Raising Strong Women with Nadine Steedman & Taylah Gerrard

So when it comes to things like nutrition and body image, what are you noticing are the main differences between Nadine when you were growing up and now Taylor with your children? We're speaking about bodies more, you know, positively and more inclusively or, you know, talk me through some of those things.

I think in my childhood growing up, just exercise.

Let's just talk about exercise.

It wasn't something that I saw.

And it wasn't because I feel like my parents were lazy because they definitely weren't lazy.

They just weren't educated.

So seeing a gym for me when I was younger was amazing.

Very rare.

There was one gym where I grew up and no one really went to it.

Whereas now, fast forward, my youngest is 20 years old.

There is how many gyms? I live on the Gold Coast.

How many gyms just in my suburb? And just how important...

exercises, not just for your physical appearance, but mainly for your mental state.

And that's where it came from for me.

So growing up, I actually didn't exercise at all.

Not at all.

It wasn't until my kids were about...

I think I was like 12, maybe? Taylor may have been about 10 that I realised...

To give my kids the best, I had to be the best version of myself.

And I remember going to my first CrossFit class or something.

Oh, my gosh.

And we all went.

I literally nearly died.

It's a humbling experience.

But it made me feel so good and made me mentally feel great.