Prepared to Drown: Special Guests for March - Part 2
Prepared to Drown is a monthly recorded podcast & live event with a variety of exciting themes exploring the intersection of faith & the world we live in today. Our next live recording is Friday, March 20, 2026
Podcast Episode: “Uncharted Bodies”
Fitness culture and faith both shape how we understand our bodies. In a culture saturated with metrics, endurance goals, and moralized ideas of health, we reflect on fitness, discipline, recovery, injury, shame, strength, and the quiet, persistent messaging that we are never quite enough — whether that’s fast enough, strong enough, lean enough, or faithful enough.
Join us for an honest exploration of bodies as sites of struggle, grace, limitation, potential, and belovedness.
Podcast features: Rev. Bill Weaver, Ricardo De Menezes and special guests Treena Duncan, Tracy Robertson and Geoff Starling.
Last week we learned about Treena Duncan.
Let’s learn more about our other guests Tracy Robertson and Geoff Starling.
Tracy Robertson is a proud and affirming Diaconal Minister who spent three years in prison ... as the Chaplain at the Calgary Young Offender Centre and now serves St. Thomas United Church in NW Calgary. Before becoming a minister, she spent 15 years in the corporate world while living out her passion of youth leadership. She's addicted to her three shelties, working out, caring for her congregants ... oh yeah, she loves her husband and spending time with her non-binary scion and their partner. An adult son is in there somewhere, too.
Geoff Starling became a fitness professional in 2007 when he saw a need for folks who wanted to become active for the first time, or the first time in a while, to have a safe, predictable and judgement-free environment to do that.
In 2017, Geoff created Every Body STRONGER. A hyper-inclusive fitness space committed to making exercise available to people living in bodies of all sizes, ages, orientations, and identities. EBS now incorporates physio, chiro, massage, acupuncture, meditation and yoga, and has become a hub for inclusive body care.
Since his 20s, Geoff has lived without a stomach and most of his left lung after a series of medical events attempted to take his life. In 2014, he battled with the loss of his younger brother to homicide. The key to his journey since then has been to embrace these challenges as trials; not only to live but to thrive in spite of them to honour their legacies.
For his own training, Geoff is a competitive Strongman.
We hope that you will consider coming out and joining us live.
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