Episode Details

"You have to be your own champion because no one else is going to do it" - Katie Toomey

In this episode I have a candid conversation with agency editor Katie Toomey. This conversation was inspired by a recent article in Creative Cow titled "An Agency Editor Tells Her Story," written by FiP's own Kylee Wall. Katie and I talk about her journey from being an unhealthy, 90 pound overweight editor to someone who decided to transform her life wholesale. And she is succeeding.

Topics of Conversation Include:

• Katie's post production background
• A day in the life of Katie at work
• Coping with raised anxiety levels when people are in the room
• Life as an editor at an agency
• Katie discusses how she began this journey to better health
• Needing surgery for a collapsed lung
• Katie's small steps to better health
• Getting in shape and how to make permanent change 
• How to succeed by doing what works for you--trying still means you're succeeding!
• How Katie use MyFitnessPal to reach her health goals
• Katie's editing environment and hacking her workspace
• We can change ourselves and work to help change our industry
• We need awareness of what our industry is -- Should we kill ourselves for the job? Should everything be ASAP?

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Useful Links:

Cell Dwellers - "Unshakeable" -- animated music video on YouTube

Karmic Courage Film: Ingenue 

  Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXi_d0yGSkw  

  Film website: https://karmiccourage.wordpress.com/films/

Creative Cow link to article

Public FIP facebook group link

Show Credits:

This episode was edited by Kristin Martin, and the show was executive produced by Kanen Flowers. We are a member of the THAT STUDIO podcast network.

The music in the opening and closing of the show is courtesy of Dorian Cheah from his brilliant album