The Tender Parts

Flora Castillon

Where women tell the truth. The parts nobody asks about, and the things she's only ever said to one person. An unguarded conversation series, one woman at a time. Flora Castillon, an executive and leadership coach with a therapist's training, sits with each guest for ninety minutes, nothing between them. They talk about the glorious parts of their lives and the unbearable ones, what helped and what she had to work out alone, which is how these conversations reach somewhere an interview cannot. For a woman's real, unedited life, and the relief of hearing someone say it first.

Episodes

  1. Oct 31

    I Achieved Everything I Was Told To. And It Destroyed Me | Our War with How Our Bodies Look

    She walked back into the world that almost destroyed her. On purpose. With her eyes open. Mila de Biaggi is a performance-driven movement specialist, fitness concept creator and Head of Training & Development at PLATFORM Studios in Dubai, bringing over a decade of international coaching and performance experience. Today, alongside her team of Coach Developers, she leads the education, development and performance standards of over 180 coaches, building environments where high performance, growth and genuine support go hand in hand. She is also the creator of IGNITE and ATHLETIC SCULPT, two movement concepts bringing together her passion for movement, performance and an understanding of the human body beyond just its physical capabilities. But long before stepping into the fitness industry, Mila spent years performing internationally in musical theatre productions including Cats, Dirty Dancing and Singin' in the Rain. Having started performing as a child, the stage became a place where her passion, discipline and love for movement came alive. What nobody in those theatres knew was what it cost her to be there. Behind the performances was a story far more complex than anyone could see, yet her love for what she did kept her going. In this episode, Mila and I go to places most conversations don't dare go: 4:00 How a world built on praise, discipline and silence taught an eleven-year-old girl that being loved meant becoming someone else27:00 What anorexia actually sounds like from the inside, and why that voice felt safer than the alternative45:48 The log in the river: the image that changed everything, and the two choices that got her out1:06:02 Why her doctors told her never to go back into fitness, and why she went back anyway1:13:44 What it means to coach women through their bodies when you know what it is to be at war with yours1:13:44 The real reason she does this work, and who the next girl is I don't just ask the questions. I show up too. The conversations that happen after everyone else leaves.

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Where women tell the truth. The parts nobody asks about, and the things she's only ever said to one person. An unguarded conversation series, one woman at a time. Flora Castillon, an executive and leadership coach with a therapist's training, sits with each guest for ninety minutes, nothing between them. They talk about the glorious parts of their lives and the unbearable ones, what helped and what she had to work out alone, which is how these conversations reach somewhere an interview cannot. For a woman's real, unedited life, and the relief of hearing someone say it first.