# spotlight series (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover spotlight series. Page: Feed: --- ## [Coaches Spotlight: Meet Arlan Carroll| S3:ep9](https://thisweek.fitletes.com/p/coaches-spotlight-meet-arlan-carroll) _2026-08-14 · George Pagan III · FITLETE Radio | A Personal Training News and Fitness Industry Q&A Show_ Arlan Carroll is an aerospace engineer–turned fitness professional who now runs AC Fitness and Sports Training and serves as director of training at Palm Beach Personal Fitness in Jupiter, Florida. He trains a wide range of clients from youth athletes (ages 10–13) to adults in their 80s and 90s—with a focus on strength, longevity, and helping people “get their life back” through smart,… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211173452/8e3d34c1824f358f02e2d8ecfe3f6741.mp3) ## [Coaches Spotlight: Meet Bryce MacArthur| S3:ep8](https://thisweek.fitletes.com/p/coaches-spotlight-meet-bryce-macarthur) _2026-07-31 · George Pagan III and Bryce MacArthur · FITLETE Radio | A Personal Training News and Fitness Industry Q&A Show_ Episode overview In this FITLETE Radio Coach’s Spotlight, Bryce breaks down how he coaches people who are stuck in that cycle of starting over, why not everyone needs to live under a barbell, and how he builds sustainable programs around real life instead of fitness perfectionism. You’ll hear his origin story, the moment he realized coaching was his calling, and the mindset that keeps him learning… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209270897/fe16136820054c7487c3105c1e40ec2b.mp3) ## [Coaches Spotlight: Meet Dominic Frazier| S3:ep7](https://thisweek.fitletes.com/p/coaches-spotlight-meet-dominic-frazier) _2026-07-24 · George Pagan III · FITLETE Radio | A Personal Training News and Fitness Industry Q&A Show_ Dominic Frazier is a human performance and nutrition coach who specializes in helping athletes and busy high‑performers improve body composition, performance, and long‑term health through stress‑reduced, habit‑based coaching. What Dominic does Dominic runs Frazier Fitness Human Performance and Nutrition Consulting and Perfect Health Consulting, coaching body composition, performance, and long‑term… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208356013/0d93d4aaf935307e30fb70d491c21138.mp3) ## ["Everybody lives here with me" - Nonhumans in D M Gordon Ecopoetry](https://asleecocast.podbean.com/e/everybody-lives-here-with-me-nonhumans-in-d-m-gordon-ecopoetry/) _2026-07-18 · ASLE EcoCast Podcast_ We sat down with eco poet D. M. Gordon to discuss her new poetry collection Loosestrife for Porcupines! Full of capybaras, horses, porcupines, and countless other nonhuman beings, the poetry collection reflects the verdant area in which Gordon lives, where she is surrounded by "everybody." We are happy to have a poet on after a long stretch of academic (though still wonderful!) texts, putting into… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/jiysx4vawv935f8r/D_M_Gordon_Draft7k08a.mp3) ## [Coaches Spotlight: Meet Stephanie Frykberg| S3:ep6](https://thisweek.fitletes.com/p/coaches-spotlight-meet-stephanie-e17) _2026-07-17 · George Pagan III and Stephanie Frykberg · FITLETE Radio | A Personal Training News and Fitness Industry Q&A Show_ Stephanie Frykberg is a Reno-based personal trainer, nutrition coach, and IFBB Pro who coaches clients ranging from beginners to Hyrox athletes and bodybuilders. Her approach centers on individualized programming, sustainable habits, and making fitness support real life instead of taking it over. What makes her coaching stand out Stephanie’s biggest message is that there is no one-size-fits-all… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207336668/a7f94cbb428b4dab9d8902c3f812c546.mp3) ## [Coaches Spotlight: Meet Dana Carey| S3:ep5](https://thisweek.fitletes.com/p/coaches-spotlight-meet-dana-carey) _2026-07-10 · George Pagan III and Dana Carey · FITLETE Radio | A Personal Training News and Fitness Industry Q&A Show_ Dana works with a wide range of clients from HYROX competitors and goal‑driven lifters to people simply trying to build healthier habits and she also teaches swim lessons to swimmers of all ages. In this conversation, she breaks down why “more” isn’t always better, how she helps intimidated beginners transform into confident lifters, and why the best programs are the ones you can actually recover… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/206494755/a70a9e837ec0dc71e5ec1f11619dfe80.mp3) ## [Coaches Spotlight: Meet Nathan Jones| S3:ep4](https://thisweek.fitletes.com/p/coaches-spotlight-meet-nathan-jones) _2026-06-12 · George Pagan III · FITLETE Radio | A Personal Training News and Fitness Industry Q&A Show_ Nathan Jones is a servant-hearted strength and conditioning coach and co-owner of Elevation Athletic Performance in Cassville, Missouri, where he and his wife help athletes of all ages build strength, confidence, and better lives through training. Who is Nathan Jones? Nathan Jones is the co-owner of Elevation