In this episode of Becoming to Being with Angelina Watkins, Angelina interviews April Griffith who helps high achieving Christian women lose 20 or more pounds, love their bodies and live the life that God designed for them to live all without the gym.

April is very passionate about her walk with God and depends on him 100% when it comes to her spiritual and fitness journey. It all began when April had a traumatic experience at the age of 12 years old, which followed her into her teen and adult years. This traumatic experience was being called big by a guy she had a crush on, this hindered her for years, all she kept doing is replaying it over and over in her head. It wasn't really until April accepted Christ and allowed God to begin to peel back the layers of her identity and see who she really was in Christ.

God began to speak to April about her temple and how the budget gourmet meals in the freezer were not the best thing for her body because her body is the temple of the living God. This is where her wellness journey, the health journey, the salvation journey, came about because she believed that salvation encompasses good health. April shares with her clients all the time that you don't just want to lose weight, you want to transform, because if you just lose weight, and you don't transform, you're going to go back to that same person that you were before by stress eating and being insecure.

April has a holistic program that encompasses three main things: mindset, diet, and activity exercise.

Guest Bio
April Griffith is an international speaker, author, mindset strategist and fitness coach who spent years working in higher education and at one of the largest financial institutions in the world before realizing her impact reached so many people outside of her daily “work” and she was called to something bigger than “wrestling with promotion.” This birth her entrepreneurial journey and Kingdom Power Living LLC with the mission of changing lives one temple at a time!
April has served on various boards around diversity and women’s issues, including the Chicago Chapter National Black MBA Association and is a previous recipient of Diversity MBA’s 100 Under 50 Emerging Leaders. April holds a Bachelors in Broadcast Communication and a Masters in Marketing Communication, where she was Valedictorian and Class Speaker. She is a native of Chicago, sports enthusiast, and avid volunteer.

Episode Outline
[00:00] A sneak peak into the episode
[00:31] Music intro
[00:39] Introduction
[02:19] My prayer today in a different way
[09:05] Moving past disappointment
[12:51] Being overweight as a teen
[18:26] Finding Christ
[22:37] Listening to the Holy Spirit
[25:20] Pulling back the layers
[32:08] Spiritual versus fitness
[40:10] Soaring into your faith in fitness
[42:19] Becoming Tip
[44:22] Closing

Where you are is not where you have to be. Your past does not define you, YOU define you.

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PODCAST MUSIC
Intro/Outro Music Title: So Magnificent
Artist: IG @ https://www.instagram.com/cgreenblues/

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PODCAST GUEST
Guest: April Griffith
Website: www.loseweightloveyourbody.com
IG: www.instagram.com/kingdompowerliving