April 8, 2025 • 18 mins
Dr. Abbie Mork is a chiropractor at Price Performance Chiropractic and the co-founder and Executive Director of Raise the Bar Initiative. She is a finalist for the Confidence Award.
Price Performance Chiropractic Website: http://priceperformancechiro.com
Raise the Bar Initiative Website: http://raisethebarinitiative.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/raisethebarinitiative
Women’s Barbell Classic on Instagram: www.instagram.com/womensbarbellclassic
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(00:05):
Welcome to the Inspiring Women of Iowa podcast,
a special series
amplifying the stories of the Inspiring Women of Iowa Finalists.
Inspiring Women of Iowa is an annual event hosted by Girl
Scouts of Greater
Iowa with the goal of celebrating women of courage,
confidence and character who are making the world
(00:27):
a better place.
Why does that sound familiar?
Well, because it also happens
to be the mission of the Girl Scouts,
where they believe society is better because strong
women show girls that anything is possible.
This event was created by Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa in 2017
to celebrate women in our community
(00:48):
and share their stories, while raising support
for the Girl Scout programs
that build the next generation of inspiring women.
16 individuals are celebrated annually with the Courage,
Confidence, Character and Inspiring Advocate for Women Awards.
I'm your host, Sarah Noll Wilson.
I am a business owner, a champion of women, and I'm
(01:10):
also a proud Girl Scout alum.
So massive love to troop 238.
And I am honored to have the chance to speak with these amazing,
inspiring women and to share their stories with you.
Joining me today is Doctor Abbie Mork,
a chiropractor at Price Performance Chiropractic
(01:33):
and is the co-founder
and executive director of Raise the Bar Initiative.
She is a finalist for the Confidence Award.
Abbie, thanks for saying saying hi, saying hi.
I was going to say thanks for saying yes and joining me today.
Of course. I I'm excited to be here.
I'm excited to learn what, learn more about you and chat
with you and share the good that's going on in the world.
(01:56):
I love it.
Before we get into the work you do and the impact you're
trying to make in our community,
what should people know about you as a human?
You know, it's kind of interesting.
Somebody I actually was like, I'm a chiropractor.
A lot of people have started to know me in that I am
for Raise the Bar Initiative, a nonprofit that started here.
(02:18):
But I think the biggest,
you know, like,
if you want to start getting, like, personal,
I think one of the biggest things is I, I really love
being with people.
I love giving back to the community, but I love being home.
I love I love that balance in life.
I love being out in nature.
You know, if you don't find me at a powerlifting meet
and you don't see me with patients,
you're going to probably find me
(02:39):
at home disconnecting to recharge to go back to the world.
I love that, I love that I feel like even even us
extroverts went into the pandemic
and we came out of it as like ambiverts.
Like, no, actually,
some downtime and recharge time is really good and healthy.
Yep. I used to go, go, go.
And then I learned you can't do that forever.
(03:00):
Some point you have to stop.
So yeah, this is my form of stop.
I love it.
I love it.
So, so talk to us about the work you do and the impact
that you're trying to make through all of your various,
you know, businesses you run and in your nonprofit.
I mean, my original, you know,
I went to school to become a chiropractor.
And the big thing was, is
I just wanted to do something where I did that all day long.
(03:22):
That was my number one.
And my number two is I wanted to help people.
And my chiropractor had helped me as a as a young athlete.
And I just loved that.
I loved what he did for me.
I love how he made me feel and I wanted to, I wanted to do that.
What I really loved about the profession
is that you can really kind of
take it in whatever direction you want, and I just,
(03:43):
I love helping people.
I love helping people, you know, become active
or be their cheerleader and support them to go where they are.
And so I’d really gotten into strength training.
When I came back from school,
I felt like everybody was running the 5K and I'm like, hey,
I don't want to run a 5K, I don't want to run a marathon.
(04:03):
I want to strength train,
and so that's where I started showing up in these spaces
that were really male dominated.
There's not a lot of women in that community.
And you know,
if anybody knows anything,
the misconceptions about women
and lifting and blah, blah, blah, blah.
And and so I just went down that path and found myself,
you know, with a lot of great people that I really started
(04:25):
to develop deep relationships with.
And that's
where, you know, Raise the Bar kind of grew up
and how it became a thing.
