Goddess Got Goals

Why Everything Feels Worse Right Now (It’s Not Just Your Hormones) If you’ve been feeling more tired, more anxious, more inflamed… like your body just isn’t responding the way it used to… This episode is for you. Because it’s not just perimenopause. And it’s not because you’re doing something wrong. In this episode, I’m breaking down: Why symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, pain and weight gain can...

194: Armour Weight & Imposter Syndrome “Who do I think I am?” “I’m not enough…” “I need to be better first…” If you’ve ever had those thoughts, you’re not alone. But what if imposter syndrome isn’t a confidence problem at all? In this episode, Lisa explores how imposter syndrome is often rooted in something deeper — the belief “I am not enough” — and how this becomes a form of Armour Weight™ t...

193: Bringing Simple Back Somewhere along the way… wellness got complicated. More rules. More plans. More pressure. More things to track, fix, optimise. And yet… women feel more overwhelmed, more inconsistent, and more disconnected than ever. In this episode, Lisa shares why she’s bringing simple back — and how this led to the creation of the new Sexy Strong Membership and the Forged Method . Beca...

Armour Weight & Your Brain (Brain Fog, ADHD & Midlife Rewiring) If you’ve been feeling foggy, overwhelmed, forgetful or like you’ve “lost your edge”… This episode is for you. Because this isn’t just brain fog. It’s what happens when mental load, stress, and hormonal shifts collide in midlife. In this episode, Lisa explores how your brain changes during perimenopause, why focus and clarity...

The Serious Side of Stress (And Why Wellness Matters More Than Ever) This is a different kind of episode. As Lisa approaches 50, she reflects on her personal story, the loss of her mum at 60, and why she teaches wellness in a much deeper way than just fitness or fat loss. Because stress isn’t just something we feel. It’s something the body carries. And over time, it has consequences. In this episo...

Armour Weight & Your Archetype What if the weight you’re carrying isn’t just body fat? What if it’s Armour Weight ? In this episode of Warrior Goddess Weekly , Lisa explores how stress, survival patterns, and emotional protection can accumulate in the body as what she calls Armour Weight — the invisible load that many women carry through midlife. Armour Weight doesn’t just live in the mind. It...

Why Hip Pain Is So Common After 40 (And What Actually Helps) If you’ve developed hip pain in your 40s — gluteal tendinopathy, frozen shoulder, plantar fasciitis, or persistent tendon pain — you’re not imagining it. These issues are incredibly common in perimenopause , and they’re often misunderstood. In this episode, Lisa explains why tendon injuries increase after 40 and how hormonal changes, mod...

Armour Weight, Perimenopause & Why Consistency Is Different Now Most women think they have a consistency problem. They don’t. They have an Armour Weight™ problem . In this episode, Lisa explains why perimenopause changes the rules of wellness and why the strategies that worked in your 20s and 30s often stop working in midlife. Drawing from her book Unarmoured , she explores how years of stress...

I went totally off piste in this episode. And I am excited to check in with y'all  And I think I talked about my Restoration audio, so here it is: www.warriorgoddesskettlebelltraining.com/restoration Plus the Quickening can be found here: www.warriorgoddesskettlebelltraining.com/quickening And maybe about joining our community too: www.warriorgoddesskettlebelltraining.com/tribe Be sure to con...

Armour Weight on Your Face (And What I’m Discovering) In this episode, I’m talking about the heaviness many women notice in midlife — softness under the chin, jawline changes, puffiness, and that “when did this happen?” moment in the mirror. We explore: • Why this isn’t just fat or ageing • How estrogen decline impacts collagen production • The role of cortisol and chronic stress in tissue breakdo...

Warrior Goddess Weekly Why Momentum Dies Right Before It Works Have you ever noticed that momentum often collapses right before things start working? You’re consistent. You’re showing up. You’re finally building rhythm… And then something shuts it down. In this week’s Warrior Goddess Weekly, we explore why momentum doesn’t fail because you’re lazy or undisciplined — it fails because your nervous s...

If you’ve ever started strong… felt motivated… made the plan… and then “fallen off” — this episode is for you. Because what you’ve been calling self-sabotage might not be sabotage at all. In this episode of Goddess Got Goals , Lisa explores why falling off the plan is rarely a willpower problem and almost never a character flaw. Instead, it’s often a nervous system response to pressure, rigidity,...

