The Health & Fitness Show with Tracy - Podcast
The Health & Fitness Show with Tracy is your source of practical, uplifting, and science-rooted guidance for living a stronger, safer, and more confident life — at any age.
Hosted by Tracy Markley, internationally recognized fitness educator, award-winning author, stroke recovery specialist, and creator of the bestselling books The Stroke Recovery Workbook, Brain & Body, and Balance Walking and Fall Prevention, this podcast blends expertise with heart. Tracy’s decades of experience helping stroke survivors, seniors, and everyday adults rebuild strength, balance, mobility, and hope shine through every episode.
Whether you’re looking to improve your proprioception, feel steadier on your feet, better understand your body, prevent falls, recover from injury, or simply age with power and grace, this show gives you real tools — not fluff. Tracy brings compassion, clear explanations, and encouraging motivation to help you feel capable, empowered, and ready to move forward.
🎧 Tune in for:
- Balance, gait, and fall-prevention tips
- Stroke recovery insights from one of the most trusted voices in the field
- Fitness and mobility guidance for seniors and pre-seniors
- Brain–body education and nervous system support
- Strength training, walking programs, and functional movement
- Real stories from people who regained independence and confidence
- Encouragement, mindset support, and realistic strategies you can use today
- Hearing loss
- Fitness and exercise for all ages
- Muscles, joints, ligaments, fascia and more
- and much more
⭐ Learn More & Stay Connected
Website: https://www.tracymarkley.com
Books by Tracy Markley: https://www.amazon.com/author/tracymarkley
YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@TracyMarkley
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tracy.markley
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracyfitt
⭐ Your Host
Tracy Markley is a fitness trainer, educator, and author known for blending anatomy, neuroscience, and compassion to help others move better and live better. Her work has transformed lives around the world — from stroke survivors rebuilding mobility to adults who simply want their body to feel like home again
The Health & Fitness Show with Tracy - Podcast
Denise Imbesi Interview | Muscle Mix Music, Vibes App & Caring for Parents with Stroke & Dementia
In this heartfelt and inspiring episode of The Health & Fitness Show with Tracy, fitness educator and author Tracy L. Markley welcomes Denise Imbesi — founder of Muscle Mix Music and creator of the Vibes Music App.
Together, they explore Denise’s extraordinary impact on the fitness music industry and her deeply personal journey as a caregiver for her parents — one who experienced a stroke and the other who developed dementia.
Denise opens up about building one of the first-ever fitness music companies, pioneering customized mixes for instructors, and later developing Vibes Music App — the first fully licensed app offering real artist tracks for virtual and in-person fitness classes.
She also shares the emotional and physical challenges of caregiving, the lessons she learned while supporting her parents, and how music, movement, purpose, and compassion helped her navigate grief and healing.
This powerful conversation blends innovation, vulnerability, courage, and heart — offering comfort and inspiration for caregivers, instructors, entrepreneurs, and anyone balancing career with family challenges.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:
- How Denise transformed fitness instruction by launching Muscle Mix Music
- What inspired the creation of Vibes Music App for virtual and live classes
- Her emotional journey caring for parents with stroke and dementia
- How music supports healing, emotional regulation, and resilience
- The balance between caregiving, career, creativity, and purpose
- Wisdom and encouragement for anyone caring for loved ones
This episode is filled with compassion, authenticity, and strength — a beautiful reminder of how music, love, and human connection can change lives.
🌐 LEARN MORE FROM TRACY
Website: www.tracymarkley.com
Amazon Author Page: www.amazon.com/author/tracymarkley
Instagram: www.instagram.com/motivate_healthyfit
Denise Imbesi is the visionary who pioneered the launch of Muscle Mix Music as one of the first fitness music companies worldwide. In 1988, a DJ and instructor, she saw a need for custom music mixes for fit pros. Today Denise and team built Vibes Music, the first ever music app for fitness containing real music by the real artists for both in person and on-demand fitness classes. Learn more about VIBES:
https://www.vibesmusicapp.com/