And it was because I,
I have found
that I'm one of those women
who's willing to walk through the door and no matter
how challenging it is, I'll still walk through, even though
if it's a little uncomfortable.
And I found something for myself that I just knew
(04:48):
so many women could use in their life.
And that's all it was, is, selfishly,
I wanted more friends and female women in the gym,
and so did my friend Annie.
And we wanted for women to feel what we were feeling
and to learn that although this is a space that's
traditionally inhabited by men, they are some of the nicest,
(05:10):
kindest people who welcome you.
So that's where Raise the Bar just kind of started growing.
And then just took off.
I love it.
So for people who are listening,
who are unfamiliar about what
Raise the Bar does, what they offer,
what the focus is, give us the like, give us the elevator pitch.
(05:32):
Raise the Bar Initiative.
I mean, the core mission is to educate
and provide opportunities for women to develop strength.
And we define that as physical, mental and emotional.
At the end of the day,
we know if we get a woman to feel comfortable and confident
in a gym lifting weights,
how that ripples into the rest of their lives
is pretty profound.
Yeah, the way they're going to show up in a in a room,
(05:54):
the way they're going to ask for,
a raise, they're going to ask for promotions.
They're maybe going to leave the job
that's comfortable
to go do the thing they actually want to go do.
Although maybe everybody else is telling you
that's not the best thing.
The safest thing.
And to build community,
people have phenomenal
(06:17):
relationships
with people that they know when something's off.
And I've noticed that a lot in that community there.
So that's where as Raise the Bar Initiative,
we do the big Women's Barbell Classic.
That's our form of a gala.
It's 300 women, ages 8 to 70
something powerlifting push pull meet,
that's actually coming up here in March.
(06:39):
And that is like just gives you all the feels.
We have a coaching course
which allows us to train our coaches
who are inside of the Barbell Club,
which is an after school
strength training program
for high school girls, mostly inside of DMPS.
We are launching also deeper into our heroics
division,
which is where we take our mission
and give it to other local nonprofits.
(06:59):
Trying to focus on the lower,
like when you have women in marginalized group.
And we teach seminars and we just
we try to get people to come through the door
and we try to create a welcoming space where finally
they'll do something.
Yeah.
Because I think they're going
to learn a lot about themselves
and usually feel just really empowered.
And that's that's a great thing to see. Yeah.
(07:21):
And it's gosh, I mean, we could
we could have a whole conversation of why
just strength training is so critical for women, period.
And you know, and as we get older we lose muscle faster.
And how that impacts our quality of life
and how that impacts all of it.
And, and I think it is something
that if you if you weren't an athlete,
I mean, speaking from my own experience, I wasn't an athlete.
(07:42):
I didn't grow up in that.
And as I've been stepping more into not necessarily
lifting, but like more strength training work,
it does just make you feel a bit better about yourself.
But because you're stronger, right?
It's like, oh, I can lift that
because I don’t need to ask for help.
I don't need to ask for help. Yeah.
(08:03):
And, you know, not to mention all the like, chemicals
that get into our body
when we're working out and doing all of that.
So I love this work that you're doing.
You are being identified, Abbie, as somebody who is inspiring.
So I love hearing from the finalist who inspires you,
who is someone who inspires you?
(08:25):
You know,
this is I this is interesting
because I get I've been asked this before
and I'm never like this one person or this.
Yeah, no. That's okay.
I can tell you that when I found out I was nominated
and then I found out who I was nominated by,
I was more humbled by that probably than anything.
(08:45):
So Helen Adams is the one who nominated me.
And that woman, I've gotten to know her
over the last, you know, few years.
And she is a 60 year old woman
in a male dominated field
who just is lifting all the weights.
She is so kind.
(09:05):
She is so giving.
She's so smart.
Like, if I had to pick somebody
who I've been kind of fangirling over,
and I look at her and I go, man, when I'm in my 60s,
I want to be like her. Yeah.
So when I,
when she told me she nominated me, that just was like, wow.
This woman decided to take the time
(09:29):
to throw my name in the hat
when this woman,
I don't even know if her name has been thrown in the hat or not,
but she is an awesome woman.
Women who work hard
for what they want,
are unapologetic about it, are authentic about it, are kind,
will use their time, energy,
talents, resources for the good of their community.
(09:51):
That's what inspires me.
I try to be that way and it's hard sometimes.
Don't.
I'm not going to act like this whole thing has been easy
because it has not been.