🔥 Warrior Goddess Weekly The Power of What’s Growing Beneath the Surface Fire Horse Energy • Eclipse Season • Final Shedding of the Wood Snake We’re approaching the Year of the Fire Horse , which officially begins on 17 February 2026 with the Chinese New Year — notably opening with a Solar Eclipse . At the same time, we’re in the final shedding phase of the Year of the Wood Snake , an energy that...

Consistency Is Not the Goal — It’s the Side Effect If you’ve spent years calling yourself inconsistent, flaky, or “bad at follow-through,” this episode is for you. In this episode of Goddess Got Goals , Lisa reframes consistency as an outcome , not a personality trait — and explores why forcing discipline, especially for women with ADHD or sensitive nervous systems, often backfires. Lisa shares he...

What the Full Moon Reveals About Your Archetype’s Patterns Imbolc • First Signs of Spring • The Year of the Fire Horse Approaches This week’s Warrior Goddess Weekly is a powerful reflection on the patterns being illuminated right now — in your body, your energy, and your identity. In this episode, Lisa explores how the Full Moon reveals the unconscious patterns of each Warrior Goddess Archetype —...

Why Strong Women Burn Out First (and Call It Discipline) Strong, capable women don’t burn out because they’re weak. They burn out because they’ve been strong for too long — in ways their bodies can no longer sustain. In this episode of Goddess Got Goals , we explore why traditional ideas of discipline and consistency often fail women in midlife — especially Type-A women navigating perimenopause, c...

WGW 4: Rituals, Not Resolutions ✨ Rituals, Not Resolutions | Warrior Goddess Weekly If resolutions make your body tense… and rituals make it soften — this video is for you. In this episode of Warrior Goddess Weekly , we explore why this season isn’t asking you to push, prove, or overhaul your life — but to tend , listen , and create rhythm instead of pressure. We talk about: Why rituals work wher...

You Don’t Lack Willpower, You Lack Nervous System Safety If willpower keeps collapsing, motivation disappears, and consistency feels impossible,  this episode is for you. In this episode of Goddess Got Goals , we explore why what looks like “lack of discipline” is often your nervous system protecting you. You’ll learn why safety must come before strategy, how Armour Weight forms through chronic st...

Our new weekly bonus Warrior Goddess Weekly episodes . This episode opens the Warrior Goddess Saga in stillness — not hype. January is not a natural beginning. It’s a cultural one. Before “New Year, New You,” there was winter. In this Warrior Goddess Weekly, Lisa explores wintering as a biological, seasonal, and nervous-system truth — not a motivation problem. Drawing on cyclical wisdom and midlif...

🎧 You’re Not Inconsistent — You’re Dysregulated: The Feminine Nervous System If consistency feels impossible… if you keep starting and stopping… if you’ve been telling yourself you’re lazy, unreliable, or “just can’t stick to anything”,  this episode is for you. In this episode of the Unarmoured podcast series, we explore the feminine nervous system in human language,  and why what looks like inc...

There’s a kind of weight no workout, diet, or discipline can touch. In this episode, Lisa Barwise introduces Armour Weight™ — the physical, hormonal, emotional, and energetic weight women carry after years of survival, over-giving, and pushing through. If you’ve been doing “everything right” but still feel stuck, heavy, exhausted, or disconnected — this conversation will change how you understand...

In this episode, we’re diving deep into the foundation of transformation — your nervous system . If you’ve ever wondered why you can know exactly what to do but still can’t seem to follow through, why your body feels stuck, tired, or resistant to change — this episode will help you see that it’s not a lack of discipline. It’s a lack of safety . Your nervous system sets the ceiling for your success...

In this deeply personal episode, I’m sharing the story that became the turning point in my own Warrior Goddess SAGA — the night I realized I wasn’t okay, and the year that followed as I found my way back to myself. It wasn’t a dramatic fall, but a quiet unraveling. The kind of loneliness that seeps into your bones. The moment when pretending to be strong becomes too heavy to carry. This episode is...

Welcome back to the Goddess Got Goals Podcast — where strength is sacred, self-care is rebellion, and midlife is your greatest initiation. In this episode, we’re going deep into a topic every Warrior Goddess faces: self-sabotage. That invisible force that whispers, “not yet,” “not enough,” “you’ll fail again.” You’ll discover: 🔥 The hidden reasons women self-sabotage — and how it’s often a subcon...

The 4 Warrior Goddess Archetypes Welcome back to the rebirth of the Goddess Got Goals Podcast — where we’re not just setting goals… we’re rewriting the story of midlife itself. In this episode, I’m breaking down the 4 Warrior Goddess Archetypes that shape every woman’s transformation journey — and helping you discover which one you are right now. You’ll learn how to identify your patterns, underst...