Interview With Julia Hamilton | Ronnie Coleman Strong Woman Champion
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Julia Hamilton is a ranked Strong Woman, body positive activist, and overall badass at life. You can follow her on Instagram: @LadyBeast_Juju.
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“It was either doing this (strength training) or living without living.” –Julia Hamilton
I had the pleasure to interview Julia Hamilton AKA Lady Beast Juju, to discuss her road to finding her voice and power within Strong Man competitions. Julia discusses her body image, redefining cultural norms, and life. How did she find herself and strength within Strong Man training and competitions? Her journey to self-love and strength are sure to inspire and empower you to reach your goals.
Julia’s life experiences dealing with abusive relationships and over coming cancer guided her to strength training. Dealing with six months of suffering, her strength took over and she said enough. In the moments of her last fight, she was literally fighting for her life and escaped.
Julia’s experience being homeless and realizing that her self worth no longer comes from others led her to heavy self-reflecting, journaling, finishing her sociology degree, and asking herself the hard questions. It’s through the self-growth journey that she had a moment of truth with her struggles and weight and knew she had to do something. Julia picked up the barbell and struggled with hating training. But, the barbell gave her an outlet and she continued to find the strength to deal with the comfortableness of her weight and do something about it. Julia says it was either weights or living without living… that moment you are just going through the motions without passion or loving your life. No matter what, she found a way to get through, and past her pain and come out a stronger person.
Julia NEVER gave up on her self, she went through a lot of shit and still has a lot to learn. She talks to me about accepting the suck and continuing to get stronger and grow.
Listen to her inspiring story as she encourages women to be strong and love themselves.
Yo! I’m not a licensed therapist, I just talk about real shit that’s happened to me and my clients.
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