You can ask my partner.
And so those women inspire me
in particular to know that I need to keep going.
It's important.
(10:12):
And it's people who are willing to do that is what keeps
creating great, good, local, positive change around here.
So I love it,
I love it, and also shout out to her like I and I love that.
Hopefully she'll, you know, she'll watch this and hear that.
And she might not like that, but I don't really care.
She is an awesome woman. I think she knows that.
I think that of her.
(10:33):
It's the the pattern.
And talking
with all these amazing women has been like,
I don't want to be a part of the spotlight.
I'll put the spotlight.
I'm like, yeah, it’s okay, you deserve it.
To like you're worthy of it, too.
Like, we need to amplify your voice too.
And like, so we'll give you your flowers.
So for people who are listening to this or they hear your story
through the,
you know, the promotions
(10:53):
that the Girl Scouts of Iowa will do and at the event,
what what do you want to leave people with?
What would be something that.
Yeah, what would be a message or, an encouragement
that you would want to leave people
who are listening to you right now with?
I mean, I would say that in general,
(11:14):
when I'm around people, I try to just
encourage people to
dig and find what actually truly makes them happy.
Like what fulfills you.
What is that?
I find in particular women.
And I have this conversation a ton in practice is that
(11:34):
you are so worried about taking care of everybody else
and doing everything that you are leaving yourself
empty and tired and rundown and unhappy,
and they'll be like, no I’m not.
Like, yeah, you are, because you just kind of said it.
And I just, you know, we're not guaranteed
(11:57):
how long will be on this earth or what we're going to do.
Why not try and spend the days doing something for yourself?
And and if that's as simple as getting to go for a walk
or getting a pedicure, or going and getting a massage or saying,
no, I'm not going to go do that.
I'm going to stay home and read my book.
Like, just do more of that.
Yeah,
I think we're so busy with the noise and doing what is expected
(12:22):
of you or what is easier.
And
it's, I like to be the cheerleader who's like,
if you hate your job and you hate what you're doing,
and if to transition and do this would make you really happy,
but you know that you're going to hit some blowback,
I'll be your cheerleader.
I will support you.
(12:43):
I just see it a lot.
I just see it a lot.
I mean, but let's name it.
It's not like an individual choice.
Culturally, we are conditioned.
And especially in the Midwest, right.
Like so we are fighting against the norms of what we're told
we should do and how we learn from the people in front of us.
And, you know, and, you know this from your own experience.
(13:05):
I can only imagine that sometimes, Sometimes people
don't take kindly to women
who say, no, I'm not going to do that.
I'm going to. Right? Like sometimes there's real risks.
And I mean, to be clear, I'm 100% on your side of,
we deserve to live the life that fulfills us.
And if part of that is giving and supporting others,
(13:27):
but not at the detriment, not at the cost of us.
And that is I mean, just speaking from experience, it's
something I took a lot of therapy for me to like, understand.
Right.
All of that social conditioning.
And on some level you could be even more powerful.
You can have even greater impact on those that you love
(13:47):
and those around you.
When you're really anchored
and clear
about what's important to me and how do I want to show up
and what are my non-negotiables.
So I. I love how clear you are.
Yeah, 100%.
You have done, you've done therapy or you've done the thing.
There is a, there is a distinction between the two
and you will notice it.
And it's, I don't know if people need validated to be like, yes,
(14:09):
you can say no.
Yeah.
And that's okay.
I was going through some stuff
and a girlfriend of mine just said, you know,
I saw this thing, and she's like, this is your life.
Live your life.
They ain’t living your life.
They don't wake up, they don't,
they don't go to the work that you do.
They don't do the things that you do.
(14:30):
They're going to live their life.
So don't, don't
make your decisions for someone else
because it's not their life.
It's yours. Yeah.
And I think when you actually start checking in with,
am I doing it because I'm like supposed to go
do the thing, or do I really want to go do the thing?
It kind of starts creating some clarity for you.
(14:52):
On on what you need to do for yourself.
And it's okay.
Yeah.
It's,
you know, It helps when you have good people who support you.
I mean, and that's key, right?
I could clearly talk to you for a very long time about this.
Well,
and I can't help
but think about bringing it full circle
from, like, strength training.
It's like every little act of bravery,
(15:13):
you're building that muscle.
