Welcome to Sturdy Girl, where confidence, resilience, and your best relationship with self come together! We're on a mission to help you shift your focus from how you look to how big and bold your life can be. It all started with a single phrase—“Sturdy Girl”—said in a less-than-flattering way but reclaimed with strength and pride.

Meet Jess, our fearless host. She spent a decade as a long-distance runner before diving into the world of competitive powerlifting. During a lunch with her grandparents and great uncle, her grandma couldn’t stop bragging about Jess’s impressive lifts. Her great uncle, less impressed, declared, “Well, aren’t you just a STURDY girl,” in a tone dripping with disdain. But instead of shrinking under the comment, Jess shared the story on social media, and the response was overwhelming.

People everywhere resonated with the term “sturdy,” not as something to be ashamed of but as a badge of honor. Soon, T-shirts bearing "Sturdy Girl" began popping up, reminding everyone that being sturdy means being strong, resilient, and unapologetically yourself.

Three months later, Jess was at a powerlifting meet and saw strangers wearing those same shirts. Every one of them told her the same thing: “Sturdy reminds me that I’m resilient. I’m strong.” That moment sparked the idea for the Sturdy Girl Podcast—a space where we celebrate bodies of all shapes and sizes, ditch harmful beauty standards, and embrace the joy of living fully.

Today, Sturdy Girl is more than a podcast or a shirt. It’s a community of resilient humans ready to live life out loud. So whether you’re here for the sass, the stickers, or a reminder that you are so much more than how you look—welcome. You’re in the right place.

Stay sturdy. Stay strong. Stay you.

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