https://www.caseyjohnston.website/press daily 0.75 2025-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/ab66e59b-89d6-4b1a-9ae0-ec4444fd5ce8/Screenshot+2024-11-20+at+4.05.33+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/acfd3802-4c86-42ac-94b7-da6c350596ed/Screen+Shot+2022-03-12+at+7.59.54+AM.png Press - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/f43eed7d-4de3-4bd3-9ad6-eedc0f57fd98/IMG_0718.jpg Press - Podcast appearance // Why Is This Happening? With Chris Hayes “I want there to be a sort of progressive, left space of workout meatheads that doesn’t exist. But the closest thing I’ve found is the writer who is our guest today. Her name is Casey Johnston, and she wrote this column that I started reading (which is very funny) called Ask A Swole Woman, that has now moved over to her Substack, which is called She’s A Beast… she’s one of the few people I’ve found who is fusing a genuine pure love of and enthusiasm for weight lifting—not as a gross culturally overdetermined activity, but actually a sort of restorative one, physically, mentally, and spiritually—with incisive cultural commentary and criticism of how weird the world the around all this stuff is.” —Chris Hayes, Why Is This Happening? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/2acd0e14-3bd6-47f8-a6c5-068c405ab425/elenamudd_pepper__A9A6575.jpg Press - Personal essay // The Cut I Didn’t Start Lifting Weights Because I Wanted to Be Strong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/5279b1ba-7bc3-4020-a9fa-c6b3ef211c5e/Screen+Shot+2022-03-12+at+8.35.59+AM.png Press - Podcast appearance Longform #464, Casey Johnston ”I feel more comfortable lately with a sort of beloved-local-restaurant level of success. What's nice about Substack is that we've come to this place, that I hope lasts, where we can have this sort of local-restaurant relationship with writers, or I can have that with readers, where I don't have to be part of this big machine in order to do something that I really like.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/260b216a-3043-46a2-a76b-b1521f734727/Screen+Shot+2022-01-25+at+2.10.35+PM.png Press - Outside Magazine Profile // Meet the Fitness Influencers Shaping Wellness in 2022 https://www.caseyjohnston.website/about daily 1.0 2025-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/194bf1c6-b346-41e4-96cc-3513bc68b20a/Casey+Johnston+author+photo.jpeg About "a smart writer who’s so emphatically not neurotic... commendably swole" -NYMag Casey Johnston is a bestselling author, writer, and cultural critic. Her work covers the intersections of a diverse range of topics, including politics, identity, health, technology, power, womanhood, and embodiment, and has earned critical acclaim from numerous outlets. Casey grew up in the Adirondacks, and received her Bachelor’s of Science in Applied Physics from the Columbia University engineering school. She has worked in media since 2008. In 2016, Casey started a science-based column about strength called Ask A Swole Woman, which now lives within her newsletter, She’s A Beast. In December 2021, she published LIFTOFF: Couch to Barbell, a beginner strength training book. Casey’s newest book, A Physical Education, is a journalistic exploration of the wide-ranging history, science, and psychology of strength braided with her personal story of learning to lift weights. It was published in May 2025 by Hachette/Grand Central. Casey is represented by Anna Sproul-Latimer at Neon Literary. Photo by Elena Mudd. https://www.caseyjohnston.website/contact daily 0.75 2024-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/bcb2ce25-6462-4fa7-90a5-68804c9185ec/_A9A6258+%281%29.jpg Contact - Contact me. She’s A Beast: CASEY@SHESABEAST.CO Business inquiries: BUSINESS@SHESABEAST.CO Podcast/press inquiries: PRESS@SHESABEAST.CO (what does it sound like when I’m on a podcast/radio? Here’s an example!) Ask A Swole Woman questions: AASW@SHESABEAST.CO Bluesky: @caseyjohnston Instagram: @SWOLEWOMAN / @CASEYJOHNSTON Social media I don’t really use but nonetheless claim these profiles: Twitter: @CASEYJOHNSTON/@SHE_SABEAST YouTube: CaseyJohnston Twitch: ctothelj TikTok: @caseyljohnston https://www.caseyjohnston.website/newsletter daily 0.75 2024-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/552c98a4-3f3e-4db4-b768-7f2210e2b68b/casey-johnston-transformation.jpg Newsletter Who is “A Swole Woman”/Casey/the “Beast”? Well, the Beast is in all of us. But I’m a writer and editor 14 years in the game who used to have a terrible relationship with my body; I ran too much, ate too little, thought about food constantly, and thought that was all just part of the beautiful experience of “being a woman.” In 2014, I found a Reddit post that credibly revealed that actually, lifting weights did not make women bulky. My desire to be hot piqued, I looked into this lifting thing further: I could work out less, eat more, and look essentially the