained how to help moms regain their athleticism and is doing that through her coaching certification.  We talk about: -changes in athletics in the last 10 years -no guarantees in pregnancy -overcoming birth trauma -expanding access to information -coaching is creative -pushing for answer -a lifetime of athleticism -different isn’t bad -P&P Combat  Time Stamps 1:00 Introduction 2:32 expectations versus reality 10:15 finding athleticism at any age 13:20 conflicting information internationally 15:20 lock of education in progressing exercises 20:40 adaptable discipline 22:45 shifting mentality of the public 27:10 asking why and pushing boundaries 30:06 passing on information from stage to stage 32:40 movement between postpartum and menopause 44:05 biggest opportunities for change  CONNECT WITH CARRIE IG: https://www.instagram.com/carriepagliano/ Website: https://carriepagliano.com  CONNECT WITH BRIANNA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brianna.battles/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pregnant.postpartum.athlete/ Website: https://www.briannabattles.com/ The Active Mom Postpartum Podcast is A Real Moms' Guide to Postpartum for active moms & the postpartum professionals who help them in their journey. This show has been a long time in the making! You can expect conversation with moms and postpartum professionals from all aspects of the industry. If you're like me, you don't have a lot of free time (heck, you're probably listening at 1.5x speed), so theses interviews will be quick hits to get your the pertinent information FAST! If you love what you hear, share the podcast with a friend and leave us a 5 start rating and review. It helps us become more visible in the search algorithm! (Helps us get seen by more moms that need to hear these stories!!!!)