And every time you prioritize yourself,
every time you get clear about yourself,
it makes you even braver
to be the first one to step through the door
or to say, you know what?
I'm actually going to stay home
and I'm not going to go through the door today
because that's what I need.
Now, I, I appreciate that, and I'm so excited
to have the chance to meet you.
(15:33):
And I can't wait to learn more about your story
and the work you're doing.
So I'm like, I'm here for all of it, Abbie.
Like, I'm pro all of this.
So, Abbie, for people who want to learn more about the work
you do, either in your professional,
from as a chiropractor,
but also obviously with your organization, Raise the Bar.
What's the best way for people to connect and follow you?
I mean, I personally am on social media.
(15:56):
There's nothing like crazy there.
It's just who I am. Kind of a snippet of who I am.
But if you want to learn more about like me in practice,
you can go to Price Performance Chiro dot com.
You can easily see the different type of stuff I do.
I'm not just a chiropractor.
I do,
you know,
a lot of different modalities,
which I think sets me apart, between that
and then having a heavy strength training background.
So a lot of people in athletics and stuff like my perspective,
(16:19):
because they come in and they say, if you tell me I can't squat,
like we're not going to go well.
Like I'm not going to tell you you can't squat.
And then, you know, from a Raise
the Bar standpoint,
Raise the Bar Initiative
dot com, and then, we have really great,
social media
which we have on Instagram,
Raise the Bar initiative on Instagram,
as well as the Women's Barbell Classic,
(16:39):
which is our big annual event.
And we just have so much content
being pumped out that we just reactivated
the Women's Barbell Classic account
so that we can highlight sponsors, the people.
There's so much information
we give the athletes
that we were bombarding the regular page,
so we have both of them going.
There's great stuff on there, great content.
(16:59):
So you will find tons of great stuff.
And if you reach out, we're very responsive.
So I always tell people
if you sent us an inquiry and nobody responded, just ping again,
you can find me on social media personally and I'll be like,
hey, what happened here?
And then we figure it out.
As I tell people,
we are an organization up until recently who's been 100%
driven on volunteerism and we have no full time
(17:22):
staff whatsoever. Yeah, sure.
So we are
a lot of women working
because we're just that passionate about it.
I love it. Yeah, absolutely.
Well congrats Abbie, and thanks for coming
and talking with me today.
Thank you I appreciate it. It's great to be here.
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(17:45):
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(18:07):
and character who will make this world a better place.
Thank you for listening and thank you for your support.
Welcome to the Inspiring Women of Iowa podcast,
a special series
amplifying the stories of the Inspiring Women of Iowa Finalists.
Inspiring Women of Iowa is an annual event hosted by Girl
Scouts of Greater
Iowa with the goal of celebrating women of courage,
confidence and character who are making the world
(00:27):
a better place.
Why does that sound familiar?
Well, because it also happens
to be the mission of the Girl Scouts,
where they believe society is better because strong
women show girls that anything is possible.
This event was created by Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa in 2017
to celebrate women in our community
(00:48):
and share their stories, while raising support
for the Girl Scout programs
that build the next generation of inspiring women.
16 individuals are celebrated annually with the Courage,
Confidence, Character and Inspiring Advocate for Women Awards.
I'm your host, Sarah Noll Wilson.
I am a business owner, a champion of women, and I'm
(01:10):
also a proud Girl Scout alum.
So massive love to troop 238.
And I am honored to have the chance to speak with these amazing,
inspiring women and to share their stories with you.
Joining me today is Doctor Abbie Mork,
a chiropractor at Price Performance Chiropractic
(01:33):
and is the co-founder
and executive director of Raise the Bar Initiative.
She is a finalist for the Confidence Award.
Abbie, thanks for saying saying hi, saying hi.
I was going to say thanks for saying yes and joining me today.
Of course. I I'm excited to be here.
I'm excited to learn what, learn more about you and chat
with you and share the good that's going on in the world.
(01:56):
I love it.
Before we get into the work you do and the impact you're
trying to make in our community,
what should people know about you as a human?
You know, it's kind of interesting.
Somebody I actually was like, I'm a chiropractor.
A lot of people have started to know me in that I am
for Raise the Bar Initiative, a nonprofit that started here.
(02:18):
But I think the biggest,
you know, like,
if you want to start getting, like, personal,
I think one of the biggest things is I, I really love
being with people.
I love giving back to the community, but I love being home.
