"Age Is An Advantage"
Overwhelmed, under-eating and half-heartedly working out at the gym, this 45yro mom entered a bodybuilding competition. It changed her life.

In my first Q&A-style newsletter, my guest is Anne Marie Chaker, a woman I’ve admired for years. In 2020, I read Anne Marie’s wildly popular Wall Street Journal piece about her unexpected journey to bodybuilding in her mid-forties, as a mom of two. (Multiple friends texted me the link to her first-person feature, but for the record, I found it on my own first!)
Anne Marie’s book, Lift: How Women Can Reclaim Their Physical Power and Transform Their Lives, went on pre-sale today, so give her some love and order it. She also writes the awesome LIFT Substack, and she’s an elite bodybuilder. But it was not an easy road to self-love and a badass body. A moment of reckoning five years ago changed everything…
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