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About Lo ✨

Lo (or Lolo), She or they pronouns, is a health and wellbeing educator and coach, Founder of Fmme Strng, and designer behind Fmme Strng Apparel. 🌊

She has a background in one-on-one personal training for women+, and as an educator, and is a Precision Nutrition Master Health Coach.

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She is also Creator + trainer for #FemmeFitCamp, a women+-centered 🤑 FREE 🤑 strength & conditioning space for people of all fitness levels to come together to learn new skills and have FUN! 😎

Laura is passionate about blending her knowledge and skills within the health & fitness world with a grounding in feminism, and positive mental health, and resilient community psychology frameworks. They approach their work through an intersectional feminist lens.

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For several years, Laura taught middle school English language arts full time in Central Alameda, Los Angeles. They bring a commitment to learner-centered teaching to their online education work, and community wellbeing in their Femme Fit Camp organizing and coaching.

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They also have a background working with young people for court diversion efforts, leading youth development programming at local urban farms in the Compton area, and working in grassroots social justice organizations.

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In 2015, Laura was part of the first cohort of students in a Social Entrepreneurship graduate program focused on helping early stage entrepreneurs start businesses that foster social change and build the common good. Ten years later, Laura now works alongside students from that same program. 💖

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Laura likes to move in many ways, including through inline skating, martial arts, and lifting weights. They are a proud Angeleno and a proud Cat Mama of three.

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Fmme Strng Values and Principles

Fmme Strng is a wellbeing community and ecosystem for hardworking, caring, and independent women+ who aim to make space in their lives to truly PRIORITIZE their health, fitness, and wellbeing journeys. We explore topics like the connection between fitness and mental health, how to unlock the power of feminine strength, and how to learn new skills and try new things — even, when you’re afraid.

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If you’re an ambitious, progressive, powerful woman looking to cultivate deeper peace and more wellbeing in your life — and to have FUN while moving your body and lengthening your healthspan — then this is the corner of the internet for you!

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We’re ditching toxic diet culture, embracing challenges with a resilient mind, and building a community that celebrates Feminine Strength and the beautiful things we can create when we come togehter.

Core Fmme Strng Wellbeing Principles:

✨ Sustainable and habit-based behavior change is what will get us to the high quality of life that we want to live — and improvement in our fitness, wellbeing, and mental health over a long period of time. Long term, continuous growth is the goal.

💕 Health and wellbeing are holistic— that is, comprised of our whole, messy, complex and nuanced lives, rather than a siloed set of activities we can tick off of the to-do list and be done with. Wellbeing is a lifelong journey and a daily effort in taking care of yourself, NOT a six week summer shred or an aesthetic destination.

✨ Taking care of ourselves is part of living in harmony with our deepest values: it indicates an investment in being well enough to be present for the people around us, the people we love, and the issues we are fighting for for our communities and future generations.

✨ The effort you put in is more important than the results. Focus on putting in your best effort with a consistent grounded mindset, and the goals will take care of themselves.

✨ Exploring our intrinsic motivations for training and taking care of ourselves — such as feeling good inside, having a greater sense of clarity, peace of mind, and fulfillment — rather than extrinsic motivating factors such as how we look or what others think — is one 🔑 KEY 🔑 to lifelong sustainability in health, fitness, and wellbeing.

✨ The primary goals of a fitness journey are mental health, moving well (having full range of motion and moving in pain free ways), longevity, and feeling peaceful and confident in your body. Aesthetic results can be a healthy part of a fitness and wellbeing journey, but they are not the be all and end all. Working towards aesthetic goals at the expense of mental and physical health and wellbeing is counterproductive. 

✨ Toxic fitness and diet cultures have been used as tools to oppress and subjugate women for centuries. Body-based stigma is designed make us feel ashamed of our beautiful bodies to keep us from claiming our full power. A health and fitness journey from an intersectional feminist perspective involves celebrating things that people of feminine experience have been discouraged from doing, but that we can be proud of — like taking up space, building strength, and caring for our bodies. Taking authentic care of ourselves is a way to resist toxic physical standards, and to embrace deep health.

✨ Making yourself a priority is not self-absorbed. It’s pragmatic and, and it’s needed to maintain sustainable long-term wellbeing so that you can live a balanced and fulfilled life.

✨ We know that many chronic diseases are reducible and even preventable if we can proactively care for ourselves early in our lives, and as we age. Pursuing health + wellbeing journeys in ways that will enhance longevity and thriving as we age (Healthspan!) is a key target, rather than in short-term or “quick-fix” ways that may have sizeable costs down the line.