Kathy Murray is a certified personal trainer with over thirty years’ experience in the fitness industry. She is a graduate of The Ohio State University where she was a member of the 1983 National Cheerleading Championship Team. After college she competed in and won the United States Aerobic Championship in 1986 and spent the year traveling the world as a Fitness Ambassador and worked as a free-lance educator to teach fitness to European Instructors.
While in Munich, she coached the Munich Cowboys (American Football) Cheerleaders to six national titles in cheerleading and was head trainer/translator for the German Gladiators during a pilot TV show for the International Gladiators. Kathy has owned her personal training business Fit Bodies for 25 years and in 2022 co-authored the Audible book, The Munich Cowboy Cheerleaders based upon her true story of her time coaching the squad. She has recently released it in both paperback and ebook formats. In her spare time she is a competitive triathlete which she has been enjoying for 20 plus years now. She lives in Atlanta with her husband Lutalo, dog Mingus and cat Sassy.
We talked a lot about the impact of travel, experiencing other cultures, and learning languages, in addition to cheerleading and Kathy's time as a coach.
Kathy's Readings:
00:00 Start
08:40 The Competition Starts!
29:40 Speeding Ticket--AGAIN!
48:45 Conflict with Dad (or...Following Our Dreams)
Chris's Cocktail Pairings:
06:35 The Cheerleader
26:35 The Speeding Ticket
46:12 Grumpy Old man
Interview Highlights:
20:15 Life Lessons from Cheerleading and Band
22:00 The Importance of Fitness and Other Thoughts on Exercise
35:50 Other Countries' Attitudes Toward Foreigners and Americans
41:11 Overcoming the Language Barrier
54:20 Doing What You Love
55:54 Friendship with a Celebrity and Traveling the World
Visit our PATREON for our extended AFTER HOURS with KATHY MURRAY
COMING NEXT MONTH:
- Steve Downes, Irish author, poet, and children's writer
UPCOMING EVENTS:
- Gabriel's Horn is accepting submissions for its anthology NEW THEMES: MUSIC; FAITH.
- Laura will be at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, TN on October 26 and 27
- See Laura's interview at Central Valley Talk
- See Laura's interview with Rob & Joan Carter at INDIE NOVEL SOURCE
Our theme music is from www.bensound.com.
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