Athletic Performance, a semi-private strength and conditioning facility in Cassville,… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/201732066/ff79aa8212e0d51b4a0bd6e5b48c5791.mp3) ## [Fantastik Italian: Italian/Americans in Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction](https://asleecocast.podbean.com/e/fantastik-italian-italianamericans-in-fantasy-horror-and-science-fiction/) _2026-06-08 · ASLE EcoCast Podcast_ We sat down with the co-editors and one contributor to a new collection: Italian/American Fantastika: Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction from Pinocchio to Star Trek. The text looks at how Italian-Americans and also Italian-Canadians have contributed to some of the most notorious speculative stories in horror, fantasy, and science fiction in ways previously overlooked. The Ecofeminist Fantastika… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/br8bpa8zgxcmswnn/Italiani_fantastika_draft9sjoe.mp3) ## [Coaches Spotlight: Meet Stephanie Rojas| S3:ep3](https://thisweek.fitletes.com/p/coaches-spotlight-meet-stephanie) _2026-05-29 · George Pagan III · FITLETE Radio | A Personal Training News and Fitness Industry Q&A Show_ Stephanie Rojas is a nutritional therapy practitioner, certified macro coach, and personal trainer based in Miami, Florida, working with clients both in person and online. Coming from a background in accounting as a CPA, she spent years treating fitness and nutrition as a personal passion before transitioning into coaching and is now in the process of making it her full-time business. Stephanie… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/199801723/38495f7afe7a789d86b695ef18e96dda.mp3) ## [Coaches Spotlight: Meet David Skolnik | S3:ep2](https://thisweek.fitletes.com/p/coaches-spotlight-meet-david-skolnik) _2026-05-22 · George Pagan III and David Skolnik · FITLETE Radio | A Personal Training News and Fitness Industry Q&A Show_ Dr. David Skolnik is a doctor of physical therapy, strength coach, and educator working at the intersection of rehab and performance for adults who have “been through some things” physically. He primarily coaches clients between 40 and 75 years old who show up with real injury histories, chronic pain, and the usual wear-and-tear that makes the average cookie-cutter program a non-starter. Through… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/198897010/a554b7935465b0ba41ec0f4cc06b79ce.mp3) ## [PixelRift — Platforming with Level Editor (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/wBE6NDAvDK85) _2026-05-22 · **Sponsored**_ Includes a built-in level editor, campaign with elemental heroes, and boss encounters. ## [Coaches Spotlight: Meet Ashley Beeman| S3:ep1](https://thisweek.fitletes.com/p/coaches-spotlight-meet-ashley-beeman) _2026-05-15 · George Pagan III and Ashley Beeman · FITLETE Radio | A Personal Training News and Fitness Industry Q&A Show_ Who is Ashley Beeman? Ashley is an online fitness and nutrition coach for women, a bikini athlete, wife, and mom of two teens. She shares her decade-long experience with yo‑yo dieting to inspire her coaching. Now, she helps women in their late 30s and 40s achieve strength, leanness, and confidence through macro-based nutrition and strength training tailored to real life. She also creates programs… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/197915422/7672f27fc56844b19161998a49e7f2d9.mp3) ## [Climate Influencers: Climate Sustainability in Storytelling with Denise Baden](https://asleecocast.podbean.com/e/climate-influencers-climate-sustainability-in-storytelling-with-denise-baden/) _2026-04-08 · ASLE EcoCast Podcast_ We spoke with Denise Baden to chat about her work as a sustainability professor in a business school. From developing sustainability curriculum, writing theatre to resist doom and gloom environmentalism, or championing characters in popular media that lead sustainable lives, Baden is busy. We discuss her initiatives and what's to come in this month's episode. For more of Denise: Website:… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/fztww4zyat7mdqfd/Denise_Baden_Mp3_Draft8qtg7.mp3) ## [Contamination in 1970s Science Fiction Films with Matthew Thompson](https://asleecocast.podbean.com/e/contamination-in-1970s-science-fiction-films-with-matthew-thompson/) _2026-02-08 · ASLE EcoCast Podcast_ We sat down with Matthew Thompson to discuss his forthcoming book: On Life Support: Eco-Dystopian Cinema in the Long 1970s. The book charts various environmentalisms in 1970s films, containment vs. contamination, that evolved out of the environmentalist work of the 1960s typified by Rachel Carson and Paul Ehrlich. Thompson's idea of "contamination" jockeys with the conceptual north star of recent… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/nrqisgmpxu5c43tf/Matthew_Thompson_Draft_Mp37k4y9.mp3) ## [Coach’s Spotlight: Meet Courtney Dorsey| S2:Ep30](https://thisweek.fitletes.com/p/coachs-spotlight-meet-courtney-dorsey) _2026-01-17 · George Pagan III and Courtney Dorsey · FITLETE