Again, I tried taking one for the team and listened to that Shannon Bear podcast. I managed to make it further than the last time but had to give up about 25 minutes in.
There really needs to be a higher barrier to entry to making a podcast. There should at least be a minimum standard required for the sound. The thing sounds like it was recorded on a Talkboy. And some fella walks in about 15 minutes in and sounds like he's starting to make his dinner in the kitchen - banging cupboards and stomping around. He even says 'Hi' to Siobhan.
Usual stuff discussed -
nomads
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, corporate life, condescendingly saying that she was an online trainer before it became 'cool', living the dream, helping as many woman as she can, competition prep, losing her period, Nutella, stopping tracking her calories, gaining weight, starting tracking her calories, losing weight, advises that it's best not to track calories for weight loss (yes, I'm confused myself as I write this), dislikes cardio, losing weight in Dublin by not paying attention to what she eats, not happy with losing weight in Dublin as it means she wasn't enjoying herself (
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I have no words to describe my feelings on this statement so I'm going to leave it there), not having to do the hard sell on the Oven etc.
She conveniently
forgets to mention that she lost weight in Dublin by running at least 5k every second day and eating nothing but the Tampax meals. What's her big thing against cardio? She sells her programme on the concept that you can do the minimum amount of exercise but yet she only see changes in her own body when she does punishment cardio?! My head is spinning from the contradictions.
There was a bit in it as well when the mathlete was trying to flex her muscles and I died a bit inside. She incorrectly said that her putting on weight was directly correlated to an increase in interactions on instagram and sales of the Oven. She had to awkwardly correct herself and was like 'Oh no, i meant inversely correlated.' It's so embarrassing when sometime tries to make themselves sound clever and they crash and burn. 'Keep it simple, Stupid' comes to mind.
She was also lamenting the fact that only her bikini pics when she's lean get interactions and none of her other content does. Eh, what other content? When was the last time she did any kind of information video that wasn't trying to sell the Oven after she has her weekly hair wash and has just got her lashes and brows done?