I love I love that balance in life.
I love being out in nature.
You know, if you don't find me at a powerlifting meet
and you don't see me with patients,
you're going to probably find me
(02:39):
at home disconnecting to recharge to go back to the world.
I love that, I love that I feel like even even us
extroverts went into the pandemic
and we came out of it as like ambiverts.
Like, no, actually,
some downtime and recharge time is really good and healthy.
Yep. I used to go, go, go.
And then I learned you can't do that forever.
(03:00):
Some point you have to stop.
So yeah, this is my form of stop.
I love it.
I love it.
So, so talk to us about the work you do and the impact
that you're trying to make through all of your various,
you know, businesses you run and in your nonprofit.
I mean, my original, you know,
I went to school to become a chiropractor.
And the big thing was, is
I just wanted to do something where I did that all day long.
(03:22):
That was my number one.
And my number two is I wanted to help people.
And my chiropractor had helped me as a as a young athlete.
And I just loved that.
I loved what he did for me.
I love how he made me feel and I wanted to, I wanted to do that.
What I really loved about the profession
is that you can really kind of
take it in whatever direction you want, and I just,
(03:43):
I love helping people.
I love helping people, you know, become active
or be their cheerleader and support them to go where they are.
And so I’d really gotten into strength training.
When I came back from school,
I felt like everybody was running the 5K and I'm like, hey,
I don't want to run a 5K, I don't want to run a marathon.
(04:03):
I want to strength train,
and so that's where I started showing up in these spaces
that were really male dominated.
There's not a lot of women in that community.
And you know,
if anybody knows anything,
the misconceptions about women
and lifting and blah, blah, blah, blah.
And and so I just went down that path and found myself,
you know, with a lot of great people that I really started
(04:25):
to develop deep relationships with.
And that's
where, you know, Raise the Bar kind of grew up
and how it became a thing.
And it was because I,
I have found
that I'm one of those women
who's willing to walk through the door and no matter
how challenging it is, I'll still walk through, even though
if it's a little uncomfortable.
And I found something for myself that I just knew
(04:48):
so many women could use in their life.
And that's all it was, is, selfishly,
I wanted more friends and female women in the gym,
and so did my friend Annie.
And we wanted for women to feel what we were feeling
and to learn that although this is a space that's
traditionally inhabited by men, they are some of the nicest,
(05:10):
kindest people who welcome you.
So that's where Raise the Bar just kind of started growing.
And then just took off.
I love it.
So for people who are listening,
who are unfamiliar about what
Raise the Bar does, what they offer,
what the focus is, give us the like, give us the elevator pitch.
(05:32):
Raise the Bar Initiative.
I mean, the core mission is to educate
and provide opportunities for women to develop strength.
And we define that as physical, mental and emotional.
At the end of the day,
we know if we get a woman to feel comfortable and confident
in a gym lifting weights,
how that ripples into the rest of their lives
is pretty profound.
Yeah, the way they're going to show up in a in a room,
(05:54):
the way they're going to ask for,
a raise, they're going to ask for promotions.
They're maybe going to leave the job
that's comfortable
to go do the thing they actually want to go do.
Although maybe everybody else is telling you
that's not the best thing.
The safest thing.
And to build community,
people have phenomenal
(06:17):
relationships
with people that they know when something's off.
And I've noticed that a lot in that community there.
So that's where as Raise the Bar Initiative,
we do the big Women's Barbell Classic.
That's our form of a gala.
It's 300 women, ages 8 to 70
something powerlifting push pull meet,
that's actually coming up here in March.
(06:39):
And that is like just gives you all the feels.
We have a coaching course
which allows us to train our coaches
who are inside of the Barbell Club,
which is an after school
strength training program
for high school girls, mostly inside of DMPS.
We are launching also deeper into our heroics
division,
which is where we take our mission
and give it to other local nonprofits.
(06:59):
Trying to focus on the lower,
like when you have women in marginalized group.
And we teach seminars and we just
we try to get people to come through the door
and we try to create a welcoming space where finally
they'll do something.
Yeah.
Because I think they're going
to learn a lot about themselves
and usually feel just really empowered.
And that's that's a great thing to see. Yeah.
(07:21):
And it's gosh, I mean, we could
we could have a whole conversation of why
just strength training is so critical for women, period.
And you know, and as we get older we lose muscle faster.
