Podcasts I’ve been featured on

  • Mom Strength Podcast, Episode 10a: Diastasis, Body Image & Norms

    Join Surabhi and Inemesit in this 2-part conversation as we chat about body image in fitness and chasing after the flat abs aesthetic, diastasis recti, and how aesthetics don’t determine your athletics, body liberty, and getting to the root cause of body image.

    Listen to Episode 10a here.

  • Mom Strength Podcast, Episode 10b: Decolonizing your Fitness

    Join Surabhi and Inemesit in this 2-part conversation as we chat about body image in fitness and chasing after the flat abs aesthetic, diastasis recti, and how aesthetics don’t determine your athletics, body liberty, and getting to the root cause of body image.

    Listen to Episode 10b here.

  • Pelvic Health & Fitness Podcast, Episode 18: Diastasis, Hernias, Prolapse & Decolonizing Fitness

    In this episode, Dayna and Rhonda talk with Inemesit about her journey with fitness, her experience with diastasis throughout pregnancy and postpartum and approach to exercising with a diastasis has evolved over time; Inemesit also discusses her experience with surgery and symptom management with an abdominal hernia; What decolonizing fitness means to her.

    Listen to Episode 18 here.

  • At Your Cervix Podcast, Season 2 Episode 3: Decolonizing Fitness

    In this episode, Emma and Grainne talk to Inemesit about her experiences growing up in the U.K., body image, pregnancy and journey with a 6 finger diastasis recti, and umbilical hernia.

    Listen to Season 2 Episode 3 here.

  • The Thriving Mum Podcast, Episode 26: What You Need to Know About Diastasis Recti

    In this episode, Unyime and Inemesit discuss popular misconceptions about diastasis recti. We’re busting some common myths about DR and giving you some strategies you need to support yourself. We discuss what happens before and after you have a baby, why you need to stop viewing diastasis as an injury why language around DR and your body matters; and some of the reasons why your belly could be distended.

    Listen to Episode 26 here.

  • To Birth & Beyond Podcast, Episode 172: Representation & Race in Perinatal Fitness

    In this episode, Jessie talks with Inemesit about her personal journey from diastasis recti to Mummy Fitness – and how anti-Blackness shows up in the fitness industry.

    Listen to Episode 172 here.

  • The Strong for Everyday Podcast, Episode 9: Diastasis Recti Made Me the Trainer I am

    In this week's episode, Funmi talks to Inemesit about her pregnancy journey and postnatal recovery after her 2nd and 3rd pregnancy and how her 6-finger diastasis recti caused her to start exploring postnatal exercise and recovery. She is passionate about empowering women and mums to become strong and functional for everyday life which she shares regularly on her social media.

    Listen to Episode 9 here.

  • The Practice Brave Podcast, Episode 18: Body Image, Diastasis and Representation in Fitness

    In this episode, Brianna discusses with Inemesit her story of navigating Diastasis Recti and two hernias and how that affected her body image. We also cover her experiences as a black woman working in the fitness industry and her heart for helping women in fitness. If you are also working towards a positive body image, you won't want to miss Inemesit's story!

    Listen to Episode 18 here.

  • The Women's Health Podcast, Episode 43: What does the #BlackLivesMatter movement have to do with diastasis, body image and women’s health?

    In this interview, Antony talks to Inemesit about experiences moving to the UK from Nigeria and growing up in a predominantly white neighborhood; her journey as a child having surgery for an abdominal hernia and the trauma associated with that experience; How she struggled with body image issues after her second child related to her abdominal profile, her weight loss journey and discovery of diastasis recti; Her experience living with DRA and hernia and how she felt strengthening her body and learning to love it as it is was so important; We also discuss the importance of intersectionality in perinatal fitness and the importance of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

    Listen to Episode 43 here.

  • The Fit2B Podcast, Season 2 Episode 8: The One About Hernias

    In this episode, Beth talks to Inemesit about hernias, hernia management, diastasis recti, and strength training. Inemesit has lived with large umbilical and paraumbilical hernias her whole life, and she’s a highly educated fitness professional who has some serious science and encouragement for anyone dealing with hernias and diastasis rectus abdominus.

    Listen to Season 2 Episode 8 here.

Your Diversity is Your Superpower

Hear from a panel of industry leaders who have stopped hiding and started celebrating their diversity to find their voice, build a community and their business while making make a positive impact in the fitness industry. This panel discussion is intended to bring together BI&POC identifying fitness professionals together with a goal of providing attendees with tangible action items and an opportunity to start or continue exploring what it means to create inclusive fitness spaces.

Originally aired at canfitpro World Fitness Conference on Sat. Aug 13, 2022, 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM.

Facilitated by Samantha Montpetit-Huynh. With Portia Boston, Reena Parekh, Inemesit Graham, & Vyshnavi Sivakumaran.