Angela Anagnost-Repke

I did ‘Tone It Up’ workouts for a week, and here’s what happened

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Angela-Anagnost-Repke is a writer dedicated to raising two empathetic children. She hopes that her graduate degrees in English and counseling help her do just that. Angela is known for her dreadful technology skills and her mean Grecian chicken. She has been published in Good Morning America, ABC News, Scary Mommy, The Good Men Project, and more. Angela has personal and literary essays in Literary Mama, The HerStories Project, the anthology, "Red State Blues" by Belt Publishing, among others. She is currently at-work on the cross-generational memoir, Mothers Lie.

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I did ‘Tone It Up’ workouts for a week, and here’s what happened

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