And how that impacts our quality of life
and how that impacts all of it.
And, and I think it is something
that if you if you weren't an athlete,
I mean, speaking from my own experience, I wasn't an athlete.
(07:42):
I didn't grow up in that.
And as I've been stepping more into not necessarily
lifting, but like more strength training work,
it does just make you feel a bit better about yourself.
But because you're stronger, right?
It's like, oh, I can lift that
because I don’t need to ask for help.
I don't need to ask for help. Yeah.
(08:03):
And, you know, not to mention all the like, chemicals
that get into our body
when we're working out and doing all of that.
So I love this work that you're doing.
You are being identified, Abbie, as somebody who is inspiring.
So I love hearing from the finalist who inspires you,
who is someone who inspires you?
(08:25):
You know,
this is I this is interesting
because I get I've been asked this before
and I'm never like this one person or this.
Yeah, no. That's okay.
I can tell you that when I found out I was nominated
and then I found out who I was nominated by,
I was more humbled by that probably than anything.
(08:45):
So Helen Adams is the one who nominated me.
And that woman, I've gotten to know her
over the last, you know, few years.
And she is a 60 year old woman
in a male dominated field
who just is lifting all the weights.
She is so kind.
(09:05):
She is so giving.
She's so smart.
Like, if I had to pick somebody
who I've been kind of fangirling over,
and I look at her and I go, man, when I'm in my 60s,
I want to be like her. Yeah.
So when I,
when she told me she nominated me, that just was like, wow.
This woman decided to take the time
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to throw my name in the hat
when this woman,
I don't even know if her name has been thrown in the hat or not,
but she is an awesome woman.
Women who work hard
for what they want,
are unapologetic about it, are authentic about it, are kind,
will use their time, energy,
talents, resources for the good of their community.
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That's what inspires me.
I try to be that way and it's hard sometimes.
Don't.
I'm not going to act like this whole thing has been easy
because it has not been.
You can ask my partner.
And so those women inspire me
in particular to know that I need to keep going.
It's important.
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And it's people who are willing to do that is what keeps
creating great, good, local, positive change around here.
So I love it,
I love it, and also shout out to her like I and I love that.
Hopefully she'll, you know, she'll watch this and hear that.
And she might not like that, but I don't really care.
She is an awesome woman. I think she knows that.
I think that of her.
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It's the the pattern.
And talking
with all these amazing women has been like,
I don't want to be a part of the spotlight.
I'll put the spotlight.
I'm like, yeah, it’s okay, you deserve it.
To like you're worthy of it, too.
Like, we need to amplify your voice too.
And like, so we'll give you your flowers.
So for people who are listening to this or they hear your story
through the,
you know, the promotions
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that the Girl Scouts of Iowa will do and at the event,
what what do you want to leave people with?
What would be something that.
Yeah, what would be a message or, an encouragement
that you would want to leave people
who are listening to you right now with?
I mean, I would say that in general,
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when I'm around people, I try to just
encourage people to
dig and find what actually truly makes them happy.
Like what fulfills you.
What is that?
I find in particular women.
And I have this conversation a ton in practice is that
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you are so worried about taking care of everybody else
and doing everything that you are leaving yourself
empty and tired and rundown and unhappy,
and they'll be like, no I’m not.
Like, yeah, you are, because you just kind of said it.
And I just, you know, we're not guaranteed
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how long will be on this earth or what we're going to do.
Why not try and spend the days doing something for yourself?
And and if that's as simple as getting to go for a walk
or getting a pedicure, or going and getting a massage or saying,
no, I'm not going to go do that.
I'm going to stay home and read my book.
Like, just do more of that.
Yeah,
I think we're so busy with the noise and doing what is expected
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of you or what is easier.
And
it's, I like to be the cheerleader who's like,
if you hate your job and you hate what you're doing,
and if to transition and do this would make you really happy,
but you know that you're going to hit some blowback,
I'll be your cheerleader.
I will support you.
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I just see it a lot.
I just see it a lot.
I mean, but let's name it.
It's not like an individual choice.
Culturally, we are conditioned.
And especially in the Midwest, right.
Like so we are fighting against the norms of what we're told
we should do and how we learn from the people in front of us.
And, you know, and, you know this from your own experience.
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I can only imagine that sometimes, Sometimes people
don't take kindly to women
who say, no, I'm not going to do that.