same? Why was no one talking about this??? As I got into lifting, it began to dissolve the thick connective tissue in my brain between “working out” and “being as attractive and tiny as possible.” I realized that my body was for so much more than “punishing it with salad scraps and ‘tempo’ runs”; it could grow and get strong much more easily and quickly that I ever could have imagined; and that lifting weights could be the most fun and validating form of exercise I’d ever tried, that it was easier to me than cardio (yes, it’s true; I would never tell a lie about the dreaded cardio). I began yelling nonstop about the incredible experience I was having, how I finally was starting to understand what life and living were about, because I was crushing my squat PRs and perfecting my deadlift form. And now here I am. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/f574cc25-6b2d-4aae-93b4-dccd8e75595a/Screenshot+2024-11-20+at+4.00.48+PM.png https://www.caseyjohnston.website/my-work daily 0.75 2025-11-02 https://www.caseyjohnston.website/my-work/a-physical-education monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/09042fba-a633-49d5-83b4-d3a03b870583/9781538773253_RetailCover_RetailandCatalog.Jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/ed2458df-c961-45a4-b007-b78437408804/9F083E3E-D7E8-4E4B-A27C-9C2574EED326.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/fd4382bd-c573-4390-a7fd-97484374daf1/couchtobarbell.com+%40couchtobarbell.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618511387030-5LI1E5QMVTQ2RY9S00A4/20140228_Trade+151_0046+1.jpg My Work - A Physical Education (2025) https://www.caseyjohnston.website/my-work/apple-keyboards monthly 0.5 2022-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg My Work - Apple Keyboards https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694644871-IC85FNH781UNZSZEGHDR/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg My Work - Apple Keyboards https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/1649623075351-KXQC2FI5DM9DVBEFD339/Screenshot+2022-04-10+133614.png My Work - Apple Keyboards https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/1649623231053-QIQMNOY0AK8SUCAO1N27/Screenshot+2022-04-10+133716.png My Work - Apple Keyboards https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/1649623272123-V5SLB96HBC6GLS34W9ZZ/Screenshot+2022-04-10+133727.png My Work - Apple Keyboards https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/1649623292840-S9NYMKHP3XWF5CZQMVNJ/Screenshot+2022-04-10+133739.png My Work - Apple Keyboards https://www.caseyjohnston.website/my-work/editing monthly 0.5 2022-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/1649620889468-RKFTKE2ICIZ6ZB58X03K/Screenshot+2022-04-10+130118.png My Work - Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/1649620921319-4JEKQJVHNDLKP8H70JDZ/Screenshot+2022-04-10+130050.png My Work - Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/1649620936478-MGH6VE9PLQO8EF9M0QK1/Screenshot+2022-04-10+130101.png My Work - Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/1649619200200-BJK4B4FGOON1ER0S99KG/Screenshot+2022-04-10+123300.png My Work - Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/1649619333900-H7Y51MN06ACHKS31LHDH/Screenshot+2022-04-10+123521.png My Work - Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/1649619469326-IITYOHNHLLBVQ46RSCN9/Screenshot+2022-04-10+123732.png My Work - Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/1649621230124-N0F2C8INXC2VDIZ0JAHV/Screenshot+2022-04-10+130703.png My Work - Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/1649622127951-Y4VOM8UOPDKLGR57H4P5/Screenshot+2022-04-10+132202.png My Work - Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/1649622184791-9DVK4EI14BD1OHHSEYDO/Screenshot+2022-04-10+132244.png My Work - Editing https://www.caseyjohnston.website/my-work/ask-a-swole-woman monthly 0.5 2025-09-03 https://www.caseyjohnston.website/my-work/writing monthly 0.5 2025-09-03 https://www.caseyjohnston.website/my-work/liftoff-couch-to-barbell monthly 0.5 2022-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/c72db5c8-9b34-4fbe-b3cb-c2851e5f3ee2/liftoff+2+cover+%281%29.png My Work - LIFTOFF - I wrote a book/beginner weight lifting program called LIFTOFF: Couch to Barbell. It’s for people who want to learn to lift weights but have zero idea how start, what to eat, or where to go in the gym. If that’s you, you can read all about the book and and program, as well as buy it, here. https://www.caseyjohnston.website/my-work/newsletter monthly 0.5 2022-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/b4c3ed3a-c86a-411c-834e-80d6b427b8a5/Screenshot+2024-11-20+at+3.40.35+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/93e1330d-55c4-47e4-94e1-27660fa77c81/casey-johnston-transformation.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62152e1a21b6ee462a95f901/66304b55-9a99-4988-91b1-7ae0c7156a32/Screenshot+2024-11-20+at+4.00.48+PM.png