Radio | A Personal Training News and Fitness Industry Q&A Show_ Episode Overview In this Trainer Spotlight Q&A, Courtney shares how she blends high-level athletic experience, motherhood, and evidence-based coaching to create a welcoming, strength-centered community at her private facility in Stafford, Virginia. She talks about modifying group training for all ages and abilities, debunking diet culture, and using technology to streamline client results in both… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/184762908/303a0180332726fad27178872bfb7c0a.mp3) ## [Cows in the Caribbean: Cattle Chat with Chaz and Andrew](https://asleecocast.podbean.com/e/cows-in-the-caribbean-cattle-chat-with-chaz-and-andrew/) _2026-01-06 · ASLE EcoCast Podcast_ This month, we got to speak with Chaz Yingling and Andrew Kettler about their forthcoming book: The Once and the Future Cow. The book's aim is to show an understudied history of the cow not just in the American West, but on the islands in the Caribbean. But recentering the cow also means paying attention not to the typical unilateral framing of human-nonhuman interaction as humans impacting cows,… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/b93un4x9smc6kr2g/Yingling_Kettler_Audio_Draft_631jb.mp3) ## [Focusing on the "Wolf" in Werewolf: EcoGothic with Kaja Franck](https://asleecocast.podbean.com/e/focusing-on-the-wolf-in-werewolf-ecogothic-with-kaja-franck/) _2025-12-05 · ASLE EcoCast Podcast_ Kaja sat down with Lindsay and I this month to discuss how scholars typically focus on the "were" in the term werewolf, but she wants us to bring more focus to the "wolf" aspect. Why are we fascinated by the prospect of becoming a wolf, and why do coyotes captivate us when they come into cities? In her new book, The Ecogothic Werewolf in Literature: Wolves, Woods and Wilderness, she tells us what… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/evs3afu89gvfue6n/Kaja_Franck_Draft64lin.mp3) ## [Expanding Our Sense of Ecofascism: Everyday Ecofascism with Alex Menrisky](https://asleecocast.podbean.com/e/expanding-our-sense-of-ecofascism-everyday-ecofascism-with-alex-menrisky/) _2025-11-06 · ASLE EcoCast Podcast_ What is ecofascism and who "is" ecofascist or "does" ecofascism? Alex Menrisky walks us through why his new book is titled "Everyday Ecofascism," or the ways that ecofascism is not solely a far-right governmental structure but a genre, a mode of storytelling. This means that ecofascism emerges through not just laws and political leaders but through quotidian acts and utterances by citizens and… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/evxhht2f859ikj9q/Alex_Menrisky_Audio_Draft6sc6t.mp3) ## [Worshipping the Gas Station: Rethinking Energy with Bart Welling](https://asleecocast.podbean.com/e/worshipping-the-gas-station-rethinking-energy-with-bart-welling/) _2025-10-03 · ASLE EcoCast Podcast_ This month we had a fascinating conversation with Bart Welling, whose presentation at the ASLE Conference this last summer was caught by Lindsay! Bart's research was informed by his own road trip around the country, a month-long, 12,000-mile trip. This chat was particularly special as Bart is still completing his book project, and we aim to have more episodes in the future with more… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/szmj8bxve4iqswji/Bart_Welling_Draft7786l.mp3) ## [Becoming Botanical: Plant Life in Modern Japan](https://asleecocast.podbean.com/e/becoming-botanical-plant-life-in-modern-japan/) _2025-09-05 · ASLE EcoCast Podcast_ This month we sat down with Jon Pitt to discuss his new book "Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan." The book spans Japanese writers and filmmakers from the 1930s to today whose works all ask a similar question: What would it mean for humans to be more like plants? Looking at the ways that this question informed critiques of colonialism and even today immigration in these… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/rq66zgjd224369fv/Jon_Pitt_Drafta8qdw.mp3) ## [AI publishing with human taste (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/eSChOjtn8tHt) _2025-09-05 · **Sponsored**_ Convert AI research into blogs, podcasts, and newsletters with optional human review. ## [Defining Disaster, Defining Ecocinema: Taking a Closer Look at Japan with Rachel DiNitto](https://asleecocast.podbean.com/e/defining-disaster-defining-ecocinema-taking-a-closer-look-at-japan-with-rachel-dinitto/) _2025-08-03 · ASLE EcoCast Podcast_ For this month’s episode, we sat down with Rachel DiNitto to discuss the pioneering edited volume Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema (2024) and her own chapter in it on "Toxicoscapes." With thematic coverage that ranges from contaminated childhoods, to nuclear anxiety, and all the way to apocalyptic futures, this manuscript both expands the overall definition of “eco-disaster” and focuses in on the… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/6c64hkapr5dt7b2k/DiNitto_Episode_Draft97kwa.mp3)