I'm going to. Right? Like sometimes there's real risks.
And I mean, to be clear, I'm 100% on your side of,
we deserve to live the life that fulfills us.
And if part of that is giving and supporting others,
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but not at the detriment, not at the cost of us.
And that is I mean, just speaking from experience, it's
something I took a lot of therapy for me to like, understand.
Right.
All of that social conditioning.
And on some level you could be even more powerful.
You can have even greater impact on those that you love
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and those around you.
When you're really anchored
and clear
about what's important to me and how do I want to show up
and what are my non-negotiables.
So I. I love how clear you are.
Yeah, 100%.
You have done, you've done therapy or you've done the thing.
There is a, there is a distinction between the two
and you will notice it.
And it's, I don't know if people need validated to be like, yes,
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you can say no.
Yeah.
And that's okay.
I was going through some stuff
and a girlfriend of mine just said, you know,
I saw this thing, and she's like, this is your life.
Live your life.
They ain’t living your life.
They don't wake up, they don't,
they don't go to the work that you do.
They don't do the things that you do.
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They're going to live their life.
So don't, don't
make your decisions for someone else
because it's not their life.
It's yours. Yeah.
And I think when you actually start checking in with,
am I doing it because I'm like supposed to go
do the thing, or do I really want to go do the thing?
It kind of starts creating some clarity for you.
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On on what you need to do for yourself.
And it's okay.
Yeah.
It's,
you know, It helps when you have good people who support you.
I mean, and that's key, right?
I could clearly talk to you for a very long time about this.
Well,
and I can't help
but think about bringing it full circle
from, like, strength training.
It's like every little act of bravery,
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you're building that muscle.
And every time you prioritize yourself,
every time you get clear about yourself,
it makes you even braver
to be the first one to step through the door
or to say, you know what?
I'm actually going to stay home
and I'm not going to go through the door today
because that's what I need.
Now, I, I appreciate that, and I'm so excited
to have the chance to meet you.
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And I can't wait to learn more about your story
and the work you're doing.
So I'm like, I'm here for all of it, Abbie.
Like, I'm pro all of this.
So, Abbie, for people who want to learn more about the work
you do, either in your professional,
from as a chiropractor,
but also obviously with your organization, Raise the Bar.
What's the best way for people to connect and follow you?
I mean, I personally am on social media.
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There's nothing like crazy there.
It's just who I am. Kind of a snippet of who I am.
But if you want to learn more about like me in practice,
you can go to Price Performance Chiro dot com.
You can easily see the different type of stuff I do.
I'm not just a chiropractor.
I do,
you know,
a lot of different modalities,
which I think sets me apart, between that
and then having a heavy strength training background.
So a lot of people in athletics and stuff like my perspective,
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because they come in and they say, if you tell me I can't squat,
like we're not going to go well.
Like I'm not going to tell you you can't squat.
And then, you know, from a Raise
the Bar standpoint,
Raise the Bar Initiative
dot com, and then, we have really great,
social media
which we have on Instagram,
Raise the Bar initiative on Instagram,
as well as the Women's Barbell Classic,
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which is our big annual event.
And we just have so much content
being pumped out that we just reactivated
the Women's Barbell Classic account
so that we can highlight sponsors, the people.
There's so much information
we give the athletes
that we were bombarding the regular page,
so we have both of them going.
There's great stuff on there, great content.
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So you will find tons of great stuff.
And if you reach out, we're very responsive.
So I always tell people
if you sent us an inquiry and nobody responded, just ping again,
you can find me on social media personally and I'll be like,
hey, what happened here?
And then we figure it out.
As I tell people,
we are an organization up until recently who's been 100%
driven on volunteerism and we have no full time
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staff whatsoever. Yeah, sure.
So we are
a lot of women working
because we're just that passionate about it.
I love it. Yeah, absolutely.
Well congrats Abbie, and thanks for coming
and talking with me today.
Thank you I appreciate it. It's great to be here.
The 2025 Inspiring Women of Iowa event will be held
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on May 9th at the Meadows Events and Conference Center.
To purchase tickets
and get more information about supporting this event, please
visit Inspiring Women of Iowa dot com and all proceeds
from this fundraising event stay 100% local
to benefit Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa and their mission
to build up girls of courage, confidence
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and character who will make this world a better place.
Thank you for listening and thank you for your support.
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